Dell and Dropbox business model shifts to cloud computing

Dell will work with cloud start-up Dropbox to integrate Dropbox into Dell's family of products and services to attract more customers.

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This week, Dell's venture capital announced that it would invest in http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/19145.html ">3 billion dollars (about 9001.html" > RMB 1.821 billion) to a number of start-ups. To help Dell build and develop its own data center, storage, and mobile products. The current popular Dropbox is expected to receive some of the investment.

It is reported that Dell's sales team will provide new and old customers commercial version of Dropbox Services, and on personal and commercial tablets pre-installed Dropbox online storage services.

Dropbox claims that there are more than 4 million corporate customers, 24-hour file upload volume to reach 1 billion. The current volume of Dell's data is only bucket compared to the 1EB of data in the entire cloud storage service, analysts said. Dell also wants to be active in the market.

To this end, Dell will vigorously promote the use of Dropbox among the customers and provide strong software support to the customer IT department to ensure the Dropbox security supervision. Dell is also trying to avoid data crashes like Dropbox last year.

As more and more enterprises move from simple data storage to cloud computing systems, vendors like Dell will have higher demand.

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