Holland Casino has replaced its HP EVA storage system with a Dell Storage solution. The company now benefits from a reliable and flexible IT platform for key business processes in addition to 75% cost savings on the purchase of storage disks. As well as increased reliability, Holland Casino staff are also able to take advantage of a smoother user experience. Holland Casino hosts IT for its 14 sites in a centralized data center that supports 600 end users as well as applications which hold customer contact and gaming information. The continuing growth of data volumes had meant that employees were increasingly suffering from delayed access to applications. Although the legacy storage infrastructure was able to scale out to meet growing capacity demands, the data could not be processed quickly enough which meant a new system was needed. Holland Casino opted to update to Dell Compellent because of its flexibility, stability, ease-of-management and Fluid Data approach. Besides scalability, the solution also integrates well with existing infrastructures by supporting both iSCSI and Fibre Channel. Holland Casino's new Dell Compellent solution consists of three tiers. Tier one contains active data. Tier two is intended for data that's accessed less frequently. The third tier contains information which requires archiving. This has resulted in significant cost savings as Dell Compellent proactively monitors and automatically distributes data to tiers as needed, allowing only regularly accessed information to be stored on expensive, high-performance drives. The automatic data distribution also means that significantly fewer tier one disks are required than was previously necessary, reducing Holland Casino's spend on high-performance drives by up to 75%.

Dell Inc. announced that Clear Creek Independent School District (CCISD) in Texas will deploy 30,000 Dell Latitude 10 tablets running Microsoft Windows 8 throughout its 43 schools in a program they call Latitude to Learn to help personalize learning. The tablets will be used by students, teachers and administrators and will be integrated into the district's curriculum through professional learning services provided by Dell, Microsoft and Intel. CCISD evaluated Dell and Apple devices for their new one-to-one device deployment. The decision was made with feedback from teachers, administrators and students. Students' feedback included that Dell was a better choice for preparing them for college and career. The Dell Latitude 10 also enables students to produce content as readily as they consume it.

Dell Inc. reported unaudited consolidated earnings results for the first quarter ended May 3, 2013. For the quarter, the company reported total net revenue of $14,074 million against $14,422 million a year ago. Operating income was $226 million against $824 million a year ago. Income before income taxes was $158 million against $792 million a year ago. Net income was $130 million against $635 million a year ago. Basic and diluted earnings per share were $0.07 against $0.39 a year ago. Change in cash from operating activities was $39 million against $138 million a year ago. Capital expenditures were $158 million against $142 million a year ago. Non-GAAP operating income was $590 million against $1,010 million a year ago. Non-GAAP net income was $372 million against $761 million a year ago. Pricing adjustments that affected gross margins and continued acquisition-related costs in the quarter resulted in GAAP earnings of $0.07 per share and non-GAAP earnings of $0.21 per share. Non GAAP EPS was $0.21 against $0.43 a year ago.