Cloud Computing: For Dell, Consolidation Is Innovation
October 19, 2012
Grazed from New York Times. Author: Quentin Hardy.
Dell announced Thursday a combination server, data storage and networking device, Active System 800. Dell hopes the glossy black rack, fast and flashy, will fare well against similar products from Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and I.B.M. While the market sorts out which company wins, take a minute to admire what this trend says about tech.
For one thing, as cloud computing really starts to catch on, it is getting hard to tell the difference between innovation and consolidation. Dell’s “Active Infrastructure Family” of computers is a result of acquisitions the company has made in the past few years in storage, networking and software. Many of those companies would have been purchased by Dell’s competitors if Dell hadn’t got there first. Moving into the new era of cloud computing also involves rolling up the old era of separate computer businesses…
That is not necessarily a bad thing. Speaking at an event in San Francisco, Dell executives noted that coming into the business with newly acquired companies means it doesn’t have legacy businesses to sustain, which means it can focus research and development dollars on new products and services…
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