November, 2010

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SPS/IPC/Drives trade show was a great success

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by DELL-Olivia H
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Dell OEM Solutions first participation at SPS/IPC/Drives trade show was a great success. This show is a perfect fit for Dell’s OEM Group to showcase our solutions which meet the Industrial Automation market needs. Our booth featured Dell’s Industrial PC, the Dell™ OptiPlex™ XE , along with Dell’s long- life workstation, the Dell Precision™ T5500 and Dell’s ruggedized notebook, the Dell Latitude™ E6400 XFR . We found a high degree of interest in the...
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Direct from G2E: Jim Morrow of Aristocrat

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by Franklin Flint
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This year’s G2E in Las Vegas is nothing short of amazing. What with the loud and flashy show floor, crowds of interesting people, and incredible new technology aimed at the Casino Gaming market, I was gob smacked as I wandered around with wide eyes. During my visits and many enlightening conversations with leaders of this industry, I managed to get time with Jim Morrow, VP of Strategic Architecture for Aristocrat Technologies Incorporated. During my conversation with Jim, he said something...
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Q&A with Joyent CEO, David Young

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by David Young
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As a follow-up to my earlier post discussing the announcement of the Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications, here are further details on the actual offering. 1. Why have Dell and Joyent focused on web applications? Joyent’s Cloud Operating System, also known as the SmartDataCenter, provides application virtualization, meaning that essentially everything from the guest OS to the bare metal and network layers are managed by the Joyent software. This frees developers from the burden of...
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Announcing the Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications

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by David Young
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Earlier this month Dell and Joyent announced customer adoption stories of the Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications. This isn’t just software to run your cloud – this is a complete PaaS turnkey solution including high performance PowerEdge C servers from Dell and proven Joyent Cloud Management software backed by five years of experience successful public cloud operation for over 30,000 Joyent customers as well as award winning Dell services and support. Joyent’s software is...
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Rackspace’s CTO on the promise of OpenStack

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Yesterday morning at the Web 2.0 summit out in San Francisco I sat in a session led by RackSpace ‘s CTO John Engates. After the session finished I grabbed some time with John to learn more about his thoughts on OpenStack , the open source cloud platform that Rackspace, along with NASA helped kick off. Some of the ground John covers: How OpenStack directly addresses some of the most common reservations people have about the cloud. How OpenStack is like Android . (1:50) NTT’...
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Dell/Greenplum Data Warehousing solution now available

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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As we announced today at a press conference in San Francisco, the Dell Cloud Solutions are now available. Included in that group is the Dell Cloud Solution for Data Warehousing. This offering combines Dell PowerEdge C servers and Greenplum Database 4.0 enabling the building of enterprise data warehouses and the consolidation of data marts into massively parallel processing environments. On Monday of this week I stopped by the Greenplum offices in San Mateo, CA. I sat down with Bill Cook, SVP...
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Dell brings Joyent to the world

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Joyent has been a provider of cloud services for the past five years, longer than the term cloud itself has been around. Today at a press conference in San Francisco, Dell announced the availability of the Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications which offers the software from Joyent as a turnkey platform-as-a-service offering. This private cloud offering is offered on Dell’s specialized cloud servers and is targeted at IT service providers, hosting companies and telcos. Up and running ...
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Dell + Aster data analytics solution: Live and in use

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Today at a press conference in San Francisco we announced the general availability of our Dell cloud solutions. One of the solutions we debuted was the Dell Cloud Solution for Data Analytics, a combination of our PowerEdge C servers with Aster Data’s nCluster , a massively parallel processing database with an integrated analytics engine. Some of the ground Sharmila covers: What customer pain points and problems does this solution address (hint: organizations trying to manage huge...
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Virtually yours: Efficient Enterprise, a Power Solutions Magazine special edition

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by DELL-Tom K
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Pervasive virtualization, cloud-based delivery, converged and unified infrastructure, unprecedented data growth, and billions of potential end points—these are but a few attributes of the Virtual Era, an new era of enterprise computing that's arrived at the doorstep of IT. The just-published Efficient Enterprise special edition of Dell Power Solutions magazine is all about helping you successfully make the transition to the Virtual Era. Among the editorial features in this special 2011 issue...
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Dell Cloud Solutions are up and running!

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Back in March we announced Dell cloud solutions. Today at a press conference in San Francisco we announced their general availability along with some examples of customers who are employing them. (Woohoo!) What’s the big idea The idea behind these offerings has been to leverage the experience we in the DCS group have gained over the last several years providing custom systems to some of the world’s largest cloud providers. These new solutions are targeted at organizations the...
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Talking to social media guru Charlene Li

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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The beginning of this week I attended the Web 2.0 summit out in San Francisco. Dell was a sponsor and it turned out to be a great event with speakers like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Robin Li founder of Baidu, Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley, Eric Schmidt of Google and the list goes on. While at the conference I ran into Social Media guru, author and founder of the Altimeter group , Charlene Li . I was able to grab sometime with Charlene and get her thoughts on a few topics. Here is the result...
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A cool-blue innovation in cloud storage

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by Franklin Flint
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In my job I am exposed to hundreds of new technology solutions every month. Some of these self-proclaimed “game changing ideas” are either “me too” solutions which follow others’ lead and compete on price or a couple of features. Other new ideas are so esoteric I am incapable of understanding why they even exist. However, every now and then I come across something that forces me to sit up and take notice. With no small amount of fanfare , Cirtas Systems recently released...
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Dell OEM Attends SPS/IPC/Drives in Germany

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by DELL-Olivia H
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I’m very excited that Dell OEM Solutions are exhibiting at SPS/IPC/Drives trade show an exhibition for electric automation in Nuremberg, Germany from 23-25 November. This is the first time Dell will be exhibiting at this show and I know you may be asking yourself the question why ? Dell OEM have been working with OEM customers for over 12 years in more than 40 Industry verticals across the world so we’re certainly not new to this world. We want to talk to industrial engineers and decision...
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The secret is out of the box—you can simplify your operations with Dell’s global configuration and fulfillment services for OEMs

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by DELL-Amy M
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If you’re like our typical Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) customers, you grapple with a number of challenges in your process to conceive, produce and deliver products to your increasingly global customers. Some of the common issues we hear include how time consuming and costly it is for OEMs to create and maintain images for their products. Or that managing the myriad of applications for those products—deploying, installing or uninstalling—causes a lot of pain and inefficiencies...
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Tier5 first to fire up Dell’s 3rd-gen Modular Data Center

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Last week, Tier5 who has taken over an old Mitsubishi facility in Adelaide was the first company globally to deploy Dell’s third generation Modular Data Center . Tier5 is an eight-person start up that is turning the former auto plant into a state-of-the-art data center park to be leased by wholesale tenants including managed service providers, resellers and large users. Instead of building out a traditional data center Tier5 went with Dell’s Modular Data Center (MDC) which snaps together...
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Cloud gamers OnLive on working with Dell DCS

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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In my last entry I talked about how Steve Perlman, CEO and founder of OnLive joined the recent press round table we had in New York . OnLive is a cloud-based gaming company that launched earlier this year and whose servers were custom built by Dell’s Data Center Solution (DCS) group. To give you a bit more insight into how the two companies worked together, here is a short video with Bruce Grove, OnLive’s director of strategic relations talking about the relationship between Dell and...
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PWC’s Cloud man bullish on OpenStack

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Last not but least in my series of videos from the OpenStack design summit , is an interview I did with David Lemphers of Price Waterhouse Coopers . David recently joined PWC as their director of cloud computing after spending six years at Microsoft, most recently as one of the principle engineers on the Windows Azure platform. I talked with David to get his thoughts on OpenStack and here is what he had to say: Some of the ground Dave covers: Dave’s background What he’s...
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Citrix “all in” when it comes to OpenStack

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Friday the OpenStack design summit wrapped up down in San Antonio. The summit featured close to 300 attendees representing 90 different companies. One of the key partners since the project kicked off back in July has been Citrix . On Wednesday I caught up with Gordon Mangione, Vice President of cloud at Citrix to get his thoughts on the project and this week’s summit. Here’s his enthusiastic response: xtra-credit reading: OpenStack Design Summit Day 1 Pictures OpenStack...
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Chatting with Eucalyptus co-founder about OpenStack

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Continuing in my series of videos from the OpenStack design summit this week in San Antonio, here is an interview I did Wednesday with Eucalyptus systems co-founder Graziano Obertelli. Eucalyptus allows enterprises to set up open source infrastructure-as-a-service private clouds. Eucalyptus is also one of the key ingredients in the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud that is being certified to run on Dell’s PowerEdge C systems as part of our cloud ISV program. Here is what Graziano had to say: ...
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Talking to OpenStack Chief Architect – Rick Clark

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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On Wednesday, near the end of day two of the OpenStack design summit , I caught up with Rick Clark, chief architect of the OpenStack platform. I wanted to get Rick’s thought’s on how the four-month old open source cloud computing project and the summit were going. Here’s what he had to say: Some of the ground Rick covers: The goal of the summit as well as the goal of the next two releases. How ready the various code bases are e.g. object storage and compute ...
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All Dell Enterprise at Gartner Symposium in Cannes

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by DELL-Andreas St
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It’s no secret that Gartner Symposium is considered to be one of the biggest (if not the biggest) IT industry events. This year’s Symposium in Cannes drew a recent all-time high and there were more than 1,500 CIO’s in attendance – which is hopefully a sign of more optimistic times. In particular, Dell’s attendance was ‘unique’ – we put forth great efforts towards our demonstrating our services capabilities, but, more importantly, there was a general...
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Accenture’s thoughts on the OpenStack cloud platform

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Another of yesterday’s featured speakers at the OpenStack design summit was Accenture partner, Joe Tobolski . Joe is part of Accenture labs which looks at emerging technologies and he is responsible for assets and architecture as part of Accenture’s global cloud program . I sat down with Joe in the cafe downstairs and got his thoughts on why OpenStack would be attractive to enterprises as well as how the Accenture team was participating in the summit. Extra-credit reading: ...
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Talking to NASA CTO about OpenStack cloud platform

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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One of the featured speakers during the kick off of the OpenStack design summit yesterday was NASA CTO of IT, Chris Kemp . OpenStack is an open source cloud platform and the compute side of the project is based on code from NASA’s Nebula cloud . I got some time with Chris and learned about NASA’s involvement in the project: Some of the ground Chris covers: Nebula and the cloud computing platform code base NASA’s huge data needs and what they do with the data ...
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PowerEdge C powers OpenStack install fest

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Yesterday morning I made the drive down to San Antonio for OpenStack’s second design summit (and first open to the public). If you’re not familiar with OpenStack , its an open source cloud platform founded on contributed code from Rackspace and NASA’s Nebula cloud . The project was kicked off back in July at an inaugural design summit held in Austin. The project has picked up quite a bit of momentum in its first four months. Attending this week’s 4-day conference are close...
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Simplifying your supply chain

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by DELL-Greg H
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Most supply chain models start out with simplicity in mind. They are not generally designed to be complex. Dell started in a dorm room. Some companies start from a one car garage. Some company divisions start in an existing product lab. Some companies globalize. Some companies acquire other companies. When business is good and growth happens, supply chains become complex. Since complexity usually aligns with higher costs, most companies have an ongoing focus to simplify their supply chain. This can...

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