Tag: greenplum
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Dell Cloud Solutions up and running!
Back in March we announced Dell’s cloud solutions. Today at a press conference in San Francisco we announced their general availability along with some examples of customers who are employing them. (Woohoo!) What’s the big idea The idea behind these offerings has been to leverage the experience we in the DCS group have gained over…
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Dell’s hyper scale cloud efforts — Everything you wanted to know in 3 minutes
Last week a couple of us went down to San Antonio to help represent the OpenStack project at Rackspace’s partner summit. While there I met up with the VAR Guy. Mr. Guy got me chatting about Dell’s Data Center Solutions group, where we’ve been and where we’re going. Below is the resulting video he…
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Aster’s Big Data Architecture
As I mentioned in my last entry, the week before last I headed out to the TDWI World Conference in San Diego. Besides talking about Dell’s new BI practice, I was there to represent our data analytics partners, Aster Data and Greenplum. Both vendors also had booths of their own and I was able to…
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Big Data in the Windy City
Last Tuesday and Wednesday, I attended the TDWI (The Data Warehouse Institute) world conference in Chicago. The show was a mix of courses and exhibit space. I went to learn about the BI/Data warehousing segment and scout in preparation for the next conference in August. Why BI? My interest in the space comes from the…
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Datawarehouser Greenplum — Talking to President and Founder, Scott Yara
When I was out in the Bay Area for our launch I stopped by data warehouse and analytics player Greenplum. Greenplum is one of the first three members in our Cloud Partner program (the other two are Canonical and Aster Data.) I sat down with Greenplum’s President and founder Scott Yara to talk about the…
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Dell’s New High Performance Analytics & Cloud Server
Last but not least in our tour of the first flight of servers in Dell’s PowerEdge C line is the C2100. This was filmed last month at our launch right after we closed down our whisper suite. Click below and join solutions architect Rafael Zamora as he leads you through the thrills, chills and spills…
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Greenplum teaser starring Scott McNealy & Me 🙂
Last week I arrived a day before our launch to record videos with some of our cloud partners. My first stop was Greenplum to interview co-founder and president, Scott Yara (look for that video here in the near distant future). Given that turnaround is fair play they asked me to appear in a short promo…
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Dell’s New Cloud Server line – An Overview
At last week’s Dell Launch, “Solutions for the Virtual Era,” we unveiled the first three systems in our new PowerEdge C line. These “hyper-scale inspired” systems are based on designs that we have built for our largest scaled-out customers such as Windows Azure, Facebook, Ask.com and Tencent. The PowerEdge C line is targeted at both…
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Dell Unveils Cloud Solutions (Yippee!)
Today is the big day. The one we’ve been working towards for a long time. As a part of Dell’s quarterly launch “Solutions for the Virtual Era,” we are announcing the introduction of: Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications, our first Revolutionary cloud solution. Partnering with enterprise-class cloud pioneer Joyent, we are offering a turnkey…