1. About Dell

    Dell Inc. (DELL 4331), an American technology company based in Round Rock, Texas, develops, manufactures, sells, and supports personal computers, servers, data storage devices, network switches, personal digital assistants (PDAs), software, televisions, computer peripherals, and other technology-related products. As of 2006, Dell employed more than 78,700 people worldwide.

    Dell grew through the 1980s and 1990s to become at one stage the largest seller of PCs and servers. It currently holds the second spot in the hardware computer industry behind Hewlett-Packard after the latter's merger with Compaq in 2002.

    In 2006, Fortune magazine ranked Dell as the 25th-largest company in the Fortune 500 list, 8th on its annual [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/top20/ Top 20 list] of the most-admired companies in the United States. In 2007 Dell ranked 34th and 8th respectively on the equivalent lists for the year. A 2006 publication identified Dell as one of 38 high-performance companies in the S&P; 500 which had consistently out-performed the market over the previous 15 years.

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    1. With rising energy costs and global concerns over energy consumption and carbon footprint, data centers worldwide are prioritizing reduction in the cost of infrastructure cooling. Dell's Fresh Air cooling solution combined with servers using Intel Xeon processors running at higher ambient temperatures will provide a breakthrough in efficiency for data centers.
      Jason Waxman in Shifting to Chiller-Less Data
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      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 1 2012)

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    4. A CTO’s take on cloud

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    6. Cisco touts 10,000 UCS customers

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    7. CIO and Supply Chain Expertise = Dell's New CIO

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    10. 2011 – the year Ireland became ‘home of the cloud’

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    11. Oracle learns the dark side of hardware

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    12. Inside the New Data Center Supply Chain

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      Inside the New Data Center Supply Chain ... altered the traditional server supply chain. Rather than purchasing directly from OEMs like HP and Dell, companies like Google and Facebook have developed customer server designs and turned to original d... (Read Full Article)

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    13. Cloud News: Embrane, Dell, RightScale, Salesforce.com

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    14. IT Minds Quest for 'Holy Grail' of Data Center Metrics

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      IT Minds Quest for 'Holy Grail' of Data Center Metrics ...ackle it,” says John Pflueger, a Green Grid board member and principal environmental strategist for Dell. “And we quickly came to the realization that there were some really good reasons behind that.” ... (Read Full Article)

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    15. HPC News, SGI, Blue Waters, Dell

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      HPC News, SGI, Blue Waters, Dell ...ystems where projects are well-bounded with known workloads and customers they know and understand. Dell is putting together recipes for popular HPC apps in small, medium and large configurations. Each of... (Read Full Article)

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    16. Storage, Virtualization and Enhancing the Cloud

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