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Under pressure: 10 sources pushing CIOs to go green
Jul. 07, 2008
Now with a stagnating U.S. economy, CIOs need to squeeze every penny out of their IT operations and that means choosing the most efficient servers and desktops as well as data center power supplies and air conditioning ...

Dell simplifies blade server management with I/O virtualization
Jul. 01, 2008
Dell is simplifying management of its blade servers with an I/O virtualization tool.

Dell adds storage, disaster management services to portfolio
Jun. 25, 2008
Dell on Monday announced it was adding customizable storage and disaster management services to build out its services portfolio, which it began revamping last year.

A misconfigured laptop, a wrecked life
Jun. 18, 2008
When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued Michael Fiola a Dell Latitude in November 2006, it set off a chain of events that would cost him his job, his friends and about a year of his life, as he fought criminal ...

Pepsi bottler swallows skepticism, gives virtualization a try
Jun. 12, 2008
Once skeptical of virtualization, IS manager at G&J Pepsi Cola Bottling Company in Cincinnati is leading a server and storage virtualization project.

Dell looks to emerging markets, services
Apr. 03, 2008
Dell, the world's second largest PC seller, will move faster into emerging markets and increase its services offerings as part of a plan to reverse poor financial performance, top executives said Thursday.

Dell: No significant impact from Centrino 2 delay
May. 30, 2008
The delayed release of Intel's Centrino 2 chip platform for notebooks will not have a significant impact, according to Dell's top executive in Asia.

Busted by blogger, Dell offers peek at low-cost laptop
May. 29, 2008
Dell released pictures of an ultraportable laptop that appears designed to compete against HP's Mini-Note 2133 laptop, after Michael Dell was spotted carrying it around.

Dell refutes rumors on end of its XPS brand
May. 15, 2008
Dell's premier and successful XPS brand is not going to be pulled out, according to the company, contrary to media reports regarding the same. The report stated that Dell was going to end its XPS line up to make way for ...

AMD quad-core processors now in Sun servers
May. 13, 2008
Sun on Tuesday released eight servers powered by AMD's new quad-core Opteron processor.

Virtualization's changing state a problem for VMware
May. 10, 2008
In case you needed any more evidence that basic virtualization capabilities were becoming a commodity, Dell has announced a wave of servers and services designed to "simplify the deployment and management of ...

Dell delays filing 401(k) statement as audit drags on
Jul. 03, 2007
Dell Inc. told government regulators on Monday that it cannot file a financial statement for its 401(k) plan, as the company continues to struggle with an investigations of its accounting practices.

Apple wins big in Consumer Reports survey
May. 05, 2008
In what is sure to become more fodder for Mac vs. PC ads, Consumer Reports' latest tech-support survey shows that Apple has the best help-desk support for both laptop and desktop systems.

Nortel sees green in virtualization, down economy
May. 01, 2008
Hot data center trends in virtualization and energy efficiency, combined with the bearish economy, add up to opportunity for Nortel, according to the vendor's enterprise chief.

Is Dell's acquisition of MessageOne really controversial?
Apr. 29, 2008
In August 2005, ChangeWave Research found that 45% of individuals surveyed identified Dell as their vendor of choice for desktop systems - in February 2008, that figure had dropped to 32%. A similar decline has occurred ...

Features abound in latest and greatest access switch models
Mar. 24, 2008
While this test's key takeaway may be the big differences in new features, the good news is that, with a very few exceptions, all switches support the same basic L2/L3 functions

Switch usability centers on CLI comfort zone
Mar. 24, 2008
Any assessment of switch usability is necessarily subjective. While there are some objective measures that can be applied (for example, it might take 17 steps to enable SSH on one switch, and only five on another), ...

The Inside Track on 10GBE Access Switch Testing
Mar. 24, 2008
Network World Lab Alliance member David Newman talks aobut his recent compartive test of 10GBE access switches

10 Gig access switches: Not just packet pushers anymore
Mar. 24, 2008
Our tests found seven next-generation switches bristle with features that don't exist in many previous models - not just physical features like 10-gigabit Ethernet uplinks but also 802.1X-based network access control ...

Sony-Ericsson phone ranks top in Greenpeace guide
Mar. 05, 2008
A phone from Sony-Ericsson, a notebook from Sony and PCs from Dell and Hewlett Packard came top of their categories in a study of green electronics devices conducted by Greenpeace. There's little cause for celebration, ...

Enterasys closer to big buy?
Apr. 30, 2008
Enterasys is closer to acquiring a company that it says will launch it towards $1 billion in revenue.

Battery shortage could hurt small PC vendors, says Quanta
Apr. 29, 2008
A shortage of batteries and other components could hurt smaller PC vendors, although the top 10 vendors are unlikely to be unaffected, the world's largest contract laptop manufacturer said Tuesday.

Dell to factory-install Windows XP after June 30
Apr. 28, 2008
Dell will continue to install Windows XP on new PCs after Microsoft 's June 30 retirement date by taking advantage of a little-known clause in the downgrade rights that come with Vista Ultimate and Vista Business.

Green technology: hype or must-have?
Apr. 21, 2008
An onslaught of "green" technology makes it hard to separate hype from reality.

Linux faithful see ray of light shining on client OS
Apr. 10, 2008
Linux, long the laggard to the Windows desktop, is pushing into emerging markets, onto mobile devices and other client form factors, and is poised to give Microsoft something to really compete against, according to ...

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Overview

2005 NW200 rank: 5
2004 NW200 rank: 4

Revenue

Total '05 revenue (in $M)   55908
'04-'05 revenue change   14%
'01-'05 CAGR revenue   16%

Profit

Profit or loss (in $M)   3572
Change from '04   17
As percentage of revenue 6   6
CAGR, '01-'05   -27

Employees

Number of employees   65200
'04 - '05 change   18
Revenue per employee   857485

Misc.

Mkt Cap as of 3/19/05 ($M)   69350
Cash/investments ($M)  
Year inc.   1987
Fiscal year ends   Jan

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