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• Dell Bets on Corporate Spending For Recovery

  Reuters - 2009-11-20

  By Kelvin SohSINGAPORE (Reuters) - Dell DELL, the world's No.3 PC brand, said on Friday that its core business of selling computers to companies was returning, after a sharp drop-off during the global downturn led to disappointing quarterly results.Dell's commercial business has traditionally made up the bulk of its revenue,...

  Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Recovery, PC, Microsoft Windows 7, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp.

• Dell Results Miss Expectations

  ReutersUK - 2009-11-19

  By Gabriel MadwaySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters UK) - Dell Inc's DELL quarterly profit plunged 54 percent on lower-than-expected sales as it lost market share to competitors engaged in a budding price war in the PC market.Shares of Dell, the No. 3 maker of personal computers, tumbled 6 percent following the results,...

  Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Analyst, Quarter, Sales Strategy, Sales, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp.

• Dell Results Miss Expectations, Shares Drop

  Reuters - 2009-11-19

  By Gabriel MadwaySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc's DELL quarterly profit plunged 54 percent on lower-than-expected revenue as its sales to large businesses suffered, driving its shares down 6 percent.The weak results from the No. 3 PC maker reflect the growing divide between it and larger rival Hewlett-Packard Co HPQ,...

  Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Analyst, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp.

• Cray, Dell, Microsoft Team Up on HPC Workstation, Cluster

  BNET - 2009-11-13

  Cray and Dell are partnering on a new integrated workstation and compute cluster aimed at such customers as SMB R&D groups and enterprises new to HPC. The Cray CX1-iWS systems offer an integrated high-end workstation and a compute cluster, all powered by Intel ?Nehalem EP? processors and running only Microsoft...

  Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Cray Inc., workstation

• Power Solutions Article:  Highly Available Virtualization with Microsoft Hyper-V and SCVMM 2008

  BNET - 2009-11-04

  In virtualized environments, high availability can be critical to avoiding lost revenue, maintaining productivity, and protecting data from system failure. Combining Microsoft® Hyper-V™ technology with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager SCVMM 2008 on Dell™ platforms can help organizations create highly available virtualized systems while offering simplified management, dynamic performance,...

  Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware

• Solution Brief: Dell Equalogic PS Series Can Offer Robust, High-Availability Infrastructure for Microsoft's 2008 R2 HYPER-V

  BNET - 2009-11-04

  Virtualization has become a popular IT strategy for enhancing hardware utilization, helping organizations decrease power, cooling, and data center footprint costs, and enhance the flexibility of IT. While virtualization can offer a wide range of IT benefits, running multiple applications on each physical server can place availability at risk. If...

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• Power Solutions Article: High-Availability Virtualization with Dell EqualLogic Arrays and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

  BNET - 2009-11-04

  The Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Release 2 (R2) Hyper-V™ platform introduces capabilities designed to deliver high availability for virtualized data centers. Integrating a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series storage area network into Hyper-V virtualized environments helps organizations capitalize on new Hyper-V capabilities, including live migration, hot-add storage, and storage platform features...

  Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server, Dell EqualLogic, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Storage, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware

• Technical Report:  Deploying Microsoft Hyper-V with PS Series Arrays

  BNET - 2009-11-04

  Server virtualization is a common practice is today's data centers for server consolidation, power reduction, rapid provisioning, high availability, and data protection. All of these reasons lead to lower data center costs and TCO. Virtual servers together with intelligent virtual storage increase the chances for successful deployments of virtual data...

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• Solutions Brief:  Dell EqualLogic PS Series and Microsoft WS2008 Hyper-V:  Enabling The Next Generation Virtualized Data Center

  BNET - 2009-11-04

  Server virtualization is one of the most significant technology trends in IT environments today, and a key enabler of the next generation virtualized data center. Server virtualization relies on hypervisors to provide the abstraction layer between the operating systems and the physical hardware, allowing IT administrators the ability to consolidate...

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• Power Solutions Article:  Power Solutions Article: Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on Dell Servers

  BNET - 2009-11-04

  Microsoft® Hyper-V™ technology provides a simplified virtualization platform integrated directly into the Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 OS. This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers.

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