Dell's PC unit shipment share worldwide 2011-2024, by quarter

In the third quarter of 2024, Dell held a 15.7 percent share of global PC unit shipments, lower than the 16.7 percent share the company held in the second quarter of 2024. Dell sits as the number three PC vendor in the world following Lenovo and HP.

Dell's business model

Dell Technologies is a multinational corporation within the information technology (IT) industry offering hardware, software, and service solutions. Overall, Dell Technologies is made up of Dell, Dell EMC, Alienware, Secureworks, and Virtustream. In November 2021, Dell Technologies completed the spin-off of VMware. Dell Technologies operates across two business units: Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) and Client Solutions Group (CSG).

Dell’s business moving forward

Dell Technologies is now focusing on managing business clients’ data needs, reflecting the changing market environment from traditional, hardware-based enterprise storage to hybrid cloud services. For Dell Technologies to better compete in the area of cloud computing and to be able to handle multi-cloud operations, the company obtained VMware during the EMC acquisition. VMware is a cloud computing and software virtualization company, working in the areas of hybrid and multi-cloud, networking, and security.