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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...
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    12 Things You Need to Know about Dell PowerEdge 12th Generation Servers and Solutions

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    Note from Lionel: This blog is one of a 12-part series, “12 blogs for the Dell PowerEdge 12 th Generation.” For more in the series, please check here , or click on the 12 blogs tag here . Part I: Systems Management Sally Stevens at the Dell PowerEdge 12 th generation launch event in Beijing Earlier this week we proudly announced the Dell PowerEdge 12 th generation servers . To share some of the excitement and reception our products have received across the globe, in this three...
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    Academy Award Winner Pixomondo Does More with Dell

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    Congratulations to our customer PIXOMONDO for winning the “ Best Visual Effects” Oscar ® at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony! Pixomondo won the Oscar for their visual effects work done for the Martin Scorsese 3D movie called “Hugo.” Watch Christian Vogt, COO of Pixomondo, share how Dell enables him and his team the power to do more. With the power of Dell, Pixomondo successfully connects 483 artists, 11 studios and movie-goers around the world. See also the related Forbes...
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    Results Trump Costs for IT Decision Makers

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    Organizations value results and partnership over price when they choose a vendor, according to a survey we commissioned from Technology Business Research (TBR). It’s a surprising and heartening finding given the pressure IT managers are under to trim budgets, but paradoxically, their results-driven mindset should help them achieve precisely that. We commissioned the research to find out precisely how IT decision makers are helping their companies do more. How is their role changing? How...
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    Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook Available Now in the United States, More Countries Soon

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    The Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook is now available in the United States through Dell.com at Dell@ Store locations, Best Buy website online (not available in Best Buy stores just yet) at a starting price of $999 with an Intel Core i5 processor, 128GB SSD hard drive and 4GB memory. The XPS 13 will also be available in select geographies around the world in March 2012; and available in most Best Buys stores nationwide later as well. As you’ll recall during CES, Dell revealed the compact Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook...
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    New Dell PowerEdge Servers Designed with OEMs in Mind

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    Dell designed and built its 12th generation of servers with input from more than 7,700 customers including several OEM customers such as Teradata , fabriccadigitale , Utimaco , Teleste and many others. From their feedback, we took the most common requests resulting is a new line of servers built specifically for OEMs. Read our full article that details several OEM focused enhancements > Follow the OEM conversation on twitter using the hashtag #DoMoreOEM, ask questions & leave comments...
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    Dell and Citrix team up to blow the lid off desktop virtualization

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    Note from the Editor: This is the first post in a series of guest blogs from our Alliance partners. Kumar Goswami is the vice president of products at Citrix where he leads the product strategy and development for VDI-in-a-Box. Imagine this: you unbox a VDI hardware appliance, power it on, add your Windows desktop images and deploy virtual desktops. Nothing to architect, no servers to size, no software to install; no separate connection brokers, provisioning servers, Storage Area Networks, or...
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    What Do Dell’s New Servers Mean for Telecommunications Customers?

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    I’m here at Mobile World Congress today, and I’m excited to share that today’s enterprise announcement from Dell and the launch of the new PowerEdge 12 th Generation servers comes with exciting news for the telecommunications industry. One of the Dell OEM capabilities that will be available with the new servers is Dell’s first-time offering of dell-designed, carrier-grade, NEBS-compliant servers. What does that mean exactly? In short, this means that Dell’s new servers...
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    Getting the most out of what you have with Dell SMB virtualization solutions

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    Increasing application demands place a great deal of pressure on back office hardware, with servers, storage and networking equipment bearing the brunt of the increased workload. For small and medium businesses, effective use of technology is especially critical as they strive to make the most out of existing resources while maintaining the flexibility to meet tomorrow’s unknown challenges. Virtualization is the answer for many growing businesses and Dell delivers a balanced, right-sized...
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    Business Intelligence for the Mid-Market

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    Over the last couple of decades, companies in virtually every industry have used data warehouses (DW) to collect and organize data that they analyze to gain information about their market, customers or their own operations. This provides business intelligence (BI) that allows them to understand and predict trends so they can make smarter decisions. Because of the demands for things like specialized software, database tuning expertise, and the systems needed to provide good performance, data warehousing...
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    The power to deliver results faster: Introducing the Dell PowerEdge 12th generation of servers

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    Update from Lionel: This blog is one of a 12-part series, “12 blogs for the Dell PowerEdge 12 th Generation.” For more in the series, please check here , or click on the 12 blogs tag here . Think of today’s data center as a factory. IT is at the heart of productivity and revenue generation. That factory has to scale to deliver better performance for applications and business services to boost productivity, while at the same time constantly gain efficiencies to get more ROI from...
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    Join Us Live from San Francisco Monday at 9:30 PST - #DoMoreIT

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    Update: missed yesterday's event? Check out the full archive and photos and join the conversations on Twitter with the #DoMoreIT and #ITChat hashtags. Join us on Monday, February 27 at 9:30am PST for a live discussion on enterprise innovations. Tune in via the Dell LiveStream Broadcast and join the conversation on Twitter with the #DoMoreIT hashtag.
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    Weekly Recap: Dell in the News - February 24th edition

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    Welcome to the latest edition of the Weekly Recap, your guide to the week's Dell-related news and happenings. Story of the Week Dell Goes on Ultrabook Diet With Slimmed-Down Laptop Wall Street Journal – February 23, 2012 As 2012 rolls on, consumers shopping for a PC will be seeing more of the thin, light, quick-starting Windows laptops called ultrabooks.Big names like Lenovo and Toshiba already have entered this new category, and on Tuesday, Dell will introduce its first ultrabook...
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    Building a Truly Secure Cloud with Dell and Trend Micro

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    This post was jointly written by Stephen Spector , Dell Cloud Evangelist & Dave Asprey , Trend Micro Virtualization and Cloud Evangelist The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time. — Bruce Schneier In order for enterprise IT organizations to adopt public and hybrid clouds , a cloud service provider’s security controls must meet or exceed the standards set forth by the organizations themselves. In addition to Dell’s world-class cloud security provided...
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    Dell Acquires AppAssure

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    In a world of social media and real-time news, the world remembers businesses that lost their edge because they lost data or couldn’t recover data fast enough. This makes reliable data protection more important now than ever before, yet traditional backup solutions are not architected for today’s 24/7 virtualized and cloud environments. Customers who face this dilemma typically deploy expensive replicated solutions to attain the flexibility and recovery speeds their businesses demand...
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    Are Your Applications Integrating? Better Get With the Times…

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    Does your company run any of the following applications: Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, ADP or other internal enterprise software packages? If so, what are your plans when employees start demanding new software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications such as SalesForce.com or Taleo? What do you do when your competitors start leveraging the power of these new SaaS products? If you aren’t sure, then welcome to this blog as I will layout the powerful concept of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI...
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    Dell OEM Solutions heads to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona #MWC12

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    Mobile World Congress (Feb 27th - March 1st) draws thousands of the who's who in the telecommunications industry. Next week @franklinflint , @anthonyatdell , and myself @pablocollier from Dell OEM Solutions will be on hand to talk to network solution providers and other companies interested in the infrastructure side of the telco market. We are also looking for OEMs that are interested in using mobile products to enhance their solutions such as this BMW car sharing project . If you plan to...
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    5 Immutable Laws of Partner Satisfaction - And the Impact on Dell’s Channel Business in Asia – PART II

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    On my last post , I covered the first two laws: 1. When You Ask, Listen and Act; 2. Be Selective with the Changes You Make. As promised here are the remaining three: 3. Make it Easy and Simple “ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication .” — Leonardo da Vinci From Leonardo da Vinci to Michael Dell, simplicity has been a subject for many for a long time. Making the complex simple is not easy and it takes a lot of effort but when achieved it helps people with their thinking...
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    Dell First to Achieve 80 PLUS Titanium PSU Energy Efficiency

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    A reporter at The Register once remarked that he suspected “….Michael Dell himself weeps a single tear of amber when you drop a paper coffee cup into the trash” in an article about Dell’s commitment to energy efficiency and corporate sustainability. Although I haven’t seen this phenomenon personally, I agree with the underlying sentiment, which is that Dell has a clear focus on energy efficiency. From the component level through deployment, helping our customers...
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    Enterprise Solutions and Services Strength Highlight Dell’s FY2012 Results

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    Dell recently announced Q4 and full year earnings for FY12. Dell achieved record revenue for the full FY12 fiscal year of $62.1 billion. Revenue from Dell’s enterprise solutions and services of $18.6 billion was also a record for the company. Update from Lionel: Should have mentioned that Dell will hold a conference call with analysts and investors today at 4pm Central Time. If you're on Twitter, stay tuned to the @DellShares account for updates. Please see Rob William’s post...
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    Introducing the Dell Supply Chain Management Institute in China

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    I am proud to say that today Dell announced the launch of its first “Dell Supply Chain Management Institute” (DSCMI) in Xiamen, China. DSCMI is committed to exploring advanced theories and new concepts in supply chain management and address challenges facing customers in manufacturing, services, energy and other organizations like governments, healthcare and educational bodies in the globalized market. Built around Dell’s own supply chain best practices, DSCMI will leverage Dell’s...
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    Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit

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    This week, I attended the Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit , a 3-day leadership conference that provides a unique opportunity for more than 700 women of color executives to retool and reconnect with their peers. The event is designed to help women executives think strategically about how to overcome challenges, leverage opportunities, and develop a unique set of leadership skills. I enjoyed being among my peers as an executive woman of color and I was incredibly honored to be recognized as...
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    Adobe, Dell empower global youth through technology to unleash creativity for social change

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    Giving children a voice to express their ideas, opinions and creativity is one of the most exciting effects of our global and highly technological society. In our Powering the Possible programs, we believe giving others the power to do more through a combination of Dell technology and solutions, resources and know-how is part of our corporate responsibility. That’s why I am so happy to support Adobe in our joint mission to empower youth from every corner of the world. Dell is partnering...
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    Weekly Recap: Dell in the News - February 17th edition

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    Welcome to the latest edition of the Weekly Recap, your guide to the week's Dell-related news and happenings. Story of the Week Suddenly, Dell is a Software Company! Glenn O’Donnell – Forrester Blog – February 16, 2012 The Dell brand is one of the most recognizable in technology. It was born a hardware company in 1984 and deservedly rocketed to fame, but it has always been about the hardware. In 2009, its big Perot Systems acquisition marked the first real departure...
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    Michael Dell is a Featured Luminary on Discovery Channel’s Curiosity Project

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    Back when Michael Dell founded this company in 1984, he knew there was a better way to get technology into the hands of customers. He started by listening to customers’ needs and building technology in the form of PCs to address those needs. Now, nearly 28 years later, that’s what we’re still focused on—helping customers solve complex problems, get value from, and do more with technology. In those early days, it was our curiosity that differentiated Dell in the industry...
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    Dell: Winner, Winner, Winner - Power To Do More IT with VMware!

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    At VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) 2012, it was announced that Dell had won three VMware 2012 Global Partner Network Awards: VMware Americas SMB Partner of the Year; VMware EMEA SMB Partner of the Year; and VMware Asia-Pacific Business Continuity Partner of the Year. “We are excited to receive this award from VMware as an acknowledgement of Dell’s market-leading approach to virtualization and private cloud infrastructure for SMB customers throughout the Americas, based...
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