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    Dell + Wyse + Citrix partnering to bring one great end to end desktop virtualization solution

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    Dell, Wyse and Citrix are trendsetters in the desktop virtualization marketplace with a proven track record of delivering on products that meet customers evolving needs. Today we are pleased to announce that we have partnered to bring together two reference architectures that combine Dell’s commitment to desktop virtualization with the DVS Simplified and DVS Enterprise solution offerings. Wyse’s more than three decades of cloud client expertise along with Citrix’s desktop virtualization prowess in the marketplace. You will see in these reference architectures that with the pairings from these three companies we have created an end-to-end solution that will meet your desktop virtualizations needs. Let’s begin. Dell’s DVS Simplified appliance partnered with Wyse’s T10 Thin Client Dell’s DVS Simplified Appliance utilizes Citrix VDI-in-a-Box VDI software to give you the ability to quickly deploy a desktop virtualization solution with a simplified management experience. This simplified wizard...
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    Ubuntu, the Cloud and the Future — Neil Levine

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    After the cloud summit last week at OSCON , I sat down with Neil Levine of Canonical to see what was in store for Ubuntu cloud-wise (Canonical is a partner of ours in our cloud ISV program). Neil is the VP of Canonical’s corporate services division which handles their cloud and server products. Here’s what Neil had to say: Some of the topics Neil tackles: The next Ubuntu release “ Maverick Meerkat ” and its geek-a-licious launch date: 10.10.10. Look...
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    Dell-Juniper Networking Portfolio Launched

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    We are really excited about the latest addition to our networking portfolio: a line of industry-leading, Dell-branded Juniper products. The Juniper line represents a best-in-class set of security and switching products that will help our customers stay at the forefront of new networking technologies / techniques while also driving down the cost of purchasing, upgrading, and maintaining their networks. The products we are launching include: The PowerConnect J-EX4200 series of rack-based switches...
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    My quick spiel on the cloud

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    At OSCON last week I ran into a compadre from a previous life, Fred Kohout. Fred is now the CMO at UC4 , a pure play software automation company, and he, like I, was in Portland to attend OSCON and the Cloud Summit . At the summit Fred did to me what I’ve done to so many others, he got me on the receiving end of a video camera to talk about where Dell plays in the cloud and how we see the cloud evolving. You can check out Fred’s blog from the Summit where he posted my video as...
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    The OpenStack design summit in review

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    Tuesday after the OSCON cloud summit I sat down with Rick Clark over a well deserved beer. Rick is the chief architect and project lead for the OpenStack compute project that was announced on Monday. Recently I interviewed Rick on the first day of the inaugural OpenStack design summit and I wanted to catch up with him and get his thoughts on how it had gone. This is what he had to say: Some of the topics Rick tackles: How it went engaging a very large technical group (100+) in an open...
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    Talkin’ to the project lead of OpenStack Object Storage

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    The first code that is available from the OpenStack project, and its available today, is the code for the storage effort, “ Object Storage .” The man at the technical helm of this effort is Will Reese of Rackspace . Will’s daytime job is development manager and system architect for Rackspace’s Cloud Files , the source of the code for Object Storage. Will and I grabbed some time at last week’s design summit and he briefed me on the project: Some of the topics Will...
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    New Enhancements to Dell Precision Portfolio Boost Performance and Productivity

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    When it comes to workstations, Dell has a history of providing customer-focused innovation with technology that is efficient, simple and easy to use. Our creative, design and engineering customers tend to push the limits of hardware technology, and in my conversations with them, I find they are constantly looking for ways to increase performance and efficiency. Based on this direct feedback, we are continuing down the innovation path we’ve paved by offering the latest graphics, computing processors...
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    OpenStack Compute – talking to the chief architect

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    Rick Clark used to be the engineering manager at Canonical for Ubuntu server and security as well as lead on their virtualization for their cloud efforts. He’s now at Rackspace and is applying much of what he learned while at Canonical to his new gig as project lead and chief architect of the just announced OpenStack Compute . Rick talked to me about what he brought with him from Canonical as well as the details behind OpenStack Compute. Some of the topics Rick tackles: What...
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    Introducing OpenStack — an open source cloud platform

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    Today Rackspace and NASA announced OpenStack, an open source cloud platform that they are collaborating on and building a community around. Last week the inaugural OpenStack design summit was held here in Austin with 20 companies from around the world, including Dell, participating. During one of the breaks I grabbed sometime with Rackspace’s cloud president, Lew Moorman to learn more about the effort and get his thoughts: Some of the topics Lew tackles: What is OpenStack (an...
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    NASA’s chief cloud architect talks OpenStack

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    At the inaugural design summit for OpenStack , an open source set of technologies for building clouds, Nebula’s chief architect Josh McKenty played a prominent role in leading the assembled folks. I caught Josh during a break and chatted with him about Nebula and NASA’s role in the newly announced OpenStack project. Here’s what he had to say: Some of the topics Josh tackles: What is Nebula (hint: NASA’s, primarily IaaS, cloud computing platform) The history...
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    Managing Change in an Ever Changing World

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    I’ve been writing about the true meaning of “long-life” in terms of computer lifecycles and how hardware developers can get the most from both COTS and controlled lifecycle hardware platforms. When I get asked for a long life product, too often I find the requester hasn’t considered many of the issues which invest such a solution. Consider necessary changes - No matter how successfully a product is designed it is impossible to prepare for all possible issues requiring improvements...
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    Fast, Big, Affordable or Reliable – It depends on your priorities

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    Any color you want, as long as it is black While I’ve been living under a rock, I failed to see how quickly the enterprise computing world has added so many different hard-drive technologies to their standard list of options. At one time there was a single drive style you could choose to use in a just couple of capacities – SCSI . That was it. To paraphrase Henry Ford in reference to the always-black Model T, you can have your hard drive in any technology you want… as long as it is SCSI. Technology...
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    Rising star in hosted services slashes energy use by 50 per cent and simplifies management using virtualization

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    The challenges facing hosted services companies were brought sharply into focus when we recently shot a video for one of the industry's rising stars Catalyst2 . The company - which targets SMEs - first told me how rapid growth helped it to expand quickly across the UK and Ireland. It then immediately followed this up with a list of issues that success had brought with it. For example, server numbers in the datacentre continued to rise, which in turn led to increased management time and spiralling...
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    Dell and the University of Cambridge deliver HPC power to researchers

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    Today I’m at the University of Cambridge to officially open the Dell | Cambridge High Performance Computing (HPC) Solution Centre . This significant new collaboration aims to form EMEA’s leading HPC centre of excellence for all areas of the HPC community, whether academic or commercial. The Centre will combine large-scale, commodity-based HPC infrastructure with experienced and specialised research know-how, to overcome the traditional barriers of entry to HPC, providing academic and...
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    Special Edition OEM Appliances Webinar – now available!

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    In response to extensive customer conversations, Dell OEM has learned there is a keen interest in improving many aspects of their product development processes. Understanding these customer needs and providing the best solutions and services to meet them is priority one for Dell OEM. For some, defining the problems can be almost as challenging as arriving at the best solutions. To increase understanding we developed an Appliance Solutions webinar that explains the hardware-appliance/network -device...
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    IT PRO Recommended, Customer Approved!

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    We’ve told you that Dell begins every new product planning cycle by hitting the road, listening and learning from thousand of customer conversations. But, how do we know that this approach is working? Are concerns and issues being addressed in the final product? It comes down to market validation and feedback. Whether it’s from you or industry reviewers, we use that feedback to help us build better servers. That is why we wanted to share some of the positive feedback we’re getting...
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    Cloud Billing and the Subscription Economy

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    A couple of weeks ago I was out in the Bay Area to attend Giga OM's Structure event . One of the interesting individuals I met there was Tien Tzuo, CEO and founder of Zuora . Zuora, which counts salesforce.com's Marc Benioff as an investor, "bills" itself as the leader in subscription billing and payment solutions. Here is what Tien had to say: Some of the topics Tien tackles: Zuroa as the "Salesforce.com for online billing" (they are a hosted SaaS offering...
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    Talking to customers at the Dell Efficient Enterprise Tour - what the Virtual Era means to them and how they are embracing it

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    I recently went along to the Dell Efficient Enterprise Tour to really understand the latest strategic thinking to challenge the cost of running IT today. This was a great opportunity to network and hear directly from Dell customers about what virtualization and the ' Virtual Era ' means to them. The first thing that struck me was how far we've come since the early days of virtualization and how companies are really embracing the technologies to benefit their business and improve operational...
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    The Future of Deduplication…Round Two

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    I can’t believe that a year has gone by since I blogged about Dell’s point of view on deduplication , but I am not surprised in the least that the vision we laid out then is moving closer to fruition. It is with a great sense of excitement that I can (finally) talk about our intent to acquire Ocarina Networks and the benefits that we’ll be able to bring to customers of all sizes with this truly innovative deduplication and compression technology. If you haven’t been following...
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    Another First – Dell Precision M6500 17” Mobile Workstation Now Available with 32GB

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    Dell has been laser-focused on designing innovation into our products that solve actual problems for our customers since the beginning. A little known fact about Dell’s innovation in the workstation market is that we created the mobile workstation category in 2001 by designing the first ever mobile workstation, the 14 inch Dell Precision M20. Dell engineers ventured into unchartered territory by taking a notebook and integrating high performance OpenGL mobile graphics, drivers, etc. and certifying...
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    Swedish university cuts servers by around 75 per cent and simplifies storage with Virtualization environment

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    If there's one industry where IT is having a major effect, it's education. I saw this clearly when we recently shot a video at Karlstad University , in Sweden, which has put IT at the heart of its educational programmes and administration. It said that students were benefitting greatly from IT, but that success had come at a price. Server numbers were spiralling upwards, storage was becoming complex, and energy use was rising fast. Listen to how Karlstad University tackled these challenges...
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    Intel at #delltechcamp

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    Last week I had the pleasure of heading to #delltechcamp with many of our Dell, Intel and Microsoft colleagues. Tech Camp was one of those all-encompassing events where our key solution environments were on show – from the Efficient Datacenter to the Connected Classroom experience. ‘Touch and feel’ demonstrations, many of which we filmed as well as our Dell experts provided the necessary context into our overall strategy and mission to help customers grow and thrive. Also on...
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    What is Sustainable ?

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    This post authored by Jay Reddy - Dell Server Engineering Whenever I see someone use the word ‘sustainable’, I am usually unclear on the meaning of the word, and unsure of the intent of the usage. In my mind the only way of life that seems completely sustainable is subsistence farming; let me hasten to add that as much as I love to garden, I have no interest in subsistence agriculture as a livelihood. I am just content that I have a professional existence that allows me to play a part...
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    Listening to Customers is Where it all Begins

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    Before Dell begins planning and developing a new product, we do one important thing first. We talk to our customers and we listen. Dell begins every new product planning cycle by hitting the road, listening and learning from thousand of customer conversations. Here's what our customers told Dell: A server has to be easy to deploy, manage, and maintain. Servers need to be reliable, so they are confident in their decision. They need to maximize data center space, without...
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    Cool Article on the Dell/Azure announcement

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    Monday, as part of Microsoft’s big Azure announcement, we announced that we would be both building an Azure appliance, enabling customers to build their own public or private clouds, as well as developing an Azure public cloud at Dell that our customers can use to develop and deploy next generation services on. There has been a ton of press surrounding this move by Microsoft to broaden the market for Azure, an effort which also includes similar agreements with HP and Fujitsu. Not surprisingly, my...
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    Dell Customers Slash Server and Storage Administrative Time with Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE2010)

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    In February 2010, we announced the availability of our Dell OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft System Center. This was an industry first! At no charge to Dell customers who manage their infrastructure with Microsoft System Center, we offered a portfolio of software tools designed to streamline the most time consuming administrative tasks on server and storage platforms such as bare metal deployments, provisioning, and BIOS, driver and firmware updates. Today, we’re declaring another...
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