Posts Tagged ‘Dell’

Mobility demand and its influence on Dell’s Technology Strategy The Expected New Normal

With the continued rapid adoption of smart phones by consumers to business users, and a growing dependence on social media, capturing and sharing images, email, navigation and other applications the net result is an unimaginable amount of data creation. Combined with the demand to access your data, or better still use data quickly, requires the telco and technology sector to build out the capability to support what has become – the expected new normal.

Mobility has become an unstoppable technology that is transforming society and changing civilization. Travel past-times such as Sudoku puzzles, card games or reading books are being replaced by smart phones, electronic readers, tablets and laptops.

How Mobility Allows ...

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Feb 28 2013
WYSE Thin Clients: The better small form factor PC for embedded applications

In the Industrial Automation field where most machinery has an integrated display with a Windows desktop or an embedded Windows application running, it is important to focus on and invest in the technology enabling this functionality.

The variety of systems and platforms options is tremendous; however, they are all based on x86 technology. The range of applied form factors varies from a Top Hat Rail mounted SPS Controller to a typical 19” Industrial PC. But as I mentioned, they all have a “PC” inside, with all its advantages and disadvantages from easy to deploy to too hard to maintain. This PC hosts an Operating System and on top a more or less process critical (Windows) ...

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Jul 2 2012

Michael Dell and the leaders of KACE, Secureworks, and Compellent

Recently I was invited to attend Dell’s Technology Summit, a closed-door event where Dell’s CTO group and our suppliers walk through the direction of Dell’s products for the next three years.  Make no mistake, these were not power-point laden presentations focusing on vague definitions of “value” or marketing speak.  Here, reference architectures and emerging technologies generated frothy discussion.

Due to the nature of the event, it is closed to customers and to press, so I will tread gracefully about presenting my observations.

My first takeaway was that Dell’s intellectual capital has grown significantly over the past two years.  This may seem obvious ...

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Jun 30 2011