The company did announce that Mike Cannon, president of global operations, will retire effective Jan. 31. Cannon will be succeeded by Jeff Clarke who, in addition to being head of Dell’s Business Client Product Group, will become vice chairman for global operations. Cannon will serve as a consultant to Dell.

Also, Chief Marketing Officer Mark Jarvis will leave Dell this fiscal quarter while remaining a consultant.

Dell has begun the reorganization process. The company plans to align its financial reporting with the new structure during the first half of Dell’s fiscal-year 2010, which begins in February.