Dell News & Articles

The battle to secure storage software provider 3Par (news, site) has a way to run yet. There are now rumors circulating that Dell (news, site) is getting ready to come back with a sweetner to the US$ 1.6 billion that HP offered for the same company yesterday,.

More acquisition news today. This time, from Dell (news, site)  that has just announced an intention to buy data storage vendor 3Par for US$ 1.15 billion in a deal that, the buyer says, will enable it to cut enterprise data management costs by up to 50%.

This week with many companies looking back over the past six months to see what they might do in the coming six months there has been a lot of research into the cloud and SMB adoption. Dell has also been busy and continues its moves into the SMB space with new security offerings.

There has been a lot of talk about Microsoft Web Apps in recent months and a lot of discussion about how it and Google Docs are going to square up. Meanwhile, HP follows Dell as the latest company to add new document management capabilities to a new set of printers.

While Lexmark announced last week that it was moving into the Enterprise CMS space with the acquisition of Perceptive, Dell continues its move into the managed services market by adding document management to its printers. Alfresco is also making moves by making content migration to its ECM easier than ever.

This week, Facebook takes more SMBs into more advertising markets in more cities, while HyperOffice finally releases its “no geek required” suite of collaboration tools for business users.

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• Dell Tweets Itself $6.5 Million in Sales
• Because of Google, Watch What You Say On Facebook
• Social Networking Helps Win DARPA Balloon Challenge
• Twitter Opens Up Full Stream To All Developers, Has 50,000 Apps