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Dell 'refining' plans for OpenStack-powered public cloud
Fresh off the acquisition of a company that specializes in helping customers manage resources across multiple public clouds, Dell said it is "refining" its own plans to build a public cloud based on OpenStack.
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Betfair selects VMware vCloud to speed app development
Online betting exchange Betfair has implemented VMware?s vCloud as its attempts to redefine its IT department as a ?service broker, delivering virtualised environments to its agile development team through software defined data centre tools.
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Dell, Canonical announce new Ubuntu 12.04 support for servers
Dell's 12th-generation PowerEdge server line now supports the use of Ubuntu 12.04 across the board, thanks to a new agreement between the hardware maker and developer Canonical that provides Ubuntu Advantage services to Dell's customers.
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Dell debuts public cloud service beta aimed at retailers
Dell has released a trial version of public cloud computing services aimed specifically at the retail industry, joining a handful of companies that are attempting to position their products and services to serve specific vertical niches in the cloud computing market.
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Dell may wait until end of year to launch public cloud
Dell may wait until the end of this year to launch its anticipated public cloud, a vice president with the company told ITWorld, a move that puts the company behind other big-name vendors that are already executing on their cloud strategies.
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Dell testing 64-bit ARM server with chip from AppliedMicro
Dell has built a prototype server based on a 64-bit ARM processor from Applied Micro Circuits, which showed the system at a conference in Silicon Valley on Thursday.
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AMD adds horsepower to servers with new 16-core Opteron chip
Advanced Micro Devices said Monday that it has added more horsepower to its chip lineup with new 16-core Opteron server chips based on the Bulldozer microarchitecture.
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Dell and IBM announce servers with new Intel Xeon chips
Dell and IBM have announced servers with Intel's latest Xeon server chips, which will bring faster throughput and memory allowing servers to take on more complex workloads while reducing data centre costs.
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Dell PowerEdge 12G server takes aim at new HP Proliant Gen8
Dell took shots at rival HP and made a further effort to reposition itself beyond its roots as a PC manufacturer with the release of its 12th generation blade, rack and tower PowerEdge servers along with native 10 Gigabit Ethernet support across its servers, storage and networking products.
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Brocade extends Fibre Channel connections to 32Gbps
Brocade Technologies, which announced 16Gbps (bit-per-second) Fibre Channel products on Monday, is already working on a 32Gbps version and expects to have it on the market within three years.
