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Backup On A Budget
News At a recent Dell CIO briefing (concerning Dell's recent agreement with EMC to sell storage), I was reminded of my own past struggles to find affordable -- and high performance -- storage options. I asked my team why we couldn't develop our own high...
[October 1, 2002, 12:13]
Four IT Men
Leader Michael Dell: Because we had barely any storage! Michael Dell: Right! Michael Dell: In a cracked case and all. Michael Dell: Right! Michael Dell: Them days we were glad to have a 5-1/4 inch floppy disk drive on us Apple II.
[September 13, 2006, 16:35]
Michael Dell: 'I'm Not A Huge Fan Of Massive Mergers...'
News Michael Dell was in London this morning and gave a speech at a breakfast organised by BritishAmerican Business. Here are a few snippets of what the Dell cheif executive had to say. And at the time Dell's revenues weren't' the $36bn that they'll be...
[November 8, 2002, 15:47]
Dell's High Hopes For The UK
News Dell UK was the first subsidiary of the company outside the US, and remains one of the company's most successful businesses, with a mature market and user base. Dell UK's country manager, Josh Claman, has been with Dell UK for almost a year now...
[June 20, 2006, 13:15]
Server War Declared Between Dell And Compaq
News For example, a special-purpose storage device Dell buys from Quantum then resells under its own name actually costs less from Dell than from Quantum. A week after becoming the world's top PC seller, Dell Computer has for the first time wrenched the...
[April 30, 2001, 8:11]
Storage Stats Suggest Cisco Is Making Progress
News The report, written by analysts Dell'Oro, led to claims that Cisco was gaining significant market share on the market leader, Brocade. Brocade hit back at the report on Tuesday, claiming that Dell'Oro had got its figures wrong.
[March 22, 2007, 12:16]
Don't Kill The Floppy Yet
News When I read recently that Dell is planning to offer some of its high-end consumer desktop systems without floppy disk drives, it was just more evidence that PC manufacturers have pronounced a premature death sentence on the venerable grandfather...
[March 18, 2003, 12:51]
Compaq Trumpets PC Resurgence
News Compaq executives say their PC business is back on track following a bloody battle with cross-state rival Dell. But Dell, taking advantage of Compaq's management turmoil and lengthy acquisition of Digital Equipment, blasted into the top spot in 1999.
[August 1, 2000, 14:23]
Dell Simplifies IT Services
News Dell's Professional Services group is promoting a new menu of services -- such as moving data to new storage equipment or installing new servers -- for fixed prices that it claims are lower than its competitors'.
[August 15, 2002, 15:14]
Dell Chooses New Chief
News Dell will get a new chief executive for its 20th birthday. Michael Dell, founder of the Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker, plans to pass the crown to his second-in-command, Kevin Rollins, in July. Rollins, currently Dell's president and chief...
[March 5, 2004, 10:20]
HP Results Beat Expectations
News Despite HP's new leadership, our view is that it still remains a fundamentally disadvantaged computer company with suboptimal profits relative to Dell, pricing pressures across numerous business lines, and (profit) margin pressures in its printer...
[May 18, 2005, 9:55]
Start-up Sees Low-cost Future In Clusters
News It's not the only new entrant willing to take on the four giants of the server market, IBM, Dell, Sun and HP. Others have dabbled with the idea before, including, in 2001, Dell, which scrapped its SMP-over-InfiniBand project before it ever came to...
[December 17, 2004, 13:45]
Apple Ships Rack-mounted Server
News MB for Dell's PowerEdge 1650. The results of the benchmark tests indicate that the product has some competitive position with IBM, Sun and Dell," Technology Business Research analyst Tim Deal said. Apple also released benchmark data that it claims...
[July 1, 2002, 16:41]
Sony Reveals VAIO Makeover
Talkback not worth it as the thing was out of waranty (of course, no three year dell waranties here) and it would have cost a bomb. Solution, but a dell x200. They are light, small, they have a great user interface and they still have large amounts of...
[May 10, 2004, 20:55]
EMC Readies Midrange NAS Technology
News EMC just wiped out 90 percent of the competition in this space because a lot of companies used CrosStor, except for Compaq and Dell, who use [a Windows] NT-based NAS," said Steve Duplessie, an analyst at Storage Enterprise Group.
[November 13, 2000, 16:11]
The Future Of Sun
News Some are even writing off the vendor, in the face of threats on many fronts, in the form of the Linux operating system and the drive of rivals such as Dell, HP and IBM. What's more, users are realising how under-utilised most of their kit is...
[July 31, 2003, 8:54]
IBM Names Palmisano As New Chief Executive
News IBM Microelectronics supplies chips to Apple Computer, as well as hard drives and other components to Dell Computer, Compaq and other competitors. IBM also threatens EMC in storage. Those executives include Robert Moffat, who run's IBM's PC...
[January 30, 2002, 8:59]
Linux Clusters Head To The Datacentre
News That price includes two dual-processor Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers with direct-attach SCSI storage, the Oracle software licence and two years of gold-level support, which includes 24-hour, four-hour response-time service, Dell said.
[April 3, 2003, 9:48]
Sun Goes Big With Blade Servers
News One reason HP and Dell favour smaller designs with four or fewer sockets is that individual processors themselves are getting more powerful. After seeing its first efforts in the booming blade market come to naught, Sun has announced a new high-end...
[July 11, 2006, 13:05]
IBM Readies Power6 Blades For Next Year
News IBM leads the blade server market, but has new competition from HP, Sun and Dell. However, new storage abilities are likely to be incorporated into IBM's blades in 2007, he said. That means IBM can plug in a storage-specific blade that would make a...
[December 7, 2006, 11:17]
