Dell also showed briefly an upcoming "mini" Kace appliance for small organizations. Looking more like a mini-desktop PC than an appliance server, it will be for companies with less than about 150 computers to manage.

"This is something you'll hear more about next year," Dell said, showing the silver box briefly on stage. "This will have a really easy-to-use interface and will bring inventory and asset management to smaller organizations."

He also referred briefly to a new Kace technology called "super-disk," which he said will allow organizations to make use of all the disk space around their organizations that is going unused. He didn't provide any details or say when the technology will be ready.