The Dell brand is one of the most recognizable in technology. It was born a hardware company in 1984 and deservedly rocketed to fame, but it has always been about the hardware. In 2009, its big Perot ...

Dell will sell its software division to private equity firm Francisco Partners and the private equity arm of activist hedge fund Elliott Management, reportedly for more than $2 billion. The agreement ...

In a push to become a software player, Dell won a bidding war for Quest Software as it aims to bolster its data center software. The final price tag: $28 a share, or $2.4 billion. Dell had been ...

Ever since it bought Perot Systems in 2009 for almost US$4 billion, Dell Inc. has been trying to diversify away from hardware sales, like IBM and Hewlett-Packard have done. Since then it has broadened ...

Dell EMC is getting out of the gate fast at Dell EMC World with a new software-only version of its flagship Data Domain protection line for Dell PowerEdge servers. The new Data Domain Virtual Edition ...

Dell and Quest Software announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for Dell to acquire Quest, an IT management software provider offering a broad selection of solutions that solve the ...

A Dell computer shown at the Microsoft Build conference in San Francisco in 2015. Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP) A major security flaw in Dell’s firmware updating and operating recovery software, BIOSConnect, ...

Dell has decided to use AMD chips in some of its computers aimed at business customers, according to AMD executives who are speaking Monday at the CES show in Las Vegas. Intel and AMD have formed an ...

When Michael Dell called him to talk about heading the company’s new software business, John Swainson said the founder and CEO of the PC-maker working to transform itself into a solutions provider ...

I own an entry-level, two year old Dell laptop* and am trying to speed it up as much as possible by eliminating any unnecessary software that runs in the background: using the task manager, I counted ...