January, 2010

Inside Enterprise IT

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    Super Group Goes Green and Prepares for the Cloud

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    Recently we spoke to Adam Orpen at Super Group about some of the challenges faced by ‘Africa’s logistics giant’. He talked us through the opportunities and demands created by rapid business growth, and how Dell consultants helped him create a more efficient, flexible infrastructure. Johannesburg-based Super Group is an industry leader in supply chain management, and its IT team delivers a high availability environment to sites across South Africa. But rapid growth meant a big...
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    InfoWeek: Dell DCS unit racking up cloud sales

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    There was a good article in Information Week recently with our GM, Forrest Norrod. Forrest talked to Charlie Babcock about the success that Dell’s Data Center Systems unit has had in the cloud space. You should check out the whole article but here are a few bits I’ve pulled out for your reading pleasure: Dell’s Data Center Solutions unit, has only 20 customers, but would be the third largest supplier of x86 servers in the U.S. if it were split out from Dell, said Forrest...
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    Making the Most of Your Microsoft Exchange Environment with PowerEdge

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    Dell continually refines and optimizes performance right across the PowerEdge server line to ensure our customers get optimal productivity out of the business applications they rely on most. Last fall, we introduced the new PowerEdge R510 2-socket server with the option of 4 and 8 hard drives. The availability of large amount of internal storage makes it an ideal server for running Microsoft Exchange 2010. We decided to put the R510 through its paces with research firm Principled Technologies...
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    Lodge Park College makes the grade with Dell and Windows 7

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    Some people say that today’s students have it easy, but you only need to spend a day at any secondary school in the country to see that this is not true. However, utilising the latest technology, like Windows 7 can make a positive difference to school life. It won’t make exams any easier, but it can make learning, simpler, faster and more enjoyable. The Microsoft Technology Adoption Program (TAP) gave Dell consultants an opportunity to help Lodge Park Technology College – a technical...
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    Dell & the Cloud: Where we’ve been, Where we’re going

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    They say turn around is fair play. Kevin Hazard of the Planet recently took this literally. No sooner had I finished interviewing him at the Cloud Expo in Santa Clara then he turned around and pointed his camera at me. He got me talking about the cloud and what the heck Dell’s doing in it. Some of the topics I tackle: What I do as Dell’s Cloud Evangelist. Where Dell plays in the cloud: Cloud based services providing IT management as a service. Building these...
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    Talking to the Head of VMware’s Cloud Business

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    Here is the second in my three part series on Virtualization and the cloud. Today’s entry focuses on the 800 pound gorilla in the virtualization space, VMware. At last month’s Gartner’s Data Center conference , right after his standing room only presentation , I grabbed some time with VMware’s Mr. Cloud, Dan Chu . Hear what he had to say: Some of the topics Dan tackles: What VMware is seeing customers actually doing to take advantage of the cloud today both...
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    What’s new in 2010 in the appliance and OEM industries?

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    If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my 29 years of working with computers, it’s that technology advances and changes at exponentially increasing rates over time. I remember when I first started working with OEM customers in 2001, and the biggest issue for us was getting enough ISA expansion slots in a rack dense server. Today my customers’ needs are much more complex, advanced and far reaching than anything I could have imagined in 2001, much less in 1981. While 2009 introduced...
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    Dell delivers a 6Gb/s SAS in an end-to-end solution

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    You hear a lot of about storage consolidation and the value it provides to customers, but storage consolidation is not the best answer for all customers. In fact, 6Gb/s SAS is gaining buzz because of its performance increases and will help keep internal storage and Direct Attached Storage (DAS) a viable option. Whether you are a small customer looking to expand your internal storage capacity or a larger customer with a very specific deployment objective internal or DAS storage can be the best solution...
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    Microsoft, Virtualization and the Cloud

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    Happy New Year to all! For the first week of this new year I’m going to focus on virtualization and the cloud. Kicking off this mini-series is an interview I did last month at the Gartner DataCenter conference with David Greschler, director of virtualization strategy at Microsoft. I caught up with David right after his talk at the conference. Some of the topics David tackles: The ability to treat IT as a service. Before virtualization, specific workloads were tied to specific...
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    Dell’s European Webinar Events in January

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    At the beginning of the new year our thoughts often reflect on the year gone by and our goals for the year ahead. Some of my goals are personal, like eating more healthily and getting to the gym a little more often, but others a re very much skills and personal development based. I’m pleased to announce the European January webinar schedule in case any of these free enterprise class training sessions would be of use to you or your team. These events provide a valuable opportunity to follow...
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