Swot Compellent

SWOT: Dell/Compellent: Data Virtualization

With the purchase of Compellent Inc, Dell has entered the market of Data Virtualization and storage. With this, Dell has gained new strengths and weaknesses. They have also opened themselves to new opportunities and threats. Data Virtualization is relatively new to the business environment and this is a great time to get into the market.

|Strengths |Weaknesses |

|Flexibility of Services Provided (Scaling) |Quality Suffering with Size |

|Well Known, Good Company Reputation |(More Users = Server Bottlenecks) |

|Fast/Reliable Access (Disaster Recovery) |No Physical Distribution Channels |

|Centralized Infrastructure (Easier to Manage) |Heavy Energy Consumption (Data |

|Low Cost |Centers) |

|New Technology |New Technology |

|Opportunities |Threats |

|New Growing Markets |Environment (Weather) |

|Cost Reduction |Many Emerging Rivals |

|Expand into Personal Online Storage |Low Cost for Customers to Switch Providers |

|New Technology |New Technology...