November, 2010

November 22, 2010 – Dell has announced two new partnership deals that it says will improve its competitiveness in cloud computing. The company has partnered with Joyent, a cloud computing software and service provider, and Aster Data, a data management and analytics firm, to deliver their technology through Dell’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) business. The… Read more ›

November 21, 2010 – Joyent’s Jason Hoffman likes to talk about the data center being the new box. I suggested a similar idea in July, noting that Microsoft is turning the cloud business into the PC business. The analogy goes that, with more organizations hosting applications in the cloud and data volumes skyrocketing, the cloud… Read more ›

November 20, 2010 – Dell doesn’t believe in The Big Switch. Company man Andy Rhodes denies the notion that the entire world will move its IT infrastructure onto so-called cloud computing services along the lines of Amazon’s EC2. As you might expect. Read More

November 19, 2010 – Dell makes a good chunk of change off selling servers. The Texas-based company raked in $1.8 billion off server sales in the last quarter alone — which was up 20 percent from $1.5 billion the same quarter a year earlier. Read More