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EMC World – standards?
Tucci and Maritz at EMC World 2009I’ve been attending the annual EMC World conference in Orlando this week. A few early comments, there has been a massive 64,000ft shift to cloud computing in the...
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Nano, Nano – Serving you on 15-Watts
The Dell XS11-VX8 ServerThis is something I was asked about a few times at EMC World, power and form factors for servers. Here is the latest server from the Dell Data Center Solutions group (DCS). It’s...
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Dell, Cloud, and PowerEdge C
We have a raft of announcements coming out today, possibly the most significant amongst these are the new PowerEdge C-Series servers. More like custom build Data Center Solutions Servers, they feature...
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Last weeks roundup
Yep, the Texas Rodeo has left town(literally it started leaving Monday), and so it’s time for a roundup. I don’t usually post link lists(yes, my old mainframe chums will smile quietly at that) but...
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Cote on Consumer to Enterprise
REST Interface slide from Cote presentation Over on his people over process blog, Redmonk Analyst, Michael Cote, has what is a great idea, a rehersal of an upcoming presentation including slides and...
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Link love: 5 Lessons from the cloud
My peer, Andy Rhodes, Director of Datacenter Solutions gave this presentation as a keynote at hostingcon here in Austin on Tuesday. Thanks to Barton George for the original link and summary.
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VIS from the top
Michael Dell recently spoke at the 2010 Gartner conference. One of the questions he was asked was about the evolutionary and revolutionary approaches to IT, most recently amplified by the cloud...
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Hot News: Paint drys
I’m guessing I’m not so different from most people, the first time someone explains groundhog day, you laugh, but don’t believe what you are seeing. It’s kinda “n’ah, your kidding right!” but some take...
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Getting the ball moving
It’s getting interesting now as we start VIS 1.1 planning and design, while also working on the technology evaluations for VIS 2.0. At the same time seeing VIS 1.0 coming toward the end of it’s...
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New VIS Blog/web sites
A couple of new VIS related web sites to be aware of. First up there’s a new converged infrastructure web site on dell.com – It’s a great launch point to get an overview and links to the complete space...
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Anyone home?
I got an email today that indirectly reminded me I hadn’t posted for a while and they wondered what I was upto. mea culpa. Actually I’ve changed direction for a while and am busy working on a few...
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openstack in Boston
Fidelity and Dell are hosting the the second in a series of Openstack User Group meetings in Boston on November 29th. They’ve been running in Austin for a while and they have been growing in size and...
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Simplicity – It’s a confidence trick
My friend, foil and friendly adversary James Governor posted an blog entry today entitled “What if IBM Software Got Simple?“ It’s an interesting and appealing topic. It was in some respects what got in...
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Dell for Web Development
The web dev. focussed team here at Dell have recently widened their web page offering to add some of the software and solutions work they are doing. Barton George has also recently published a 3-part...
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Dell Software Group
Michael Dell announced this morning that John Swainson will join Dell to head up our new software group. John was one of the key executives at IBM in the creation and drive behind IBM’s Application and...
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Eventually consistent
Those interested in the current debate about Big Data, and massively parallel systems, Hadoop et al might want to take a look at this Eventually consistent post I just wrote for me new blog where I’m...
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DrJCL joins the blogosphere
I’m sure some of my former IBM colleagues will be confused by the JCL reference, but I’m not. I’m delighted to see a new blog from Craig Lowery here at Dell. Craig has been instrumental in the...
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Back to the future
This week Dell announced 3x major acquisitions, Wyse, Clerity Solutions, and Make Technologies. These acquisitions, once complete, will offer an awesome combination to move apps and customers to the...
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Dell Software and Big Data
The Quest Software R&D integration is moving apace, 25-days into the acquisition and since announcement I’ve now managed to visit 14 R&D locations. I’ve been impressed by the people, many of...
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