Dell has served businesses, governments, large organizations and individuals in Asia-Pacific/Japan since the early 1990s. Dell Asia-Pacific/Japan has the product range and expertise to help multinational, government and corporate accounts as well as experienced individuals and small to medium businesses, implement their technology initiatives throughout the region.

Dell pioneered the toll-free technical support hotline and made it an industry standard. Its multi-lingual support engineers at the APCC and CCC are able to resolve more than 80% of all callers' technical issues over the phone. This is possible because Dell brands each system it ships with an individual product number that links to its detailed technical specifications.

Revenue in the quarter grew by 19 percent on a 31 percent increase in units. Operating income was up 52 percent on a balanced country, segment and product performance. India and China led the region with revenue increases of 52 percent and 30 percent, and unit shipment growth of 68 percent and 43 percent, respectively. APJ growth continued strong across all product categories, with shipment increases of 46 percent in notebooks, 23 percent in server shipments and 25 percent in desktops.

Avocent® is a global leader in IT Operations Management Solutions from the desktop to the data center.

Customers of all sizes rely on Avocent to reduce cost, increase availability of network resources, and enable control, security and compliance regardless of mix or location of the hardware and software. Thousands of client sites, including 94% of Fortune 100 companies, rely every day on Avocent technology.

Solutions included a broad mix of hardware, software, systems and services offerings.

Avocent has more than three dozen embedded design wins with industry leaders and maintains an OEM relationship with leading technology providers including HP, Dell, IBM, Intel, Siemens, Lenovo, Fujitsu and others. With more than 25 years of innovations, Avocent solutions have received over 100 state-of-the-art US Patents.

Founded in 1982, headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, Avocent has more than 1,800 employees and sales, operations and R&D centers located in 45 countries worldwide, Avocent stock is traded as AVCT on the NASDAQ Stock Market. More information on Avocent is available at www.avocent.com.