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Mr. Rubinstein? Michael Dell on Line 1, Sir. Shall I Put Him Through to Voicemail?

John Paczkowski in News on June 11, 2009 at 1:00 pm PT

Is Dell positioning itself to make a large acquisition? It certainly appears that way. The company recently hired mergers-and-acquisitions specialist David Johnson away from IBM. And yesterday, it sold off $1 billion in bonds. Dell already has $9.7 billion in cash reserves on hand, so presumably it needs that extra billion for something beyond the “general corporate purposes” it claims.

Dell’s Dedupe Play

Justin Scheck, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 11, 2009 at 4:58 am PT

Until three weeks ago, few people outside corporate data centers knew much about deduplication technology, which makes data storage more efficient by culling repetitive documents. That changed when data storage companies NetApp and EMC got into a bidding war last month for a leading provider of the heretofore obscure software.