Stephen Spector's Blog Posts

Written by : Deepak Kanwar and Stephen Spector As organizations continue to move up the virtualization maturity ladder, they are looking at private clouds to bring greater agility and efficiency to their environment. By pooling IT assets and exposing...

The addition of new customers to the Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Data Center Service provides an opportunity for the promotion of interesting ways that Dell’s public/hybrid cloud is leveraged for the maximization of efficiency, global reach, and...

For those of you in Austin, TX on May 15 at 6pm I suggest you come by the Austin Cloud User Group for some free pizza and excellent discussion of the Dell public/hybrid vCloud including a demonstration of GreenButton technology; direct from Hollywood...

Dell today announced a 60 day promotional offer available by the end of May for customers looking to move their SAP solutions into a secure, enterprise class hybrid and public cloud. Leveraging the Dell vCloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service, customers...

Morphlabs is a recognized leader in converged infrastructure solutions for the Enterprise. Our flagship products, the mCloud Racks and mCloud Data Center Unit (DCU) , pre-integrate hyperscale hardware with best-of-breed software to deliver the most price...

I am pleased to announce that the Dell vCloud Datacenter Service is now available to Dell customers in the Canadian market. This is a small step in the 2012 global rollout of the Dell vCloud to provide customers regional and global reach for cloud access...

Joint Blog Post: Matthias Schorer, Cloud Leader for Enterprise CEMEA VMware ( @mschorer ) & Stephen Spector, Cloud Evangelist, Dell ( @SpectorAtDell ) Stephen Spector: I have asked Matthias Schorer from VMware in Central Europe to offer his...

I am pleased to announce a new open source cloud event hosted by the Linux Foundation, CloudOpen . Dell has been an active participant in the formation of this new event and I look forward to seeing the open source community come together to focus exclusively...

As enterprise companies look to cloud computing for solutions to their existing complex IT dilemmas it becomes critical for cloud providers to ensure that offerings are hardened and ready to meet the customer’s demands. Many of these companies are...

Gratifón S.A , a telecommunications company in Panama has chosen the Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service to enable their innovative PC-based kiosks to support free VOIP calls with video-based advertising. As detailed in the newly published...

Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET Duration: 60 minutes Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/639682720 In this live, limited-registration webinar, Massimo Pezzini, VP & Gartner Fellow, Gartner Research will...

Last week, Ricky Santos, VP Dell Global Cloud Services traveled to Belgium to deliver a keynote at the 2012 European Cloud Computing Conference . In addition to the keynote and meetings with the EMEA Government Affairs team, Ricky also participated on...

The cloud computing marketplace continues its rapid acceleration in terms of new offerings as well as innovative solutions. One such area that is just getting ready to explode is the private/hybrid platform-as-a-service (PaaS) model. I recently had the...

As most followers of the cloud marketplace are aware, 2012 is looking to be the year of the Hybrid Cloud . With a large segment of the cloud user-base already running private clouds these customers are looking for a methodology to experiment in the public...

As I mentioned a few weeks back in “ Digging Deep into Dell Boomi ” I planned to come back and write about the various topologies available to deploy Dell Boomi Atoms, or integration run-times. For more details on the Dell Boomi solution you...

John Igoe, Executive Director of Cloud and Big Data Solutions for Dell, announced at World Hosting Days the immediate availability of the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution for Europe and Asia. Included with all Dell OpenStack deployments is the Dell...

Over the last few months, I have been busy promoting the Dell vCloud Datacenter Service ( blog , blog , blog , blog ) as our first public cloud offering currently available in the United States with global expansion planned for 2012. While the details...

I recently did a review of all the cloud blogs and news sites that I was following on my RSS reader and added about 15 to 20 more sites to broaden my cloud information stream. With this new massive influx of cloud computing information I immediately became...

Last week, I blogged on the new Trend Micro encryption technology added to Dell’s Cloud with vCloud Datacenter Service to enhance our security features for enterprise customers . I want to continue on the security theme by looking at how Dell is...

Last week, Dell and Trend Micro jointly announced the addition of Trend Micro SecureCloud into the Dell vCloud Datacenter Service and I posted a general blog on this solution on Direct2Dell . In this post, I want to describe the solution in more detail...

Mark Hinkle, Director of Community at Citrix Systems and I recently recorded an audio interview on the Cloudstack open source cloud infrastructure project. CloudStack is open source software written in java that is designed to deploy and manage large...

Last week on Direct2Dell, I posted an overview of the Dell Boomi Application Integration solution allowing existing legacy applications to seamlessly integrate with state of the art SaaS solutions via an easy to use drag and drop wizard. In this post...

This post was jointly written by Stephen Spector , Dell Cloud Evangelist & Dave Asprey , Trend Micro Virtualization and Cloud Evangelist The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time. — Bruce Schneier In order for...

Does your company run any of the following applications: Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, ADP or other internal enterprise software packages? If so, what are your plans when employees start demanding new software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications such...

I recently published a Dell Crowbar overview blog post covering the history of the project, its purpose and a variety of links for more information. There is also a nice post from last October on this site on Crowbar from Peter Tsai. I wanted to provide...