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nnounced today intention to acquire Wyse Technology.
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| Acquisition overview | Why Wyse Technology | Customer and partner benefits |
| Dell has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, to significantly extend its desktop virtualization offerings. The addition of Wyse will expand Dell's desktop virtualization capabilities and provide new market opportunities for the full range of Dell's enterprise solutions and services. | Wyse Technology, ranked #1 in thin client unit shipment volume on 4Q 2011, has shipped more than 20 million units worldwide and has over 200 million people interacting with its products each day. The company has more than 3000 resellers worldwide. The Wyse solutions portfolio includes industry-leading thin client solutions with advanced management, desktop virtualization and cloud software. The two companies view and approach to the Desktop Virtualization market are similar in approach and opportunity. | Dell has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, to significantly extend its desktop virtualization offerings. The proposed combination of Dell and Wyse Technology creates an industry-leader that offers customers an alternative compute model directly from Dell or through our channel partners - which will help enterprises enhance security, streamline desktop management, and boost user productivity. |
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 | "Desktop virtualization can help organizations streamline IT management, improve productivity and security, and increase cost efficiency for discrete workloads or usage scenarios. The Wyse Technology desktop virtualization capability complements Dell's strongest-ever device and computing solutions portfolio, and strengthens our position in offering customers among the broadest set of computing choices from the edge to the core to the cloud." Jeff Clarke, president, End User Computing Solutions Dell Inc. |
 | "The combination of Wyse and Dell provides us with tremendous growth opportunities for our core desktop virtualization business, helps us expand into new and fast-growing market segments including mobility and cloud computing, and provides us with reach and scale we did not previously have. We believe that taking this step with Dell is a very natural progression for our business and offers our customers many great advantages not available to them today." |
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