The increasing sophistication and the ever-growing amounts of industry-standard information technology devices (servers, storage, clients) has created an imbalance in the cost structure for IT. Companies spend an inordinate amount of time on the management of IT assets and money for other people just to run the infrastructure. This leaves precious little for what keeps their businesses competitive and growing. It doesn’t have to be that way. Dell and Microsoft are helping companies of all sizes
Today, VMware announced its new vSphere 4 platform at an event in Palo Alto. Michael Dell joined VMware CEO Paul Maritz on stage, along with other industry luminaries including EMC’s Joe Tucci, Cisco’s John Chambers and Intel’s Pat Gelsinger, to participate in the announcement of the industry’s first cloud operating system. With vSphere, VMware aims to simplify cloud infrastructure with IT services for both internal and external clouds. What made this an interesting announcement
Partnerships are important to Dell. You hear us say that Dell is an open standards and non-proprietary based data center solution provider a lot. But, what does this really mean? It means that we are focused on doing what it takes to help our customers simplify IT by providing technologies and solutions that meet customers’ very specific business needs. And partners are the cornerstone of this. Last week, Dell announced an extension of its partnership with Cisco that complements Dell server