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Dell Technologies

70Judge labels
5First choices
7Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
5% in Enterprise storage for mid-market buyers
Rank 4 of 167 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
2 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 9% of its 23 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Dell Technologies →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In enterprise storage · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Dell Technologies for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Enterprise storage systemsCloud and infrastructure5%4 of 1679%23accepted challenger
Data center networkingNetwork and edge2%14 of 1650%3under 10 labels · led by Arista Networks at 27%
Backup and disaster recoveryCloud and infrastructure0%99 of 11650%2under 10 labels · led by Veeam Data Platform at 38%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Endpoint detection and responseSecurity operations0%41 of 55100%1under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint at 30%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Dell Technologies yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Dell Technologies across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00202
Gemini 3.5 Flash14005
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.2002103
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01113
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01124
Kimi K210001
GLM 4.7 FlashX10102
MiniMax M2.510214
GPT-6 Luna00101
Muse Glimmer 30B20002

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct12 labels2
Paraphrase10 labels2
Comparative26 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained10 labels1
Negative9 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative70 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 8 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Dell will almost certainly underbid Pure on initial CAPEX, which you can then leverage to negotiate a better deal” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Enterprise storage · direct prompt · first choice
“Products like Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, or Pure Storage FlashArray//X are well-suited for your scale” MiniMax M2.5 · Enterprise storage · scale prompt · first choice
“Dell PowerStore is the array most analysts and vendors point to as "midrange purpose-built"” Muse Glimmer 30B · Enterprise storage · direct prompt · first choice
“Start with Dell Technologies leaf-spine fabric if you want: Maximum cost savings” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Data center networking · paraphrase prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Dell Compellent (SC series) reached EOL in 2021; Dell EqualLogic hit EOL in 2019; Dell Unity is being phased down in favor of PowerStore.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Enterprise storage · negative prompt · soft negative
“Be cautious of products recently acquired by larger entities (e.g., some products under Symantec/Broadcom or Dell technologies)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · EDR · negative prompt · soft negative
“While not always positioned as a Leader in the most recent Gartner Magic Quadrants” MiniMax M2.5 · Backup and DR · comparative prompt · soft negative
“users consistently cite high friction points regarding complexity and cost” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Enterprise storage · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Dell Technologies, over the 70 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Dell Technologies was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
HPE44 of 701Not among the top eight
IBM27 of 700Not among the top eight
Hitachi Vantara13 of 700Not among the top eight
Huawei OceanStor12 of 700Not among the top eight
Veeam Data Platform11 of 708Not among the top eight
Commvault11 of 701Not among the top eight
Infinidat InfiniBox11 of 701Not among the top eight
Rubrik Security Cloud11 of 701Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Dell Technologies. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 64 of the 70 answers that named Dell Technologies and are not a share of its labels.

Search and answers

dell.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Dell Technologies takes 5% of first choices and Dell PowerStore takes 16%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “enterprise storage array”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “enterprise storage systems”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
22,200 a month (“dell technologies”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
278 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 13,697,880 a month
Searches its site ranks for
395,731 · 66,192 in the top three
Sites linking to it
134,964
Paid Google search
48 searches its ads show for, about 894 clicks and $10,867 a month (estimate)
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
63+ ads · 62 text, 1 image · 63 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as DELL USA L.P., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 62 in the year, 1 before. 57 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
5%
rank 4 of 167 in enterprise storage
Segment leader
16%
Dell PowerStore
First choices
5 across its categories
Named in
70 answers
Its own site cited
in 64 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on dell.com
164
subdomains included
Content
154
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
0 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Case study77762026-09-25
Glossary or explainer47472026-09-28
Blog22202026-09-28
News or press3undated
Conference or event212026-09-24
Report or ebook212026-09-21
Webinar or virtual event112026-09-16
How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page dell.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Dell Technologies

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Dell Technologies; a claim can dispute any of them.
Dell 8Dell Technologies (Dell EMC) 1Dell Technologies / EMC 1Dell Technologies/EMC 1Dell technologies 1Dell/PowerMax 1

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The company

Dell Technologies is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Computers, Monitors & Technology Solutions
For
Home Purchases
Price stated
Dell’s pricing for online purchases only dell.com
Free plan or trial
Join Dell Rewards for free dell.com
Customers named
McLaren Racing
Not stated on the pages read
Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Dell Technologies's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: dell.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • where Dell Technologies is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Dell Technologies, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
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