Dell’s Japan unit, Dell KK, has received a major PC order from the Japan Defense Agency, it said Thursday.The order, which is the largest in the company’s 17-year history in Japan, is for at least 56,000 personal computers, said Keiichiro Araihara, a spokesman for the company. Under the terms of the contract, Dell will supply at least 32,000 Optiplex desktop PCs and 24,000 Inspiron PCs before the end of September, he said.The computers will be used by Japan’s Air, Land and Sea Self Defense Forces, Dell said. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe The deal is important not only because of its size, but also because it represents the first order of such magnitude that the U.S.-headquartered company has received from the Japanese government. Large government orders typically go to major domestic vendors such as Fujitsu, NEC or Hitachi. A value of the deal was not disclosed.-Martyn Williams, IDG News Service Check out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer pages for more updated news coverage. Related content brandpost Four Leadership Motions make leading transformative work easier The Four Leadership Motions can be extremely beneficial —they don’t just drive results among software developers, they help people make extraordinary progress wherever they lead. By Jason Fraser, Director, Product Management & Design, VMware Tanzu Labs, Public Sector Sep 21, 2023 5 mins IT Leadership feature The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far In 2022, the big AI story was the technology emerging from research labs and proofs-of-concept, to it being deployed throughout enterprises to get business value. This year started out about the same, with slightly better ML algorithms and improved d By Maria Korolov Sep 21, 2023 16 mins Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence opinion 6 deadly sins of enterprise architecture EA is a complex endeavor made all the more challenging by the mistakes we enterprise architects can’t help but keep making — all in an honest effort to keep the enterprise humming. By Peter Wayner Sep 21, 2023 9 mins Enterprise Architecture IT Strategy Software Development opinion CIOs worry about Gen AI – for all the right reasons Generative AI is poised to be the most consequential information technology of the decade. Plenty of promise. But expect novel new challenges to your enterprise data platform. By Mike Feibus Sep 20, 2023 7 mins CIO Generative AI Artificial Intelligence Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe