The OpenStack Summit is fast approaching and that means new prognostications or maybe repeat prognostication’s about OpenStack being a bubble that is about to pop. This past May The Street put out this bubble piece on OpenStack and I just spotted this new it’s a bubble about to … READ MORE
The next code drop from Red Hat Inktank Ceph (the OpenStack storage darling) is here and there is some good stuff in this release. Dell’s private cloud solutions have included Inktank Ceph for quite some time and we are excited to bring the new capabilities in Ceph Enterprise … READ MORE
Speaking at the recent GigaOM Structure Connect event regarding OpenStack and private Clouds, Adrian Cockcroft expressed that “The marketing war for CIO mindshare has been won” – giving us further evidence that OpenStack is the recognized leading option for building open private clouds. Cockcroft also suggested that innovation … READ MORE
We have just documented an interesting real world OpenStack cloud deployment at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB). Here is a brief synopsis – the complete write up will be posted at dell.com/casestudies in a few days. is now live. on Dell.,com UAB researchers were constantly distracted from their core … READ MORE
OpenStack Summit is a premier event in the open source world and for the first time the Summit is being held in Asia – in Hong Kong – November 5 – 8, 2013. This is the 9th OpenStack Summit and Dell continues to be a key contributor and … READ MORE
Did you know that the branch office concept was developed by financial institution in Europe to support the expansion of international trade in the early 20th century? Branches typically offered full service banking and were often housed in imposing buildings, often in a neoclassical architecture style. Sounds appropriate … READ MORE
By Darpan Patel, Senior Systems Engineer, Dell Austin, USA. Today’s social and mobile trends are driving the adoption of collaboration technologies, and forcing a re-definition of the traditional workspace. Data center convergence is creating one integrated fabric where networking, storage, and compute are virtualized and seamlessly managed. … READ MORE
By Mike Leahy, Senior Systems Engineer, Dell, Limerick, Ireland. As VDI has evolved and matured, it is no longer constrained to low resolution desktops normally associated with task workers. VDI can now to deliver feature rich, high resolution, and multi monitor 3D desktops to a broad variety of … READ MORE
Dell and VMware refining the art and science of desktop virtualization Listening to our customer and driving continuous enhancements in our solutions are values both the Dell and VMware organizations share in common. We are continuing to build and refine our joint solutions for end user computing with VMware – … READ MORE
In case you missed it, we have improved our best-selling Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DVS) Simplified Appliance with a number of new enhancements …. We’ve added a bunch of updates including factory integrating Citrix VDI-in-Box version 5.2 software along with updating to the latest hypervisors – namely VMware … READ MORE
It is sometimes hard to accommodate the wide variety of personal tastes and preferences that exist in our world – even when it comes to the done-ness of your breakfast toast! It seems that even the simplest of appliances, the everyday toaster, gives us a degree of control … READ MORE
VMworld 2012 is almost upon us, and the Dell desktop virtualization solutions group (DVS) is leading Dell’s presence at the event in San Francisco. On Aug. 20 we took the wrapper off a BUNCH of enhancements and expanded our cloud client computing offerings including announcing an array of … READ MORE