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Filed under Dell by Laptop Landing on May 23, 2013 at 3:33 pm
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More than ever, IT organizations and the people they serve are experiencing disruption and change at an accelerating pace. IT decision making is being shaped by the forces of BYOD, personal cloud services and a Millennial generation with new ideas about where, when and how work is done.
Fortunately, Dell and Citrix are bringing new end to end desktop virtualization solutions to our partners to enable you to help your customers navigate this sea change into new, highly mobile work styles. Dell Cloud Client Computing solutions enable any user to access their apps and desktop on any device, and this week at Citrix Synergy, we announced game-changing infrastructure, software, and end point solutions available to our PartnerDirect community:
Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DVS) Enterprise Integrated Storage solution: Utilizing Citrix XenDesktop 7 and a single Dell PowerEdge R720 rack server, deploy virtual desktops to up to 90 users without need for a SAN (Storage Area Network) which can reduce the hardware cost of deploying VDI by 50%. Winner of the 2013 “Best of Synergy” award for desktop virtualization!
DVS Enterprise - Active System 800: A pre-integrated, pre-validated, converged Active Infrastructure platform combining Dell 12g rack and blade servers, EqualLogic storage, and Force10 networking with Dell Active Systems Manager infrastructure management software and Citrix XenDesktop 7 virtualization software. This helps you and your customers accelerate the deployment and configuration of VDI while maximizing efficiency, and delivering predictable and reliable applications and desktops to end users.
Virtual GPU support via DVS Enterprise for Citrix XenDesktop with NVIDIA GRID technology: DVS Enterprise has incorporated and validated NVIDIA GRID K1 and K2 boards to deliver high performance 3D graphics and multimedia workloads running in virtual desktop and application environments. DVS Enterprise with GRID technology allows users to securely access graphics intensive and rich Windows applications and desktops from any location and on virtually any device, while providing IT departments with the ability to centrally host and manage sensitive user data and resources.
Support for Unified Communications with Microsoft Lync: End-to-end unified communications solutions and support with DVS Enterprise and Dell Wyse solutions for Microsoft Lync 2010, enabling your customers to extend the range of applications they can deliver to include voice, data, collaboration, and video teleconferencing within their VDI environment.
Dell Wyse Xenith Pro 2 zero client: Purpose-built for Citrix environments, Dell’s first dual-core zero client is a high performance endpoint featuring ultra-secure firmware and an unrivaled user experience ideal for unified communications, HD multimedia creation and consumption, and other applications where end user experience is vital.
So why is this important for our partners? Simple- by enabling new use cases for VDI by supporting virtualized graphics and UC, reducing the price of entry with our integrated storage solution, by making it easier to deploy and manage using the Dell Active Infrastructure platform, we’re expanding the addressable market for desktop virtualization so you have a broad and deep set of customers to enable by working hand in hand with Dell.
Our goal is to enable our partner community with the knowledge and tools needed to configure, sell, and deploy desktop virtualization solutions to your customers, and I invite you to visit our Cloud Client Computing portal or join the discussion in the PartnerDirect TechCenter community to learn more.
Filed under Dell by Laptop Landing on May 23, 2013 at 11:36 am
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Note from Editor: This post was co-authored with Bill Evans, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Identity and Access Management.
This year’s release of SharePoint 2013 and Office 365, the fifth major release of Microsoft’s flagship collaboration system, extends the platform’s reach beyond the traditional data center to the cloud, with Office 365. At the same time, they’ve added a host of new features for apps, search, business intelligence, and social that will bring even more users than ever before. Support for functions like Remote Blob Storage “RBS” (managed by our own Storage Maximizer) makes SharePoint the one-size-fits-all enterprise content management system.
Want to centralize all those legacy file servers? How about giving users a versioned, searchable, synchronized personal cloud to replace all those local C-drive files? Or, consolidating a patchwork of internal and external legacy ECM and SharePoint internal and external sites?
Done and done. That’s why SharePoint is projected to keep growing beyond its current 165 million user base at a rate of about 32 percent. (More than 43 percent for cloud users!)
Fantastic. So, you’ve moved all your content into SharePoint 2013. And you think the security makes sense. Are you sure?
Try this. Go to the snazzy new SharePoint search screen and type “show me where all the PII lives, and who can see it.”
Ok, you’re back. Didn’t work, did it?
That’s because SharePoint’s default interfaces are only based on the outside surfaces of things. We can see site level security, document ACLS, individual users, and file names. But that’s not enough. To govern the data on SharePoint, you need to go inside the information. Looking at files from “outside the hatch” isn’t enough.
Is it OK to have PII, PCI, PHI and the rest in SharePoint? Sure. I’m 99 percent confident that most SharePoint farms have at least one file with a Social Security number inside, for example. But that leads to two broad questions:
- Who can see it, and why? Understanding users and roles is essential to managing their access. Some classes of users may need a lot of access to PII. Others may only have rights to see their own PII. SharePoint allows for inherited hierarchical permissions as well as custom ACLs. Microsoft’s classic definitions for SharePoint governance talk at length about processes and roles. Let’s assume the permissions are “wrong” – you also need to understand whether the document owner gave the permissions directly, or if the content lives on a SharePoint site that is widely shared.
- Where is all that sensitive data? Obviously, it’s not easily searchable. However, understanding its location on the farm matters. A lot.
A credit card number on a bill-of-sale document in the account processing department internal site probably makes sense. On a document in the FAQ area of a public facing web site? Probably not.
In the end, SharePoint is user software. In my experience, a lot of the need for governance arises from accidents and misunderstanding – not malice. In the SharePoint business, we talk a lot about three steps of governance:
- Awareness – Reporting and viewing data and activity – incident detection
- Action – Solving immediate issues in the system
- Policy – Over time, consistently reinforcing proper usage, and preventing “wrong” actions
The first step is knowing you have a problem. Information governance – data governance – requires a broad, consistent set of tools to let you see the results of all those thousands of SharePoint users in your farm, without it, you are putting your organization at risk.
Filed under Dell by Laptop Landing on May 22, 2013 at 6:27 pm
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There is a lot of cognitive dissonance and speculation in the market about Dell’s announcement this week to service public cloud customers by engaging partners.
I’d like to offer up a few comments on the resulting feedback I’ve received from customers, partners and in the media to help set the record straight.
First, this in no way, affects Dell’s commitment to the OpenStack platform or community. In fact, this week we announced that we are leading the effort to enable Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V on OpenStack, a request we’ve heard from our customers and those looking to enter the OpenStack community.
Over the years, we’ve listened to our customers and learned that they are creating private clouds and want to diversify their use of public clouds. And we have developed an engineering culture that enables our customers to leverage OpenStack, even in unconventional situations, to become productive quickly and in an agile fashion. Our goal is to make our customers happy and productive, while we work to help the community thrive and grow. We are investing time and resources to that end, and will continue to invest in a strong and vibrant center of excellence for cloud innovation and development for OpenStack, and as well as private cloud solutions in general.
More generally, we have been a committed member of the OpenStack movement since it started in 2010, and have been on the forefront of delivering solutions in the space, such as the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution and the open source project, Crowbar. We are gold members of the OpenStack Foundation, and proudly have two seats on the Foundation’s Board of Directors. We also host the monthly OpenStack meetup in Austin, and have a variety of our product team engaged in various aspects of the technology and the community.
Dell absolutely believes in technology and community, and we will continue to support, innovate, and develop solutions with OpenStack going forward. Dell is 100% committed to open source, meritocracy, and OpenStack. No question about it.
Filed under Dell by Laptop Landing on May 22, 2013 at 2:12 pm
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Filed under Dell by Laptop Landing on May 22, 2013 at 1:00 pm
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In the late 1950s, United States Air Force Lt. Col. Carroll Payne worked closely with the families of several crew members who were killed in an aircraft accident. Saddened by the survivors’ financial difficulties, and eager to help other military families effectively prepare for their financial futures, Lt. Col. Payne began laying the groundwork for the company that would ultimately become First Command. Since then, First Command has grown, helping government and military families as they navigate through the unique changes and circumstances of their lives.
First Command continues to constantly look for ways to help improve the financial well-being of their customers but found that it was expensive to deploy each new IT application in order to support this. Kevin Dunn, VP for Business Information Services – Infrastructure and Operations, commented that “We had to buy new equipment to support every new development and testing project and the costs were often impossible to justify.” Rather than giving the business greater flexibility to support their customers – the provisioning of each new IT application was the bottleneck and would reduce operational efficiency.
After evaluating a number of available technologies – Dunn saw that Dell could deliver a virtualized infrastructure that would allow for them to provision IT resources on demand. The Dell virtualized environment was able to provide First Command a flexible pool of IT resources internally from which they were able to spin up a virtual machine to support projects in a matter of hours, and at no extra cost. They could ramp up two options on an application, choose the best option and then deploy. This took an 8 week process dramatically down to a matter of days or less.
To provide the connectivity needed for this environment, First Command deployed Dell Networking MXL 10/40 Gigabit Blade Switches and Dell Networking S4810 Top-of-Rack network switches alongside Dell Networking M6348 Ethernet Blade Switches in its M10000E server chassis. This provided 40 GB to the storage fabric, and 10G switching for east/west traffic giving extremely low latency across the virtualized infrastructure.
Dunn was particularly impressed with Dell’s ability to work with other partners and deliver a remarkably interoperable solution. The Dell Networking MXL and S4810 provide native support for VMware vSphere – making it fast and simple to build and deploy a virtualized server environment using VMWare with Dell able to fully represent and support the entire solution. Dunn comments “with Dell Networking, we’ve converged traffic from our fiber-channel and data networks onto a single, cost-effective, converged IP platform.”
You can read more about First Command via this link or by clicking the image below. Continue the conversation by following @DellNetworking on Twitter.
Filed under Dell by Laptop Landing on May 22, 2013 at 12:10 pm
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Even since Project Avalon was announced in May 2012 at Synergy San Francisco, BYOD, management, and graphic-intensive workloads have emerged as critical aspects of desktop virtualization deployments.
At Dell Cloud Client Computing, we are committed to improving the desktop virtualization experience and we work to deliver these critical capabilities customers want most. The improved high-definition Citrix HDX technology in the newly announced Citrix XenDesktop 7 addresses the challenge inherent in using full versions of Windows applications on mobile devices. And, with the integration of Citrix Unified Storefront, users can access both their apps and their workplace desktops seamlessly.
XenDesktop 7 is built on the new Citrix FlexCast architecture that enables cloud-style simplicity, automation and scale for apps, virtual desktops and Remote Desktop Services (RDS). XenDesktop 7 also supports graphic-intensive apps by leveraging hardware acceleration technologies including GPU pass-through and HDX 3D.
Citrix and Dell are working together to help organizations become more productive, bringing innovation and customer insights into our cost effective, easy to deploy and manage solutions.
Dell Cloud Client Computing offers a proven end-to-end approach that incorporates data center components, services, software, and the most powerful Dell Wyse cloud clients available today. All Cloud Client Computing components will support XenDesktop 7. Dell will be among the first Citrix Ready partners to integrate XenDesktop 7, benefiting our Citrix customers and their ROI.
Dell Cloud Client Computing will continue to evolve and lead the charge into the next-generation of end-user computing, giving your organization and your users the power to do more.
Filed under Dell by Laptop Landing on May 22, 2013 at 12:00 pm
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Today at Citrix Synergy, Dell introduced the latest addition to its family of end-to-end efficient, affordable, and secure virtual desktop infrastructure solutions, Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DVS) Enterprise Integrated Storage for Citrix XenDesktop 7. The new solution uses local storage, lowering the barrier to entry for organizations interested in moving to cloud client computing. Awarded Best in Show in the Virtualization category at Citrix Synergy 2013, the solution is a game changer that lowers the cost of desktop virtualization infrastructure while retaining essential enterprise functionality in an easy-to-use configuration.
Using local storage reduces the cost of hardware acquisition for DVS Enterprise from $400 to less than $200 per user. This more than 50 percent cost savings makes desktop virtualization a reality for a wider range of organizations while providing them with the tools to work securely and productively in any location with a broad range of applications.
Small and medium businesses that would benefit from the flexibility of desktop virtualization may be deterred from implementing a virtual desktop environment because of the perceived high upfront cost. Dell’s Integrated Storage solution enables growing businesses to scale their virtual desktop adoption as they add users and upgrade as their needs grow. This option also gives organizations such as government, finance, or healthcare, the ability to pilot virtual desktops and build their business case without risking a large upfront investment.
Integrated Storage configuration for DVS Enterprise
DVS Enterprise Integrated Storage solution is a comprehensive enterprise-class solution designed to be simple to plan, order, deploy, support, and expand. Key specifications include:
- Citrix XenDesktop 7: This powerful combination provides an unmatched range of application support in a VDI environment with a best-in-class management experience.
- Dell PowerEdge R720 rack server with local tier 1 storage: By building the solution on a rack server instead of a blade server (which is the standard for existing solutions in the industry), Dell enables customers to provision compute and management functions on a single server.
- Entry Level Configuration: DVS Enterprise Integrated Storage solution starts with infrastructure that supports as few as 50 users and can be scaled to support thousands of users. Suited for organizations looking for a low cost on-ramp to desktop virtualization running XenDesktop, they can take advantage of the combination of enterprise features and low cost of implementation, and scale with Dell as they grow.
DVS Enterprise Integrated Storage solution is one of many new cloud client computing solutions Dell announced today at Citrix Synergy for Citrix virtualized desktop environments to enable increasingly mobile and cloud-based work styles. Dell and Citrix continue to build on their strategic partnership by creating new joint initiatives and tools designed to reduce the cost and complexity of managing a desktop virtualization environment.
Dell is showcasing new solutions for Citrix at Citrix Synergy this week. If attending Synergy, stop by booth #200 for more details.
Pricing and Availability
DVS Enterprise Integrated Storage solution for Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 is available immediately in US, UK, France, Netherlands, and Germany. Citrix XenDesktop 7 will be available Q2. Pricing begins at less than $200 per seat.
Filed under Dell by Laptop Landing on May 22, 2013 at 10:00 am
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Dell, the International Institute for Analytics (IIA) and RainStor held a webinar last week titled “Banking on Big Data? Reduce Risk, Stay Compliant and Reduce Cost” to explore innovative ways in which banks can reduce the cost and complexity of retaining big data.
Regulatory compliance is driving the need for more holistic and regular reporting and auditing. This has contributed to a spike in the amount of data stored and the length of time it is stored, which makes the data increasingly more complex to manage and more difficult to derive business value from.
The IIA opened the webinar with an overview of the evolution of big data analytics from the IIA’s Analytics 1.0 era in the 1960’s (“Traditional Analytics”) to Analytics 2.0 in 2005 (“Big Data Analytics”) and, most recently, Analytics 3.0 (“Rapid Insights Providing Business Impact”).
“There is considerable evidence that we are entering into a new era: the era of Analytics 3.0,” said Sarah Gates, Vice President for Research at the IIA. “This environmental shift combines the best of what we saw in the 1.0 and 2.0 eras, the most important trait being that virtually any type of firm in any industry can participate in the data-driven economy now. If a company is willing to exploit the possibilities of big data, they can develop data-based offerings for their customers and to support internal decision with analytics.”
Dell and RainStor followed with an introduction of the Dell-RainStor Big Data Retention Solution – combining Dell storage (i.e. EqualLogic, Compellent and PowerVault), Dell Services, and RainStor database technology – which helps banks reduce the cost and complexity of retaining big data while also improving data retrieval and analysis.
“Big data has matured in a lot of ways,” said Remi Bello, Senior Consultant, Marketing Strategy and Analytics at Dell. “This has led us to believe that the conversation shouldn’t just be about big data but it should also be about actionable insights. So, what Dell seeks to do is to help our customers of all sizes turn big data into an advantage.”
RainStor closed the webinar with a discussion on ways in which its innovative database can help banks take the big out of big data.
“RainStor has been focused on financial services ever since the company was founded,” said Ramon Chen of IIA. “A lot of features and functionality that are in the RainStor product today were born specifically working with banking and financial services [firms].” If you missed out last week, watch the archived webinar and let me know what you think in the comments or at @Remi_Bello.
Filed under Dell by Laptop Landing on May 22, 2013 at 9:00 am
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Written by Kristin Bradfield - Dell OEM Business Development
Why we built the Dell 1130 1U Server
Code named “Dart Frog”, Dell built a 1U rugged server with a depth of less than 20 inches, optimized for harsh environments and space-constrained locations. The server is available to OEM customers with 4 standard configurations. The Dell 1130 serverwas a customer driven product with several use cases, including deployments in places such as remote data centers, transit case deployments for the Federal space, telecommunications and industrial automation. This is a powerful server in a small footprint that meets the durability, weight, and length requirements of many industry verticals.
Environmental Testing & Certification
It was important in building the Dell 1130 to undergo various temperature, shock, vibration and altitude tests, above and beyond the standard Data Center certifications. Certified by an accredited test facility, the 1130 is MIL-STD-810G shock and vibration tested, MIL-STD-901D shock compliance, and MIL-STD-810G altitude tested. It also has four high-power cooling fans allow for expanded thermal protection, including an 8-hour excursion to 122°F (50°C) and up to two Intel® Xeon® quad-core processors. Important for rugged hardware, we also offer dual hot-plug 470W power supplies as well as redundant cooling fans in the Dell 1130 with optimized power efficiency.
For more information on the Dell OEM 1130 1U, visit our website, download the standard configurations, view the spec Sheet or contact us directly.
Filed under Lenovo by Laptop Landing on May 21, 2013 at 4:10 pm
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