Dell reports green shoots in enterprise infrastructure biz after seven consecutive quarters of shrinkage

It is now seven straight quarters since Dell's infrastructure unit last grew but COO Jeff Clarke reckons he's spotted some green shoots of recovery that might bode well for server and storage spending next year. "The very large businesses, the very large bids continue to be a challenged area for us," he said on a Q3 conference …

[Pascal Monett]

"how the macro uncertainty plays out"

Wow.

I bow before this piece of business-speak transforming a world pandemic into a beancounter's hedge bet.

Congratulations, really, in not mentioning in any way that people are dying while still hinting that it could, in some way, affect your bottom line.

[Roger Louis]

Walked away from Dell and never looked back

We won a tender for a TV project with a Telco in asia and after rounds of evaluation, we decided to go for Dell enterprise class of blade servers, they were worth about a million but we got a decent discount.

3 years and nearly 28k errors from their diagnostic software, i have decided to personally ban our projects using any of their hardware. Fibre channel, motherboard, CPUs, HDD errors and crashing was the nightmares for these 3 years. I even had a dedicated mobile phone on standby for the tech guys to call me after working hours just in case.