February, 2012

Inside Enterprise IT

Strategic insights on using IT to achieve business goals
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    Dell KACE and Dell SecureWorks enable organizations achieve and maintain PCI compliance

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    According to a recent study on PCI Compliance trends data breaches steadily increased in the last two years but organizations that were PCI Compliant had significantly fewer breaches than those that were not. And yet only 12% of the organizations believed that PCI Compliance reduced data loss or theft. Clearly there is lack of awareness about how important and critical PCI Compliance is, which seems to be the biggest factor against the adoption of PCI Compliance standards. Any organization that...
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    Dell vStart: Accelerating Virtualization and, now, Dell Private Cloud

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    Dell and Microsoft aligned for your success

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    I am happy to announce new and updated joint solutions from Dell and Microsoft that can revolutionize the way you run all aspects of your IT infrastructure and operate your business. Over the last 25 years, Dell and Microsoft have worked together to develop innovative complete solutions that combine the best of our hardware, software and services. We often end up with something much better than the sum of the parts. Much of this joint innovation comes from the upgraded power and sophistication...
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    Introducing Simplicity into VDI with DVS Simplified

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    Don’t you love it when complex things magically solve themselves if you will it to happen? That is exactly what is happening to desktop virtualization. Until now, exploring desktop virtualization might have been seen challenging for many organizations. You hear the reasons all the time, it’s too costly, too complex, yet the benefits of virtualizing desktops are undeniable and you want in. DVS Simplified, the latest and greatest addition to the Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions...
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    10 for 10: EqualLogic PS6110 and PS4110 Series Arrays

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    This year is the 10-year anniversary of both iSCSI and 10GbE technology, and the team here at Dell Storage is bringing 10 new Dell™ EqualLogic™ iSCSI SAN 10GbE arrays to the marketplace! I’d say that is a “perfect 10” in style for marking these two significant events in high-tech history. (For more information on today’s announcement and how Dell is delivering the power to do more faster with PowerEdge ™ Servers, Force10 ™ networking, and EqualLogic...
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    Dell’s Virtual Network Architecture: Our Point of View

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    It’s time to re-think networking. Today, companies are faced with an explosion of data growth. Applications have been migrated from laptops to “the cloud,” while an increasingly mobile workforce demands ubiquitous, secure access to all resources from any device. The proliferation of cloud, virtualization, mobility & traffic growth requires that businesses have to become more agile and flexible just to keep up. This requires a new approach. Dell’s Virtual Network...
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    Brodart Achieves Rapid Virtualization Benefits with vStart

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    Brodart Co., a Pennsylvania-based library solutions company that provides everything from shelf-ready books to electronic ordering systems and furniture, was seeking to upgrade to a virtual environment. With aging servers, they needed to get this done, but just having accomplished a major IT technology implementation they were unwilling to take on another lengthy project. After carefully evaluating various offerings from different providers, Brodart Co. felt that the Dell vStart 100 best met their...
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    Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) helps transform Clemson University’s IT and create a cloud-ready infrastructure

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    Clemson University (Clemson), with 19,000 students and 1,400 faculty, is a Tier 1 research university that has a partnership with BMW for Automotive Research (CUICAR), develops and hosts the state’s Medicaid system, and provides services to state organizations. Clemson found that its many constituent users wanted to access their applications in a capacity-on-demand model, while holding down the costs of IT support and ensuring disaster recovery protection through the lifecycle of their applications...
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    vStart: Helping you achieve your business results, virtually!

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    Since its launch back in April 2011, vStart, Dell’s pre-engineered and pre-built virtualization solution has found a home in companies big and small and across multiple geographies Whether it is a multi-billion Tier 1 auto parts provider in Ohio or a small law firm in Germany or even a mid-sized Telecom in Lebanon, our customers are leveraging the expertize of Dell and the versatility of the vStart solutions to achieve their desired business outcomes. As we get more and more customers, we are...
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    Managing and making IT Service Delivery more efficient with VIS Creator

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    If you’re an IT Director trying to deliver resources more quickly to the business while somehow managing the lifecycle of those resources in a secure and cost-effective way, you’re not alone. In IDC’s July 2011 U.S. Private IT Cloud Systems Management Survey, a whopping 87% of respondents said that controlling IT capital costs was one of their top five goals, with 78% saying the same about controlling IT operations costs. So, while you might not be the only one with these problems...
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    Consumerization and digitization impacting the work world

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    The notion of the “ Consumerization of IT ” is top of mind for many prognosticators these days. Discussions about the changing world of work and the forces impacting IT quickly point to consumerization as a prime driver, and Dell put out a good paper on the topic last year. While the number of devices and types of devices being used is rapidly increasing, and users are pressuring IT to enable personal devices in the workplace. The notion of consumerization while valuable to help illustrate...
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    Hadoop: talking to the leaders, Insights and Glossary

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    As one of the world’s five fastest-growing open source technologies , Hadoop is making a big impact by allowing us to derive greater value from big data. This week I posted on bartongeorge.net a series of video interviews I conducted with Cloudera, Facebook, Accel Partners, Battery Ventures, Splunk, and many more filmed at Hadoop World in November. I also jumped in front of the camera to share what Dell is up to with big data, open source and developers. For background on Hadoop, check out...
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    Menzies Aviation protects its customers from disruption

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    Long before we built the first aeroplane, we dreamt of flight. In Greek myth, Icarus flew too close to the sun with wings made of feathers and wax. In the 1400s, Leonardo studied birds and designed flying machines. And, centuries later, Bill Gates described the aeroplane as, “the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas and values together.” With a great deal of innovation and sophisticated technology – and a vast supporting infrastructure – we’ve made...
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    Enriching the service desk user experience with Bomgar and KACE integration

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    According to Gartner, the service desk market is highly commoditized with most products offering 90 to 95 percent similar functionality. Not surprisingly, the key differentiating factors that set service desk products apart are ease-of-use and integration with complimentary solutions. Customers that have disparate solutions that are not part of an integrated experience often face inefficiencies due to wasteful redundancies and time-consuming manual processes. So integration and ease-of-use can directly...
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    When green policies make real business sense – lowering costs and boosting performance

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    Global warming. Everyone is familiar with the concept and few would dispute the evidence. The business world has made strong commitments to tackling the problem by reducing carbon emissions. But some companies are accused of ‘green washing’ – implying that they’re trying to win favour by appearing to be environmentally friendly. The South African National Biodiversity Institute SANBI) is not one of them. SANBI champions biodiversity across South Africa and is committed...
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    Managing IT service delivery in private and hybrid clouds with VIS Creator

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    If you’re struggling to get your complex, inflexible IT systems to deliver on business needs at the speed of demand, you’re not alone. In IDC’s July 2011 U.S. Private IT Cloud Systems Management Survey , 91% of respondents reported that improving business agility is their top goal. Faced with flat or reduced budgets, many organizations have considered cloud solutions to expedite IT service delivery in order to meet business demands more quickly and efficiently. But where do you...
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    Nuclear Data Explosion

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    We are on the verge of a nuclear data explosion. On Christmas day alone this year, 7 million combined Android and iPhones were activated, along with 240 million app downloads! The number of angry birds hurled that day must have been in the bizzilions. Staying on top of industry trends like this is of course a key part of my job, and looking through recent data, I’ve uncovered ten stats that reinforce the idea that device proliferation, increased spectrum and rise in wireless subscriptions...
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