Today we are celebrating the shipping of our 1 millionth cloud server!  What started a little over five years ago as a sketch on the back of a napkin to address a specific customer’s needs has multiplied a million times and now addresses the needs of many the Web’s biggest and most demanding customers.

To get a feel for not only how powerful, but more importantly how efficient these million servers are, check out the video bellow.  It gives a quick history of Dells Data Center Solutions (DCS) group behind these servers,  shows the one millionth server being built and features short clips from a couple of big customers.

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