Tag: hyperscale
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App Think Tank: Cloud vs. hyperscale
This is the final video clip from the Dell Services Application think tank held earlier this year. Today’s clip features the always enlightening and entertaining Jimmy Pike. Jimmy, who is a Senior Fellow at Dell and was once called the Willy Wonka of servers, was one of the 10 panelists at the Think Tank where we discussed the challenges of…
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Introducing the Webilicious PowerEdge C8000
Today Dell is announcing our new PowerEdge C8000 shared infrastructure chassis which allows you to mix and match compute, GPU/coprocessor and storage sleds all within the same enclosure. What this allows Web companies to do is to have one common building block that can be used to provide support across the front-, mid- and back…
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All the best ideas begin on a cocktail napkin — DCS turns 5
A little over a week ago, Dell’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) group marked its fifth birthday. As Timothy Prickett Morgan explains in his article subtitled, “Five years old, and growing like a weed”: DCS was founded originally to chase the world’s top 20 hyperscale data center operators, and creates stripped-down, super-dense, and energy-efficient machines that…
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IDC starts tracking the hyperscale server market
In a recent post that highlighted the demise of the midrange server market, Timothy Prickett Morgan talked about the new server classification that IDC has just started tracking, “Density-optimized”: These are minimalist server designs that resemble blades in that they have skinny form factors but they take out all the extra stuff that hyperscale Web…
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Whitepaper: 5 points to consider when choosing a Server Vendor for Hyperscale Data Centers
A whitepaper came out a little while ago from the management consulting firm, PRTM, that gives a perspective on the server industry. The paper, which Dell was one of the contributors to, specifically focuses on something near and dear to our hearts, hyperscale data centers. The paper, entitled Hyperscale Data Centers: Value of a Server…
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Dells Data Center Solutions group turns Four!
Dell’s Data Center Solutions group (DCS) is no longer a toddler. Over the weekend we turned four! Four years ago on March 27, 2007 Dell announced the formation of the Data Center Solutions group, a special crack team designed to service the needs of hyperscale customers. On that day eWeek announced the event in their…
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A Walk-thru of our new Hyper-scale inspired Microserver
Earlier this morning at WorldHostingDays outside of Frankfurt, we announced our new line of PowerEdge C microservers. While this is our third generation of microservers, its the first that are available beyond the custom designed systems we’ve been building for a small group of hyperscale web hosters. If you’re not familiar with microservers, their big…
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Rob on Hyperscale Cloud Architecture
Earlier this month when the Bexar release for OpenStack went live, a meet up was held in Santa Clara. As a part of the event, a series of lightening talks were given by various OpenStack community members. One of the speakers was Dell’s very own Rob Hirschfeld, a senior cloud solutions architect, who has been…
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Low voltage DIMMs can mean huge savings in Hyperscale environments
Dell’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) group focuses on customers operating huge scaled out environments. Given the number of systems deployed in these environments we are always looking for ways to take energy out of our systems. A half a watt here, a half a watt there means big energy savings when multiplied across a hyper…
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Enter the Viking: Light Weight server for Hosting and Web 2.0
Over the last few years, we have been working with some of the world’s biggest hyperscale data center operators, folks who are deploying thousands, to tens of thousands of servers at a time. Within this select group, the theme that keeps coming up over and over is uber-efficiency. The customers that we’ve been working with…
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5 lessons from the Cloud about Efficient Environments
The week before last our team decided to divide and conquer to cover two simultaneous events. Half of us headed to Portland, Oregon for OSCON and the other half stayed here in Austin to participate in hostingcon. The Hostingcon keynote Among those participating in hostingcon was my boss Andy Rhodes who gave the keynote on…