Looking to solidify its refocused efforts on private cloud platforms, Dell today rolled out new features to improve security and manageability of its offerings.
When most people who track the industry think of the cloud computing market, big names like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google, Rackspace, Verizon Terremark and others come to mind. HP, Joyent, IBM and Dell even. But Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)?
With the outstanding performance numbers and extensive feature set offered by its new PowerConnect 6024 Layer 3 switch, it's getting easier to hear the words Dell and Gigabit Ethernet switch in the same sentence.
ClearCube Technology slashed prices on its PC blades Monday, setting the company up to compete with standard desktop and tower vendors like Dell and HP.
Dell has stepped away from long-time supplier Intel, launching one desktop that spurns the chipmaker's vPro business bundle and two others that use processors from chipmaking competitor Advanced Micro Devices.
Dell last week partnered with VMware to let Dell’s PowerEdge servers be clustered with storage and use VMware’s ESX Server software to split a single machine into two or more “virtual” systems.
Dell is making updates to its Android-based, thumb-size PC called Wyse Cloud Connect -- widely known as Project Ophelia -- as the company moves to make the stick computer suitable for consumers.
Vendors say lots of things about their equipment when they want to make a sale, so it helps in the buying process to get a third party to verify claims. The Tolly Group has performed a battery of tests against Dell’s recently announced PowerConnect 6024 that should help network managers evaluate this Layer 3 switch.
Intel last week announced 64-bit extension technology for its Xeon processors, while IBM, Dell and HP said they will support it in servers as soon as mid-year.
InfiniBand got two boosts last week - Dell announced it would integrate the technology into its server clusters, and a new version of the specification was released.
On the heels of last month’s expansion into Layer 3 switching, Dell this week fleshed out its line of network equipment with three Fast Ethernet switches.
If you're looking for an alternative to Dell and HP that promises lots of handholding, a resurgent Gateway may be worth a look. Who would have thought?
There is a lot of buzz behind the theory that the future of enterprise IT is centered around a small number of companies who can provide solutions that integrate many of the key components of IT. This is the last in a series of newsletters that says if indeed that is the future, who will those companies be? In this newsletter we will look at Dell and IBM.
Over the years, the acquirer has been rumored to be IBM, Sun, Microsoft, AT&T, Dell, Oracle, HP and many others. Not once was the name Attachmate mentioned. So the surprise – and it was widespread last week – wasn’t that Novell had been acquired, but that Attachmate had done the acquiring.
Dell last week released performance benchmarks for its PowerEdge servers, claiming that they have the best combination of performance, value and availability for a cluster of data center servers.
Quanta Computer Inc., the world's largest contract laptop PC maker, is reportedly gearing up to make iPhones for Apple Inc. and a new smartphone for Dell Inc., but the company isn't talking.
Google has been cagey about the hardware that runs its Search Appliance but this week said it will start using Dell servers to power the product later this year.