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I'm a Notebook Hound. Laptops make me excited and the portable computer industry is awesome! Give me a Dell, Lenovo, MacBook, or iPad any day over sitting at a desk with a tower.
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Filed under Dell by Laptop Landing on May 3, 2012 at 4:05 pm
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Filed under Dell by Laptop Landing on May 3, 2012 at 4:05 pm
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As the Dell channel network continues to grow, our PartnerDirect partners are increasingly seeing the opportunity that packaging services with Dell’s industry-leading hardware solutions can present. By upgrading to Dell ProSupport, partners are finding they’re able to provide flexible support tailored to each customer’s needs, which builds trust and rapport and extends conversations that often become a springboard to additional services.
We’ve worked on some exciting projects with our partners on the services side, and we thought it was a good time to provide a refresher on Dell’s ProSupport offerings and highlight how they’re helping partners engage with their customers at a more strategic level. Many of our partners have reported that their customers are telling them they need to reduce downtime of critical business functions and they want to spend less time on maintenance to focus on more strategic initiatives. Plus, consistency and reliability are on the minds of IT execs more than ever.
Dell’s ProSupport service portfolio minimizes IT disruptions for your customers, while securing data and protecting hardware with industry award-winning support. Our partners can customize support programs to their customers’ needs – whether their IT departments are fully staffed, understaffed or somewhere in between. They have peace of mind knowing they can access highly trained technicians in an average of 2 minutes or less – 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
Dell ProSupport can also help your customers optimize their data centers with a set of optional services:
- Remote Advisory Services: service your customer’s technology with a specialized Dell technician assisting you from a remote location. You gain invaluable knowledge that you can leverage on similar projects in the future.
- Proactive Maintenance: reduce your customers’ unplanned downtime with scheduled assessments, streamlined patch management and detailed reporting.
- Proactive Systems Management for select Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell PowerVault storage arrays: use remote support features and receive email alerts and diagnostic information about potential problems – so issues can be stopped in their tracks.
While Dell’s basic support package offers partners a solid foundation for serving their customers and addressing issues that arise, upgrading to ProSupport gives partners a strategic weapon in their sales arsenal that can greatly impact the conversion of deals in the pipeline.
Our goal is to provide our partners differentiators that can help them close new business and build strong, long-term customer relationships. As a company, we are extremely proud of Dell’s peerless line of hardware solutions that set the industry standard for innovation and performance, and we take equal pride in our superior services portfolio. For PartnerDirect partners, leveraging ProSupport in conjunction with an array of Dell IT products enables them to sell strategic solutions that give them the best possible chance for short- and long-term success.
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As leader of Dell’s global giving efforts, I see the many ways our team members, technology and funding help bring the dreams of others to life. We support nonprofits in countries around the world: bringing technology access to students, supporting young social entrepreneurs, accelerating cancer treatment for children, and providing relief in times of disaster. Meeting our partners doing this work and hearing their stories is the best part of my job, and a true gift.
Last week, I shared some of those stories with a group of professional storytellers, the Austin Association of Women in Communications. Specifically, I spoke about the Dell Social Innovation Challenge, an ongoing competition that rewards aspiring entrepreneurs for developing ideas that address environmental and societal problems; Dell sponsors this program with the University of Texas at Austin. In June, we will meet high-potential students from around the world who pitch their ideas with hopes of taking home a portion of the $150,000 in cash prizes and Dell technology to help bring their dreams to fruition.
Last year, we met Malo Traders, two brothers who work to ensure that rice farmers in Mali are better nourished; they fortify rice with minerals and vitamins, creating a brand of Malian rice that adheres to international export quality standards. We met Daniel Paffenholz, a London School of Economics student and founder of TakaTaka Solutions, which provides affordable and responsible waste management services to Nairobi residents by recycling and composting up to 85 percent of collected waste. And we met two students from India providing hygienic sanitary napkins to women in slums across Delhi, while also giving them a sustained means of livelihood.
It is truly inspirational to meet university students who are moved to act and make their ideas a reality. I think back to my college days, and I can’t imagine going to school and starting an entrepreneurial venture. This year’s competition has more than 1,500 entries from 90 countries. Amazing!
In 2011, Dell committed $5 million over five years to enhance the program, moving it to a year-round, web-based community with resources and support for students at every level — whether they merely have a dream, or they’ve already built a business plan and are raising funds for a pilot. Dell team members engage as judges and mentors; more than 500 have helped this year. And a new web platform invites anyone in the world to participate. You can read about projects, offer comments and support, vote for People’s Choice Award winners, and sign up as a mentor at http://www.dellchallenge.org/.
Getting their stories told well and often is a big key to the students’ future success. So if you are looking for some inspiration and an opportunity to share your knowledge, please join us!
On the left is Julie Tereshchuk, President, AWC Austin on the right is Deb Bauer, Director of Giving, Dell.
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In the ever-changing world of business, you constantly need to maintain an edge over the competition. With the successful integration of Force10, Dell makes it easy for you to rule the roost and grow your business by becoming a Preferred or Premier Partner. Make no mistake; the Dell Networking Certification is unlike anything you've ever come across before. It offers serious benefits to your business, something you would not want to pass by.
To help you understand the importance of getting Dell Networking Certified, let’s look at the benefits of becoming a Dell Preferred or Premier Partner certified in Networking & Security:
- Free training: You’re good at what you do, but training can help you become even better. Dell extensively trains you, and the only investment it expects is a minimal part of your time.
- Good ROI: Dell gives you discounts on products along with great extended deals. This is a benefit exclusively meant for Preferred or Premier Partners. Though the discount may differ from country to country, you get enough and more to benefit from it.
- Earn Reward points: With the Dell Achievers programme, you can earn reward points for concluding sales; attending trainings; etc. These reward points can be redeemed for great benefits!
- Get marketing support: You get complete marketing assistance to plan and execute your marketing efforts. Also, the virtual marketing resource aids you in building an effective marketing plan.
- Increase leads: Usually, business leads don’t come easy. But now thanks to Dell Networking Certification, you’ll be the Partner of choice when it comes to introduction with existing customers.
- Privileged services: Make the most of Dell’s Partner Experience team. This team helps you with anything and everything - from knowing how to get Certified to providing quick and efficient answers to all your queries.
- Win over customers: If winning customers over is an art, then the Dell Networking Certification helps you master it very quickly. With training and support at every step, you’ll be able to maximize opportunities of converting potential clients into actual sales.
In short, becoming a Dell Preferred or Premier Partner certified in Networking is the best way to grow your business. Make the most of this opportunity. Get Networking Certified Now!
If you want to share your views or bring up questions, PartnerDirect LinkedIn group is the perfect forum for you. Do join us!
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This summer, Dell shared details of a series of thermal tests we conducted to validate that our PowerEdge servers could withstand higher temperatures without impacting performance. In our 12th generation of servers, launched in February, fresh air specifications were built into every platform. This means you can choose to raise the temperature in your data center to take advantage of the operational savings, you can gain additional ride-through time in the event your chiller goes down, or you might decide to build your next data center completely chiller-less – all with a variety of server form factors to choose from.
Cooling costs account for a significant portion of the energy consumption of a typical data center. It isn’t unusual for a hyperscale data center to build a chiller-less facility, relying solely on outside air for cooling, but it is fairly typical for these data centers to be built in northern climates to avoid the hot temperatures or high humidity levels found elsewhere. What about the rest of the world? Dell conducted an analysis of climate data from across the United States, Europe, and Asia and found that, for the widespread deployment of highly economized and even chiller-less data centers, IT equipment should be able to withstand short term excursions of up to 45C/113F. However, most commercially available IT equipment is rated at a maximum inlet temperature of only 35C.
Dell’s richly featured PowerEdge 1U, 2U, 4U, tower and blade servers provide greater opportunity to leverage fresh air cooling, without moving your operations to a frigid climate. Dell’s next generation servers are fresh air capable with a peak excursion temperature rating of 45C. And, Dell offers fresh air capable storage, networking, and power products to round out a complete chiller-less data center.
While delivering server and compute platforms for higher temperature operation increases business agility with reduced TCO, it also requires a review of the fabric foundation used to connect the business, and to determine if the same efficiencies can be extracted from networking solutions. Most commonly, network solutions such as switches are co-located with servers and storage in the racks, and a desired chiller-less rack solution can be rendered improbable if a single component is not qualified.
To complement Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell Networking solutions enable power and cooling efficiencies with select Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches, enabling the data center to realize and withstand higher temperatures. Dell PowerConnect switches currently support up to 45C/113F temperatures, and Dell next-generation Force10 switches will continue this trend of extended temperature support to support higher performance, flexible network fabrics for the data center.
Regardless of whether you are considering a chiller-less data center, one that is highly economized, or whether you are looking for data center hardware with additional environmental capability and ride-through time in the event of an HVAC failure, Dell’s servers are ready to meet your needs.
Check out this Dell video below that was recently featured on Data Center Knowledge, and visit our Fresh Air page on Dell.com to see what you could do with 45C.
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I am pleased to announce that the Dell vCloud Datacenter Service is now available to Dell customers in the Canadian market. This is a small step in the 2012 global rollout of the Dell vCloud to provide customers regional and global reach for cloud access.
The Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter is an enterprise-class, multi-tenant infrastructure as a service (IaaS) public cloud solution that is hosted in secured Dell data centers. With its unique hybrid-cloud capabilities, Dell vCloud provides you with the capability to extend your internal data center with Dell and VMware by transitioning your VMware virtualized workloads into our vCloud data center. This saves you the trouble of dealing with expensive transition costs normally associated with leaving one cloud and moving to another. With vCLoud, it’s as simple as power down your VM, copy over and power back up in either direction…IT efficiency across Clouds done! vCloud hosting provides you with a secure, manageable and flexible public cloud application.
For more information on the Dell vCloud, please visit our website, click on the image below, or contact your Dell sales account executive.
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As the Dell channel network continues to grow, our PartnerDirect partners are increasingly seeing the opportunity that packaging services with Dell’s industry-leading hardware solutions can present. By upgrading to Dell ProSupport, partners are finding they’re able to provide flexible support tailored to each customer’s needs, which builds trust and rapport and extends conversations that often become a springboard to additional services.
As leader of Dell’s global giving efforts, I see the many ways our team members, technology and funding help bring the dreams of others to life. We support nonprofits in countries around the world: bringing technology access to students, supporting young social entrepreneurs, accelerating cancer treatment for children, and providing relief in times of disaster. Meeting our partners doing this work and hearing their stories is the best part of my job, and a true gift.
