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Dell Solution Center Network Expands in Australia and U.S.

17 May 2012

Dell’s focus on helping our customers “Do More..” was reinforced over the last two weeks as we opened new “Solution Centers” in Sydney and New York City. Interest in these two centers has been huge since we first announced these locations and we already have numerous engagement requests from customers and partners who want to see and test how Dell solutions can meet their unique requirements. Each center was launched with an event attended by customers, alliance partners, channel partners and media. In New York, we were also delighted to meet with several industry analysts. Our guests were invited to tour the centers and experience a diverse range of industry...

Dell Channel Partner Steve Hipskind Talks About the Impact of Acquisitions

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16 May 2012
Innovations that deliver results faster: Extending the benefits of 12th generation servers

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14 May 2012
Dell’s Customers Speak, Dell Listens: Green Packaging Program with Mushrooms Grows

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11 May 2012

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NVIDIA GPU Update: NVIDIA Class Action Settlement and Limited Warranty Enhancement

Posted over 2 years ago

by Lionel Menchaca, Chief Blogger
- 142 Comments
This is my fifth post on the topic of the NVIDIA GPU issue. For those customers who are reading about this for the first time, please refer to my previous post from 2008 that ties each of the earlier posts together. I have closed the comment thread on those earlier posts, so if you have questions or comments, you can respond here. Some of you may have read the recent news regarding the NVIDIA class action settlement in sites like CNET , Electronista and Ubergizmo . This class action lawsuit covers...
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Cybercrime Today: Protect Data from Cybercriminals

Posted over 2 years ago

by DELL-Pam C
- 0 Comments
This is part 2 of a series leading up to Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October, and we’ll follow up with blogs each week next month on general trends affecting cybersecurity. Today, government organizations and businesses face an unprecedented array of threats to the information systems that constitute the backbone of global commercial and civil society. These new Trojans, malware, micro-bots, targeted spam, phishing and other risks are not only appearing in greater numbers, they are also constantly...
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Dell to Offer Windows Live Essentials 2011 on New Systems Later This Year

Posted over 2 years ago

by Lionel Menchaca, Chief Blogger
- 0 Comments
Dell goes back a ways with Windows Live applications. We teamed with them originally to offer Windows Live Essentials back in January 2009 and for the past two years have been pre-installing select programs like Photo Gallery and Live Writer on most Dell consumer laptops and desktops. The latest generation of these tools has been in beta since late June, and today, Microsoft made them official with the launch of Windows Live Essentials 2011 , and Dell will be the first global PC supplier to include...
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Ensuring e-Waste Doesn’t Pollute Developing Countries

Posted over 2 years ago

by Mike Watson, Director—Dell Take Back
- 0 Comments
This week in Washington, D.C., U.S. Representatives Gene Green and Mike Thompson introduced legislation to stop U.S. “recyclers” from dumping electronic waste on developing countries. It’s a serious problem that was notably documented by 60 Minutes back in 2008. Our team here at Dell is thrilled to support the goals of this legislation. In 2009, Dell became the first major computer manufacturer to ban the export of non-working electronics to developing countries. Our electronics...
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Big on Color, Small on Compromise: Dell introduces breakthrough printing technology

Posted over 2 years ago

by DELL-Steven M
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As a small or medium business owner every resource counts. You want to ensure you're getting the most out of your space and your technology. Dell's newest color printer offerings announced today are designed specifically with small and medium businesses in mind and let you say "no" to compromise once and for all. It's been a busy 18 months for our Imaging business as we've more than doubled our product portfolio. In March we had the largest printer launch in Dell history...
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Cloud Computing Models and Dell's Virtual Integrated System Architecture

Posted over 2 years ago

by DELL-Mark C
- 2 Comments
Virtualization has brought an amazing number of improvements to the datacenter and it has changed the way things get done in IT. It delivered the ability to deploy easily from a template or golden copy, move a workload around and add a layer of HA to the environment. Unfortunately it also introduces a number of additional challenges. It created new (and often multiple) ways to store data, new licensing challenges, new ways to back things up, new virus scanning policies, new ways to do high availability...
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Streak Across America Rolls Through Chicago

Posted over 2 years ago

by Mosaic-Lindsay Tanchuk
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As part of our mission to Streak Across America, showcasing the new Dell Streak, our teams hit up Chicago last weekend. Chicago really put the 'wind' in Windy City this weekend! The Streakers got a taste of fall while they worked the crowd at Thompson Center and got cultured at Oktoberfest this past weekend in Chicago. Although the wind was strong, the Thompson Center was still bustling with people on Friday. The Thompson Center is located in the economic heart of downtown Chicago and packed...
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Bringing Innovators and Technology for Business to YouTube

Posted over 2 years ago

by Laura P. Thomas
- 0 Comments
It's a fact-the world uses YouTube. And not just to watch the Old Spice guy respond to Twitter users . More Americans watch YouTube than our Super Bowl and close to a billion videos were consumed by Australians in the month of January 2010. In the short time it's going to take you to read this post, more than a 15 new hours of video will have been uploaded. If YouTube was Hollywood, there'd be enough material to release 60,000 feature films a week. And while Lady Gaga and Justin...
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Two Sides of the Coin: Cyber Benefits and Cyber Threats

Posted over 2 years ago

by DELL-Pam C
- 0 Comments
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so in anticipation of the “festivities,” we are launching a multi-part series on cybersecurity and cybercrime today. Then, during October, we’ll dive a little deeper into trends that are affecting security today and also look towards the future of cybersecurity. Cyber threats emerged in tandem with cyber benefits “This mode of instantaneous communication must inevitably become an instrument of immense power, to be wielded for good or evil.” Samuel Morse,...
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A New Inspiron Zino HD: Same Size, More Power

Posted over 2 years ago

by Lionel Menchaca, Chief Blogger
- 25 Comments
It's no secret to folks around here is that I'm a PC and home theater enthusiast. That's one reason that I liked the original Zino HD desktop when we brought it out last year—it made for an awesome little home theater PC (HTPC). Fast forward almost a year later and we've got a new version that improves on the original. How so? Faster AMD processor options, faster memeory (now DDR3), better integrated graphics performance (it utilizes AMD's Mobility HD 4250 processor ...
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Streak Across America Completes the Boston Leg

Posted over 2 years ago

by Mosaic-Lindsay Tanchuk
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The Streak Across America Tour grabbed the pigskin and dusted off the letterman because college football season has arrived! Streak Across America rooted for the Crimsons this past weekend at the Harvard verses Holy Cross football game. It goes without saying, Harvard is the cream of the New England Clam Chowder and their football team was no exception. The Streak team cheered for the home team as they dominated Holy Cross during their huge season opener. The booming fans were the largest crowd Harvard...
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Michael Dell at Oracle OpenWorld

Posted over 2 years ago

by Susie Grandi
- 4 Comments
A large crowd of people gathered today at Oracle OpenWorld to listen to Michael Dell share his vision for how technology will continue to enable companies of all sizes to innovate and grow, and how Dell will be right alongside them to support their IT objectives. After touching on the partnership that Dell and Oracle have enjoyed since 1995, Michael talked a little about the history of computing and the rapid change we’ve seen over the past 25 years. The explosion of data and applications...
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Entrepreneurs respond to opportunities and challenges in the current climate

Posted over 2 years ago

by Steve Felice
- 0 Comments
I had the pleasure of speaking to the London Chamber of Commerce this week. Standing in front of nearly a hundred UK business people, I was struck by the common needs and issues facing smaller businesses in the UK and across the globe. In fact, this event almost didn't happen at all - it came in the middle of a London-wide Underground train strike which might have kept a less committed audience at home. The Chambers membership weren't going to let that get in the way of them discussing with...
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Dell's data center group is keeping the pedal to the metal

Posted over 2 years ago

by Roy Guillen - GM, Data Center Solutions
- 1 Comments
Lately we’ve been pretty busy in the DCS team. DCS, which stands for Data Center Solutions was formed over three years ago as a specialized group within Dell to act as a “custom tailor” to some of the world’s biggest internet, cloud and scaled out players. We have been working with a very small subset of customers who deploy thousands, if not tens of thousands of servers at a time. While we started out focusing on building custom servers the group soon branched out to entire...
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New Dell Services Capabilities Help Oracle Users Succeed

Posted over 2 years ago

by Lionel Menchaca, Chief Blogger
- 0 Comments
Below is a post from Debra Dekelbaum, a member of our Dell Services communications team who wanted to provide some context around our recent expansion of Oracle Services that we're unveiling at Oracle OpenWorld 2010. Here's Debra's post: This morning at Oracle OpenWorld 2010 in San Francisco, we announced an expanded portfolio of Oracle capabilities to help our customers drive complexity and cost of out their IT infrastructure. With energy and excitement radiating from...
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Dell trots out a new 30" display: the UltraSharp U3011

Posted over 2 years ago

by Lionel Menchaca, Chief Blogger
- 1 Comments
Like I said in my recent post about our LED displays, we do plan on blogging more about our displays. Yesterday, we began offering the new $1,499 UltraSharp U3011 30-inch LCD display for customers in the United States and Canada. By the end of the month, we'll be offering it in many countries around the globe. While you may have already seen writeups in places like Engadget and Slashgear , I still think it's worth sharing more here. For context, our Ultrasharp line represents the...
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Dell Financial Services now offers Partners financing options for their customers

Posted over 2 years ago

by Lionel Menchaca, Chief Blogger
- 2 Comments
Note from Lionel: Below is a post from our Dell Financial Services Marketing Director Jan Andersen. I'll let her take it from here. ---- Through our channel program, PartnerDirect , we provide financing to our partners. Starting today we’re now enabling our partners to provide financing to their customers . We’ve expanded our Dell Financial Services (DFS) offerings through a relationship with GE Capital which establishes the ability for our partners to offer their customers...
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Addressing the Healthcare Digital Divide: Dell Integrating Streak, Mobile Devices into Healthcare Solutions

Posted over 2 years ago

by Kerry Bridge
- 1 Comments
Did you know that sixty-four percent of physicians currently use smartphone technology, and they are adopting smartphones more rapidly than any other form of healthcare IT? 1 Today Dell announced we're bringing the Dell Streak 5-inch Android-based mobile device to medical professionals by integrating it into our healthcare solutions. The integration of new mobile devices into Dell healthcare solutions will provide healthcare professionals with increased mobility and convenient access to digitized...
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Internet Explorer 9 Beta Looking Good

Posted over 2 years ago

by Daniel_Judd
- 0 Comments
I’m here in San Francisco for the Internet Explorer 9 Beta Launch event and the crowd is excited. Microsoft has listened to us (Website developers, Dell and you) to create a browsing experience that gets out of the way and allows us to enjoy the web in a whole new way. Dean Hachamovitch (CVP, MSFT Corp) described it best by comparing the browser as the stage and the show is the applications you enjoy every day. Web developers have already started to embrace this new model and there were...
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Social Media and Dell at #Educause10

Posted over 2 years ago

by Kerry Bridge
- 0 Comments
Dell is a gold partner for Educause 2010 , the higher education information technology event. If you are planning on attending Educause or participating online the Dell team would love to connect with you. Are you getting social this year? Educause has made significant investments in social media tools for the community to make the most of the discussions including experimenting with specific hash tag discussion threads for each session. It's one month away and already we are seeing some excitement...
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Dell Streak Across America Mobile Tour

Posted over 2 years ago

by Mosaic-Lindsay Tanchuk
- 7 Comments
We are taking Dell Streak to the streets on a mission to tour the US and Streak Across America. Join us as we hit the most popular city hangouts, music festivals and sporting events! This multi-city mobile event will cross the country and give you the chance to check out the Dell Streak! Come by one of the tour’s stops to interact with the Streak and continue to express your artistic talent by putting your mark on one of the Dell streaking mannequins. If you live near one of the cities below...
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Source Code Now Available for Dell Streak and Aero Products

Posted over 2 years ago

by Lionel Menchaca, Chief Blogger
- 3 Comments
I know there are several folks out there who have been asking for this. We heard from many customers at #dellstreak hashtag on Twitter and in other places around the web. Recently, we've posted the source code for Dell Streak as well as Dell Aero . Not long ago, Chris shared this with customers on Twitter: Like I said in my update to this Dell Streak blog post , we are committed to fulfilling all of our obligations when using open source code in our products. We are providing the source...
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New Lineup of LED Displays for Consumer Systems

Posted over 2 years ago

by Lionel Menchaca, Chief Blogger
- 1 Comments
I know we haven't been the best about including information on our new monitors here on Direct2Dell. I hope to change that a bit moving forward. Today, we rolled out a new line of LED displays that make great companions to Inspiron and Studio desktop and notebook lines. We're introducing four sizes of LED displays to our monitor lineup: 20, 21.5, 23 and 24-inch. All of these displays are available today in the United States. The 20 and 23-inch models are available globally. Besides the...
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Dell at Oracle OpenWorld 2010: Keynote from Michael Dell and More

Posted over 2 years ago

by Susie Grandi
- 0 Comments
For over 20 years, Dell and Oracle have continued to strengthen their strategic partnership, providing customers with integrated solutions. This year, Dell is a diamond sponsor at Oracle OpenWorld 2010 which is taking place from September 19 through 23 rd in San Francisco. Dell’s sponsorship includes hosting a juice bar in Yerba Buena Gardens in which customers can enjoy a free smoothie before heading to the Dell booth #521 in Moscone South . In the booth, customers will have an opportunity...
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Windows XP Rides Off into the Sunset

Posted over 2 years ago

by DELL-Faith C
- 11 Comments
Microsoft's Windows XP operating system has had a heck of a run. We've blogged about the Windows Vista downgrade program and the Windows XP End of Life back in 2008 . Some of you may have seen some recent blog posts about Microsoft's plan to phase out the Windows XP operating system, and those kinds of posts are raising some of the same questions we're hearing from customers. Here's my attempt to interpret the details. Thanks to my colleague John Noesser for helping me pull...