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This week we’re at Strata+Hadoop World, an event that gives us a chance to hear from our customers about what’s really important to them; and we often hear that they value options. The Dell EMC Hadoop portfolio allows customers choice from direct-attached storage to shared storage to virtualized environments to hybrid clouds. With all of […]

Addiction is an issue that unfortunately touches many in our society. Treatment centers that provide care to recovering addicts have had to grow in recent years to provide hope to more patients. This growth has in turn resulted in technology challenges, as centers find themselves managing multiple properties from a central location while dealing with […]

In today’s highly competitive business climate, immediate access to and analysis of operational data can determine the success of an organization. With big data and analytics at the forefront of many business leaders’ minds, data production is growing and analytics are becoming more crucial. In 2020, it’s estimated that data production will be 44x greater […]

By now you are likely looking at or already planning your migration to Windows 10. Each new Windows transition ushers in a unique set of challenges and opportunities, and this final transition to Windows 10 is no different. I’m excited to share what we’ve learned in helping customers through the process. This first post in […]

Aging data center servers and storage can put the brakes on IT performance for many businesses. That’s especially true in light of today’s big advances in server CPU speeds, densities and virtualization. Outdated servers and storage can also send TCO soaring. At the same time, it can cripple future-readiness. That’s because old hardware usually lacks […]

Of the many factors intensifying the need for agility in enterprise IT, a rapidly changing customer base is usually high on the list. Evolving customer needs Although customers have always been an evolving group, technology has boosted the propensity to change. Today, the enterprise has a customer base that uses social media daily (think Facebook). […]

The intent of this blog is to illustrate and analyze the performance obtained on Intel Broadwell-EP 4S processor with the focus on HPC applications, two synthetic benchmarks along with four applications namely, High Performance Linpack (HPL), STREAM, Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF), NAnoscale Molecular Dynamics (NAMD) and Fluent. These runs have been performed on a […]

I don’t know about you, but we’ve been looking forward to this day since last October when the EMC deal was announced. Well, the opportunity to better meet your overall IT needs, offer better solutions to your problems and do more for your organization – it all starts right now. I’ve been fortunate to have […]

Servers are the heart of the data center, and as hardware continues to evolve more advanced software is required to fully harness the technological advances in server design.  Performance and scalability are obvious enhancements but one of the most important aspects is the human interface into your servers and overall infrastructure. Considering the server lifecycle, […]

As more enterprises in more industries turn to cloud solutions, we are seeing an increase in certain kinds of challenges. One that is particularly interesting involves moving legacy applications to a cloud environment. The challenge of legacy applications gets to the heart of some of the key differences between a cloud solution and traditional solution. […]

As PEAK16 comes to a close, I would like to recap some of highlights from the numerous conversations with our world class and loyal VAR community. From the stage, the close to 744 channel partners in attendance heard about the latest ways to protect customers while ensuring IT is a business enabler, especially in light […]

This week at VMworld it has been my pleasure and privilege to help unveil Dell’s latest converged system, the Dell Validated System for Virtualization. Dell’s leadership in converged and hyperconverged systems today spans tested and validated reference architectures to precision-tuned engineered systems for use cases from VDI to big data to hybrid cloud and the broadest hyper-converged […]

I like cars. All kinds of cars. From high speed racers, to utility pickups and even classics like the 1961 Corvette I’m looking to restore in my spare time. Partner programs are a lot like cars.  Some are basic and get you from point A to point B. Others are high performance vehicles designed to […]

The good and the bad on server virtualization Few technologies have had as profound an effect in the evolution of the data center as virtualization.  The increased flexibility and reduced cost that a virtualized environment offers are well documented.  Server provisioning times, for example, have been significantly reduced with the ability to roll out a […]