We’ve watched the IT industry transform itself in the last few decades, moving from the idea of having everything fully integrated to a more best-of-breed “a la carte” style of computing solutions.

Dell has created a dedicated software group and tapped John Swainson, former head of IT services specialist CA Technologies, to run it. The move, announced on Thursday, is a key step in Michael Dell's ...

John Swainson, head of Dell's software unit, has a tall order: Convince the business technology masses that his company is about more than hardware and scale his division. That challenge is one faced ...

Dell is organizing the backup software products that it has acquired in the past two years into a coherent portfolio, bundling three of its storage software products into a single package to simplify ...