The highlight of the Dell booth here at OpenWorld is definitely "the wall." Attendees and other exhibitors are walking up, many sort of timidly, scoping it out, reading other entries so far; it's a great conversation piece. The entries themselves, as more and more folks have come by, have provided interesting ideas and insight into the "state of green," as it were, of those attending and presenting at the conference. The ideas range from the personal -- "Better
There were three keynotes today at OpenWorld; this TreeHugger has been busy enough with surveying the eco-scene to have missed the keynotes from the previous days, so was interested in taking the green pulse of today's addresses in hopes that it could offer a glimpse into where green flies on the radars of some of the technology world's heavy hitters. The addresses were given by Jonathan Schwartz, President and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc., Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Inc., and Larry
Sean Donahue thinks everyone should think about going green. That's what he's doing here at OpenWorld: spreading the good green word about Dell's environmental commitment and helping customers, partners and other businesses alike connect to find better ways to help green the planet. We caught up with Sean to chat for a few minutes about "the wall," Dell's growing commitment to the planet and what it means to go green an OpenWorld. TreeHugger: You've spent a lot of time
Data centers and mega-storage isn't always considered a very sexy "green" implementation, but as the digital world continues to grow and grow, is really on the tip of the tongues at many substantial IT departments. Scaling up often requires more and more real estate, cooling capacity, and money, but it doesn't have to, according to Compellent Technologies . They've deployed their Storage Center SAN (that's Storage Area Network) that utilizes technologies like Automated Tiered
Some of you may have already heard of the Dell server announcements coming out of Oracle Open World this week. I thought I would take a minute to share some of the details with you. On Monday Dell announced the new PowerEdge R900 , R200 and T105 servers as well as updates to its existing PowerEdge 1950, 2950 and 2900 servers. Dell also recently announced OpenManage 5.3, the latest version of Dell's system management tools answering the call to simplify systems management (more on that later)