Thursday, October 2, 2008

Dell

EqualLogic rolls out massive iSCSI array
EqualLogic, now part of Dell, launched a new storage array last week that is the company's largest array to date.

Advanced switching grabs Interop New York spotlight
Switching will take center stage at this week's Interop New York conference, where vendors such as Foundry Networks, Enterasys Networks and Force 10 Networks will roll out new and enhanced products in defiance of a ...

Microsoft-Novell partnership yields virtualization bundle
Microsoft and Novell Thursday released a virtualization bundle that represents the pair's first fully supported joint product since their interoperability partnership was forged in 2006.

Dell targets under-performing virtual machines with new blades, storage
Dell announced a broad set of services and hardware designed to optimize both storage and server virtualization on Wednesday.

Vodafone to resell Dell's netbook
Dell's new netbook, the Inspiron Mini 9, will be sold with built-in mobile broadband by Vodafone, the companies announced on Thursday.

Report: Dell in talks to sell PC factories
Computer-maker Dell is attempting to off-load its computer manufacturing plants around the world, The Wall Street Journal reported in its Friday edition.

Dell (Equallogic) PS5000XV
When Dell acquired Equallogic early this year, it bought an up-and-coming storage vendor. Our testing of the Dell PS5000XV shows that Equallogic was a first-rate choice.

Dell puts Linux and Atom in Vostro PCs for emerging markets
Dell unveiled Wednesday two new laptops and two desktops in its Vostro range designed to meet the needs of small and medium-size enterprises (SME), governments, and educational institutions in emerging markets in Asia, ...

10 Gigabit Ethernet reaches two milestones
The 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch market reached two milestones in the second quarter of this year, according to a recent report from Dell'Oro Group.

N-Data back with different patents
Six months after settling with the FTC on an Ethernet-related patent, Negotiated Data Solutions, or N-Data, is back in the headlines.

$196M should cover costs of bad graphics chip, Nvidia says
Nvidia took a one-time warranty charge of US$196 million against its second-quarter revenue on Tuesday, saying that amount should cover the cost of replacing bad Nvidia graphics chips used in a range of laptop models ...

Dell says it's 'carbon neutral'
Dell has met its goal of becoming carbon-neutral with projects to reduce its own energy consumption and offset carbon emissions around the world.

MIC: Netbook shipments to exceed 8 million this year
Global shipments of the popular new category of mini-laptops, netbooks, will likely reach 8.02 million [M] this year and then more than double in 2009, according to a report by Taiwan's Market Intelligence Center (MIC).

Dell gains, Sun loses in worldwide server market
Dell posted the biggest gains in worldwide server revenue in the second quarter, helping it to nudge Sun Microsystems out of third place, Gartner said Thursday.

Dell looks to emerging markets, services
Dell, the world's second largest PC seller, will move faster into emerging markets and increase its services offerings as part of a plan to reverse poor financial performance, top executives said Thursday.

NetApp, Compellent, HP, Dell top the field in 12-product test
A terabyte isn't what it used to be. Disks are slower than you think. And a Gigabit Ethernet is plenty of bandwidth for many storage applications.

Under pressure: 10 sources pushing CIOs to go green
Now with a stagnating U.S. economy, CIOs need to squeeze every penny out of their IT operations and that means choosing the most efficient servers and desktops as well as data center power supplies and air conditioning ...

Dell simplifies blade server management with I/O virtualization
Dell is simplifying management of its blade servers with an I/O virtualization tool.

Dell adds storage, disaster management services to portfolio
Dell on Monday announced it was adding customizable storage and disaster management services to build out its services portfolio, which it began revamping last year.

Dell: No significant impact from Centrino 2 delay
The delayed release of Intel's Centrino 2 chip platform for notebooks will not have a significant impact, according to Dell's top executive in Asia.

Busted by blogger, Dell offers peek at low-cost laptop
Dell released pictures of an ultraportable laptop that appears designed to compete against HP's Mini-Note 2133 laptop, after Michael Dell was spotted carrying it around.

A misconfigured laptop, a wrecked life
When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued Michael Fiola a Dell Latitude in November 2006, it set off a chain of events that would cost him his job, his friends and about a year of his life, as he fought criminal ...

Pepsi bottler swallows skepticism, gives virtualization a try
Once skeptical of virtualization, IS manager at G&J Pepsi Cola Bottling Company in Cincinnati is leading a server and storage virtualization project.

Dell refutes rumors on end of its XPS brand
Dell's premier and successful XPS brand is not going to be pulled out, according to the company, contrary to media reports regarding the same. The report stated that Dell was going to end its XPS line up to make way for ...

AMD quad-core processors now in Sun servers
Sun on Tuesday released eight servers powered by AMD's new quad-core Opteron processor.

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