NEPs, ISVs, and mobile operators often ask, “what sort of features or specs are included on Dell’s carrier grade products?” It makes sense that our customers and partners need to understand the various specifications and options available as they build and design their own solutions...

This week we announced the Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) developed by Airbus and Dell OEM . It's an electronic information management device that helps flight crews perform flight management tasks more easily and efficiently with less paper. Reinforcing Dell’s commitment to aviation industry...

Last week Dell had a very strong showing at the 2013 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in Las Vegas. Here are some of the video highlights throughout the week. Day 1: Day 1 Recap of the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas. Day 2: On Day 2 I interviewed DataDirect...

The Expected New Normal With the continued rapid adoption of smart phones by consumers to business users, and a growing dependence on social media, capturing and sharing images, email, navigation and other applications the net result is an unimaginable amount of data creation. Combined with the...

When I read about the Telecommunications market, I notice significant changes happening in parallel. For instance, LTE (Long Term Evolution or 4th Generation Networks) is setting a new standard in transporting voice calls. Mobile phone users are accessing rich content, which in turn creates a balancing...

Starting our Dell OEM blog a little over 3 years ago, we set out to keep our customers and partners more informed, provide thought leadership and establish a platform to connect our experts to the OEM community. As we jump into 2013, I wanted to highlight some of the must-reads of 2012 as well as thank...

Today’s dynamic healthcare environment relies heavily on the latest technology to increase the speed and accuracy of patient diagnosis and treatment. Physicians are nowadays required to interact with a wide range of end user devices to access their medical applications. From a Dell precision workstation...

Get to know the Dell OEM Non-Standard Custom Engineering Team Custom cables, unique bezels, additional graphic cards, extra SSDs and more are all in a day’s work for the Dell OEM non-standard custom engineering team. This is the team called in to “customize” our Dell standard products...

Pivot3, a Dell OEM customer, is quite the veteran when it comes to working with the Dell OEM custom engineering team. They have been utilizing our services for a few years now. Last year, Zac showed how we customized a PowerEdge R510-12 for them by adding a flash DOM boot device that also required designing...

In the final installment in my series on software companies becoming hardware companies (read 1 , 2 , 3 ), I’m looking more closely at the intricacies of “going global” from a support perspective. The ability to deliver a new product to a global marketplace can be very exciting,...

Dell Latitude 10 Tablet a device that makes sense of the commercial OEM market The launch of the Dell Latitude 10 tablet marks a significant step in delivering a mobile tablet computing strategy based around Microsoft Windows 8 . The rise of mobility has been and is having a disruptive impact within...

A while ago, my colleague Franklin Flint blogged about the top 5 challenges emerging for the carriers and service providers . Along those lines I’m taking this opportunity to share some of the business risks Telecom Operators may be facing (pulled from Ernst and Young 2012 report top 10 risks in...

Investing in Systems Management Technology Systems management is an ever evolving technology and an area Dell continues to invest in. Specifically for the launch of our PowerEdge 12th generation servers , Dell put a lot of effort in improving the monitoring aspect of Systems Management. In fact, Dell...

Introducing the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator that helps you calculate your supply chain costs across engineering, development, manufacturing & support. You are a solution provider. What you do best is drive innovation and new product designs for your customers. What if the time available...

I recently read a report from Frost & Sullivan which stated that the total market of Industrial PCs is showing enormous growth. The expected growth rate is from 2.1 B$ in 2011 to 3.2 B$ in 2015. This includes all types of industrial PCs, from smallest embedded controllers up to full blown rack mounted...

Three years ago our team in Dell OEM Solutions made the strategic decision to enter the OEM COTS Telecommunications market. We had been getting significant interest from our customers and those who wanted to be our customers to add features and capabilities to our standard product offering to better...

As part of my ongoing series on the challenges software companies face when they choose to become hardware companies (you can read parts 1 and 2 ), this post will focus on hardware testing and quality assurance. It remains true that today, depending on the industry, as many as 80% of software companies...

Video surveillance continues to be a hot topic for those in the security space as well as consumers in general. Consumers recognize the power of security surveillance – we watch the local news with criminals being busted by video surveillance cameras and we’re all aware of the cameras monitoring...

Now in the era of Cloud Computing, service providers are in the position to develop OTT content to be delivered to their user database, while leveraging the efficiency, scalability, easy of deployment and flexibility of Cloud based network appliances. This means that instead of relying on other content...

So you’re still buying PowerEdge servers from Dell OEM, but why haven’t you made the switch to 12th Generation? We understand that transitions can be tough , especially in an OEM environment; however, here are 10 compelling reasons to upgrade to our next generation of PowerEdge servers. ...

In an earlier blog post , I’d noted some of the inherent challenges with a software company becoming a hardware company in order to bring their innovation to market. In that post, I outlined these challenges: Procurement and supply chain; Testing and quality assurance; Global support...

Over the past three months I have traveled to Europe, the Middle East and China speaking to Dell OEM Solutions employees, OEM Telecommunication’s customers, and leaders in the Information Communications Technology (ICT) market. My goals were to learn as much as I could about what concerns and needs...

Meet the Dell OEM Solutions team in 4 European cities in September – London 12th , Paris 14th , Milan 19th and Frankfurt 21st September . We, the OEM team in Dell, had the pleasure to be part of the Dell EMEA Solutions tour last year, and meet our customers in 6 different cities; however this...

My last few posts have been about how you can incorporate Dell’s growing storage portfolio into your solutions. Last time, we looked at how a hybrid SSD/10K array could enhance OLTP-based appliances on Dell hardware. Today, we look at a solution for those of you in Healthcare . (Psst: Even if you...

Ugh. That is the thought of anybody who involved with product development the first time they learn that one of the key components of their product is going end of life. That is when the realization becomes clear that it is time to spin up a product refresh and invariably, other parts of the solution...