Vlogs

In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a lot of planning going on around Dell lately. We’ve come to you before and talked about our upcoming Virtual-Ready Infrastructure (VRI) and how the Scalent relationship fits into that. However, we haven’t yet given you a ton of details on the networking piece. Yeah, ok – we told you how we’re expanding our Brocade partnership, but there’s even more.

We’re now adding Juniper to round out the end-to-end 10GbE story. Both the new Brocade and Juniper networking products will become part of our existing PowerConnect brand and will extend that brand into areas like WAN, security and data-center Ethernet switching.

The Dell team has worked hard to bring choice to our customers. This announcement is more proof of that.

Dig into the video below where Larry Hart talks more details on the Juniper partnership, how it will play with our other products, and what it means for our relationship with Cisco.

Dell hosted its first roundtable with higher education customers in the Middle East today at Gitex Technology Week in Dubai. 

Josh Claman, vice president and general manager of Dell’s EMEA Public business, and Mathew Boice, general manager of SunGuard, took time out to discuss the key education trends and themes they heard from customers.  John Coulston, Middle East marketing manager, moderates their discussion.

Have a look.

Remember Michael Dell talking at Oracle OpenWorld about Dell’s plan to reduce IT infrastructure spend by $200 billion? That doesn’t happen by making pretty PowerPoint. The team here in Round Rock has a rock-solid plan to bring Virtual-Ready Infrastructure (VRI) to life and soon.

So, what’s in it for customers … the folks actually struggling with hundreds of unique tools, scores of unique skill sets and dozens of unique processes. The ultimate goal of Dell’s VRI is to reduce customers IT spend through the use of fewer tools, fewer tasks and optimized IT delivery.

Paul Prince, Dell’s CTO, Enterprise Product Group, explains our VRI investment in the clip below.

The unified resource manager Paul mentions is a solution from Scalent Systems, a partnership we announced during VMworld this year.

It will allow you to dynamically manage your servers, storage and networking and allows one of the biggest resource savings:

• Rack once, cable once – modify workloads without touching the physical infrastructure
• Works with existing hardware
• Incorporates both physical and virtual workloads
• Doesn’t effect in-band server performance

We’re excited about what’s evolving, so please stay tuned. We’ll definitely be back to share more information on how this and the rest of VRI will come to life for you.

Stephen Murdoch, Dell’s VP and GM of Large Enterprise in EMEA, opened Gitex this week with an address on the Efficient Enterprise, highlighting how IT can give organizations a competitive advantage.  Key technologies such as virtualization, storage optimization and ITaaS can help CIOs cut overall data center costs.

Check out clips from his address as well as comments from a few of Dell’s Middle East customers about the projects they are working on to improve the overall efficiency of their organizations.

Jimmy Pike is the director of systems architecture for the Data Center Solutions group here at Dell and self-proclaimed “head geek.”   Using a tool case with its insides stripped out, part of an old inbox and a bunch of off the shelf components he has created the world’s first portable “data center.”   (All for the princely sum of ~$2,000)

This former toolkit now holds:

• Two dual-socket servers featuring 2.5GHz Intel processors
• One server running Windows ‘03 acting as the DHCP and domain server and the other running Red Hat linux.
• 2 x 1TB SATA drives for each of the servers
• 32GB of memory
• A single central power supply
• A 5-port Gigabit Ethernet switch
• 2 x 500GB scratch discs

and a whole bunch more…

Extra credit reading:

GigaOm – Exclusive: Dell Shows Off a Data Center — In a Briefcase!

Pau for now…