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"Dell today announced that it has purchased Gale Technologies, a Santa Clara, California-based provider of infrastructure automation software that allows organizations to streamline the deployment of on-premise and hybrid clouds. \r\n\r\nFinancial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Gale was founded in 2008 and was backed by Crescendo Ventures.\r\n\r\nDell says it plans keep Gale\u2019 employees and continue to invest in additional engineering and sales capability to grow the business.\r\n\r\nThis marks Dell's fourth acquisition this year, after snapping up Quest Software, Wyse Technology and AppAssure Software earlier. \r\n\r\nDell today also announced the creation of a new 'Enterprise Systems &amp;amp; Solutions' organization as it expands its enterprise solutions portfolio (and more specifically, its server and networking business).\r\n\r\nDell's new Enterprise Systems &amp;amp; Solutions division has as its mission &amp;quot;to develop converged and enterprise workload solutions&amp;quot;. The unit will focus on optimizing infrastructure for enterprise applications. \r\n\r\nIt will be led by VP and general manager Dario Zamarian, who previously headed Dell\u2019s Networking business as vice president and general manager. Zamarian will report to Marius Haas, president, Dell Enterprise Solutions Group.\r\n\r\nThe company has also hired Tom Burns away from Alcatel-Lucent to join Dell as vice president and general manager, Dell Networking, also reporting to Haas.\r\n\r\nImage credit: Nigel Treblin for AFP / Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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