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How high will they go? HP one-upped Dell with a roughly $2.1 billion bid to snag storage virtualization and thin provisioning firm 3PAR. At stake is nothing less than cloud domination! Actually, no, but close. IT vendors are scrambling to build their cloud portfolios, which rests on offering technologies and platforms that can scale to [...]
Last year, EMC and NetApp battled it out for DataDomain, whose claim to fame was a strong data deduplication portfolio. Data deduplication, as its name suggests, helps data center operators keep their energy and storage hardware costs in check by eliminating identical sets of data that would otherwise take up room on oftentimes pricey storage [...]
Since 2008, Dell has been able to reduce product packaging by 18.2 million pounds. For comparison’s sake, that’s the equivalent of “226 fully-loaded 18-wheelers or almost 4,184 small pick-ups,” according to a company statement. The statistic comes from the company’s latest corporate sustainability report. Dell attributes its success to a “three C’s” strategy, which stands [...]
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Fusion-io has added new hardware to its PCI Express based storage card lineup, giving servers a lot more high-performance solid-state storage to make short work of all those transactions. The company’s new ioMemory Module doubles the storage capacity of their existing PCIe card lineup, up to 1.28TB and boosting sustained IOPS to 285,000. Not too [...]
Mind you, he has servers to sell, so salt, grains and all that good stuff… Erik Dithmer, general manager of Small Medium Business Americas for Dell is telling SMB’s to hold their horses on virtualization. Gene Marks, author of “Penny…
Read more Dell's Dithmer to SMBs: Virtualization? Not so fast
An interesting little factoid emerged today. According to David Finch, nearly a third of the netbooks sold by Dell ship with Linux, Ubuntu to be precise.OSNews reports:Even though Dell is only the fifth-largest manufacturer of netbooks in the world, it…
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Apple poaches eBay data center guru – The Register Impressed with the greenmindedness of Olivier Sanche, Dave green data center Ohara believes he is “the absolute right guy for Apple at the right time.” But part of him is little…
Considering new desktops and notebooks for your business? Dell would like you to know that they have several models in their Latitude, Precision and OptiPlex lines that conform to Energy Star 5.0, consuming less than 5 watts while idle…
Read more Dell's Energy Star 5.0 Lineup
This just in from the Twitterverse. Dell has decided to semi-officially throw its two cents into the chatter storm surrounding Google’s Chrome OS. I say semi-officially because is comes in the form of a blog post. And we all know…
Read more Dell Weighs in on Chrome
AMD released six-core Opteron HE processors today that promise to up the performance per watt ante. Currently shipping in 2-,4- and 8-processor HP ProLiant servers, the new Istanbul chips boast an nice percent performance per watt boost over their…
Read more AMD Opteron HE: Istanbul Targets Energy Efficiency
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