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

    17 May 2012
    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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    Day 3 at VMworld

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    I can't believe it's already Day 3 at VMworld here in Las Vegas. I'm blogging this during a session just to give readers at home a little taste of what's going on here. There are over 20,000 people at this show. I've run into just about everyone I know from the storage industry, and met lots of very interesting people. The conversations have been amazing, lots of VDI talk, visualization talk, and talk about business operations. The Dell Tech Center guys have been blogging about...
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    Dell OEM Solutions Technology Evangelists explain system redundancy on InTech

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    Franklin Flint and I are both Technology Evangelists for Dell OEM Solutions responsible for generating thought leadership around technology trends and providing technical guidance and strategy for the overall business. With my software/client background, I covered the software architecture side of system redundancy with a discussion about REST, clustering and shared storage, while Franklin covered the hardware side with a thorough discussion of blades, memory and power. While the focus on this article...
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    Dell World, the Unconference?

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    This one's different. Think intimate and high touch. On a call yesterday, I asked an IT manager from a well-known New York technology company if he planned to attend Dell World . He answered, "love Austin, cool town, but I'm burned out on those huge events. Even when they have a great keynote, there’s no opportunity to engage." I said, "Wow, that’s so not what Dell World is about. Technology leaders from around the world told us they want a place where they...
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    Dell OEM Solutions rapid growth in Asia / Pacific & Japan

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    Franklin Flint is a Technology Evangelist for Dell OEM Solutions that travels extensively throughout the world talking to customers and meeting with our regional teams. He recently returned from the Dell OEM APJ annual meeting excited to share his experience. While last year he talked about the need for OEM support in the markets of China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea to name a few, this year he reports on their phenomenal growth of the team, regional structure and their continued focus on direct customer...
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    The Sophisticated CIO “down under”

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    When we hear of Australia, many of us envision a big country filled with kangaroos, koalas, and rugged folk who say “no worries” all the time. But there is a lot more to this vast and fascinating land as I found out on a recent trip there. I spent a week in a number of Australian cities meeting with two dozen CIOs from public and large enterprise companies to discuss our enterprise solutions. Australia is an advanced and developed country but even then I was surprised by how advanced...
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    Cut data center energy bills, but maximize performance [infographic]

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    You don’t need the prospect of peak oil to tell you that Green IT is an important consideration for your business. Fuel costs—affected by supply, demand and political turmoil—are volatile. But focusing on what you can change, your consumption, can increase your control of your bottom line. Using efficient power and cooling technologies is one way to lower data center costs. What’s not to love about smaller energy bills that lead to savings you can put to better use elsewhere...
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    States follow the money into the cloud

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    With the economy still slumping, states desperate for tax revenue have started looking at the IT equivalent of books and CDs: the data in the cloud . According to a recent Bloomberg story , the debate centers on whether firms that sell software and data accessed through the cloud are peddling a taxable good or a nontaxable service. One apt analogy likened cloud-based services to things that you might find at an office supply store, according to states’ definitions of taxable goods that consider...
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    What’s up? Dell is. Like up in the cloud.

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    There is a lot of noise coming from Dell these days regarding its desktop virtualization solutions. And for good reason. Remember some time ago when Dell announced a virtual desktop-as-a-service offering called vDaaS? Well, the moment is here. Dell has been working with major customers to pilot its virtual desktop-as-a service offer with great reception and gearing towards readiness. Dell Virtual Desktop-as-a-Service (vDaaS) is the could-based option of the Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions...
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    The importance of efficiency and green IT

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    In case you missed these blog posts earlier in the week, here’s a quick recap. On Tuesday, we ran an infographic about green IT (courtesy of SEO.com ). It sketches out the potential benefits of more efficient infrastructure by breaking down just how much things we don’t even think about have an impact on the environment. You know those YouTube clips of dogs climbing trees that your friends forward you? Well, it turns out that YouTube can spend up to $470 million in energy costs annually...
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    What Dell’s purchase of Force10 means for next-generation data centers

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    Dell ’s acquisition of Force10 , a top networking vendor, has broad implications for users of next-generation data centers. Why? Because the deal paves the way for an open solution for IT managers who want the optimal performance of an integrated infrastructure while not being locked into using single vendor. As more and more companies and government agencies move data to the cloud, they have to balance the practical considerations of working with the infrastructure they already have and...
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    A Data Management MANIFESTO

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    DATA GROWTH - It's a politically charged issue The US Government may have come up with a last-minute resolution to avoid credit default but based on feedback from the IT leaders I’ve been talking to, there’s another serious debt crisis to resolve- The Storage Debt Crisis. Data growth in the Virtual Era appears so extreme that many companies are experiencing significant pain keeping up with primary data storage costs. But, unlike for our government, continuously throwing more...
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    Some Time with Michael Cote from the Software Team

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    I just saw this video interview of ex-Redmonk analyst Michael Cote in a blog post from Barton George . Michael recently joined Dell's corporate strategy software group from Red Monk where he was an analyst. I've blogged about Dell's ongoing transition from a hardware company to solutions provider a couple of times now, and it's clear that software will continue to play an integral role in the kinds of solutions we'll be able to offer our customers now and in the future. Though...
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    WRAP-UP: Dell Storage announcement - EqualLogic and VMware vSphere 5 tools

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    This Monday (8/22), Dell announced a ton of new offerings for EqualLogic and tools for VMware vSphere 5. You saw the social media press release , right? In case you missed any of the links, here is what was announced: EqualLogic EqualLogic PS4100 Series EqualLogic PS6100 Series EqualLogic FS7500 EqualLogic software enhancements SAN HQ 2.2 Host Integration Tools (HIT)) for Microsoft 4.0 VMware vSphere 5 tools Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for...
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    Approaches to successful provisioning in the private cloud

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    In the first Q-and-A session of this series with Ganesh Padmanabhan, product marketing manager at Dell virtualization solutions, we discussed on-demand services in the cloud. Now, in this installment we take a closer look at provisioning. For more information on provisioning in the cloud, tune in to E2 Radio on Thursday, Sept. 15 at 2 p.m. EDT. Host Curtis Franklin and guests from Dell and Intel will delve into thin provisioning in the cloud. In terms of on-demand self-service in the private...
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    The release of Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 means great things for our customers

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    What’s so special about the release of Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 ? Well, there is plenty to be excited about. For example, the new Personal vDisk technology in XenDesktop 5.5 makes it much easier for customers to deploy highly personalized virtual desktops to any user more efficiently. The enterprise wins and the end users win. Also, with XenDesktop 5.5 users can have apps with rich voice, video and multimedia with support to more than one billion end user devices, that’s right, take...
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    v0dgeball - get ready for the Cloudbunnies!

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    We've heard from some of the other teams ( EMC vSpecialists , XaaS Badgers ) and some of the fans ( @sthulin , @mjbrender ). Now it's time to hear from the BEST vendor neutral v0dgeball teams at VMworld this year (sorry vSquirrels): the Cloudbunnies. Who are we? We are a group of women from six different technical companies. The idea came from Caroline Orloff, now of EMC Consulting. Instead of fretting that women are under-represented at big tech conferences, why not round up some...
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    The hurdles on the federal government’s path toward the cloud

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    A recent New York Times story gave a thought-provoking overview on how a leaner, more Internet-centric future for government is being met with caution and why. Now that the architect of a new policy has departed, officials must find their own way forward. During his 2½-year tenure as the White House chief information officer, Vivek Kundra (who’s speaking at Dell World in October) devised the federal “Cloud First” policy . It encourages the use of cloud services for new...
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    Dell EqualLogic Host Software: What’s new and why should I care?

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    Posting on behalf of: Shanky Chandra Gowri, Product Marketing Manager for EqualLogic. “What is EqualLogic Host Software and why should I care?” – A question that I have been asked by so many people, customers and colleagues included. If I got a dollar for every time I answered this question, I would be a millionaire by now… My job as Product Marketing Manager for EqualLogic got more challenging when Dell brought in more awesomeness to the...
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    How efficient data centers can shrink companies’ carbon footprints - and costs [Infographic]

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    The growth of cloud computing and the use of data centers is supposed to be a good thing, right? Well, not necessarily -- when you consider how the Internet’s massive carbon footprint is expanding along with them. The Internet accounts for an estimated 5% of global electricity consumption, and, with more and more people and companies going online every day, that’s steadily increasing the size of its energy footprint. That’s bad for the planet and bad for business. But making...
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    Ramping up with the next-generation of EqualLogic storage arrays

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    Posting on behalf of: Sarah Cook, PG Marketing Outbound Product Consultant for Storage with Ryan Steed, CoC Relationship Product Management Having both joined Dell Storage in early March of this year from non-traditional career paths, Ryan and I sat down recently to talk about our immersion in the world of Dell EqualLogic Storage. When we joined our respective teams, both the EqualLogic hardware and software core teams were running full tilt to launch new firmware ( EqualLogic Firmware v5...
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    Get a feel for speed, agility in the private cloud

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    As the amount and type of data— not to mention applications— proliferate in the enterprise, the allure of private cloud grows. This is the first of two Q-and-A sessions with Ganesh Padmanabhan, product marketing manager at Dell virtualization solutions, in which we address the benefits and challenges inherent in moving to a private cloud infrastructure. What is the value proposition of the private cloud to customers? Padmanabhan: The cloud computing paradigm changes the way businesses...
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    How virtualization can save the day for industrial automation products

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    What do a warehouse, a factory, a power plant, the ocean coast, and Afghanistan have in common? They can be brutally hard on equipment. Corrosive vapor can make quick work of a bare motherboard. An accidental forklift collision can destroy a vital server. Freezing temperatures can cause brittle components to pop right off their seatings. For my latest contribution to Electric Design News , I’ve highlighted the trend of using thinclient and virtualization in factories and process control...
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    Travel experts create IT without borders

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    Germany, Austria and Switzerland unite. No, it’s not an unexpected step for the European Union – this is a move by STA Travel to consolidate its IT infrastructure from three locations onto a single, common platform. The travel specialists wanted to promote consistency in the business and needed the capability to roll out solutions to its 460 users – fast. STA Travel is one of the world’s largest tour operators for students and those who want to explore beyond the beaten...
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    Behind the Scenes at Lollapalooza with Dell Precision workstations

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    Wow, what an amazing event. Watching the Foo Fighters with tens of thousands of other fans jumping in thick mud during a heavy downpour was an experience I will never forget. Lollapalooza in Chicago was nothing short of incredible for me because: I got to see some awesome bands (ColdPlay, Eminem, Foo Fighters - among many others) Despite the showers, the 83 degree weather in Chicago was a heck of a lot better than the 103 degree weather in Austin Seeing Dell Precision workstations working...
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    Crowbar: A tool for speeding up open source cloud installations

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    In my view, tools help us use technology in more effective ways. That’s one reason that tools like Seesmic and Tweetdeck are so widely adopted among Twitter users. Speaking of tools, Dell folks developed a modular software tool called Crowbar that helps ease the process of installation and configuration of open source cloud software. Barton George blogged more about it over on his blog. If you’re interested in learning more about Crowbar, click on the image below to see Barton’s...
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