Dell Releases Package To Help Fight Cyber Crime
Dell Inc released a special set of hardware, software and services on Tuesday created to help police capture more criminals as digital crime multiplies.
The company stated that its digital-forensics parcel would allow police to decrease backlogs, that can last two years, by letting several analysts work all at once on the same information while saving an audit trail.
The package, released with partners like Intel, allows customers to have tools to construct and host their own datacenter, which means they can have the ease of cloud computing.
James Quarles, Dell’s leader of public-sector marketing in Europe, stated to Reuters that customers using this kind of datacenter could allow them to gain an important time advantage.
Dell reorganized its company at the end of 2008 to focus on customer divisions, like the public sector, instead of around geological areas, and added on Tuesday this had aided its new digital-crime focus.
Josh Claman, leader of Dell’s European public sector, wrote in an online blog that the new product "embodies everything we wanted to achieve when we decided to restructure the way Public Sector customers’ needs are addressed."
Dell made $15 billion in selling products to the public sector in 2008, counting hospitals, government, education and defense, which makes up a quarter of its total profit.
The company referred to estimates made by research company IDC where the U.S. digital-forensics marketplace is valued at $630 million in 2009, more that $252 million in 2004, with the international market would hit $1.8 billion by 2011.
Other than Intel, partners in Dell’s package include EMC Corp, Oracle Corp, Symantec Corp and AccessData.
Dell will release the new package to Britain’s Association of Chief Police Officers on Tuesday.
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