GLOBAL information-technology (IT) solutions provider Dell Inc. has formally announced its software arm Dell Software, which will serve as its “one-stop” shop for enterprise solutions.
The company established Dell Software in 2012 to expand its portfolio into an end-to-end offering.
Dell Software Managing Director and General Manager for South Asia Matthew Johnston, who flew in to the Philippines last week, said it is divided into five major segments catering to various client needs.
These are data center and cloud management, information management, mobility management, security, and data protection.
He said the software business contributes around $1.5 billion to Dell’s global revenue.
During his visit, Johnston announced the availability of the latest Dell Software data backup and protection solutions the NetVault Backup 10 and the DR6000 Deduplication Appliance.
The former is easy to use via a new Web-based GUI that allows administrators to easily configure, manage and monitor the system.
It, likewise, boasts enhanced performance through a new backend database that significantly improves responsiveness for more efficient backup and recovery tasks.
The latter is a duplication appliance five times better than its counterpart in terms of backup performance via its Rapid NFS and Rapid CFS technology—the pioneer in the industry.
Its enhanced replication and file-sharing capabilities let users to copy data from 64 different DR series duplication appliances to a single DR6000 appliance.
Both the NetVault Backup 10 and the DR6000 allow users to achieve fast back-up speeds with up to 22 terabytes throughput per hour using Rapid Data Access technology.
Since its founding in 1984, Dell Inc. has been a leader in the hardware market and now has diversified into software business serving more than 90 percent of the world’s Fortune 1000 companies as clients.
It began acquiring 21 companies in 2011—mostly specializing in enterprise solutions and software, including systems management firm KACE, application protection developer SecureWorks, and analytics solutions provider Statsoft—majority of which now make up Dell Software.