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    With Enstratius Acquisition Dell Cloud Services Strategy Enters New Stage in EMEA

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    Following our recent acquisition of Enstratius , Dell has announced a number of strategic changes to our global cloud strategy. As leader of the Cloud Services team in EMEA, I want to explain what this change in strategy means in our region, where the Cloud Service market is naturally more complex than in the US. With more than forty countries potentially using Dell Cloud Services in our region, we are faced with a large range of local market preferences and regulatory restrictions. Fundamentally...
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    Need a vacation? “Converged solutions” can mean more fun in the sun

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    “Convergence” is getting quite a workout these days. For example, the local “Dog and Car Wash,” “Accounting and Auto Repair,” “Attorney-at-Law and Catering,” “Pizza and Wedding Chapel” combinations are popping up all over. Seems like everyone is hanging out an “open” sign, promising to solve all my problems at once. These (real) retail combinations may sound funny on initial read, but if you’re too busy running...
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    Incident Response: How Healthcare Security is Like a Television Crime Drama

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    Television's true-crime drama “The First 48” always begins with the statement: "For homicide detectives, the clock starts ticking the moment they are called. Their chance of solving a murder is cut in half if they don't get a lead within the first 48 hours." The idea being the longer you wait to figure out who the adversary is and to assess the damage from a crime, the harder it is to solve and prevent further attacks. Like murders, with cyber-attacks there’s a...
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    Data Security Initiatives Gaining Steam For Healthcare

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    At the 2013 HIMSS annual conference in New Orleans, La., vendors and service suppliers vied for the attention of some 32,000 attendees from a wide swath of healthcare providers, technology firms, and other curious seekers of healthcare solutions. Data security was center focus for organizations of all sizes. Many vendors promised a "secure solution." This really comes as no surprise, since HIMSS has set an overall goal that "By 2014, all entities who use, send, or store health information...
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    Secrets of a successful outsourcing partnership

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    Transitions are always tough, but can you imagine having just six months to stand up a new healthcare IT environment supporting multiple hospitals? That was the case in 2002, when the Daughters of Charity hospitals withdrew from Catholic Healthcare West to form the Daughters of Charity Health System . Dell Services was brought on board to establish a new IT organization as part of the transition. More than 10 years later, Dell is still managing all healthcare IT functions for the system, which...
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    Dell Cements its Position as a Leading SAP Services Provider with Recent Certifications

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    We are proud to announce that Dell was recently named a SAP services partner and SAP-certified provider of solution implementation based on the Run SAP methodology for the United States. Dell also recently received SAP global certifications for Application Management, Hosting and Cloud Services. Join us at SAP Sapphire NOW 2013 next week in Orlando, FL to learn more about our end-to-end SAP solutions, valuable services and innovative technologies. Run SAP is a methodology providing standardized...
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    Zero Day Exploits: what they are, how to mitigate the impact and risk

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    It seems barely a day goes by without a new cyber-attack raising its head. The Dell SonicWALL Security GRID (global response intelligence defense) encounters some forty five thousand new sets of malware every day. Reports from experts ranging from independent research companies to national governments to security and software vendors estimate the cost of cybercrime runs from the hundreds of billions and beyond. One thing cybercrime does not do is discriminate. Business of all sizes and all industries...
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    Cyber Security is a Hefty Business

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    The cyber security market may reach $870 million by 2017, according to a recent report by the worldwide industry analyst firm IDC. An IBN article says IDC reported an increase in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in 2012, which is driving the demand for more proactive solutions to the DDoS problem. But DDoS is only one issue that industries are facing when it comes to cyber threats. In a recent Threat Analysis by Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit security researcher Brett Stone-Gross...
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    Join Dell for insights and innovation at SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2013

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    Dell is headed to Orlando, FL for SAPPHIRE NOW 2013 in a few weeks to showcase Dell’s end-to-end SAP solutions, valuable services and innovative technologies. The audience at this event is pretty broad – ranging from executives and IT decision makers to the technical, hands on folks who implement and support SAP programs. Our agenda includes a mix of strategic perspectives and nitty gritty technical details aimed to satisfy all comers. We are excited to share our SAP solutions and...
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    Best practices for managing IT security incident response planning, staffing and operations

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    Retired Col. Jeff Schilling, the director of the Dell SecureWorks Incident Response and Digital Forensics Team, recently shared how to manage an organization's incident response function in a webcast on "Managing Your Incident Response Bench." The 30-minute presentation is available on demand and is well worth watching. I've summarized many of his key points here. First, Jeff's credentials make him an expert in incident response. Before retiring from the U.S. Army, Jeff...
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    Wimbledon, Jungle Book and ProSupport Plus

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    Tennis was always a big part of my family growing up. My parents met on a tennis court, played multiple times a week and watched every tournament on television. Before I was eight, I learned that Wimbledon does not play a fifth set tiebreak and that the first two lines of Rudyard Kipling’s 1895 poem “If” hang over the door to centre court in the gentlemen’s locker room. If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you Later in life...
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    Think outside the cube: Is anyone working on the taste problem in unified communications?

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    This is Sam’s cube—or rather, a cake replica of Sam’s cube, created for his retirement party and shared with me by a colleague. Sam’s cake—er, cube—illustrates how much the workplace has changed over the course of a career—blending the old ways of working with new ways of being productive, efficient and socially conscientious. The old: The world of cube farms and dedicated spaces, where workers pinned reminder notes to cork board walls, toiled 8...
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    IT Transformation the DevOps Way

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    IT departments are facing upheaval as the cloud computing revolution ripples through the standard processes and procedures created over time and with expertise. This upheaval within the way things are done is not a simple adjustment to learn the new technology and update the process but rather a fundamental restructuring of the way things are done in IT. To meet this new challenge, many IT gurus are looking at DevOps as the solution ( intro blog on DevOps ). The delivery and operational aspects...
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    Recap of Day 4 at OpenStack Summit- Sessions and Ecosystem Interviews

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    The final day here in Portland has come to an end and Rafael and myself were able to sneak a few more interviews for your enjoyment. A complete review of the Dell blogging and videos from this event are available in our Cloud Community Event Page . Dell Booth Dell and SUSE Executives Discuss the Recent Joint Announcement on Private Clouds: Forrest Norrod, Dell VP Worldwide Servers & Doug Jarvis, Cloud Solutions Product Marketing Manager, SUSE Partner Interviews Chris Kemp, CEO...
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    Participate in a Beta Program: Have a Smile

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    Ok, admit it. By joining in a beta program, you might be thinking, “What in the world have I gotten myself into?” The thought of participating in yet another vendor’s beta program might seem as much fun as doing yard work, taking care of someone else’s kids, or wait … going to the dentist. The point is, there may be an initial reason causing you to hesitate. But in all these cases, the end—a bountiful garden, children’s safety, a healthy smile—typically...
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    An SAP to Salesforce.com Integration Working Session with Dell Boomi

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    An SAP to Salesforce.com Integration Working Session Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Time: 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET Duration: 60 minutes Register: Link Today's business world requires adoption of multiple evolving technologies as well as agility and adaptability. But how do you integrate SAP with Salesforce.com while keeping up with mobile devices and social media? Attend this interactive webcast to learn more about how SAP, Twilio and other applications can easily be integrated with Salesforce...
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    Dell SecureWorks Rounds out its Portfolio of Dell SonicWall Devices

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    Firewalls provide a boundary between the Internet and an organization’s private network. Traditional firewalls filter traffic based on ports and protocols. New firewall technology, known as Next Generation Firewalls, (NGFW) provide a single, integrated solution that manages multiple layers of network security defense. An NGFW device simplifies the simultaneous orchestration of various security tools and allows for a more granular approach to application security. Recently, Dell SecureWorks...
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    Good Morning and Welcome to Day 4 of OpenStack Summit

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    Welcome to the final day at the OpenStack Summit where the conference wraps up and starts the hard work on building Havana. Our schedule is below… DAY 4 Highlights 4:10pm Practical OpenStack Cloud Hardening and PCI-DSS Readiness Cody Bunch (with Project Sputnik) There is also an Unconference running all day and we intend to attend some of those sessions as they tend to include very interesting talks that are too unconventional for the standard conference. Look for our conference...
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    Recap of Day 3 at OpenStack Summit- Sessions and Ecosystem Interviews

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    Another long, amazing day at the OpenStack Summit and I am ready to share a variety of videos and highlights. At the Dell booth today, a Project Sputnik developer laptop was given away to a lucky winner, Kyle Cafien shown here with Joseph George and Barton George. Sessions SDN and OpenStack : Shaping the Future of Cloud Networking Innovation I attended some of the 5 minute lightning talks today and wanted to share some of them to give you insight into these unique presentations...
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    Good Morning and Welcome to Day 3 of OpenStack Summit

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    Welcome to the third day at the OpenStack Summit where the conference moves into high gear. Rafael and I will be live tweeting the morning sessions ( @SpectorAtDell & @RafaelKnuth ) and meeting with more partners to learn about their unique OpenStack solutions. Our schedule is below… DAY 3 Highlights 9:00am How NSA & CERN are Using OpenStack Mark Collier with Nathanael Burton / Randall Sobie 9:45am HP Keynote: Accelerating Cloud Innovation with OpenStack Brian Aker / Saar...
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    Recap of Day 2 at OpenStack Summit- Sessions and Ecosystem Interviews

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    Welcome to the Day 2 Recap of the OpenStack Summit 2013 in Portland. Sessions * Opening Keynote - Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director OpenStack Foundation OpenStack is about building a platform ecosystem for clouds with servers, network, storage, orchestration and a common API; a powerful general purpose technology like iOS and Android, as Jonathan explained: “One day we are going to see industries we all know, running services that we use every day on OpenStack. The Target day is:...
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    Good Morning and Welcome to Day 2 of OpenStack Summit

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    Welcome to the second day at the OpenStack Summit where the conference officially kicks off. Rafael and I will be live tweeting the keynotes ( @SpectorAtDell & @RafaelKnuth ) and meeting with more partners to learn about their unique OpenStack solutions. Our schedule is below… DAY 2 Highlights 7:30am Breakfast with the OpenStack Foundation Board 9:00am Keynote: OpenStack Vision + Special Guests Jonathan Bryce 9:45am Rackspace Keynote Jim Curry / Jim O’Neill 10:15am...
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    Recap of Day 1 at OpenStack Summit- Sessions and Ecosystem Interviews

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    Welcome to the first daily recap of the OpenStack Summit. Rafael Knuth and I will post a daily recap of highlights of the day along with information from Dell sessions, keynotes, and various interviews with ecosystem solution providers. Be sure to follow us at @SpectorAtDell and @RafaelKnuth during the day for the latest OpenStack information. Dell Booth The Dell booth contained several of our latest servers including new ARM servers as well as Project Sputnik laptops running the game Minecraft...
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    Good Morning and Welcome to Day 1 of OpenStack Summit

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    Welcome to the first of my daily blogs with information on the OpenStack Summit. My morning blogs contain highlights of the day (e.g. Dell Sessions) that I will attend and provide you a perspective of the day for attendees. In the evenings, I will post a recap blog with information from the sessions as well as videos and interviews. Be sure to also watch twitter ( @SpectorAtDell & @RafaelKnuth ) for information tweets and photo tweets during the day. DAY 1 Highlights 9:00am Design Summit...
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    In the Air on My Way to OpenStack Summit

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    To show my technology skills, I am posting this blog live from 35,000 feet on my way from Texas to Portland for the OpenStack Summit . As is standard for me at events like this I will be posting morning blogs with the day’s highlights as well as evening recap blogs with videos and information I obtain during the day. This type of event blogging provides readers a great feel for the event without having to go through the hassles of actually showing up. Joining me at this event to help gather...
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