Yesterday, we launched our most energy-efficient desktop in Dell's history - the Optiplex 960 . We believe it's a product that can make a real difference for businesses that care about environmental responsibility. A good example is Robertson Homes, a Florida building company where a Dell "green makeover" saved the family-owned business 84 percent in energy costs compared to the previous computer systems. This isn't unusual. It's typical. Going green doesn't just make
One of the key attributes of the new Optiplex line is its energy efficiency. For example, when compared to older systems in a customers’ environment – say the Optiplex 170L from about 4 years ago – the energy savings can be up to 84 percent (actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability). In fact, we just did a green makeover with Robertson Homes , a green-builder based outside of Orlando, Florida, where we replaced aging Opti 170Ls and
Last week, Gartner put out a list of 20 ways IT execs can slash expenses . You’ll see some similarities with what Michael addressed in his post , and many of these topics -like virtualization, storage, VoIP and video conferencing, software licensing and management- we’ll hit on in much more detail in future posts. Over the past several months we've addressed many of these topics on our other blogs ( Inside IT , Small Business , Channel ) which we will share again here to help you
To build on the advice Dell’s CIO and IT leaders shared with Michael as part of his post last Friday, I sat down with a former IT Executive who now runs Dell’s IT Simplification consulting practice. Here’s what Kris Fitzgerald had to say. As a former IT Executive , anything else you would add to the list of how CIOs are responding in today’s economic climate? As a CIO, you must always continue to look at items that enhance business value. Lowering costs and improving agility
There are a lot of people out there that see a business computer as just an elaborate version of a consumer computer, especially when it comes to small businesses. But, when enhancing productivity, flexibility and security becomes a top priority, small businesses need something more powerful than just a desktop or laptop – they need a server to help manage their business. When newly entering the land of servers, you need to know three things: when to buy a server , what to buy , and what to
Yesterday we announced that Dell has reached its goal to be carbon neutral ahead of schedule and blogged about several ways to make your business greener. But, for businesses with only a few PCs, a printer and maybe a server, is it possible to save that much money? If so, does it really matter? According to a study by Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are increasingly seeing the value of going green. Vittesh Kalambi, AMI's New York-based Research