The Federation of Small Business (FSB) is the UK’s leading business organisation and understands that small businesses are essential to the local community, generating wealth, employments and opportunities. Dell is a proud partner of the FSB, and I recently had the pleasure of attending the 39 th annual Federation of Small Business Conference 2013 which took place on 21-23 rd March 2013 in Leicester. The conference brought together a number of high-profile business leaders as well as politicians...

How do you turn data chaos into insights? How do you become more data driven in your role? These are some of the questions and topics addressed at the inaugural PASS Business Analytics conference. Business intelligence and analytics was at the forefront of all conversations as data analysts converged in Chicago to learn best practices. Matt Wolken, GM Information Management in Dell Software, addressed the 1,100 attendees during the keynote to talk about the data explosion and the power analytics...

Welcome to the latest edition of Dell’s Weekly Recap, your guide to the week's Dell-related news and happenings. TOP STORY OF THE WEEK A Shot at the 'American Dream' of Entrepreneurship – Huffington Post, April 23, 2013 A rise in the number of women-owned businesses and increasing the talent pool are both essential for global economic growth. Jennifer J. Davis, executive director of global consumer, SMB and brand communications, Dell, has outlined how Dell, through...

Small businesses often struggle to find the time to fully understand technology beyond the basics and while they will happily invest in mobile devices, PCs and laptops, few think about how a server might benefit their organisation. Servers are often thought of being only for use by large organisations rather than small business yet the truth is that regardless of the size of your organisation any small business can benefit from a server-based network. Purchasing a server such as the Dell PowerEdge...

Tablets are great. They’re light, portable, not too expensive, and packed with helpful, accessible applications. What was originally an amazing consumer device has also become a winner in the world of business. These are all instant reasons to get – or equip your workforce with – tablets. But they’re just that – instant reasons. Not well thought–out, reasoned, planned decisions. After the first blush of tablet mania, we’re now at the point where it’s...

The XPS 10 tablet was designed with mobile professionals in mind, and delivers both work productivity and a great entertainment experience in one tablet. Today, we’re introducing an AT&T 4G LTE mobile broadband version for US customers on Dell.com, providing professionals with the same fast, reliable, high-speed internet connection as on their smartphones for connectivity anytime, anywhere. Designed for on-the-go content creation and consumption for either work or play, the XPS 10 delivers...

Earlier this month , I traveled to Bangalore for an exciting discussion about issues surrounding women in business. Partnering with the Catalyst Research Center for Career Pathways, we sponsored leading researchers and academics from around the world, identifying future paths of study, with a goal of developing real, fact-based solutions to break barriers holding women back. Last year, Dell made a $1 million, multi-year commitment to Catalyst , a leading nonprofit membership group expanding opportunities...

There’s a lot being asked of our government customers of late. They’re being asked not only to sustain, or even expand, what IT does for U.S. government agencies - they’re being asked to do so in one of the most challenging budget environments we’ve seen following the significant cuts due to the implementation of sequestration budget measures. Though it may seem that government customers must choose between two seemingly divergent needs of cutting budgets while expanding what...

Today, we announced Dell’s new family of mobility solutions, which are designed to help companies adopt BYOD in a way that best suits their organizational needs, regardless of their individual requirements, or where they are on their BYOD implementation. Dell Mobility Solutions will make it easier to extend and manage mobile access, increase the security of data that is accessed remotely, broaden network access to better support BYOD, and improve the experience of users as they access business...

The “consumerization” of IT is a very well-recognized trend showing how consumer technologies are migrating into and influencing enterprise IT environments… but, have you heard of “Enterprization”? Enterprization is what happens when you take a top selling, award-winning cloud service, used by over 4 million BYOXers, and layer in the security and manageability features that enterprise IT requires. Name games aside, we’re doing just that with the marriage...

For the third year in a row, I’m thrilled to announce that Dell has made the DiversityInc list of Top 50 Companies for Diversity — ranking 37 among an impressive group of more than 900 companies dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Our team member base draws from more than 80 countries. Together, we bring different languages, background, cultures, talents, career experiences and ways of thinking that help us reach customers and communities around the globe...

Making Self-Service BI a Reality with Toad Business Intelligence Suite 2.0 The Information Management team at Dell Software continues to pave the way for self-service BI with the launch of Toad Business Intelligence Suite 2.0 . This latest version enables organizations of all sizes to more easily access and extract meaningful information from heterogeneous data sources while providing enhanced visualization and optimized data integration for improved collaboration and analysis. We’re...

Last year we kicked off the APJ PartnerDirect Excellence Awards to recognize Dell’s channel partners in the region for their valuable contribution, for sharing the Dell’s vision and for successfully delivering Dell’s enterprise solutions to meet customer’s business needs. As we continue to reinforce Dell’s commitment to our channels, this year the award was handed to fourteen partners across the region for their outstanding partnership and business accomplishments...

One of the promising global internet trends today is the concept of social search. Think of social search this way - today you enter a search term in a popular search engine and get pretty much the same results as anyone else. What if instead your search produced results based on what you care about, since it was determined by others who care about the same things? Your results would be different for you than almost any another person since you are a unique individual. That’s social search...

The Dell Cloud team is pleased to announce the “formal” launch of our Cloud Community in the Dell TechCenter . This site contains a variety of cloud information: Dell Cloud Products – Information on the various cloud portfolio solutions with videos, best practices and other information sources. Dell Cloud Labs – Participate in Dell’s exploration of new public cloud ideas and concepts. Events – The Dell Cloud Team travels to various global events to...

Dell is excited to announce the launch of our Dell NetReady service in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain and the Czech Republic. Dell’s NetReady pay-as-you-go bundle offers cost-effective mobile connectivity with a single integrated SIM and is pre-installed in select consumer and commercial products in the Inspiron , XPS , Latitude , Precision and Vostro range. Powered by Telefónica , one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, Dell’s easy-to-use mobile connectivity...

Remember when virtualization was the answer? When creating efficiencies, reducing costs and simplifying the management of your data center was a matter of virtualizing your infrastructure? Now you have a physical and a virtual infrastructure to manage. Add to that rapid data growth and VM sprawl to support demanding applications–never mind hardware-imposed I/O restrictions, limiting the extent to which you can virtualize anyway—and it’s easy to lose sight of the prize. Realizing...

Environmental sustainability at Dell is a year-long commitment. But as we celebrate this Earth Day , I’d like to tell you about a few of the ways Dell is putting its technology to work where it can do the most good for the planet. At Dell, we’re committed to minimizing the environmental impact of our business operations. We also look at every stage of a product or service’s life cycle to find ways we can make them more sustainable; we want to create new possibilities for our...

I am excited to announce that Dell is a Clarabridge People's Choice Award winner for excellence in Customer Experience Management (CEM). In addition to recognizing Dell’s success in understanding brand advocacy and improving brand health, what I’m most proud about this award is its acknowledgment of how we’re making intelligent decisions to improve the overall customer experience based on the analysis of real-time social data insights we receive. At the heart of this award...

Dell Weekly Recap: News & Customer Spotlight Welcome to the latest edition of Dell’s Weekly Recap, your guide to the week's Dell-related news and happenings. TOP STORY OF THE WEEK Dell Debuts Small Business-friendly Latitude 3330 Laptop Unveiling its latest 13-inch laptop, the Latitude 3330, Dell signals small business buyers that they no longer have to settle for clunky, heavy laptops. Dell built the Latitude 3330 specifically for the needs of the small business and...

“Partnership is about winning together. It’s about win-win. It’s about mutual profitability,” profound words by Richard Lee, Vice President, Global Commercial Channel , APAC as he addressed the crowd of 50 Channel Partners for Dell from India at the recently held Dell India Partner Summit 2013 at the Golden Palms Hotel in Bangalore. The summit organized as a celebration of our successful journey in India with Global Commercial Channel‘s (GCC) over the past two years...

With big projects come big responsibilities. Ask Heitkamp Erd- und Straßenbau , a major civil engineering and construction business in Germany, and it’ll leave you in no doubt over what’s required in any large-scale undertaking. There’s efficiency for one, so that work comes in on time and within budget. But there’s also drive and commitment, ensuring that schedules aren’t derailed by the challenges that all projects face. Knowing all this put Heitkamp in a...

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 Networks, VESet, and Sound4. Three companies that built proprietary software leveraging standard-based hardware and the cloud to provide enhanced services for the broadcast industry. Day 3:...

Big Data Straight Shooter Today’s Big Data landscape reminds me of the Wild West—lots of promise, chaos and confusion. It’s an amazing opportunity, if you have a plan and can shoot straight. The challenge with Big Data is that too many folks are firing scattershot, which further fuels the hype cycle frenzy and distorts reality. I came across an article on ReadWrite.com that claimed “many CIOs are clueless when it comes to big data.” The article cited an IT survey...

Find out the latest details and updates to software features on the newest Compellent products in the revamped Dell Compellent’s Top Gun Storage Architect (CSSAT0211WBTT) . This revamped online course is now available on Dell PartnerDirect . The course now includes: Details on the newest hardware – SC8000 controllers and SC200 & SC220 enclosures. An updated outline of how the core and advanced software features work together to optimize your customer’s use of the Storage...