Could cloud cast a shadow over Dell’s bottom line?

Cloud casts a shadow over Dell Technologies’ upbeat view of the future … . Specifically, the mega-scale global public cloud threatens the company’s margins. Dell Technologies is a vendor to public cloud providers, but because of the small number of major public cloud vendors and those companies’ technological self-sufficiency, the greater the percentage of computing and storage housed in public clouds, the lower the potential for Dell Technologies’ bottom line. — Stanley Stevens, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst; and Ezra Gottheil, Principal Analyst