Dell has made its first serious cloud move and gone into the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) business using VMware’s multi-tenant virtualized vCloud Datacenter Services environment hosted in a Dell data center. It’ll provide vCPUs, memory, storage networks, IP addresses, firewalls and catalog capabilities. The widgetry, called simply Dell Cloud, is still in closed beta with a half-dozen [...]
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Oh, dear, is it gonna get trumped again? Since HP outbid it for 3PAR, Dell is now proposing to buy Compellent Technologies, another storage house, for $27.50 a share cash, which puts it in the vicinity of $900 million. Compellent’s price had soared way above Dell’s threshold on press reports and viral speculation by early [...]
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Dell’s mobile device chief Ron Garriques, the guy Dell hired in 2007 after he didn’t cut it at Motorola, is leaving the company effective January 28 although he’s supposed to consult for the next year. Dell has reorganized his year-old Communications Solutions Group out of existence, spreading its tablets like the poorly received Android-based Streak, [...]
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Dell said Thursday that it would pay $100 million to settle with the SEC over its accounting sins in 2001-2006. CEO Michael Dell will pay a separate $4 million for not talking straight about Intel. The AP remarks that the fine isn’t that large but “the decision to charge a sitting chief executive of a [...]
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Dell means to cash in on what its Data Center Solutions unit, which sells to the super-sized buyer, has gleaned supplying Microsoft with custom servers for its Azure cloud. To start, it’s going to sell turnkey private PaaS solutions made up of pre-tested, pre-assembled and fully supported hardware, software and services. It says it’s targeting [...]
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Intel and Dell have moved to snuff out the trademark claims of Psion Teklogix, the Ontario-based Anglo-Canadian concern that has been sending cease-and-desist letters to PC manufacturers, retailers, the media and bloggers since right before Christmas maintaining that it owns the word “netbook.” Psion complained to Google on January 29 and ever since then Google [...]
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