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  • Emerging cloud solutions and driving innovation at Dell

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    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…

  • Introducing the Webilicious PowerEdge C8000

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    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…

  • Web Glossary part two: Data tier

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    Here is part two of three of the Web glossary I complied.  As I mentioned in my last two entries, in compiling this I pulled information from various and sundry sources across the Web including wikipedia, community and company web sites and the brain of Cote. Enjoy General terms Structured data: Data that can be…

  • Web Glossary part one: Application tier

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    As I mentioned in my last post, one of the ways we are helping our teams get a better understanding of the wild and wacky world of the Web and Web developers is via a glossary we’ve created.  In compiling this I pulled information from various and sundry sources across the Web including wikipedia, community…

  • Is Data the currency of the Internet or is it the new oil?

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    I have “long” thought that data is the currency of the Internet, it is what is monetized and when aggregated, parsed and made accessible, where the value lies for businesses and individuals.  I was interested then to read in Rich Miller’s article about another analogy that had recently been drawn: “Data is the new oil,”…

  • Props from GigaOm for Dell as Web outfitter

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    Dell has been working for the last four plus years outfitting the biggest of the big web superstars like Facebook and Microsoft Azure with infrastructure.   More recently we have been layering software  such as Hadoop, OpenStack and crowbar on top of  that infrastructure.  This has not gone unnoticed by web pub GigaOm: Want to become…

  • 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…