Dell is no stranger to opportunistic partnerships. It is, after all, a historic Microsoft(s msft) Windows partner that sells both Chromebooks(s goog) and Linux laptops, for example. But here’s something that caught my attention: Dell resellers say that the company, which spent $1.4  billion on EqualLogic in 2007 and $960 million on Compellent the next year to build out its storage business  is now offering Scale Computing’s  HC3x converged storage systems through its channel.

So a leading maker of servers and a power in storage is pushing a converged server-storage system from another company through its partners? That is interesting.

Scale Computing, offers a “hyperconverged” system which combines storage and compute loads on the same CPU — something that one might think Dell itself would have gotten around to by now. It’s also a KVM-based offering, which could signal that Dell, like several of its competitors, is distancing…