Filed under: Forecasts , Management , Competitive strategy , Microsoft (MSFT) , Apple Inc (AAPL) , Dell (DELL) , Columns , Charles Schwab Corp (SCHW) After months of speculation and one bad headline after another (SEC probes, exploding laptop batteries, wilting market share), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) did what most people expected and replaced Kevin Rollins as CEO with company founder Michael Dell. The move continued a long tradition of "encore CEOs" who get called back when companies they founded or led to greatness fall on hard times.
Experts say it is rare for a company to go back to its executive roots. The movie signals both a sense of desperation and a need for a proven hand at the helm.
The question now is whether Michael Dell will be the next Steve Jobs or the next Ted Waitt. Jobs famously saved Apple Inc.(NASDAQ:AAPL), which lost its way in the 1990s and saw its already-small market share in PCs shrink ...
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Dell believes that customers do not necessarily need to build new datacenters, and is now offering to show customers how to optimize their existing ones to extend their life span. Dell says that its expertise in this area came about two years ago, when it discovered it had reached the capacity limits of its two datacenters in Austin Texas. Rather than going to the expense of simply building a new datacenter, the company instead looked at whether it was possible to squeeze more life out o... more
When it comes to picking a spot for a data center, Google and Microsoft often have the same sites in mind. But when it comes to how they build, the two companies take far different approaches.
Google relies largely on its own design expertise, contracting for and building its own server designs. Microsoft, meanwhile, relies on outside companies to build the hardware, though it certainly takes an active role in designing the centers themselves.
A custom Dell server known as Xanadu built for... more
Dell is one of the companies that helps power Microsoft’s server farms, including the ones that power Microsoft’s operating system in the cloud, Windows Azure.
Data centers have been a bright spot for Dell, which has struggled in recent years. On its own, Dell’s data center business would be a top 5 server vendor, said Forrest Norrod, the Dell vice president who heads its data center effort. In its most recent earnings conference call, CEO Michael Dell called out Facebook, M... more
Filed under: Analyst upgrades and downgrades , Boeing Co (BA) , Charles Schwab Corp (SCHW) MOST NOTEWORTHY: Dreamworks Animation (DWA), Boeing (BA), and Tim Hortons (THI) top today’s short list of upgrades.
DreamWorks Animation, Inc. (NYSE: DWA ) was upgraded by Merrill Lynch to Buy from Neutral. The firm believes shares are positioned to outperform given the stronger slate of releases, including Shrek 3, and the remova... more
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Filed under: Analyst upgrades and downgrades , Charles Schwab Corp (SCHW) , Chipotle Mexican Grill’A’ (CMG) , Akamai Technologies (AKAM) MOST NOTEWORTHY: Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) and Douglas Emmett (DEI) topped today’s list of initiations.
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. (NYSE: CMG ) was initiated at Morgan Joseph with a Buy and $70 target, citing the restaurant’s fast food unit growth, strong revenue... more
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