You might think that after two full days of keynotes, breakout sessions, events and meetings at Oracle OpenWorld it would be hard to excite a convention hall full of business and IT leaders, but Michael Dell had just the right formula with: A compelling vision - Redirect IT dollars from management and maintenance to innovation and improving the business by building an Efficient Enterprise; Big commitments for quantifiable results like working to take $200 billion of inefficiency out of the $1.2 trillion
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DELL-Greg W
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10-13-2009
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Oracle OpenWorld is in full swing and things are exciting here in San Francisco. If you’re here, be sure to stop by the booth and say hi, see a demo, listen in on a presentation, enter to win one of the new Dell Latitude Z portable notebooks and catch one of the many breakout sessions with Dell. Also be sure not to miss Michael Dell’s keynote Tuesday, October 13 at 8:30 AM in Moscone North, Hall D. One of our focuses at Dell is to help people plan for an Oracle deployment. If you fall
Virtualization has become a fully mainstream idea, talked about in circles from the IT admin all the way up to the CEO’s office, but there are still a lot of people out there that I talk to that just have their toes in the water, or are waiting to start or to expand their virtualization efforts. If you aren’t fully tuned into this concept, virtualization can provide many benefits to organizations for increasing availability, enhancing disaster recovery, reducing costs around equipment
Data deduplication is a topic being asked about by our customers, and being discussed in the media , more and more. Would you like to know Dell’s take on it? In the video below, Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager of Dell's storage business , discusses Dell’s view on the future of this technology and what we are doing to help deliver solutions to meet your data management needs. (If you'd like to download the slides in this video, they are available on Dell's
Here at Dell we’re getting excited about heading out next week to EMC World in Orlando. We have a bunch of great things going on, and I wanted to share them so that you can make your plans. For those of you that can’t be there, you can still follow what is going on by checking in here through the week and by following me on Twitter and Dell_Storage on Twitter and becoming a fan of Dell Storage on Facebook. In addition, besides the myriad learning opportunities, EMC has some very cool
When I talk to customers about storage challenges and technologies, it is always interesting to get their thoughts on one of the areas that has gotten a lot of attention over the last couple of years: flash or solid state drives (SSD). Invariably, this discussion’s first stop is “those things are ridiculously expensive, right?” Thankfully, the discussion is moving past this initial reaction and looking at SSD as an entirely different beast that should be evaluated, not in a $/GB