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    Dell Software Enhances Endpoint Security Enabling Efficiency and Productivity

    24 Apr 2013
    Some of the costliest security breaches in recent years have been a result of systems not being kept up-to-date with the latest security patches, or from employees finding ‘work arounds’ from locked down desktop environments. Systems management solutions can provide IT organizations with a scalable, cost efficient way to significantly reduce the possibility of a breach, while helping delivering a consistent and secure user environment. Today at the “ Power to Do More: Accelerating Results ” event in San Francisco, Dell Software unveiled new endpoint security enhancements to help IT administrators quickly and flexibly protect data regardless of OS or device, with new...
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    A new appliance-perfect server for OEMs

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    This week we launched the OEM CR100 server , a short 1u form factor system built on PowerEdge technology, designed to help appliance vendors simplify IT for their customers. We’re really excited to offer this server exclusively to appliance OEM customers , who look to us for tier-1 stability, quality and global support for their appliance solutions. The CR100 is a rapidly deployable server that we can customize to the needs of our OEM customers. It comes in five different configurations that can...
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    Online demos of stuff you need

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    Posted earlier today on Storage @ Work There's a few excellent live online events in the next couple days you might want to check out. April 30 (Today) 12:30 PM Eastern: De-dupe for Dell EqualLogic iSCSI arrays - featuring Exagrid's new iSCSI De-dupe gateway product. April 30 (Today) 1:00 PM Eastern : VMware's Site Recovery Manager and Dell EqualLogic storage . I know a lot of people are going to be interested in this one - integrating intelligence into the recovery side of...
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    Microsoft Management Summit is very hot and Dell is in the buzz

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    A Dell employee emailed from the Microsoft Management Summit this morning: I am in the opening keynote here at MMS. Being the featured hardware partner for SCCM is awesome. The room is PACKED and attendees are hearing Microsoft talk about how great Dell systems management is. Microsoft’s Bob Muglia , MS SVP, highlighted Dell’s preliminary bare metal deployment pack in his keynote. Hubba hubba and hey now. Many of our customers use Microsoft’s System Center and Dell’s OpenManage to manage their infrastructure...
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    Is Sun giving up or changing the game?

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    Of course Sun has this litigation going with Netapp now and that does involve open sourcing software......All of a sudden that litigation is becoming a lot more interesting for the whole industry because what Sun is doing here could have an impact on everybody else in the industry work and now everybody else has to pay a lot closer attention to it....
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    Healthcare customer pays housecall to Dell

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    An excellent customer from the healthcare industry wrote about the day he spent at Dell HQ  touring our facilities.  Thanks for the review , John and thanks for coming all the way to Round Rock! 
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    the iSCSI downlow on crash consistent Exchange snaps

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    I'm stoked . Yesterday Dell EqualLogic announced Exchange integration with the Auto Snapshot Manager for PS series iSCSI SAN arrays. The Smart Copy for Exchange functionality joins the Smart Copy for SQL Server functionality that we already have in the product. Smart Copy is crash-consistent, application-aware data protection. A quick explanation of how it works is in Darren Miller's discussion of VDS/VSS integration in this blog post from a couple weeks ago. Exchange admins are going to...
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    yep, I could use one of those

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    Ben Rockwood posted on a clever device - a docking port for SATA drives. I don't like prying apart my USB and firewire cases either to switch drives, so I wonder if there is a two-holer under consideration. I almost always end up doing big dump/fills when I start using my external drives.
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    Some serious whackness on iSCSI

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    The link: http://digg.com/hardware/Mission_Critical_iSCSI_Storage_Networks Your job: determine what is the most whacked comment
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    Storagezilla calls it: Amazon cloud storage is a bust

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    Since Amazon have moved well beyond the utilisation of excess capacity phase it looks like they're operating S3/EC2 at a substantial loss. Which explains why Google have taken so long to offer anything even remotely similar as currently without ad money there's no money....
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    How much can you turn off?

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    -- over a three-year period, they took 3,150 servers and virtualized them and replaced those 3,150 servers which were consuming almost 2,000 kilowatts of energy. They replaced them with only 150 servers and saved 1,800 kilowatts of energy. That brought them back, in terms of data center capacity, about $24 M of data center capacity, and it saved them about $7 M a year in electrical consumption. ...
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    Enterprise taking a page from SMB?

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    Omar Sultan from Cisco wrote yesterday about the importance of broadening the skills set among data center workers. Here's an excerpt: I believe that the IT infrastructure and the IT organization need to be mirrors of each other. I don’t think you can successfully transform your data center while clinging to existing notions of organizational structure (i.e. network gal, server guy). Some of our more forward thinking customers have seen good results by integrating into “critical teams” that span...
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    OK Texans, Sharks in 5

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    SJ Sharks vs Dallas Stars : starts tonight @ 7:00 PM Pacific I say the Sharkies take it in 5. Unlike FCoE vs iSCSI , we'll know the answer to this one soon.
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    The Brave New World of Open Expertise

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    I guess, then, my issue is less with TechDirt, and more around how Dell is presenting your "mini-site". I, for one, was a bit surprised to learn of the business model, and it caused me to look at the material differently. I also felt a bit mislead. Others may feel the same as well. My recommendation? Perhaps have the folks at Dell be a bit more transparent as to what's going on regarding the site....
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    An udder tasty bit from LoneSysadmin

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    OK IT peoples, u should b c n Plankers good stuff , (this time on 2 vCPU VMs) He putin freshies in ur blogsphere every few daze I spose. -fargo farlee
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    SimplicIT vs ComplexIT

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    With today’s acquisition of MessageOne , we continue building out our plan to dramatically simplify IT infrastructure services and give companies choice and flexibility in how they purchase and manage services. Our goal is to improve the price/performance of infrastructure services to save companies millions -- potentially billions-- of dollars for IT that will grow business and improve competitiveness. Through this acquisition and our recent acquisitions of SilverBack , Everdream and ASAP Software...
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    Google House??

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    "Its getting worse and worse as I get more fragmented and there's a lot of fragmentation going on."...
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    When it comes to simplifying virtualization, less is more

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    Virtualization is the word of the year, and for good reasons. And a lot of the media and companies are talking about how their product enables virtualization in some form or fashion. The problem is that if every piece of technology has some ownership in virtualization, none will own the whole picture. At the same time, other companies are building large, complex, over-engineered virtualization solutions, which add two more layers of complexity – vendor lock-in and armies of consultants. If you have...
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    Welcome To The Party!

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    Today marked the announcement of another entry into the foray of "new" systems designed for cloud computing. I make light of "new" as this is a space Dell has been serving for over a year now . And along the way we've found that the unique needs of hyperscale customers demand a hands-on (and often very discreet) co-development approach. Power and space savings vs. general purpose servers in the magnitude of those quoted in the press today are really just the ticket to entry...
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    Cloud storage better than Swiss cheese

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    Technorati Tags: cloud , storage , upline The challenges of storage technology are often underestimated. As Gilda Radner used to say, " there's always somethin ." Of course, when that certain somthin' happens with storage, it makes people squirm. Projections for the widespread success of cloud storage tend to discount the unexpected things that seem to be inevitable. The latest cloud storage outage hit HP's new service this week. I suspect that HP took a pretty hard look at...
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    What's up with the P?

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    Technorati Tags: HPC , Dell , Servers , clusters What I am learning from places like InsideHPC.com and from the guys at Dell is that HPC is rapidly scaling from supercomputer centers down to much smaller organizations. It seems a more apt term than High Performance Computing - and one that is being embraced for smaller class of clustered systems is High Productivity Computing. Bringing the huge compute power and expertise of large scale sites to smaller packaging, easy to deploy systems is a common...
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    How should we measure Earth Day?

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    Technorati Tags: Data Center , Data Centers , metrics , earth day Earth Day is a day to reflect on our planet’s condition and to re-dedicate ourselves to the work that lies ahead. One of the keys to effective conversation is having good metrics that indicate the progress we are making. That’s why we became one of the founding members of The Green Grid , an international consortium of companies dedicated to improving energy efficiencies in data centers and business computing ecosystems. One of the...
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    The method to our madness

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    People often ask us what makes Dell different from our competitors. Here is a link to a podcast of an interview I recorded with Glenn Keels, Director of Global Commercial Product Development. The interview covers a lot of ground and revolves around Dell’s strategic vision of reducing complexity , relieving customer pain and delivering excellent price performance . IMHO, Glenn’s holistic strategy for delivering standard, open products is what customers are looking for. Anybody think our competitors...
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    Compellent publishes excellent review of Dell EqualLogic iSCSI storage arrays

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    EqualLogic customers are enamored with the product's ease of use. When asked to respond to this statement "This product is easy to use," a remarkable 19 out of 22 rated it a perfect 8.0,........
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    Nice unsolicited post by a customer: VMware, SQL

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    I deal with an EqualLogic (Now Dell) PS series at work and it’s been fantastic thus far. Performance has been admirable (although it’d be nice if we had planned a storage switch network before implementation), and we initiate from a dozen different servers. Administration is dead-simple....
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    Visit the Server Room and Give Blood

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    This post also appears here on the Storage@Work blog. The Server Room has to be one of the best forums I've seen. So if Dell EqualLogic people go there, lets make sure we don't trash it. Put the Name Dell in your sign on to avoid being poachers and don't pimp our stuff. It's fine to talk about experiences and what we know and all that, but its a tech forum not a drop box for hype - perbole. And the rest of you too. Do your thing and back up your blood type . Somebody might need it...
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