Dell wants to purchase and manage the service provider SilverBack

Dell announces this week, this company has already signed the purchase agreement with private management service provider SilverBack Technologies Company, purchase the amount of money and has not revealed yet.

Dell say Dell offer platform include it in run, in order to support IT service of Dell service of SilverBack at news briefing. Dell has already offered for example the assets are replied and accepted and retrieved and served in the inner IT service, and purchased IT service company ACS of Britain in order to help the customer to Vista to move last year.

SilverBack Company was a service provider of management, developed into a software company gradually later. The manufacturer that this company offers service of controlling to the customer long-rangely to other hopes provides service and offers the platform. The administrative organ of the trade thinks the long-range monitoring software platform of SilverBack Company possesses the management server, ability of storing, security, network, desktop and note-book apparatus, can further strengthen Dell’s service ability.

The administrative staff Jeff Kaplan of ThinkStrategies advisory company says: ” I hope Dell can utilize the resources of SilverBack Company to increase this new level of supervisory service in his product mix ” . Dell has unique advantages in utilizing SilverBack resources, because its traditional marketing way that is sold directly to households helps it to form close relation with customer.

But, Kaplan points out too, the ones that seem not to expect in efforts substantially as attempting to enter and manage the service field by purchasing and utilizing NetSolve resources in Cisco of other manufacturers succeed like that. He say Dell must cooperate and keep lasting support of relation organize staging with customer actively to it. Even so, this purchase has positive meanings, Kaplan thinks, because more manufacturers have realized that it is even more important to offer IT service compared with technology.

Dell’s achievement exceeds expectancy In order to enlarge and claim to cut down by 10%

Dell claims on Thursday, as the company finishes to the dishonest investigation of the financial affairs, in order to increase the benefit, the company determines to cut down 10% of the personnel. Dell has 88100 staff at present.

Dell claim, reduce the staff, work future 12 launch month in one statement, involve each area in the world, each customer and subdivide market and each work position. This measure is that the company reduces a part of research and development of products and purchasing, service and support cost.

The chief executive officer Michael Dell claims while stating in one in writing, though it is very painful to reduce the staff, but ” we know and reduce the staff at present for us this time and the ability supplying customer with good service will be essential in the future ” .

The profit is 759 million dollars that the company also announces the first quarter for 2008 fiscal years, slightly drop compared with the same period of last year, the profit of last first quarter is 762 million dollars.

Dell sale camp charges 14,600 million dollars, earning per share is 34 cents, is higher than the analyst of Wall Street by anticipated 13,950 million dollars and 26 cents.

Though the achievement goes beyond financial expectancy, Dell still shows that in quarter to investigate 46 million dollars of expenditure for accountant and financial statements. U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission put forward to Dell and addressed inquires to in 2006, Dell investigated to this internal financial affairs at the beginning. Dell can only submit the preliminary financial result of Thursday and is due to this situation, this is serial the fourth time of Dell to have formal report form submitted through auditing.

Dell announces the market strategy of Project Hybrid enterprise

In order to recapture the lost market, Dell announced Project Hybrid on Thursday, namely sell strategy on user’s market of enterprise after revising.

Hewlett-Packard and IBM have been having an advantage on user’s market of enterprises all the time, a little better on some markets than Dell, this is not any secret. According to cheif technology officer Kevin Kettler of Dell, Dell has 85% of the incomes to come from commercial users instead of consumers, perhaps just because this just promotes Dell to revise it to the selling strategy of user’s market of enterprises.

Though without concrete products detail, only from the viewpoint of strategy, Dell seems to march in two directions at the same time. It introduce professional service, contend for markets with Hewlett-Packard and IBM, attempt, let, sell mode directly to households, radiate new student again through simplify way to purchase procedure at the same time.

Because enterprises need more comprehensive products and hope to have more chances to face the manufacturer directly, selling the mode directly to households perhaps will be eliminated by the market, because it lacks the technical support before buying. Dell hopes to substitute the mode that sold the one-off products directly in the past by selling the intact solution, thus simplify the customer’s purchase procedure. For example, Kettler has been referred to according to virtual requirement but pre- disposition hardware device of optimization.

New software, service and systematic the intersection of framework and together so as to solve the particular enterprise demand integration Project Hybrid, such as question of the infrastructure capacity,etc..

Dell joins Linux alliance of Microsoft – Novell

Dell Company announced yesterday, would join Windows-Linux cooperative programme initiated by Microsoft and Novell. It is reported, as a part of cooperative agreement, some enterprise layer customers that Dell will not have used Linux yet for it buy SuSE Linux Enterprise Server certificate from hands of Microsoft.
Since Microsoft and Novell established the cooperative alliance about WIndows and Linux last November, Dell has the first joined the hardware manufacturer of this alliance. Dell hopes to so as to meet customer’s operation question each other to WIndows and Linux. Dell thinks, the customers are the inducement that they make this decision to Microsoft – Novell cooperative enthusiasm.
According to joining the clause, Dell has already set up the marketing team of customer of a SuSE Linux Enterprise, the target target is ” Those are not Dell Linux customers’ Linux users yet ” . Authorize and become the key: Dell has been already offering Linux edition from Red Hat to its customer, but these Off-The-Shelf customers will not probably become this target of the new marketing activity.
Joined the detail about fund input in the clause, Dell was not revealed.
First cooperation between this not these companies. Once this kind of cooperation of the backout of Dell, but was keeping the cooperation relation with Novell and Microsoft alone.

Dell joins Linux cooperative alliance of Microsoft – Novell

Dell will support the cooperation relation based on Windows-Linux system established between Microsoft and Novell Company. Dell shows on Monday, as a part of trade, Dell will buy Suse Linux Enterprise Server certificate from Microsoft for those enterprise customers who no longer use Linux system.

Last November, Microsoft with the intersection of Novell and Company reach union development and market, can make Windows steady in coordination with cooperative agreement of product of homework in system and the intersection of Linux and system. As a part of that cooperative agreement, Microsoft agrees to provide the patent application for user of Novell Company Suse Linux Enterprise to compensate. Dell the first joins the hardware manufacturer of this alliance, it shows in the statement that hopes to borrow Windows purchase volume of improving the customer in coordination with homework ability between a system and Linux system.

Dell claims, a lot of customers are very enthusiastic to the agreement between Microsoft – Novell Company, this too makes it make one of the key factors of this decision.

According to the stipulations of agreement clause, Dell will set up the marketing group of customer of a Suse Linux Enterprise, ” those are not Dell Linux customers’ Linux users ” Serve. The qualification is very key: Dell has already offered a very competitive red cap Linux products to the customers of it enterprise. So the existing customer will not be a target consumer of the new sales-force.

Dell has not revealed the relevant financial clauses of this agreement.

These companies had ever cooperated too in the past. At present, Dell keeps partnership relation with Microsoft and Novell Company separately.

It is fanatic bean vermicelli that Ubuntu puts out new edition Linux Dell CEO

Thursday, having released 7.04 latest editions in Ubuntu Linux operating system from South Africa, chief executive officer Michael and Dell of Dell has joined ” has a taste of a delicacy ” too Clan.

According to the nomenclature of South Africa Canonical Company’s extremely rich individual character, the operating system of the new edition is named as ” Feisty Fawn ” ,It means ” A young deer having the fidgets ” . Before this, the bean vermicelli of a lot of Ubuntu has been already looking forward to the introduction of the operating system of the new edition.

It is said, can not rank because of downloading user’s quantity, the website of Canonical Company and a plurality of mirror image websites even the shutdown phenomenon has appeared. Monitor the company Pingdom according to websites to find, the website Thursday of this Linux manufacturer even reaches BanTian.

Company’s chief executive officer can hold horse easily Vorse shows, they have set up more than 160 mirror image websites altogether, but the visit capacity of the same day is unexpected and high, cause some websites to be unable to satisfy visiting demand, he shows, it is estimated website’s congestion will not be extended for a long time.

It is reported, operate the virtual technology of system support in new edition and can operate other operating systems, in addition, the software of new edition has also increased and collapsed and reported the function, in order to analyze the software question. However, hold 3D user interface that Vorse represented easily originally and has not risen to the operating system of the new edition yet.

What deserves to be mentioned is, Ubuntu operating system obtained a famous ” VIP customer ” . Originally, chief executive officer Michael and Dell of Dell was the fanatic bean vermicelli of this operating system too, say on Wednesday, Dell has a notebook computer that installs new edition Ubuntu system now according to a blog of Dell.

Ask easily Vorse show, he does not have and Dell talks about the matters of the operating system, however, probably Dell will introduce the PC products which will install this operating system in the future.

The one well known is, while it is that users feedback the opinion to collect before this, some users reflect, hope Dell can sell the PC that installs Linux operating system, reply it is that Dell offer later being positive,however, company which kind of operating systems of increasing income adopted at present or one of mysteries.

Ubuntu operating system begins to consider aiming at the market of server too besides personal user’s market. Thursday, Sun Company of this company announces, their Java relevant software of the integrated Sun Company in the operating system of the new edition.

Source: eNet

Dell appoints long first chief marketing Finish the high tube to adjust

Dell appoint Monday the intersection of high tube and the intersection of mark and Jia link Sri Lankan (Mark Jarvis) in front of the inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells The chief marketing is long.

The Buddhist nun of Dell’s spokesman Devi Cox (Dwayne Cox) Show, it is that Dell’s chief marketing of primary importance is long that Jia links Sri Lankan, will be mainly responsible for recombinating and optimizing the global marketing business of the company in the future. He will be to Dell CEO Michael and Dell (Michael Dell) directly Report. Jia links Sri Lankan and already goes to take office on this Monday, but up till now, he has not been interviewed by media yet. Before this, he has taken on chief marketing in the inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells for 14 years, left office in 2003, later served as a advisor.

Cox show, appoint Jia link Sri Lankan long as chief marketing, mean high tube of Dell since last year change and already finish. In this adjustment, Michael and Dell comes out of retirement and takes up an official post again, takes over Kevin and Rollins (Kevin Rollins) Take up one’s post in the company CEO, hope to turn back the unfavorable situation that Dell’s achievement increase weakly, market share falls. In recent months, Dell dug the multidigit heavyweight high tube from companies such as Motorola and Solectron,etc.. Last December, Dell appoint the intersection of ARM and the intersection of Carlos and base of a fruit, Donald of CEO, (Donald Carty) in front of the group It is CFO.

Source: Sina’s science and technology

Dell claims the framework type server is superior to the knife-blade server

Dell high tube claim on Tuesday, in some cases, the intersection of framework type and server of Dell can save the expenses than IBM or knife-blade server of Hewlett-Packard for the intersection of enterprise and data centre of customer.

PowerEdge server business representative Jay Parker of Dell’s products group claims to a lot of reporters on Tuesday: “Hewlett-Packard and IBM say their customer both begin to change the used server into the knife-blade server that they introduce. In fact the customers have no choice at all, that is almost a one command. ”

Parker explains, though the knife-blade server is a little smaller than the space that the framework type server accounts for, but the data centre of enterprises will install 20 knife-blade servers on a framework usually, in order to give play to the characteristic of the server as much as possible.

He says: “Under that kind of situation, you had better choose the framework type server, a little more higher because of their efficiency. ” Parker says, third party’s data show the result of framework type server system that the extra-high efficiency framework type server based on polykaryon processor that Dell produced is designed more than IBM and Hewlett-Packard Rate should be 15% high, and the power consumption is a little lower instead.

Parker, while making the above-mentioned judgement, Dell has introduced two server products newly: PowerEdge 2970 and PowerEdge Energy Smart 2970. These two servers adopt Opteron processor of AMD Company, have electric ME of the newest trends. These two sections of server maximum can reduce 34% of the power consumption, twice of Dell’s server products before each watt characteristic can reach at the same time.

Though Dell sells the knife-blade server, but Parker says Dell plans to take framework type and double groove framework type server of single groove based on binuclear and four kernel processors as the core and construct a server product mix.