The day that many of us have been waiting for has come: the official launch of Microsoft Windows 7 and general availability (GA) for consumer customers. What this means is that PC manufacturers like Dell can begin shipping systems with Windows 7 on them. Of course, large corporations and other enterprises have had beta programs in place for some time now so last week's announcement was very much focused on consumers' use of Windows 7. Microsoft hosted events in New York and elsewhere, and
Sorry, just couldn't help myself with that headline - just made me think of the boys from Texas, ZZ Top . If you opened up your Web browser today and looked at PC World, you would have seen they published today their PC World 100: Best Products of 2009 . This is one of the lists I look at each year to see what products have been launched and the perceived impact of them on the public. I was very pleased to see that Dell's Latitude Z600 laptop was the top-ranked laptop coming in at No. 6.
Dell hosted its first roundtable with higher education customers in the Middle East today at Gitex Technology Week in Dubai. Josh Claman, vice president and general manager of Dell’s EMEA Public business, and Mathew Boice, general manager of SunGuard, took time out to discuss the key education trends and themes they heard from customers. John Coulston, Middle East marketing manager, moderates their discussion. Have a look. [View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0k14OVoDxk:550:0]
Stephen Murdoch, Dell’s VP and GM of Large Enterprise in EMEA, opened Gitex this week with an address on the Efficient Enterprise, highlighting how IT can give organizations a competitive advantage. Key technologies such as virtualization, storage optimization and ITaaS can help CIOs cut overall data center costs. Check out clips from his address as well as comments from a few of Dell’s Middle East customers about the projects they are working on to improve the overall efficiency of their
The Dell Middle East team kicked off Gitex , the world’s third-largest IT trade show, this week in Dubai with a bang, demonstrating its continued confidence in the U.A.E., the wider Gulf region and the Middle East. Check out what Dell and our partners are doing at the show. [View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-wwL2Uwax4:550:0]
Much like the game my kids have always loved, Where's Waldo , on a daily basis we get the pleasure of trying to keep track of our newest colleague, Barton George, Dell's cloud evangelist. He spent some time at OpenSource World/CloudWorld/Next Generation Data Center , which previously went by a much simpler name of LinuxWorld, and appears to have interviewed the entire left side of the menu (read: reference to Steve Guttenberg in the 1982 film Diner ). He's posted those interviews on his