Nine Dell Acquisitions: From EqualLogic to Quest, Compellent to Boomi
, July 03, 2012 In recent days, Dell representatives made no bones about promoting the company’s own products over products it resells. While the approach makes sense, it’s a departure for Dell, which has historically been quite adamant about maintaining its reseller relationships even on products that directly compete with its own. But Dell’s own product portfolio is now much richer than it once was. Here are nine important Dell acquisitions leading to today.
4. KACE Networks: SME, local government and educational organizations need good systems management but lack the budget to afford enterprise-class products. KACE's management appliances, known as Kboxes, aren't full-blown systems management products like complex frameworks such as HP's Operations Management or IBM's Tivoli, but they address smaller IT shops' more critical needs.
The Kace Kbox is an appliance-based management product providing functions like device discovery, software distribution, patch management and a service desk. By packaging that up into an easy-to-deploy appliance, Dell serves a critical need in the SME, government and education space.
