Tag: innovation
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Learning about Dell’s OpenStack private cloud offering
The week before last I was roaming the expo floor at Dell World and I bumped into Steve Croce. Steve is at Dell and is the product manager and strategist for our OpenStack private cloud offering. I got Steve to spend a few minutes with me and give me the lowdown on what we are offering…
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Emerging cloud solutions and driving innovation at Dell
Here is the second interview I did from the floor of Dell World. I talk about the following three topics: The Web vertical – understanding and meeting the needs of web companies [1:20] The 4 emerging cloud solutions we were showing at Dell world [2:25] How Dell is promoting innovation internally Check it out: Extra-credit…
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Ferreting out Innovation
If you’ve been following my tweets you may have heard about “Project Sputnik.” While I’m not quite ready to talk about it, I wanted to give some insight into the program that’s helped get it off the ground. Innovation Incubation At the beginning of the year Dell launched an internal incubation fund with the idea…
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Kanban2go — How to build a cloud-based offering
Dell corporate strategist by day, entrepreneur by night, Prabhakar Gopalan recently launched a SaaS offering called kanban2go that helps you manage and share your task list in the cloud. Prabhakar’s endeavor provides a quick overview of what it means to launch a cloud-based app today. Take a listen as he talks about the process and…
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Forrest Norrod of Dell on Open Compute
This morning, at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, the company unveiled the Open Compute project. Also on hand to support the announcement were partners such as Dell and Intel, who served on a panel alongside representatives from Rackspace, the Department of Energy, Zynga and Facebook. Forrest Norrod, GM of Dell’s server platform division represented Dell…
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A Data Center that fits in the Overhead Bin
Jimmy Pike is the director of systems architecture for the Data Center Solutions group here at Dell and self-proclaimed “head geek.” Using a tool case with its insides stripped out, part of an old inbox and a bunch of off the shelf components he has created the world’s first portable “data center.” (All for the…