In the not-so-distant past, Dell’s storage revenues primarily consisted of EMC commissions, which at a reported $ 1.29 billion in 2008 were nothing to sneer at. Fast forward to today after the acquisitions of companies like Compellent and EqualLogic, and the company’s own intellectual property now represents nearly 80 percent of its storage revenues and more than 90 percent of its storage profits. Dell is now looking to leverage another acquisition, Ocarina Network (data compression and deduplication software), to drive its storage sales even higher.
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