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ABB Automation Drives Sales, Decreases Costs with Dell OEM

Karen Siuda By:
Posted In: Industrial Automation
ABB Automation Drives Sales, Decreases Costs with Dell OEM

Dell OEM Solutions helps bring the intellectual property of its customers to over 40 vertical markets using Dell standard equipment, global service and support and comprehensive customization resources.

The latest customer story we have the opportunity to tell is that of ABB Automation, a leading provider of automation systems in Germany.  With operations in around 100 countries, it works with utilities and industry to improve performance and lower its environmental impact.

The company sought a supplier who could help its business standardize its hardware on an x86 platform. Dell’s standard, high-quality platforms and award-winning supply chain helped seal the deal for ABB who had been working with multiple suppliers to build their own server-based solutions.

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May 22 2013

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Taking Telecom to the Cloud

Marcel Moelands By:
Posted In: Telco
Taking Telecom to the Cloud

When I read about the Telecommunications market, I notice significant changes happening in parallel.

For instance, LTE (Long Term Evolution or 4th Generation Networks) is setting a new standard in transporting voice calls. Mobile phone users are accessing rich content, which in turn creates a balancing act between OTT (Over-the-Top) traffic and players on one side and carriers looking to monetize OTT on the other.

The proliferation of smart devices has led to a new ecosystem of machine-to-machine platforms and applications, which contributes to data growth explosion.

Evolution in Telecommunications happens faster with each generation.  The cool factor of fashionable features, generational performance leaps in handset equipment, increased bandwidth and ease of ‘getting connected’ all contribute to the ...

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Feb 15 2013

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The truth about Agent-Free Monitoring

Marcel Moelands By:
Posted In: Thought Leadership
The truth about Agent-Free Monitoring Investing in Systems Management Technology

Systems management is an ever evolving technology and an area Dell continues to invest in. Specifically for the launch of our PowerEdge 12th generation servers, Dell put a lot of effort in improving the monitoring aspect of Systems Management.  In fact, Dell is the only vendor to offer truly agent-free systems management achieved in part due to a team of Dell engineers who completely rewrote the Systems Management Software.

Below is an extract of functions and devices which can be monitored through Dell’s iDRAC service processor:

Temperatures CPU’s Memory Fans Power supplies and voltages RAID controllers and battery charges Network Controllers Hard Disks PCIe Slots

Now, the last 3 on this list are quite unique in the market. In previous generations ...

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Dec 4 2012

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Hacking our Standard PowerEdge Servers to Meet Unique OEM Customer Needs

Samantha Needham By:
Posted In: Appliance & Customization
Hacking our Standard PowerEdge Servers to Meet Unique OEM Customer Needs

Pivot3, a Dell OEM customer, is quite the veteran when it comes to working with the Dell OEM custom engineering team.  They have been utilizing our services for a few years now.  Last year, Zac showed how we customized a PowerEdge R510-12 for them by adding a flash DOM boot device that also required designing custom cabling & bios modifications.

This year they came back with some new requirements and Zac and our team produced some outstanding work.   In fact, he had so much to show that I broke it up into two videos.

In the first video, Zac showed how we replaced the optical drive location of a PowerEdge R320 with ...

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Oct 11 2012

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OEM Telecom Appliance Customer Reduces Delivery Time by 50 Percent Improving Customer Service

Paul Collier By:
Posted In: Telco
OEM Telecom Appliance Customer Reduces Delivery Time by 50 Percent Improving Customer Service

One of the pleasures about working in Dell’s OEM business is the opportunity to meet with customers and spend time understanding their business.   The OEM approach is not about product, it’s about the overall business strategy our customers are working towards and how Dell can bring true value in assisting them achieve that potential.

One of the recent meetings I had the pleasure of spending half a day with Lucas Wensing, CEO of StartReady a company that provides unified communications applications to business.  Based in Holland the company have recently made the decision to standardise on Dell OEM’s server based application capability and in doing so are seeing fundamental benefits to ...

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Oct 10 2012

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Dell OEM EMEA Technology Roadshows 2012 Wrap up

Piia Lawlor By:
Posted In: Uncategorized
Dell OEM EMEA Technology Roadshows 2012 Wrap up First-of-its-kind OEM European Tour:

We finished our 2 week tour of Europe on Friday, 21st September, with our last OEM Technology Roadshow taking place in Frankfurt, Germany. Before Frankfurt we visited London, Paris and Milan also, and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed the events which were the first of their kind for Dell OEM in Europe. We partnered with Intel for the events and had the pleasure of welcoming four local Intel team members – Tal Elgar (UK), Thierry Marseille (France), Marco Soldi (Italy) and Herbert Schreiber (Germany), who joined the presentation stage with our Dell OEM team: General Manager for EMEA Sam Forsbom, Enterprise Solutions Lead Marcel Moelands and ...

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Oct 8 2012

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10 Compelling Reasons to Move to Dell OEM’s Next Gen Servers

Joelle Coghlan By:
Posted In: Appliance & Customization, Customization
10 Compelling Reasons to Move to Dell OEM’s Next Gen Servers

So you’re still buying PowerEdge servers from Dell OEM, but why haven’t you made the switch to 12th Generation?  We understand that transitions can be tough especially in an OEM environment; however, here are 10 compelling reasons to upgrade to our next generation of PowerEdge servers.

Give yourself more time to get it right with the XL Program for OEM’s, which provides an additional 12 months of overlap between subsequent processor and chipset changes.  Additionally, XL products have detailed change management reports to make you aware of planned component changes to eliminate surprises Eliminate extra touch of your solutions by having the system configured with the BIOS and RAID settings you need before it leaves our ...

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Sep 6 2012

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OEM Customer Ideas Drive Blade Server Innovation

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Posted In: Appliance & Customization
OEM Customer Ideas Drive Blade Server Innovation

Recently I met with Zac Cravens, Lead Mechanical Engineer for Dell OEM Solutions Product Group, to discuss some of the fascinating work he and his team has been working on based on customer requests. Along with several secret projects, he took some time let me film him discussing a really neat PowerEdge™ M610x Blade Server solution one customer asked us to work on. I was very intrigued as most custom OEM projects consist of modifications to Dell’s most popular Intel® Xeon® 1U and 2U rack mount servers.

As you can see from the video, the M610x blade server is designed with two PCIe slots originally intended for high performance GPGPU cards ...

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May 30 2012

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The New-Wave Servers are taking the world by storm.

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Posted In: Appliance & Customization
The New-Wave Servers are taking the world by storm.

Recently Dell OEM Solutions announced new server products based on the Intel XEON E5-2600 CPUs. These 1U and 2U rack-mount and tower servers offer amazing performance, power efficiency, and new features & capabilities our OEM customers love to get from Dell. By offering the new servers with OEM Ready features and including them in the XL program, we can assure our customers’ unique needs are being met on as many platforms as possible. That was the first wave of next-generation servers from Dell.

The second wave arrives with the launch of the new enterprise class servers based on the Intel XEON E5-2400 class of CPUs. Dell OEM Solutions has expanded our ...

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May 14 2012

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Exclusive Q&A with Thierry Pellegrino, Director of Engineering, Dell OEM Solutions

Joelle Coghlan By:
Posted In: Appliance & Customization

There is a team of experts behind the 12th Generation PowerEdge™ who have driven it from conception through development and are now about to see it launch.

These engineers are the brains behind our latest products designed specifically for OEM Solutions’ customers.

I spoke to Thierry Pellegrino, Director of Engineering, Dell OEM Solutions, for an exclusive, inside look into how his team helped develop our latest generation of servers to meet the unique needs of our OEM customers.

You can watch Thierry here in this video on the 12 minds behind the 12th generation launch together with some of our other engineers.

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your team?

Thierry:  I’m Director of Engineering for Dell ...

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Mar 8 2012

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