February, 2011

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Dell steps up its security offerings with Dell SecureWorks

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by Paul D'Arcy
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Co-authored by Kathy Jacques, Chief Marketing Officer, Dell SecureWorks We’ve all had that day when there’s just one too many tasks on our to-do list and a “fire drill” pops up that throws your to-do list totally off course. That’s a normal day for the person in charge of security – tracking down potential issues, writing after-action reports for missing hardware, preparing for audits – and then a new threat hits the internet. Security is a required...
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Dell OEM Solutions Custom Shop Winter, 2011 update: Part 3

Posted over 1 year ago

by Franklin Flint
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My recent video posts about the custom engineering team in the Dell OEM Solutions Group have generated great interest, thanks! In Part-1 we see some serious and complicated modifications to Dell’s PowerEdge M1000e fan shroud assembly to increase reliability in shock events for a specific customer with special needs for blade server installations prone to mechanical shocks. In Part-2 our illustrious engineer walks us through a prototype customization for a Dell PowerEdge T710 with multiple GPUs...
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Adventures in Hard Drive Decisions: The right thing to store your stuff

Posted over 1 year ago

by Franklin Flint
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I’ve used this space many times over the past year to discuss the decision process every solution engineer must go through to pick the most appropriate permanent storage for the appliance or compute platform they are working on. The amount of interest in this topic drove me to summarize that work into a concise article in Power Solutions Magazine where I go through the decision process on storage and give a few specific examples of the ramifications of those decisions. Power Solutions...
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What happens at RSA stays at RSA - unless we talk about it.

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by Franklin Flint
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I was given a great opportunity to attend RSA Conference [more pictures here ] this year and even asked to speak at a partner’s booth while I was there. San Francisco, being February and all, was damp, chilly, and prone to bizarre and unexpected attacks from hail – I got caught in a freak hail storm while walking to breakfast on Wednesday morning. Inside the Moscone Center the weather was fine and the people were warm and welcoming. As I wandered about the show floor, I was impressed...
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The power to do more - servers that perform

Posted over 1 year ago

by John Barnhart
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Authored By John Barnhart: Dell Enterprise Product Group, Technical Marketing The slogan “The Power to do More” has never been more appropriate when discussing Dell’s latest PowerEdge 2 Socket servers combined with the latest 4 and 6 core Intel Xeon 5600 Westmere-EP processors. On February 14, 2011 Dell announced a very significant update to the entire lineup of two-socket PowerEdge servers, including the M610 , M710 , M610X and M710HD blades, R710 , R610 , R510 , R410 , C1100...
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Should we include mobile consumer devices in enterprise IT?

Posted over 1 year ago

by DELL-Ann N
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Should enterprise companies include smartphones and tablets in their enterprise IT strategy? Do the benefits outweigh the complications, and do companies really have any choice in the matter? When I was growing up, IT assigned a laptop to you, and that’s what you used to get your work done, period. But not so much anymore … "I've never seen a wave like this before in my 20 years of tech, where the users were in so much control ," said Brian Reed, chief marketing officer...
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Rob on Hyperscale Cloud Architecture

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Earlier this month when the Bexar release for OpenStack went live, a meet up was held in Santa Clara. As a part of the event, a series of lightening talks were given by various OpenStack community members. One of the speakers was Dell’s very own Rob Hirschfeld , a senior cloud solutions architect, who has been actively involved with the OpenStack project from the get-go. Here is the short presentation that Rob gave where he talks about some of the key characteristics of a hyperscale environment...
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Dell OEM Solutions Custom Shop Winter, 2011 update: Part 2

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by Franklin Flint
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I recently posted a Vblog demonstrating some of the fascinating work the Dell OEM Solutions Engineering Team has done to enhance the PowerEdge M1000e blade chassis for one of our customers. Here I want to show you how we modified the PowerEdge T710 allowing it to be used in ways the original engineering team never dreamed of. The brilliant Ric McKinney explains what he and Shane Chiasson, fellow OEM Engineer, developed using the T710 to deliver high end GPGPU capabilities with quality sound on...
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Bluesoc set for success with Dell OEM Solutions

Posted over 1 year ago

by Paul Collier
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When asked to give examples of the products Dell OEM Solutions helps to create there are so many choices, from arcade games , to medical ultrasound equipment through to payment kiosks . These are the kinds of everyday use cases that most people immediately grasp, but there are so many more. IT appliances are so entrenched in our business that its easy to overlook them for ‘shinier’ examples of the OEM group’s work, but actually the appliance space perfectly demonstrates the challenges...
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And on the other end of the spectrum — Microservers

Posted over 1 year ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Monday I wrote about the announcement of our mega-beefy, 96-core PowerEdge C6145 server, specifically geared to customers solving big problems involving huge and complex data sets in mapping, visualization, simulations and rendering. At the other end of the spectrum however are customers, such as those offering low-end dedicated hosting solutions, who are looking for systems with only enough processing and storage to serve up straight-forward, focused applications such as those for serving up...
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Latest acquisition helps Dell “bookend” the network security space

Posted over 1 year ago

by Josh Kivenko
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It’s an exciting time to be a Dell customer. The company’s recent wave of M&A activity underscores our commitment to strengthening our core capabilities and building a true solutions powerhouse. Last week’s announcement of Dell’s acquisition of Secureworks , a leader in the information-security space (see Gartner Magic Quadrant for MSSPs ) is a clear illustration of how we intend to serve IT customers with a one-stop shop for their networking needs. But that’s...
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Dell DCS unveils its 4th HPC offering in 12 months, and its a beefy one

Posted over 1 year ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Today Dell Data Center Solutions (DCS) is announcing the PowerEdge C6145, number four in our line of offerings targeted specifically at High Performance Computing. This AMD-based system, which is one of the highest performing 2U boxes out there, contains two four-socket servers for a total of 96 cores. The HPC beat goes on When we in DCS launched our PowerEdge C line almost a year ago, our first HPC-focused machine was the Intel-based C6100 . We followed it three months later with our C410x...
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I left my heart in San Francisco: Dell OEM World Tour, 2011

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by Franklin Flint
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Last week, I was frantically making arrangements to travel to San Francisco where I will be meeting with customers, partners, thought leaders, and industry pundits at the RSA Conference and an invitation-only CCI Cloud Conference . Along with my private and public meetings, I will be presenting in the NEI booth (#2539) at RSA on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon discussing trends in technology, Dell’s OEM business , and what our customers are telling us about the security market. At the CCI event...
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The backbone of your IT operations

Posted over 1 year ago

by DELL-Matt M
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A slogan made famous by our friends in Detroit - “Built Tough” - comes foremost to my mind when I think about our PowerEdge servers . Over the years, Dell has helped thousands of customers optimize workloads, accelerate the benefits of virtualization and migrate business critical applications to our x86 servers. These workhorse servers are the IT backbone of many data center operations and are counted on to power business operations day-in and day-out. We’re pleased to announce...
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Saving energy, time and money at Commerz Real

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by Kathy Mahady
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I recently took a trip to Germany to shoot a video for one of our customers, Commerz Real , a retail asset manager, so I was expecting to hear a lot about two staples of the sector: regulations and data. We’ve seen lots of press about financial services regulations over the last couple of years, but it was interesting to see what it meant in real terms for an organisation that needs to work effectively within them. Martin Mittler, one of the company’s directors, told me how Commerz...
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Dell OEM Solutions custom shop Winter 2011 update: Part 1

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by Franklin Flint
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I recently spent a week in Las Vegas, Nevada, to meet with a large group of field-based employees from Dell’s OEM Solutions Group. Late one afternoon I participated in a small Expo showing and demonstrating the capabilities of our fun organization. As I escaped my spot in the corner of the room to grab a drink just prior to the planned event, some very interesting new custom projects on display caught my eye. So, as any good technology evangelist would do, I whipped out my little digital video...
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Meet Roy Guillen — GM of Dell’s DCS group

Posted over 1 year ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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In case you’re not familiar with it, Dell’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) group has been around for nearly four years, acting as a “custom tailor” to some of the largest internet superstars and scale-out leaders, organizations like Facebook, Microsoft Azure and Lawrence Livermore national labs. A year ago DCS added to this custom capability by bringing out a line of specialized servers paired with software solutions targeted at the tier of customers right below these “biggest...
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Architecture overview: The Dell cloud solution for Web applications

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Last November, Dell announced the Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications . This turnkey offering is composed of Dell systems and Joyent Software along with a reference architecture all supported by Dell services. This solution enables a private Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment to support the development and testing of languages such as PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and Java. This solution is designed for hosters and telcos who are looking to provide public PaaS offerings. An example of this...
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Clouds are just as (in)secure as everything else!

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by Franklin Flint
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Over at ComputerWorld, Frank Hayes wrote a great piece about some simple conceptual facts about security as it relates to Cloud solutions. He makes a good point… sure, Clouds can be insecure, but so can everything else! Of course bad, lazy, rushed, or poorly defined programming can lead to freight train wide holes in online applications and corporate IT systems. Why can’t the same issues plague clouds? We need to stress the importance of good work, and Frank points that out in his...
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Customer satisfaction goes up as risk of downtime falls at Host Europe

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by Kathy Mahady
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When we talk to CIOs and IT Directors, they tell us time and time again, that their worst fear is unplanned downtime – especially at peak times. For many companies even a few minutes of infrastructure failure can be disastrous, with serious consequences to the business’s bottom line and its reputation. For hosting firms, this is important as their whole business is built upon delivering maximum uptime to their customers. When Host Europe spoke to us about protecting its environment...
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White Paper: A Revolutionary Approach to Cloud Building

Posted over 1 year ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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A while ago, as a follow-up to our white paper “Laying the Groundwork for Private and Public Clouds” Dell and Intel worked with CIO magazine to put together a Tech Dossier that picked up where our previous paper left off. “ A Revolutionary Approach to Cloud Building ” consists of an upfront white paper and four related articles: Intel Builds a Private Cloud — CIO Magazine Cloud Computing: The Future of Application Architectures — CIO Magazine How...
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DCS’s Chief Geek takes us on a tour of his mini Home Lab

Posted over 1 year ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Dell’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) group has some pretty colorful folks. One of the more interesting members is Jimmy Pike, the man IDG New’s James Niccolai refered to as the “Willy Wonka of servers.” Jimmy, the self-proclaimed “chief geek” of the DCS team is the consummate tinkerer whether that involves constructing a data center in a brief case or thinking of new ways of driving down data center power consumption by leveraging alternative forms energy. Last...
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Dell provides Ubuntu-powered IaaS-in-a-box

Posted over 1 year ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Yesterday, the announcement went out that the Dell | Canonical Enterprise Cloud , Standard Edition was out and ready for consumption. What this cloud-in-a-box allows folks to do is to set-up affordable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas)-style private clouds in their computer labs or data centers. The cool thing is that, because the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) software is compatible with Amazon Web Services EC2 and S3 services, it enables IT admins and developers to move workloads between public...
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Using cloud to achieve competitive advantage

Posted over 1 year ago

by Josh Neland
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Why should you care about cloud? Because your competitors probably aren’t paying any attention to it. Cloud is about reducing costs, right? If you talk with the CTOs and CEOs of many businesses, you will hear a similar story despite the industry they compete in. “Our products look similar to our competitors’, and now we are being force to focus on cost to expand into new markets.” Product differentiation takes investment and can be hard to measure, yet costs are easy...
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DCS systems, solutions and MDC steal show at Dell sales kick-off

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by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Every year at the end of January Dell holds a giant kick-off meeting for our enterprise and public sales forces. The event, which has been held in Las Vegas the last two years, is a four-day happening consisting of keynotes, sessions and a full-scale expo where the sales team can touch and learn first-hand about the latest and greatest in Dell solutions and offerings. Setting up Modular Data Center on the expo floor At last year’s sales kick-off, the Data Center Solutions (DCS) group...

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