Over the last year, I’ve shared my thoughts on what I believe is part of a winning strategy. Staying focused, committed, determined and working as a team to deliver on your plan – these attributes and a bias to action set up any organization for the win. How you jump and clear hurdles running full speed ahead — that makes all the difference. It’s what keeps your strategy on track.
We at Dell Technologies play an important role in ensuring our customers have what they need to be resilient through the dramatic technology shifts under way – and take on Digital Transformation notably as their biggest asset, data, holds the keys to their ability to derive a competitive advantage through unlocking the power of that data.
Today, I reflect once again on the power of a winning strategy and the power of a team that works with speed, resilience and determination to deliver nothing less than the best. Our Storage business has yet again, delivered its third consecutive quarter of revenue gains as reported for Q3 FY19. And now, as reported by IDC’s latest 2018 Worldwide Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, our Storage business has delivered its third consecutive quarter of year-over-year share growth. IDC reported a 31.3% revenue share in external storage for Dell, Inc. – representing +23% year-over-year revenue growth and +2.6 points of year-over-year share gain.
I have a favorite saying…two dots make a line – three dots make a trend. The trending growth in our Storage business demonstrates that Dell is delivering innovation that best meets our customers’ needs in a world awash in vast amounts of structured and unstructured data – driving new requirements in data storage, protection and analytics – at the edge, in the distributed core and cloud. And that innovation is being broadly lauded across the ecosystem – with PowerMax 8000 and Dell Unity 650F both taking home CRN 2018 Product of the Year awards; and Gartner recognizing Dell as a “Leader” in its 2018 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage for our Dell Isilon and Dell ECS platforms. AND, our SC Series 5020 midrange array secured further recognition for Dell Storage with the 2018 Editor’s Choice from Storage Review.
There’s way more to celebrate here and Dell’s Storage President Jeff Boudreau does so in his latest blog. Amazing work from the best Storage team in the industry.
Also trending is our growth in Servers and Networking – where again, we saw our eighth consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth in Q3 FY19. Our Data Protection team’s Purpose-Built Backup Appliances (PBBA) gained share year-over-year for its second consecutive quarter in Q2 according to IDC, and our HCI business hit 14 consecutive quarters of year-over-year growth in Q2 CY18.
Further, our PC business continues to emphasize that the PC is very much alive and well — 23 consecutive quarters of year-over-year unit growth according to IDC[i] – talk about a trend! Through the first three quarters of 2018 we saw 7.1% growth, which is way higher than the paltry 0.8% growth of the industry as a whole.
These accolades and innovation are proof positive that we know what our customers need to be game-changers in their own rite.
So as I look ahead to the next year, I’m more optimistic than ever about our opportunity and more importantly – the opportunity for our customers to take advantage of what’s possible through Digital Transformation – arming their workforce with incredible innovation and services that keep them engaged, productive and resilient, and ensuring their IT strategy has them set up for nothing short of success and a strong competitive advantage. We do this through our commitment to deliver innovation at the edge, notably as our customers prepare for 5G; leadership in Multi-Cloud flexibility as part of our continued and deep collaboration with VMware – enabling customers to achieve the right on- or off-prem, public AND private cloud strategy that works for them; and, by advancing the capabilities throughout our entire IT portfolio with AI and Machine Learning for intelligence and automation.
Our strategy is working and that’s a trend worth paying attention to.
i Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, Julia Palmer, Raj Bala, John McArthur, 18 October 2018
ii IDC Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker, CYQ218
iii IDC Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, CYQ218
iv Worldwide Client Share Summary based on IDC CY18Q3 data
