Dell announces new agency agreement with WPP valued at $4.5 billion in agency billings over three years Dell is announcing today that it will partner with WPP, who will join Dell to create a new global integrated marketing and communications agency. Together with the WPP agency, Dell is … READ MORE
If I've learned anything from surfing customers' blogs over the last year and a half, I've learned one thing: customers do have a voice at Dell. When you meet people for the first time, usually the conversation drifts towards what each of you "do for a living". When … READ MORE
Last month Dell went on record saying that Information Technology (IT) is too complex, and we have launched significant programs to simplify it. The reactions from the marketplace – especially customers, analysts and the media – have been overwhelmingly positive. This is certainly a ‘moon shot' kind of … READ MORE
Michael just made a surprise appearance at the Sun keynote. After inviting Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz to join the ReGeneration, he stopped by the eco-innovation booth for a 1×1 with TreeHugger's Collin Dunn. Michael's contribution to the wall: "Join the ReGeneration." UPDATE 11/15: In his sixth Oracle OpenWorld … READ MORE
Over the past year we have demonstrated our commitment to delivering more customer choice and listening to customers: We've added Ubuntu to consumer systems We'llsoon offer SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on commercial OptiPlex systems in China We'veworked with Red Hat to simplify the migration from legacy applications to … READ MORE
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 … READ MORE
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, … READ MORE
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 … READ MORE
We've seen a lot of interest from customers in solid state disk (SSD) technology. Ryan at Engadget does a pretty good job of summarizing why someone would want an SSD drive in their recent post about Samsung's new 64GB product. Not long after IdeaStorm user tablet205 submitted the … READ MORE
Our customers will be dealing with an enormous increase in data over the next few years. To put this in perspective, the world generated about 161 exabytes of data last year and we expect this to go up six-fold in the next four years. This increases the importance … READ MORE
PC noise levels is a topic that I hear about on Direct2Dell from time to time. Silent/Quiet Computers: Sound levels in decibels from user pchris has been a popular idea on IdeaStorm since the day after it launched in February. Recently it's gotten some traffic in the media … READ MORE
Today marks an important milestone in Dell's drive to make technology easier for customers to deploy and manage. At the Gartner Symposium today in Orlando, Michael spoke to more than 500 CIOs about Dell's strategy for simplifying IT and the benefits that it will have on our environment. … READ MORE