Dell will invest 1 billion dollars in data centers this year

Beijing Time April 7 News, according to foreign media reports, Dell Public relations and Corporate Business Division President Paul Bell (Paul Bell), said in Thursday, the company this fiscal year will be a global investment of 1 billion U.S. dollars to build new data centers and the development of specific areas such as virtualization in the field of new products. Dell intends to expand its business beyond computer hardware, which it hopes will drive the company's continued growth in performance.　　Dell's PC business is under increasing competition from rivals such as Taiwan's Acer, and the growing popularity of new tablet computers, such as Apple's ipad, has put a lot of pressure on it. Bell said some of the spending would be spent on building new data centers and solution centres.　　Dell intends to set up 22 solutions centers worldwide, 12 of which will be completed this year. Bell said research and development spending will focus on certain products, such as hardware and provisioning services to help users with virtualization.　　Virtualization technology can transform a single server into multiple virtual servers and enable multiple virtual servers to share workloads more efficiently. Michael Yang, president of the Greater China region, said the company also plans to launch a 10-inch tablet computer in the Chinese market in the Michael Yang year.　　According to Michael Yang revealed that the product name is "Streak 10".　　At present, Dell and other computer and consumer electronics manufacturers such as Samsung, RIM and so on want to broaden their range of products, hoping to launch a competition with the ipad tablet products, to provide companies with new sources of revenue. Michael Yang said the company would also seek mergers and acquisitions in the Chinese market, but there is no clear target for acquisitions.