Dell announced today that it intends to acquire Force10 Networks. This purchase furthers Dell’s goal of expanding their network solutions to serve the needs of data center and enterprise customers.
Force10 Networks, with operations in over 60 countries, specializes in high-performance, high-density networking equipment for data centers and other environments that require high-performance data management systems.
This acquisition will [...]
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Dell to Acquire Force10 Networks
July 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Data Centers, Switches
Tags: Dell·Force10·networking
Dell Acquires Cloud Storage Provider Compellent
March 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Virtualization
Major players in the technology industry are adopting and integrating virtual and cloud-based environments into their product and service offerings. Recently, Dell completed the acquisition of Compellent, a provider of virtual storage solutions for enterprise and cloud-computing environments and a significant addition to a storage portfolio that already includes PowerVault and EqualLogic. This acquisition positions [...]
Tags: Cloud Computing·Compellent·Dell·hosting
InfoWorld Announces 2011 Technology of the Year Awards
February 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Routers, Security, Servers, Storage
Who says awards lists are only for the end of the year? InfoWorld has released their picks for the best software, development tools and hardware for the upcoming year in their InfoWorld 2011 Technology of the Year Awards. From best storage system (Dell EqualLogic PS6010XVS) to best PC (Apple iPad – and they make a [...]
Tags: Apple·awards·Dell·development·Google·hardware·infoworld·Software·Technology
This server is a virtualization power house!
January 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Cloud Computing, Consolidation, Dallas Data Center, Managed Hosting, Servers, Switches, Virtualization
What does all that add up to? Support for massive virtualization. With minimal fanfare, Dell over the summer unveiled the PowerEdge R815, a 48-core 2U server touting four Opteron processors (with 12 cores each) and another four Gigabit Ethernet adapters to service them.
Tags: Cloud Computing·Dallas Data Center·Dell·Managed Hosting·Server·Virtualization
Storage At Its Finest
November 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Dedicated Servers, Managed Services, Servers, Storage, Virtualization
For those who haven’t heard or aren’t familiar with the EqualLogic line of SANs from Dell, they recently announced some quite impressive changes for the PS6500 series of products. These new options include a PS6500E with 96 Terabytes of disk space in a 5U package, a PS6510E with the same capacity, the PS6500X and PS6510X [...]
Tags: Dell·EqualLogic·Fiber Channel·Managed Services·SAN·Servers·Storage·Virtualization
Cloud Integration Technology
November 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Cloud, Cloud Computing, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Managed Hosting, Managed Services
Dell announced this week that it is going to acquire Boomi. The acquisition represents another step as Dell builds a technology portfolio that solves the challenges of adopting and managing cloud based applications. Once the acquisition is closed, Dell will provide the most innovative cloud based integration capability available. This capability will allow customers to [...]
Tags: Boomi·Dell·Dell Certified Partners·Integration Technology·Managed Services·Network Solutions·SaaS
XP…The End is Nigh…
July 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Managed Services, Microsoft
Got a note from our Dell rep the other day…told us that as of October 22, 2010 they will no longer be offering Windows XP on any of their systems. As of right now they do not have a cutoff date that customers need to place their orders by for systems with XP, but any [...]
Tags: Dell·Managed Services·Microsoft·Microsoft's OEM Partners·Windows·Windows 7·Windows XP
DDC Puts Cloud in Motion
June 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Security, Servers, Switches
Dallas Data Center is proud to announce that Motion HR has put their trust in us by choosing to host their SaaS offering, CloudHCM, at DDC. We are running their SaaS offering using some of Dell’s new R710 servers, firewalls from Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco switches. Their environment is set up in a full [...]
Tags: BPO·Cisco·CloudHCM·Dallas Data Center·Dell·Firewalls·HCM·HRIT Consulting Services·Human Capital Management·Motion HR·Oracle·Oracle Human Resources·Palo Alto Networks·SaaS·SaaS Offering·Server·Switches
Dell Awarded the 2010 CRN Channel Champion: Network Storage Award
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Storage
CRN recently celebrated their 20th Channel Champion Award ceremony where the Vice President and General Manager of Dell Global Commercial Channels, Greg Davis, accepted the 2010 Network Storage Award during the XChange Solution Provider conference that was being held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. This award is regarded as the “people’s [...]
Tags: -1·2010 CRN Channel Champion·CRN·Dell·Enterprise Network Storage·Financial Performance·Hyatt Regency Century Plaza·Network Storage Award·Storage·Support Satisfaction·Technical Satisfaction·XChange Solution Provider
10 GbE Throughput with iSCSI SAN? Wow!
February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Storage, Virtualization
An exciting new product to check out is the Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS6510 series of EqualLogic iSCSI SAN storage with supporting 10GbE technology. As stated by a recent article from Dell™, the products versions PS6510E and PS6510X integrate “intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to provide simplified administration, rapid deployment, enterprise performance and reliability, and seamless [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Business Critical Applications·Data Protection·Dell·Dell EqualLogic·Dell R710·iSCSI SAN·PS6510·Storage Consolidation·Streaming Workloads·Virtualization