Extended Technologies Complete

EXTENDED TECHNOLOGIES COMPLETE

Your bridge to complete solutions- enhancing Dell's portfolio with trusted third-party technologies

Extended Technologies Complete (ETC) extends the Dell infrastructure portfolio with essential third-party technologies - closing  gaps and enabling scalable, integrated IT solutions. Everything you need, all procured through Dell in one simple process.

Curated for value. Delivered by Dell

Our ETC offerings are carefully selected to enhance and extend the value of your Dell environment.

Convenient one-stop shopping

Dell brings together the hardware, software, and services you need without the complexity of managing multiple vendors.

Beyond  the box. Ahead of the curve

ETC helps you go further by combining Dell innovation with trusted third-party solutions, all through a single Dell relationship.

ETC Partners

Our curated ecosystem of third-party solutions ensures you get everything you need for your business, without the complexity. Fill technology gaps, extend functionality, and strengthen IT infrastructure through a single, streamlined process with Dell or  one of our channel partners.

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Amulet Hotkey

Provides complete centralized computing solutions for mission-critical environments, from the data center to the desktop. Amulet Hotkey designs custom configurations on PowerEdge servers, including dense GPU, passive thermal architectures, and accelerated remote workstations.

Solution Area: Edge Solutions.

Use Cases: Dense GPU, Passive Thermal Architecture, remote workstations, VDI

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerEdge

Partner Offerings: Power continuity (UPS), Rack infrastructure (enclosures, wall-mount), Power distribution (PDU mounting/accessories).
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APC by Schneider Electric

Worldwide provider of enterprise class power, cooling and infrastructure management solutions to keep everything from the data  center to edge secure and available. APC is the Dell OEM manufacturer for Dell badged racks and UPS's.

Solution Area: Data Center Infrastructure.

Use Cases: Accelerate AI deployments across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments; Open uCPE & SD-WAN for Service Providers;  Optical Transport for AI-Driven Data Centers.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerEdge, XR.

Partner Offerings: Ensemble product suite.
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CirrusData

Cirrus Data and Dell deliver data mobility solutions purpose-built for high-performance block storage and hypervisor migrations. A single automated platform moves physical, virtual, and hybrid workloads to Dell storage with near-zero downtime, de-risking technology refreshes, competitive replacements, and virtualization transitions while accelerating time to value and delivering  predictable outcomes.

Solution Area: Data Center Infrastructure.

Use Cases: Storage Technology Refresh, Multi-Cloud Migration and Repatriation, IT Modernization, Data Center Relocation and Consolidation, VM and Hypervisor Migration.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerMax, PowerStore, Unity XT, (Hybrid), PowerFlex.

Partner Offerings: Cirrus Migrate Cloud (software-only), Cirrus Migrate On-Premises (appliance based), Cirrus Data Premium Support.
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ClearML

ClearML enables customers to manage GPU clusters, optimize compute utilization, and deploy GenAI models. It offers GPUaaS with  secure multi-tenancy, dynamic resource allocation and fractional GPUs, and usage-based billing  as well as a cloud experience  for AI/ML workflows across hybrid and on-prem environments.

Solution Area: AI Factory.

Use Cases: Collaborative Machine Learning, Model deployment, Data Science Automation, Compliance and Governance.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerEdge hardware and NativeEdge SW & Services. All Dell Native Edge supported hardware.

Partner Offerings: ClearML GPU-as-a-Service, ClearML StarterKit 16 GPU license bundle and expansion packs, Cloud-managed, and self-managed options.
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Cloudera

Cloudera and Dell jointly deliver a fully integrated Private AI platform that unifies enterprise data and AI workloads with industry-leading security, governance, and scalability. By combining Cloudera’s advanced data and AI capabilities with Dell’s robust storage and server infrastructure, customers can accelerate AI adoption, reduce costs, and deploy intelligent solutions seamlessly across hybrid environments.

Solution Area: AI Factory.

Use Cases: Hybrid Data Lakehouse & End-to-End Analytics, Private AI / "AI-in-a-Box".

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerScale, PowerEdge.

Partner Offerings: Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).
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Cohere

Cohere is an enterprise-grade generative and agentic AI platform that delivers secure, on-premises AI workspaces and intelligent agent frameworks through its North offering. Designed to operate directly on an organization’s proprietary data, Cohere North provides robust controls for privacy, governance, and identity. Integrated within Dell’s AI Factory and security-hardened PowerEdge and storage infrastructure, this solution combines Cohere’s advanced agentic AI capabilities with Dell’s scalable, trusted platforms.

Solution Area: AI Factory.

Use Cases: Highly regulated industries requiring unstructured data and workflows to be utilized in powering RAG Copilots, document extraction, classification, and agentic automation.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: Dell PowerEdge R760XA, Dell PowerEdge XE9680, Dell PowerEdge XE7740, Dell PowerScale, Dell PowerSwitch.

Partner Offerings: Cohere North.
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Core6

StorageGuard - by Core6 - enables Dell customers to get complete visibility of all storage & backup security risks and harden their storage infrastructure, to withstand ransomware. Also ensures compliance with industry and regulatory best practices.

Solution Area: Security & Cyber Resilience.

Use Cases: Storage Security / Monitoring.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerProtect (Cyber Recovery), Primary Storage Solutions.

Partner Offerings: StorageGuard.
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Cool IT

As an experienced innovator with over 60 patents and more than four million liquid cooling units deployed, CoolIT Systems is the leading liquid cooling solution provider for HPC, Cloud and Enterprise markets worldwide.

Solution Area: Data Center Infrastructure.

Use Cases: Direct Liquid Cooling.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerEdge.

Partner Offerings: Dell's CoolIT-enabled Direct Liquid Cooling solutions.
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Datadobi

Datadobi's software, StorageMAP, empowers unstructured data management for the enterprise. With StorageMAP, your customers can  get actionable insights and derive value into vast amounts of unstructured data to make business-critical decisions.

Solution Area: Unstructured Data Solutions.

Use Cases: Data migration, Data Management NAS & Object migration.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerScale, ObjectScale.

Partner Offerings: StorageMAP.
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DataRobot

DataRobot is a unified enterprise AI platform that automates the entire lifecycle of Agentic AI projects, from data preparation and model development to deployment and continuous monitoring. Integrating seamlessly with the Dell AI Factory strategy, DataRobot offers enterprises a secure, scalable environment to build and manage AI within their own on-premises or hybrid infrastructures.

Solution Area: AI Factory.

Use Cases: Regulated Industries, organizations with Data Sovereignty requirements or air-gapped mandates, enterprises with significant on-prem or hybrid investments that are moving AI from pilot to production to scale and building AI factories.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerEdge Servers (R-Series & XE-Series), PowerScale F210 / F710, Dell PowerSwitch.

Partner Offerings: DataRobot AI Agent Workforce Platform.

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Diskover Data

Diskover Data is the next generation of DatalQ - it provides maximum detailed visibility and analysis into an organization's information assets that are typically spread across the enterprise and in the cloud.

Solution Area: Unstructured Data Solutions.

Use Cases: Data Management, DatalQ Replacement, Governance and Compliance, Risk Mitigation.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerScale, ObjectScale.

Partner Offerings: Diskover Data (Platform).

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DriveNets

DriveNets enables service providers and hyper-scalers to build massive, cost efficient networks using cloud architected software and AI with carrier grade performance.

Solution Area: Networking.

Use Cases: High Performance Ethernet Based AI Networks, Multi-tenant environments, multiple locations up to 80km.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: Networking, Storage, and Compute.

Partner Offerings:

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Druva

Druva offers a cloud-native, SaaS data protection platform that extends Dell's cyber-resilient PowerProtect portfolio to SaaS apps, endpoints, and hybrid/cloud workloads.
Customers get a single, modern service to safeguard their entire data estate—on-prem, in the cloud, and across SaaS—while simplifying operations and tightening compliance.

Solution Area: Multicloud / Hybrid Cloud (APEX-aligned)

Use Cases: PowerProtect Backup Services.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerProtect Backup Services (SaaS Apps, Endpoint, Hybrid Workloads).

Partner Offerings: InSync Cloud/Business/Endpoint Enterprise & Elite, Phoenix Business/Enterprise/Elite.

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Eaton

Eaton is an intelligent power management company improving the quality of life and focused on protecting the environment. With the acquisition of Tripp Lite, Eaton provides over 5,000 network, power, and connectivity solutions to maintain business continuity and prevent downtime.

Solution Area: Data Center Infrastructure.

Use Cases: Power Management, Rack Solutions, UPS, PDU, KVM/KMM.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: Compute, Storage & Networking.

Partner Offerings: UPS, intelligent rack PDUs, racks/KVMs, and power management software.

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Eviden

Eviden is a next-gen technology leader in data-driven, trusted and sustainable digital transformation with a strong portfolio of patented technologies. Through worldwide leading positions in advanced computing, security and AI Eviden provides deep expertise for all industries in more than 47 countries.

Solution Area: AI Factory.

Use Cases: SAP HANA, databases and In-Memory applications, Mission-critical applications, Bare metal or Advanced virtualization (supporting large VMs), Data analytics and AI, Private and hybrid clouds.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerEdge, Enterprise Storage and Data Protection.

Partner Offerings: Eviden High-Performance Computing, Cybersecurity, and AI solutions.

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FuturFusion

FuturFusion offers a unique value proposition by providing an open-source cloud platform that replicates all VMware functions with an easy migration path using its Migration Manager. Through FuturFusion Cloud, businesses can build a secure next-gen low-cost infrastructure to replace VMware (including network), run Al-workloads or repatriate form the hyper-clouds.

Solution Area: Multicloud / Hybrid Cloud (APEX-aligned)

Use Cases: Predictive Maintenance, Supply Chain Optimization, Customer segmentation, Cybersecurity.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerEdge, PowerScale.

Partner Offerings: FuturFusion Cloud, Migration Manager, VMware Function Replication (open-source stack), Network Virtualization Modules, AI Workload Orchestration Extensions.

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H2O.AI

H2O.ai democratizes artificial intelligence by providing an open-source machine learning automation platform that enables rapid building and deployment of AI models and applications. This platform enhances productivity for data scientists across various industries by offering powerful predictive analytics tools that can be used both in the cloud and on-premise.

Solution Area: AI Factory.

Use Cases: Predictive Analytics, Fraud Detection, Customer Segmentation, Healthcare Analytics, Time Series Forecasting.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: Dell AI Factory, Dell PowerEdge.

Partner Offerings: H20 Driverless AI, H20 AI Cloud, H20-3 (Open Source), H2O AutoML, H2O Document AI, H2O Feature Store, H20 Wave (App Framework), H2O LLM Studio.

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HCL

HCL Storage Resource Management (SRM) is a comprehensive solution designed to monitor and manage the health, performance, and capacity of storage resources within an organization.

Solution Area: Data Center Infrastructure.

Use Cases: Storage Management, Capacity optimization, Performance monitoring, Reporting and Analytics.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerMax, PowerScale, PowerStore, Unity, PowerProtect DD.

Partner Offerings: HCL SRM.

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HYCU

HYCU simplifies backup, storage, and disaster recovery for businesses across on-prem, cloud, and SaaS. Extend PowerProtect DD's advanced deduplication capabilities to more of your hybrid and multi-cloud data with HYCU‘s next gen data protection.

Solution Area: Security & Cyber Resilience.

Use Cases: Specific Cloud & SaaS Workloads, Specific Fed Certifications, Nutanix Acropolis Workloads, Azure Stack HCI.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerProtect Data Domain.

Partner Offerings: R-Cloud Backup & Recovery.

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Nvidia

NVIDIA builds end-to-end AI and data science solutions and frameworks that enable every enterprise to realize their Al-fueled ambitions.

Solution Area: AI Factory.

Use Cases: Training, Inference & Analytics AI Platform, Dense GPU, large demanding machine learning & deep.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerEdge.

Partner Offerings: Ethernet AI fabric switches, InfiniBand AI fabric switches, Host adapters and DPUs, Optics and interconnects, Enterprise AI software, Validated AI solution stack.

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Owl Cyber Defense

Owl Cyber Defense hardware-enforced data diode cybersecurity products provide seamless data availability, unhackable security, and a secure and reliable solution for isolating critical data from ransomware and destructive attacks.

Solution Area: Security & Cyber Resilience.

Use Cases: Cyber Recovery Vault Ops.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerProtect Cyber Recovery.

Partner Offerings: Owl Talon Data Diode Platform.

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Palo Alto Networks

The Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform combines network and cloud security with threat intelligence and accurate analytics.

Solution Area: Networking.

Use Cases: Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Advanced Threat Prevention, Operational Resilience.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerEdge, XR, Sonic.

Partner Offerings: Prisma SD-WAN, Prisma Access, GlobalProtect, VM-Series Firewall.

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Peer Software

Peer Software and Dell PowerScale empower organizations with an active-active global file system that boosts productivity, ensures high availability, and extends enterprise-class data access from edge to core to cloud— enabling seamless AI/ML workflows and cost-effective scalability across distributed environments.

Solution Area: Unstructured Data Solutions.

Use Cases: Active-active file services, Edge file caching/ data management, Multi-Site File Collaboration with File Locking, Data orchestration for AI/ML workloads.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerScale, PowerStore.

Partner Offerings: Peer Global File Service (PeerGFS).

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Progress Software

Progress is a global software company with a mission to provide the best products to develop, deploy and manage critical business applications.

Solution Area: Data Center Infrastructure.

Use Cases: Load Balancing, ObjectScale Application Experience, Network Detection & Response.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: ObjectScale.

Partner Offerings: ObjectScale Connection Manager, Flowmon, LoadMaster.

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ProLion

ProLion develops powerful data protection solutions that safeguard critical file storage on premise or in the cloud - from ransomware protection that detects threats in real time, to data transparency.

Solution Area: Security & Cyber Resilience.

Use Cases: Ransomware Protection, Comprehensive Reporting, Automatic NAS Failover, Data Analytics.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerStore, Unity, PowerScale.

Partner Offerings: CryptoSpike, DataAnalyzer, ClusterLion

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Pryon

Pryon & Dell enable customers across the most complex industries (including healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, energy, retail, financial services, and government) to realize the value of GenAI. Pryon's ingestion and retrieval engines can be paired with generative LLMs to implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic solutions, providing accurate, instant, and verifiable answers at enterprise scale.

Solution Area: AI Factory.

Use Cases: GenAI for Internal: Employee Support, Technical/Manufacturing Support, Legal Support, IT Helpdesk, Research, GenAI for External (Customer Facing): Customer Support, Constituent and Citizen Self-Service.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerSwitch, PowerEdge, PowerStore, PowerScale, 0bjectScale, Powerflex.

Partner Offerings: Pryon AI Platform, Pryon Ingestion Engine, Pryon Retrieval Engine, Pryon Answer Engine (RAG), Pryon Agentic Workflows.

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SonicWall

SonicWall fights cybercriminals with real-time breach detection and prevention solutions, including next-gen firewalls and cloud security.

Solution Area: Security & Cyber Resilience.

Use Cases: Secure SD-WAN; SaaS & Office 365 Securit, Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Security, Wireless 8 Mobile Access.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: Networking.

Partner Offerings: Branch/SMB firewalls, Mid-range enterprise next-gen firewalls, High-performance/data center firewalls, Managed security switches, Protection service bundles, Support and implementation services, Networking accessories and optics.

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Spectra Logic

Spectra Logic delivers immutable tape storage with air- gapped cyber resilience, best-in-class sustainability, and the lowest TCO of any cold storage solution including cloud. Our tape and data management solutions span from entry-level to enterprise-class, including the new Spectra SL3 library specifically designed for Dell PowerVault ML3 customers.

Solution Area: Security & Cyber Resilience.

Use Cases: Backup, Tape, long-term data storage.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerProtect Solutions.

Partner Offerings: Spectra Stack, TFINITY, T380, T680, Cube, LTO Media.

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Starburst Data

Starburst is a leading provider of a fast and efficient distributed query engine for data warehouse, lake, and mesh solutions. Starburst runs on top of Dell PowerEdge and leverages ECS Object Storage to make data instantly available for analytics.

Solution Area: AI Factory.

Use Cases: Data Management

Dell Portfolio Alignment: ObjectScale, PowerEdge.

Partner Offerings: Starburst Enterprise Platform.

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Superna

Superna delivers data center software solutions and certifications for security, disaster recovery and root cause analytics for file storage systems.

Solution Area: Security & Cyber Resilience.

Use Cases: Infrastructure Management, Disaster Recovery.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerScale, ObjectScale, PowerStore.

Partner Offerings: Ransomware Defender, AirGap, Data Security Essentials, Data Archive, Disaster Recovery.

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Uneeq

UneeQ digital humans are real-time 3D AI interfaces that understand, speak, guide & educate people, with emotion & personality. UneeQ redefines human-computer interactions allowing brands to deliver engaging and personalized customer interactions at scale.

Solution Area: AI Factory.

Use Cases: Sales, Information Accessibility, Customer Experience, Training/Learning.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: Compute.

Partner Offerings: UneeQ Digital Humans, UneeQ AI Studio, UneeQ Conversation Designer, UneeQ Orchestrator, UneeCl Analytics.

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Vcinity

Vcinity solves challenges with the growth of unstructured data and dispersed data sets at the Edge and in Hybrid/ Multicloud, Analytics and GenAI architectures. Regardless of distance, volume, or network capacity, Vcinity moves data and/or enables the remote access of data at unprecedented speeds.

Solution Area: Multicloud / Hybrid Cloud (APEX-aligned).

Use Cases: Data Management, Data Mobility, Edge Accelerator.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerScale, ObjectScale.

Partner Offerings: Ultimate X/ULT X.

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Versa Networks

Versa Networks, the SASE leader, combines extensive security, advanced networking, full-featured SD-WAN, genuine multitenancy, and sophisticated analytics via the cloud, on-premises, or a combination of both.

Solution Area: Edge Solutions.

Use Cases: Global enterprises modernizing WAN and security; Service providers offering managed SD-WAN/ SASE; Organizations with distributed or hybrid workforces Industries needing edge compute + secure connectivity (e.g., retail, finance, utilities).

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerEdge, XR.

Partner Offerings: Single-vendor SASE, Secure SD-WAN, Security Service Edge (SSE), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Next-gen firewall and IDS/IPS,
SD-LAN, Analytics and Digital Experience Monitoring, Orchestration and management.

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Vertiv

Vertiv designs, builds and services critical infrastructure for data centers, communication networks, and commercial & industrial facilities.

Solution Area: Data Center Infrastructure.

Use Cases: Power Management, Rack Solutions, UPS, PDU, KVM/KMM.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: Compute, Storage & Networking.

Partner Offerings: UPS systems (single- and three-phase), Rack PDUs, Rack enclosures, In-rack/in-row cooling, KVM and serial consoles, IT management software and lifecycle services, Micro data centers.

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Virtana

Virtana guarantees performance and availability of their mission-critical applications and IT infrastructure with real- time monitoring and AIOps platform.

Solution Area: Multicloud / Hybrid Cloud (APEX-aligned).

Use Cases: End‑to‑end performance monitoring and troubleshooting.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: Primary Storage Solutions.

Partner Offerings: Infrastructure Performance Management.

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Wasabi

Wasabi provides a cloud object storage as a target for Cloud Tier from on prem PPDD or DDVE. Dell can monetize the cloud storage used as a Cloud Tier target for Data Domain solutions. In addition, Dell and Wasabi have an 0bjectScale-based Wasabi Hybrid Cloud Object Storage offering.

Solution Area: Multicloud / Hybrid Cloud (APEX-aligned).

Use Cases: Cloud Object Storage.

Dell Portfolio Alignment: PowerProtect DD / DDVE, PowerProtect DataManager, ObjectScale.

Partner Offerings: Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage, Wasabi with Dell ObjectScale.

Frequently asked questions

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Dell Extended Technologies Complete (ETC) enables customers to seamlessly procure complementary third-party technology solutions through Dell Technologies and its trusted channel partners. ETC expands the Dell Technologies portfolio by providing access to carefully selected third-party solutions that address customer needs beyond Dell's core offerings. These solutions are purpose-built to fill portfolio gaps, extend solution capabilities, and support the future-ready infrastructure customers require to  modernize, scale, and innovate.

Purchasing thirdparty solutions through Dell Extended Technologies Complete (ETC) provides a simpler, more integrated experience while reducing risk and complexity. Through ETC, customers can procure complementary thirdparty technologies directly from Dell or its authorized channel partners-while maintaining Dell as their primary point of engagement. This streamlines purchasing, contract management, and vendor coordination.

Buying through ETC offers several key advantages:

  • Simplified procurement
    Reduce the number of vendors and contracts by purchasing thirdparty solutions through Dell or its partners.
  • Curated solutions
    ETC solutions are selected to complement Dell Technologies platforms, helping ensure alignment with existing architectures and solution strategies.
  • Dell-backed engagement
    Customers benefit from Dell's scale, governance, and ecosystem oversight-providing added confidence in solution selection and delivery.

No. ETC is designed to extend customer choice, not restrict it. ETC enables access to a growing portfolio of third-party solutions that address specific technology needs not covered by Dell's core offerings. These solutions are selected to fill portfolio gaps, enhance capabilities, and support evolving customer requirements.

ETC does not replace third-party support models, but it aligns solution selection and engagement through Dell to provide a more coordinated customer experience.

Yes. ETC solutions can be procured through Dell Technologies or its authorized channel partners, allowing customers to maintain existing partner relationships while accessing third-party technologies through the Dell ecosystem.

ETC is ideal when customers need to:

  • Address technology gaps beyond Dell's core portfolio
  • Extend or enhance existing Dell deployments
  • Adopt emerging or specialized technologies
  • Build future-ready infrastructure using a single, trusted procurement path

Yes. Dell Extended Technologies Complete (ETC) is a global program, designed to support customers across multiple regions through Dell Technologies and its authorized channel partners. ETC operates within Dell's worldwide sales and partner ecosystem, enabling customers in supported geographies to procure eligible third-party solutions through Dell using consistent engagement models. Availability of specific solutions may vary by region based on local regulations, partner coverage, and market needs.

ETC is a curated program. Companies join by meeting Dell's standards for solution fit, customer value, and commercial readiness, and by aligning to Dell's engagement and compliance requirements.