Dell Weekly Recap: News & Customer Spotlight (May 24 Edition)

Dell Weekly Recap: News & Customer Spotlight

Welcome to the latest edition of Dell’s Weekly Recap, your guide to the week's Dell-related news and happenings.

TOP STORY OF THE WEEK

Dell aims to cut desktop reliance with workstation for data centers

Praised for computing power and compact design, the Dell Precision workstation portfolio has been announced with models including the smallest available tower workstations, the T1700 small form-factor and T1700 mini-tower, in addition to the R7610, which is currently the world’s most powerful rack workstation.

DELL CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT

The Singapore Exchange (SGX)

The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has moved its clearing and settlement operations from an IBM mainframe running zOS to commodity Linux servers to improve the post-trade services and achieve straight-through processing…SGX evaluated several services organizations before choosing Clerity Solutions in Chicago, which was acquired by Dell and became Dell Services. It helped migrate SGX’s entire mainframe complex, including key applications like clearing and settlement, third-party tools and utilities, and server and storage resources to a flexible open systems environment with minimum customer impact.

5 STORIES ABOUT DELL

First Impressions: Dell XPS 18 Portable All-in-OneForbes

The Dell XPS 18 portable all-in-one has been praised for its “thoughtful, alluring design,” its flexibility as a tool for work or entertainment, and a form factor “that’s truly powerful and portable.”

Betting big on SoftwareDataQuest

Offering customers new ways to unlock business opportunities, Dell’s strategic mix of software, services and integrated solutions ensures that the company is uniquely positioned to tackle key enterprise IT trends such as cloud computing, security and BYOD.

Small businesses describe technology as strategic, but lack dedicated resourcesZDNet

U.S. national startups and small businesses are optimistic and are investing in technology to help fuel their growth according to Dell’s recently released State of U.S. Small Businesses research report.

In search of virtualisation nirvanaIT Web

As virtual network switching becomes increasingly important to the enterprise, Dell is leading discussions on virtual switches and is called out as a company to watch in the virtualization market.

Dell Sheds VMware, Pushes IaaS to ChannelChannelnomics.com

Many Dell customers plan to expand their use of the public cloud, and benefit from collaboration across services. In order to provide a choice of vendors and freedom from lock-in to a single platform, Dell has announced a partner approach to its public cloud strategy.

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Press Release(s) (May 18 – May 24)

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