Bangalore: Renowned PC manufacturing company, Dell Inc. is en route to shift its terrain from manufacturing computers to providing end-to-end IT services.
Once the largest company making computers, Dell Inc. is not really into the PC business anymore, claimed its founder Michael Dell in a conference hosted by Fortune.  Dell, founded in 1984, which has ruled the computer market for a very long time generated most of its revenues selling PC’s. But, the decline in company’s ranking (Dell slipped to No. 4 in the list of largest computer manufacturers) in the recent past and the volatile crisis it has been going through have been touted as the major reason behind Dell taking a swing from its core business and making a determined shift to sever storage and end-to-end IT services.

Michael Dell spent most of his time talking about corporate servers, storage, networking, security and IT services in the conference where he explained the reasons behind this transformation. He termed it as ‘New Dell’ and said Dell is preparing itself to embrace the ‘Post PC-era’. He also said that Dell Inc. is spending majority of its R&D budget in transforming the company towards a more enterprise-centric model captivating the success of IBM’s reinvention as its muse.

Stating figures, Michael Dell declared a $60 million venture fund to invest in storage companies and his visionary to transform Dell Inc.

Despite his announcements, Dell acknowledged that they will continue to compete with Apple PC’s and that tablets based on Windows 8 are in the making, but still they are making a significant progress in changing the nature of their business.

Here we bring you a timeline of events that have shaped today’s Dell Inc. from a PC centric start-up named PC’s Limited to a storage and end-to-end IT service provider: