I had the pleasure of discussing cloud computing recently with Jag Randhawa, Vice President of IT and eCommerce of CAMICO , the second largest provider of liability insurance for CPAs in the US. Jag is an IT industry veteran with over 20 years’ experience and is the current chair of the Silicon...

The rapid explosion of data, demands of evolving workforces, the rise of cloud computing, virtualization, memory based storage systems and other emerging technologies have caused an unprecedented appetite for new innovations. Dell Ventures , our company’s investment arm, is focused on identifying...

After a tremendously successful launch of the 12th generation PowerEdge servers in February, Dell recently rolled out the second wave of the new line of PowerEdge servers. This comprehensive group of blade, rack and tower servers contains all the great features of the initial 12 th generation systems...

By: IT Weapons, winner of the Dell “ Canadian Partner of the Year for 2012 .” Earlier this week Dell announced their international Partner of the Year Awards. IT Weapons was selected for Canada ( read more ), and this is a huge honor for our team. And while we are extremely proud of our team...

In May I announced the Dell SAP joint solution offerings for customers looking to migrate their SAP deployments to Dell’s public vCloud. This announcement was extremely well received and I have engaged with SAP to establish a co-ordinated blog series highlighting this new joint solution. The...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Weekly Recap, your guide to the week's Dell-related news and happenings. Story of the Week Innovating The Process Of Getting Technology To People Who Need It FastCompany – July 10, 2012 Having technology that will change the lives of people in the...

Technology has always worked to level the playing field for small and medium-sized businesses and in today’s business environment–it’s all about the cloud. SMBs today have the ability to take advantage of the capabilities of cloud computing and cloud business applications to leverage...

As you know, we at Dell want to provide technology and expertise that gives people the power to do more. On the sustainability team, we work to minimize the environmental impact of our business operations, but we also want to help our customers successfully leverage technology to achieve more sustainable...

Over the last couple of decades, companies in virtually every industry have used data warehouses to collect and organize data that they analyze to gain insight about their market, customers and their own operations. The business value they have realized has moved data warehousing and Business Intelligence...

An account executive is promoted to sales manager. A journalist is promoted to editor. But does the ability to sell translate to motivating a sales team? Does the ability to write great prose translate to managing a team of reporters? When did we get the idea that you have to manage people in order to...

While in NY for CloudExpo in mid-June I discovered the latest food craze in NY, Shake Shack . I passed by the restaurant several times during the week and was never able to try out a shake or hamburger as I didn’t have enough time to wait in the long lines. In fact, I am not sure I have ever seen...

In the second of our series of posts on the National Health Service (NHS) Information Strategy , we look at the imminent close of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), the challenges this presents for medical imaging and how new technologies, specifically vendor neutral archiving (VNA), can help meet...

Dell is an enthusiastic supporter of women entrepreneurs, and you’ve recently heard about our work to give them the power to do more through our products and services. But these women also have a direct connection to our own world-class supply chain. Led by Cyndi Hopkins, the Global Supplier...

I am excited to announce that today Dell Cloud Business Applications is offering a new Marketing Automation Solution tailor-made to help small and mid-size businesses grow revenue and reduce costs. This new offering features marketing automation software from Pardot coupled with Dell Services to deliver...

Jonathon Feit was bullied, and he thinks that trial by fire gave him the kind of resolve an entrepreneur needs to succeed when all signs point to failure. But I didn’t know any of this when I met the EMS software CEO at a Silicon Valley Starbucks this spring. I was there to hear him describe...

Join Dell and VMware for the “ The Future of Cloud Computing Think Tank ," along with a panel of cloud experts on June 27, 2012, from 9:00 a.m. PST to 4:00 p.m. PST. Please join us via the live stream: Justin.tv/dell to watch and interact with the online discussion amongst cloud computing...

This is a guest post written by Simon Robinson, analyst at 451 Research. Storage – primarily driven by acquisition – is playing a key role in Dell’s transformation into a broader provider of enterprise IT products and services. Executing against an acquisition strategy is...

Dell is hosting a Customer Service Think Tank on June 25, 2012, starting at 9:00 am CT, in Austin, TX -- a gathering of peers in the service and support arena as well as influencers who specialize in it. The group will discuss best practices and innovations in customer support as well as how organizations...

Did you know your brain needs you to get outside and exercise just as much as your body does? Guest blogger Katherine Ellison and illustrator Wendy MacNaughton explain why on Dell’s Forbes page . Click on the image to see a larger version of it

One of the most memorable scenes from the film “The Karate Kid” occurred when Daniel has a “light bulb” moment. After begrudgingly doing laborious chores for his karate instructor, he discovers that he had been training all along. In one moment, all the moves he had been learning...

“One of the biggest misconceptions in the Cloud Computing market is that today‘s new web-based services will ‘disintermediate’ the channel because of their simpler, more user-friendly solutions, and direct sales and delivery business models” The Cloud Channel Manifesto by...

Dell was recently named a Platinum-level Green Business Leader under the City of Austin’s new program. In a ceremony held June 14, Mayor Lee Leffingwell recognized Dell for operating in a way that protects the environment, enhances the community, supports local culture and maintains a healthy workplace...

For the past six years, Dell team members, social entrepreneurship enthusiasts and some of the brightest young minds in the world have stood in a crowded room anticipating the announcement of the winner of the Dell Social Innovation Challenge. I’ve been lucky enough to share in this anticipation...

Recently, the Ethics Resource Center (ERC) released a report on how employees around the globe take ownership of a company’s ethics by speaking up when they see wrongdoing. The report, entitled “Inside the Mind of a Whistleblower,” was co-sponsored by Dell and dispels many misconceptions...

While it might be the end of the school year for many students, we know that educators and the IT staff that support them hardly get a break. From June 11-13, tech leaders from colleges and universities will convene in Las Vegas at UBTech (formerly known as EduComm) – a premier technology and leadership...