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Dell completes acquisition of Wyse Technology

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It’s official, Dell announced a few minutes ago we completed the acquisition of Wyse Technology. With the addition of Wyse, the global leader in cloud client computing, Dell broadens the range of computing solutions it can offer customers and partners and significantly extends its Desktop Virtualization Solution (DVS) offerings.  The combination of Dell and Wyse places us firmly as a leader in Thin Clients and cloud client computing.

Dell has made significant investments over the past three years to expand its virtualization presence. The combination of the Wyse portfolio with current Dell DVS offerings significantly strengthens our strategy to provide the products and services that enable our customers to do more.  Wyse’s assets will add to Dell’s existing desktop virtualization offerings, Desktop Virtualization Solution Simplified and Desktop Virtualization Solution Enterprise and its recent Desktop as a Service (DaaS) relationship with Desktone.

While this announcement is exciting for Dell on the computing side, we are equally excited about the opportunity it provides for our datacenter and enterprise businesses. A desktop virtualization scenario often includes a significant sales attach of data center technologies such as server, networking and storage, and complemented by deployment and implementation services. The expanded desktop virtualization capabilities creates new opportunities for the full range of Dell’s enterprise solutions and services.

Dell recognizes the success of the Wyse business and wants to extend and grow it. One area of focus is Wyse’s channel program and migrating their existing partners into Dell’s PartnerDirect program to leverage the best of Wyse’s program to strengthen ours. An additional benefit to Wyse’s channel members is that they will now have access to all Dell products, which we expect to open up new opportunities.

I’d like to welcome all of Wyse’s employees, customers and partners to Dell.

Thanks.

Jeff

About the Author: Jeff Clarke

Jeff Clarke is vice chairman and chief operating officer for Dell Technologies responsible for running day-to-day business operations, shaping the company’s strategic agenda and setting priorities across the Dell Technologies executive leadership team. Jeff directs the Services, Infrastructure Solutions Group and the Client Solutions Group, and manages Global Operations including manufacturing, procurement and supply chain. Jeff is also responsible for setting the long-term strategy and leads planning for technology areas such as AI, Multicloud, Edge and Telecom. Jeff joined Dell Technologies in 1987 as a quality engineer. Since then, his remit has grown to lead the company’s biggest transformations that resulted in Dell Technologies No.1 worldwide share positions in many of its core infrastructure and PC products. He’s also passionate about Dell’s social impact agenda and plays an active role in advancing Dell’s diversity and inclusion initiatives, employee resource groups and 2030+ ESG goals. Prior to joining Dell Technologies, Jeff served as a reliability and product engineer at Motorola, Inc. He serves on the College of Engineering Advisory Council for his alma mater, the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1986.