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> services 98% of all fortune 500 companies. So it's a short list of ten for the other 2%. IBM, HP, ... ?? (Clarification: the ten who don't buy from Dell+EMC

> services 98% of all fortune 500 companies. So it's a short list of ten for the other 2%. IBM, HP, ... ?? (Clarification: the ten who don't buy from Dell+EMC. Just curious about that. Direct competitors is my first guess ...)

tboughen 10y ago
No, because large companies buy computing goods and services from more than one business. There will be significant overlap.
icelancer 10y ago
AAPL.
- travem 10y ago
  This was reported a few years ago and may no longer be the case but they have aparently bought EMC storage in the past - http://www.crn.com/news/storage/229401100/report-apple-buys-12-petabytes-of-emc-isilon-storage-for-itunes.htm http://www.crn.com/news/storage/229401100/report-apple-buys-...
- lynxbat 10y ago
  I believe iCloud runs on Isilon
codemac 10y ago
They service those companies as well. Most of the fortune 500 don't buy one server or one storage system. They buy many of everything, and reward the best vendors with larger portions of their data centers, not exclusivity.
rodgerd 10y ago
It wouldn't be uncommon for a Fortune 500 to have no Dell or EMC. It would be a very unusual Fortune 500 that has no VMWare.
- cobookman 10y ago
  Alphabet? I dont think they have any dell, emc, or vmware equipment.
  - loeg 10y ago
    They're pretty unusual.
    - rodgerd 10y ago
      I'm not sure why you got downvoted - the number of companies that are in the Fortune 500 and would run purely with KVM, Xen, or other non-VMWare hypervisors is pretty small.
  - WaltPurvis 10y ago
    "Any" is a strong claim. Alphabet has 60,000+ employees across dozens of divisions and subsidiaries, many of which came through acquisition. It's extremely unlikely that nobody, in any of these groups, is using a Dell server or one of EMC's fifty different models of storage arrays. (Or, to be somewhat ridiculous about it, using a Dell monitor or laptop.)
    - freehunter 10y ago
      Or running VMWare Fusion.
  - nine_k 10y ago
    While at Google, I worked on a Dell workstation. Not everything must be 'n datacenters.
flukus 10y ago
IBM is primarily a services company aren't they?
- freehunter 10y ago
  For the most part our services compliment our products. You could argue we're a products company that also offers services, or a service company that offers products. Either way, I work in services supporting an in-house product. So at the least, we have both.
keypusher 10y ago
HDS (Hitachi Data Systems). Average guy on the street may never have heard of them, but they sell a ton of storage to Fortune 500.

tboughen 10y ago

No, because large companies buy computing goods and services from more than one business. There will be significant overlap.

icelancer 10y ago

AAPL.

travem 10y ago
This was reported a few years ago and may no longer be the case but they have aparently bought EMC storage in the past - http://www.crn.com/news/storage/229401100/report-apple-buys-12-petabytes-of-emc-isilon-storage-for-itunes.htm http://www.crn.com/news/storage/229401100/report-apple-buys-...
lynxbat 10y ago
I believe iCloud runs on Isilon

codemac 10y ago

They service those companies as well. Most of the fortune 500 don't buy one server or one storage system. They buy many of everything, and reward the best vendors with larger portions of their data centers, not exclusivity.

rodgerd 10y ago

It wouldn't be uncommon for a Fortune 500 to have no Dell or EMC. It would be a very unusual Fortune 500 that has no VMWare.

cobookman 10y ago
Alphabet? I dont think they have any dell, emc, or vmware equipment.
- loeg 10y ago
  They're pretty unusual.
  - rodgerd 10y ago
    I'm not sure why you got downvoted - the number of companies that are in the Fortune 500 and would run purely with KVM, Xen, or other non-VMWare hypervisors is pretty small.
- WaltPurvis 10y ago
  "Any" is a strong claim. Alphabet has 60,000+ employees across dozens of divisions and subsidiaries, many of which came through acquisition. It's extremely unlikely that nobody, in any of these groups, is using a Dell server or one of EMC's fifty different models of storage arrays. (Or, to be somewhat ridiculous about it, using a Dell monitor or laptop.)
  - freehunter 10y ago
    Or running VMWare Fusion.
- nine_k 10y ago
  While at Google, I worked on a Dell workstation. Not everything must be 'n datacenters.

flukus 10y ago

IBM is primarily a services company aren't they?

freehunter 10y ago
For the most part our services compliment our products. You could argue we're a products company that also offers services, or a service company that offers products. Either way, I work in services supporting an in-house product. So at the least, we have both.

keypusher 10y ago

HDS (Hitachi Data Systems). Average guy on the street may never have heard of them, but they sell a ton of storage to Fortune 500.