Revenue for servers and storage was 22 percent of the overall figure, matching the company's previous record, and helping contribute to the $700 million added in the quarter to a cash and investments bundle of $11.8 billion, officials said. Server shipments rose 44 percent, while storage revenue grew 60 percent. Software and peripherals revenue increased 31 percent -- Dell expects to sell five million printers this year, it said.
Dell says it expects third quarter revenues of about $12.5 billion with earnings of $0.33 a share. Analysts expect Dell to earn 32 cents a share on revenues of $12.5 billion in the same period, according to Reuters Research.
Dell also took time in the quarter to buy back more than $2 billion of its own stock, Rollins said. Overseas, much of the revenue gains were sales taken away from archrival HP, he added.
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