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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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    Learning About Cloud Storage From Nirvanix’s Geoff Tudor

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    On Friday I grabbed lunch with Geoff Tudor, SVP of business development and co-founder of Nirvanix . After they cleared the plates I talked to Geoff about what Nirvanix does and where he saw cloud storage heading. Some of the topics Geoff tackles: Providing cloud storage for the enterprise from five data centers around the world that are pooled and presented as one large global file server. The Nirvanix “secret sauce”: the file virtualization layer that sits on top...
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    Windows 7 Arrives for Large Enterprise Customers - What Is Your Migration Plan?

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    The day that many of us have been waiting for has come: the official launch of Microsoft Windows 7 and general availability (GA) for consumer customers. What this means is that PC manufacturers like Dell can begin shipping systems with Windows 7 on them. Of course, large corporations and other enterprises have had beta programs in place for some time now so last week's announcement was very much focused on consumers' use of Windows 7. Microsoft hosted events in New York and elsewhere, and...
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    Gartner’s Bittman: Private Cloud’s Value as Stepping Stone

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    Yesterday Gartner distinguished analyst Tom Bittman, who covers cloud computing and virtualization, posted some thoughts and observations from the Gartner Symposium in Orlando. Private Cloud-o-maina Based on Tom’s observations, private cloud (however defined) seems to have captured the hearts and minds of IT. Before he began his talk on virtualiztion he did a quick poll asking how many in the audience considered private cloud computing to be a core strategy of theirs. 75% raised their...
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    Dell Latitude Z (Z) Top (s) Laptop for 2009, According to PC World

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    Sorry, just couldn't help myself with that headline - just made me think of the boys from Texas, ZZ Top . If you opened up your Web browser today and looked at PC World, you would have seen they published today their PC World 100: Best Products of 2009 . This is one of the lists I look at each year to see what products have been launched and the perceived impact of them on the public. I was very pleased to see that Dell's Latitude Z600 laptop was the top-ranked laptop coming in at No....
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    Dell Extends its Networking Portfolio With Juniper Networks

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    In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a lot of planning going on around Dell lately. We’ve come to you before and talked about our upcoming Virtual-Ready Infrastructure (VRI) and how the Scalent relationship fits into that. However, we haven’t yet given you a ton of details on the networking piece. Yeah, ok – we told you how we’re expanding our Brocade partnership , but there’s even more. We’re now adding Juniper to round out the end-to-end 10GbE...
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    Gartner: Cloud Computing #1 Technology for 2010

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    Just a little while ago Steve Shankland posted an article from the front lines of the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando. The article is based on a presentation given today by Gartner addressing the top 10 trends that will be coming in IT in 2010. And what found itself moving up two spaces from last year and claiming the top spot? Cloud computing. Gartner’s cloud advice, notes Shankland, is …companies should figure out what cloud services might give them value, how to write...
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    Day Three of Dell at Gitex 2009: IT in Education

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    Dell hosted its first roundtable with higher education customers in the Middle East today at Gitex Technology Week in Dubai. Josh Claman, vice president and general manager of Dell’s EMEA Public business, and Mathew Boice, general manager of SunGuard, took time out to discuss the key education trends and themes they heard from customers. John Coulston, Middle East marketing manager, moderates their discussion. Have a look.
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    The Other Side of the FCoE Story

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    My husband says I’m passionate, and that’s why I like to argue. I’ve been wishing for an argument on FCoE for some time now (a wish in which I’m not alone ), but all I run across is how FCoE is going to save the world. In my search for the rest of the story (as the late Paul Harvey would have said), I talked with some of our technical folks to get the scoop. FCoE performance compares are one thing, but it’s important to balance the promises-of-FCoE argument with some...
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    The Scoop on Virtual-Ready Infrastructure (VRI)

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    Remember Michael Dell talking at Oracle OpenWorld about Dell’s plan to reduce IT infrastructure spend by $200 billion ? That doesn’t happen by making pretty PowerPoint. The team here in Round Rock has a rock-solid plan to bring Virtual-Ready Infrastructure (VRI) to life and soon. So, what’s in it for customers … the folks actually struggling with hundreds of unique tools, scores of unique skill sets and dozens of unique processes. The ultimate goal of Dell’s VRI...
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    Day Two of Dell at Gitex 2009: The Efficient Enterprise

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    Stephen Murdoch, Dell’s VP and GM of Large Enterprise in EMEA, opened Gitex this week with an address on the Efficient Enterprise, highlighting how IT can give organizations a competitive advantage. Key technologies such as virtualization, storage optimization and ITaaS can help CIOs cut overall data center costs. Check out clips from his address as well as comments from a few of Dell’s Middle East customers about the projects they are working on to improve the overall efficiency of...
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    A Data Center That Fits in the Overhead Bin

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    Jimmy Pike is the director of systems architecture for the Data Center Solutions group here at Dell and self-proclaimed “head geek.” Using a tool case with its insides stripped out, part of an old inbox and a bunch of off the shelf components he has created the world’s first portable “data center.” (All for the princely sum of ~$2,000) This former toolkit now holds: Two dual-socket servers featuring 2.5GHz Intel processors One server running Windows...
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    GITEX Kicks Off This Week

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    The Dell Middle East team kicked off Gitex , the world’s third-largest IT trade show, this week in Dubai with a bang, demonstrating its continued confidence in the U.A.E., the wider Gulf region and the Middle East. Check out what Dell and our partners are doing at the show.
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    U.S. Federal Enterprises Ready for Windows 7

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    We've received the results of a Dell's 1105 Media's Government Information Group survey of U.S. Federal IT decision maker survey about Windows 7 adoption. The results are eye opening: 72% report their organizations did not adopt Vista - not a surprise to us; in fact, I would estimate this percentage is even higher across the public sector; Of those planning to migrate to Windows 7, 60% say they'll make the move in six months or more - We will undoubtedly see consumers migrate...
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    Where's Waldo? No, Where's Barton George!

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    Much like the game my kids have always loved, Where's Waldo , on a daily basis we get the pleasure of trying to keep track of our newest colleague, Barton George, Dell's cloud evangelist. He spent some time at OpenSource World/CloudWorld/Next Generation Data Center , which previously went by a much simpler name of LinuxWorld, and appears to have interviewed the entire left side of the menu (read: reference to Steve Guttenberg in the 1982 film Diner ). He's posted those interviews on...
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    Michael Dell Paints His Vision of the Efficient Enterprise at Oracle OpenWorld

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    You might think that after two full days of keynotes, breakout sessions, events and meetings at Oracle OpenWorld it would be hard to excite a convention hall full of business and IT leaders, but Michael Dell had just the right formula with: A compelling vision - Redirect IT dollars from management and maintenance to innovation and improving the business by building an Efficient Enterprise; Big commitments for quantifiable results like working to take $200 billion of inefficiency out of the...
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    Migrating Oracle Deployments to Dell PowerEdge x86-based Servers

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    As a premier Oracle partner, Dell is excited to be on the show floor at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 . We are proud to be demonstrating our comprehensive Dell | Oracle solutions including presentations both in our booth and at sessions outlining the benefits of migrating to Dell’s PowerEdge 11th generation x86 platform. In addition to our presentations, we’ll have plenty of migration experts at the show to help answer questions in our booth regarding Dell’s proven track record for partnering...
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    Oracle from Dell – What are the key considerations?

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    Oracle OpenWorld is in full swing and things are exciting here in San Francisco. If you’re here, be sure to stop by the booth and say hi, see a demo, listen in on a presentation, enter to win one of the new Dell Latitude Z portable notebooks and catch one of the many breakout sessions with Dell. Also be sure not to miss Michael Dell’s keynote Tuesday, October 13 at 8:30 AM in Moscone North, Hall D. One of our focuses at Dell is to help people plan for an Oracle deployment. If you fall...
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    AC/DC – 80s Rock Band or Data Center Power Distribution Terminology?

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    Good question but since you’re reading this on Dell’s CIO-focused blog and not Creem , you should assume it is the latter. This is a topic that's been widely discussed across our industry, including this article from Jeff Burt of eWeek . Grid designs for data center power grid infrastructures need to include careful consideration of uptime and efficiency. Current flow needs to be steady and always available. It should also be cost-effective and “green.” The most fundamental...
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