Posts Tagged ‘SSD’

OEM Customer Ideas Drive Blade Server Innovation

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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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Pivot3 drives Dell OEM Solutions to accelerated innovation

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In a previous post I wrote about a black-ops visit to the engineering lab where I filmed a demonstration of an amazing SSD mounting solution for the R310 developed by Zac Cravens. At the end of that post I mentioned that he had more to share, so here it is.

The room hummed with energy from the hundreds of pieces of electronics working away around us. Zac lifted his hand and gestured to a nearby table where a silent and lifeless PowerEdge R510-12 sat helplessly awaiting its next task. I couldn’t contain my anticipation and foolishly leapt to the server’s side. I had to wait for Zac to walk over and ...

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Apr 14 2011

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Dell OEM Solutions Custom Shop Winter, 2011 update: Part 3

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My recent video posts about the custom engineering team in the Dell OEM Solutions Group have generated great interest, thanks! In Part-1 we see some serious and complicated modifications to Dell’s PowerEdge M1000e fan shroud assembly to increase reliability in shock events for a specific customer with special needs for blade server installations prone to mechanical shocks. In Part-2 our illustrious engineer walks us through a prototype customization for a Dell PowerEdge T710 with multiple GPUs installed along with audio and other things.

Today, in Part-3, we see Ric McKinney demonstrating some amazing work performed by our very own Zac Cravens and Shane Chiasson, OEM product custom engineers, for a very ...

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Feb 28 2011

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