List of Dell ownership activities

This list of Dell ownership activities delineates mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and stakes of Dell.

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Acquisitions and mergers

	Date	Company	Industry	Country	Transaction value	References
1	September 8, 1999	ConvergeNet Technologies	Data storage	United States	$340,688,000	[1]
2	September 30, 1999	NetSage	Software	United States	$10,000,000	[2]
3	May 31, 2002	Plural [3]	IT services provider	United States	—	[4]
4	May 8, 2006	Alienware	Computer desktops	United States	—	[5]
5	November 14, 2006	ACS	Information technology	United Kingdom	—	[6]
6	July 18, 2007	SilverBack Technologies, Inc.[note 1]	Network monitoring	United States	—	[7]
7	November 12, 2007	ASAP Software Express[note 2]	Information technology	United States	$340,000,000	[8]
8	December 20, 2007	Everdream	Software	United States	—	[9]
9	January 28, 2008	EqualLogic	Storage area networks	United States	$1.4×10^9	[10]
10	February 21, 2008	The Networked Storage Company	Information provider	United Kingdom	—	[11]
11	April 24, 2008	MessageOne	Office software management	United States	$155,000,000	[12]
12	September 21, 2009	Perot Systems	IT services provider	United States	$3.9×10^9	[13]
13	February 11, 2010	KACE Networks	Appliance-based systems management provider	United States	—	[14]
14	February 19, 2010	Exanet	OEM NAS software provider	Israel	$12,000,000	[15]
15	July 1, 2010	Scalent	Data center management vendor	United States	—	[16]
16	July 30, 2010	Ocarina Networks	Storage deduplication vendor	United States	—	[17]
17	November 2, 2010	Boomi	Cloud integration vendor	United States	—	[18][19]
18	December 13, 2010	Compellent	Storage systems manufacturer	United States	$960,000,000	[20]
19	January 4, 2011	SecureWorks	Security services	United States	$612,000,000	[21]
20	June 21, 2011	RNA Networks	Software networking	United States	undisclosed	[22]
21	July 20, 2011	Force10	Data center Ethernet switches	United States	$700,000,000	[23]
22	April 5, 2012	Make Technologies	Services modernization	United States	undisclosed	[24]
23	April 3, 2012	Clerity Systems	Services modernization	United States	undisclosed	[25]
24	April 2, 2012	Wyse Technology	Cloud technology	United States	undisclosed	[26]
25	April 2012	SonicWALL, Inc.	Software security	United States	undisclosed	[27]
26	April 2012	AppAssure	Software security	United States	undisclosed	[28]
27	July 2, 2012	Quest Software	Systems management and security software	United States	$2.4×10^9	[29]
28	November 16, 2012	Gale Technologies	Infrastructure automation solutions	United States	undisclosed	References
29	May 6, 2013	Enstratius, formerly enStratus Networks	Cloud management software	United States	$3,500,000	[30]
30	March 24, 2014	StatSoft	Statistical software and services	United States	undisclosed	[31]
31	October 12, 2015	EMC²	Storage, virtualization, services, cloud, data center, security and compliance	United States	$67,000,000,000[32]	[33][34]
32	January 23, 2023	Cloudify	Cloud management and Orchestration Software as a service	United States	$100,000,000	[35][36]
33	August 11, 2023	Moogsoft	AI powered DevOps and ITOps	United States	undisclosed	[37]

Stakes

Date	Company	Business	Country	Value (USD)	References
June 8, 1999	NaviSite[note 3]	Internet service provider	United States	—	[38]
July 21, 1999	Com2001.com	Internet community software	United States	—	[39]
January 31, 2000	Fast Search & Transfer	Enterprise search	Norway	$25,200,000	[40]
June 16, 2000	Netyear Group	Consulting	Japan	—	[41]

Divestitures

Date	Acquirer	Target company	Target business	Acquirer country	Value (USD)	References
October 9, 2000	Finali	NetSage	Help software	United States	—	[42]
October 16, 2008	Stream Global Services	Contact Centre-San Salvador	Manufacturing	United States	—	[43]
November 2, 2016	NTT Data	Dell Services/Perot Systems	IT service provider	Japan	3,100,000,000

Notes

1. Dell Inc. acquired SilverBack Technologies, Inc. .
2. ASAP Software Express was acquired from Corporate Express.
3. Dell acquired a 4.9% interest in NaviSite.