Dell
Company acquired Date of acquisition Company notes
Alienware 2006 Manufacturer of high-end PCs popular with gamers
EqualLogic January 28 , 2008 Acquired to gain a foothold in the iSCSI storage market . Because Dell already had an efficient manufacturing process , integrating EqualLogic 's products into the company drove manufacturing prices down
Perot Systems 2009 Perot Systems was a technology services and outsourcing company , mainly active in the health-sector , founded by former presidential hopeful H. Ross Perot . The acquired business provided Dell with applications development , systems integration , and strategic consulting services through its operations in the U.S. and 10 other countries . In addition , the acquisition of Perot brought a variety of business process outsourcing services , including claims processing and call center operations
KACE Networks February 10 , 2010 KACE Networks was a leader in systems management appliances
Boomi November 2 , 2010 Cloud integration leader
Compellent February 2011 The acquisition extended Dell 's storage solution portfolio
Force10 networks August 2011 By acquiring this company Dell now has the full Intellectual property for their networking portfolio , which was lacking on the Dell PowerConnect range as these products are powered by Broadcom or Marvell IM
AppAssure Software February 24 , 2012 Dell acquired the backup and disaster recovery software solution provider out of Reston , VA. AppAssure delivered 194 percent revenue growth in 2011 and over 3500% growth in the prior three years . AppAssure supported physical servers and VMware , Hyper-V and XenServer . The deal represents the first acquisition since Dell formed its software division under former CA CEO John Swainson . Dell added that it will keep AppAssure 's 230 employees and invest in the company
SonicWall May 9 , 2012 A company with 130 patents , SonicWall develops security products , and is a network and data security provider
Wyse April 2 , 2012 A global market-leader for thin client systems
Clerity Solutions April 3 , 2012 Clerity , a company offering services for application ( re ) hosting , was formed in 1994 and has it headquarters in Chicago . At the time of the take-over approximately 70 people were working for the company
Quest Software September 28 , 2012
Gale Technologies November 16 , 2012 A provider of infrastructure automation products . Gale Technologies was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Clara , California
Credant Technologies December 18 , 2012 A provider of storage protection solutions . Credant is the 19th acquisition in four years , as Dell had spent $ 13 billion on acquisitions since 2008 and $ 5 billion in the past year alone
StatSoft March 24 , 2014 A global provider of analytics software , in order to bolster its big data solutions offering
Acquisitions
Further information : List of Dell ownership activities
Dell Inc., which operates under the brand name Dell, is an American multinational computer technology company that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. Named after its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest technological corporations in the world, employing more than 145,000 people in the U.S. and around the world (Annual report 2018). Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data storage devices, network switches, software, computer peripherals, HDTVs, cameras, printers, MP3 players, and electronics built by other manufacturers. The company is well known for its innovations in supply chain management and electronic commerce, particularly its direct-sales model and its build-to-order or configure to order approach to manufacturing - delivering individual PCs configured to customer specifications. Dell was a pure hardware vendor for much of its existence, but with the acquisition in 2009 of Perot Systems, Dell entered the market for IT services. The company has since made additional acquisitions in storage and networking systems, with the aim of expanding their portfolio from offering computers only to delivering complete solutions[buzzword] for enterprise customers. Dell was listed at number 51 in the Fortune 500 list, until 2014. After going private in 2013, the newly confidential nature of its financial information prevents the company from being ranked by Fortune. In 2015, it was the third largest PC vendor in the world after Lenovo and HP. Dell is the largest shipper of PC monitors worldwide. Dell is the sixth largest company in Texas by total revenue, according to Fortune magazine. It is the second largest non-oil company in Texas - behind AT&T - and the largest company in the Greater Austin area.