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  • ContainerCon: Intel’s mini OS – Clear Linux

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    Here is my penultimate interview from ContainerCon.  Today’s video features Arjan van de Ven of Intel, the lead for The Clear Linux Project.   Clear Linux is Intel’s uber light weight OS and is targeted at cloud use cases. Take a listen as Arjan takes us through the project. Some of the ground Arjan covers: Clear Linux…

  • App Think Tank: Intel IT turns apps into services

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    Today, Das Kamhout,  IT Principal Engineer at Intel and their lead cloud architect talks about Intel IT’s program to make all of their traditional applications into services.  (This video was taken from the  Application think tank that Dell Services held back in January.) The world is turning to services.  As Das points out, after you rationalize your application portfolio you want…

  • App Think Tank: Key application policies at Intel and American Cancer Society

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    This week’s theme is applications and software strategy and yesterday’s post dealt with the value of  going “open source”all the way” from start-ups to large enterprises.  Today we’re taking a look at the major guidelines that two large organizations have put in place for all applications being developed. Take a listen to Das Kamhout,  IT Principal Engineer at Intel…

  • Intel and ARM systems in same chassis and managed remotely

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    Last week I was out in the Bay Area attending the Open Compute (OCP) Summit.  The event was packed and full of energy.  My employer Dell was a platinum sponsor and we were showing off  some pretty cool stuff: At today’s Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, California, Dell showed off a new generation of…

  • MDC in our parking lot, serving up OpenStack & Hadoop

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    Why use valuable internal real estate when you can just set up a Modular Data Center (MDC) in your parking lot?  The point wasn’t lost on the Dell Solution Center team who, with help from our partners Intel, is doing just that here in Round Rock. The new MDC, which should be online in a…

  • The Value of Cloud Computing

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    Before the holidays I posted the first of three videos that Dell and Intel put together around cloud computing.  These videos are part of a larger series around key topics like IT reinvention, the consumerization of IT, social media etc. This second video features myself, Dell’s VP of Platform marketing Sally Stevens and John Pereira,…

  • What is the Cloud?

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    Earlier this year Dell and Intel did a series of videos around key topics like cloud computing, IT reinvention, the consumerization of IT, social media etc.  Within these there was a mini-series that dealt with cloud computing that I participated in. Here is the first one that features Dell’s CIO Robin Johnson, John Pereira, Intel’s…

  • Intel version of Dell’s third gen Microserver now available

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    Over the past three years Dell’s Data Center Solutions group has been designing custom microservers for a select group of web hosters.  The first generation allowed one of France’s largest hosters, Online.net to enter a new market and gain double digit market share.  The second generation brought additional capabilities to the original design along with…

  • A walk thru Facebook’s HQ on Open Compute day

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    Last Thursday a group of us from Dell attended and participated in the unveiling of Facebook’s Open Compute project. Much the way open source software shares the code behind the software, the Open Compute project has been created to provide the specifications behind the servers and the data center.    By releasing these specs, Facebook is…

  • Facebook, OpenCompute and Dell

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    Today at its headquarters in Palo Alto, Facebook and a collection of partners such as Dell, Intel and AMD  — as well as kindred spirits like RackSpace’s founder (the company behind OpenStack) and the CIO of the Department of Energy — are on hand to reveal the details behind Facebook’s first custom-built data center and…

  • Intel’s Jason Waxman on Sandy Bridge, Atom and our new Intel-based Microserver

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    World Hosting Days is going on right now outside of Frankfurt and our group is using this event to debut our new PowerEdge C microservers.  These new microservers, which come in both Intel and AMD flavors, are right-sized for dedicated hosting applications and provide extreme density and efficiency. Yesterday, we got a shout out during…

  • A Walk-thru of our new Hyper-scale inspired Microserver

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    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…

  • DCS brings its experience to a wider Web Hosting audience — announcing PowerEdge C microservers

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    Over the past three years Dell’s Data Center Solutions group has been designing custom microservers for a select group of web hosters.  The first generation allowed one of France’s largest hosters, Online.net to enter a new market and gain double digit market share.  The second generation brought additional capabilities to the original design along with…

  • Intel, Dell and Microservers

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    Microservers are a class of scaled-out systems that Dell’s Data Center Solutions group has been designing for customers for the last several years.  These ultra-dense systems are made up of up to twelve discrete servers within one enclosure and are perfect for dedicated web hosting and telco customers. With a little help from our friends…

  • White Paper: A Revolutionary Approach to Cloud Building

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    A while ago, as a follow-up to our white paper “Laying the Groundwork for Private and Public Clouds” Dell and Intel worked with CIO magazine to put together a Tech Dossier that picked up where our previous paper left off. “A Revolutionary Approach to Cloud Building” consists of an upfront white paper and four related…

  • Enter the Viking: Light Weight server for Hosting and Web 2.0

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    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…

  • Cloud White Paper now available

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    Our first Cloud white paper is now available and I’m really happy with the way it turned out. Being relatively new to Dell I didn’t know if I would be “compelled” to mention product in it or not but I’m happy to say that the paper focuses solely on the trends behind, and characteristics, of…