Dell eyes data centre acquisitions

data centre business, as the company aims to widen its lead in supplying computer servers that run the Web services of clients such as Google and Baidu, reports Bloomberg.

“We want to continue to bring innovation through acquisitions,” Amit Midha, head of Dell's operations in the China and South Asia regions, said at a briefing in Hong Kong. Dell is interested in buying “everything around data centres,” an area of business that is contributing half the company's profit, he said.

According to The Register, Midha claimed Dell has a 70% share for servers peddled into cloud service providers in the US, including Facebook, which is the poster child for Dell's custom server unit, called Data Centre Solutions.

Midha said that Dell had around 60% of the market for “Internet servers” in China, with Baidu, Tencent Holdings, and Alibaba as its anchor customers.

Bizjournals writes that Dell, which employs about 14 000 people in Central Texas, is putting a particular emphasis on growing server business in China. The company provides data storage to about 70% of the cloud services market in the US, and 60% in China, Bloombergreported.