for more founder and ceo michael dell michael, great to have you on. ut cloud and the vision but start with the current new shape of dell after announcing the vmware and booming spin-off you say you'll continue to have a working relationship with vmware and customers won't notice the difference. what's the new focus after the spin >> oh, look, today we have announced that we're moving our whole business to, as a service and on demand. apex is now live for us a big expansion and customers have been telling us and we've been growing our on demand kind of cloud experience business, and this allows us to provide flexible consumption, scaleability, simplicity right now we're offering our apex data storage services this is, you know, done in a very transparent way as far as pricing. no over rage feeing integrating compute, network and storage together apex flex on-demand. allows customers to scale up and down as their demands change and pay for that they use and our apex data center utilities which provides incredibility flexibility in metering and managed se

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good idea to invest in dell as well thanks >> all right that kid has horse sense i want to text michael dell's fabulous. and that is a great pick i really want to appreciate our viewers who invest together. of that's what this show is about. people keep misunderstanding this show. sometimes they don't understand. fwz that phone call. okay and about helping young people to get involved in the market. dell is terrific james in ohio. james? >> yo, jim it's blind jim from clooeld. clooed? >> what's going on >> caller: all right, so vaccines started to rollout, i got into mckeson for the distribution they're over $190 now. should i get more in this since boosters are rolling out and stuff or do i get out? >> i don't know. i'm always afraid that analysts will downgrade the group let's see what happens tomorrow. i think mckeson is the best of the lot though i want to see if there is down grades in the group and then we can take a swing all right, now i want to talk to chris in texas if i can. >> you know what that turns out to be the last call and -- holy cow. there is the music and i do love that mo

vmware will be spun off and michael dell will remain chairman of both companies so a double beat fornd no surprise a lot of people were expecting that. back to you. >> kristina, thank you. >> thank you >>> as part of our summer unmasked series, we're speaking with top executives across a number of industries discussing how their businesses are expected to reopen cedar fair is among the names that could see a boost higher by 16% this year. the company expects to have all of its u.s. properties reopened by this weekend. joining us now is richard zimmerman, president and ceo of cedar fair, which owns a lot of popular brands like king's dominion, king's island of course in my own point, cedar point. richard, do you presell tickets for the opening? do you have any sense of what demand is going to be like when you reopen >> we do, sara it's great to be with you. thanks forring of me on. we expected to see strong pent-up demand we're seeing that in spades. we're going to open all of our u.s. parks during the month of may. as we've opened up we've seen strong sales of what we call our leadin

. >> thank you so much michael dell will be very happy with that.ng, by the way, an early investor in your company. >> yeah, that's true that's true. >> joe >> thanks for bringing that up coming up, don't miss our interview with interactive brokers founder thomas peterffy. "squawk box" will be right back. it's hard to hope, hard to cope with crisis. so we get to work. we mend, fighting for every person in every neighborhood; we, the coming of the common good. so dare to care, to be hope-sided. we're never divided, when we live to give, we always live united. >>> pipeline problems, gas line shortages and a long line to recovery the colonial pipeline remains shut down. the latest when it could start is straight ahead. >>> big tech's wild comeback break down one of the biggest recoveries in history. plus, the founder of wall street bets joins us to talk about the rise of the retail investor, new blockchain and how he's looking to level the investor playing field. the second hour of "squawk box" begins right now >>> good morning and welcome back to "squ

. >>> also today on tech check, don't miss an exclusive interview with the dell ceo, michael dell stay (upbeat music) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> a half hour until the opening bell on wall street. dom chu joins us with a look at some of the day's top pre-market movers >> we're taking a look at some of the analyst calls coming out this morning we will start with shares of zinga, higher on the heels of the better than expected quarterly earnings report, 200,000 shares of volume getting helped by bank of america analysts who have updated that online game maker to buy they have upped the price target to $13 about 150 from $12. they say that znyga is in a better position than any point in its history on the mobile gaming platform. getting some help there from earnings and an analyst call shares of darden coming up next. 3,000 shares of volume the parent company of dining chairs like olive garden and grill and the target price is $164 it was $137. they liked among other things the expected continued growth, post-pandemic, of olive garden sales. so those shares getting some help as well we will end o

the answer, michael dell >>> most employers are getting ready to welcome workers back to the office,me forever something to think about joining us with some advice, former ey chairman and ceo mark weinberger mark, right from the start, you have the belief that personal interactions face to face are key to a lot of success in the business world so i think we'll start with that assumption that you think eventually we need to strive to get back to the way it was in terms of personal interactions have i got that right? >> as usual, joe, you've got that right i really believe -- when you think about a business culture, its purpose, it's driven by human interactions and human interactions lead to employee belonging, engagement, ultimate productivity when we were at ey i saw this. we looked at our most engaged employees, people who had interactions, felt like they had a best friend at work, felt like they could come in and collaborate and learn and they outperformed other employees as a result those engaged employee business units had higher quality, higher returns on investment and higher