Tag: jimmy pike
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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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App Think Tank: The persistently, ubiquitously connected to the network era
The third short video from the Dell Services Think Tank 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 the new app-centric world. In this clip…
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Intel and ARM systems in same chassis and managed remotely
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…
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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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DCS’s Chief Geek takes us on a tour of his mini Home Lab
Dell’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) group has some pretty colorful folks. One of the more interesting members is Jimmy Pike, the man IDG New’s James Niccolai refered to as the “Willy Wonka of servers.” Jimmy, the self-proclaimed “chief geek” of the DCS team is the consummate tinkerer whether that involves constructing a data center in…
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Back to the Future with Light Weight Servers
Light weight servers have been gathering steam recently. Targeted at focused markets like hosting and Web 2.0 they feature the old school architecture of placing one CPU per server and running one OS/application on that server. The new twist here is that they can pack up to 12 servers per one 3U enclosure. Below, Dell…
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Chocolate covered servers?
There was a great article about Dell’s Data Center Solutions group that came out a couple of weeks ago. The article, entitled “Willy Wonka and the Dell Factory,” starts out If Dell’s cloud server lab is a candy shop for geeks, littered with components and exotic system designs, then Jimmy Pike is the Willy Wonka…
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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…