Despite the BBC World Service this morning claiming that Dell will carry on making desktops, notebooks and servers in perpetuity, there’s another string to the hardware giant’s bow.
And here in Budapest there’s a three day security conference which is exclusively about software. And, of course, security.
This all follows Dell’s acquisitions of Force 10 and SonicWALL – it hopes that will help it build its data centre business.
Andy Zollo, VP of Dell EMEA, opened up by asking how long the Brits stayed up last night. Apparently until 3AM, it seems. Growth areas include the cloud, big data, and mobile. Mobile he said generates 592MB per month for each device. And 50 percent of mobile device traffic is video. He said by the end of this year there will be more mobile devices than people on the planet.
Dell’s revenues from security in EMEA accounts for 51 percent of revenues. Its products it is positioning include security and data protection. It has formed a security named account team covering different sectors with around 2,000 customers across Europe. It intends to build its channel presence in the future. There was a lot of direct business while SonicWALL was largely indirect. Zollo says Dell EMEA is placing its best on the indirect model.
