Dell to acquire Scalent
We announced today an agreement to acquire Scalent which provides software that makes data center infrastructure dynamic, easily scalable and highly efficient. We’ve been working on this for a while...
View ArticleIt’s now Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM)
From branding update and partnership, to fully acquired company. I didn’t have much to do with the Scalent acquisition apart from some technical due diligence and strategy, but I was delighted to learn...
View ArticleWSMAN for the masses
Well sort of. We are starting to hear a lot of questions and interest in our implementation of WSMAN on the Dell PowerEdge 11g management products. Chris Poblete, a development engineer in our team has...
View ArticleGot ServiceMix?
If you’ve been keeping an eye on the news and job position listings at Dell you’ll have seen a number of positions open-up over the last 3-months for Java and Service Bus developers, not to mention our...
View ArticleBlades a go-go in Austin
We’ve been working on some interesting technology prototypes of our common software architecture. It forms the core of the “Maverick” virtualization solution, the orchestrator for the Dell Virtual...
View ArticleDell’s Virtual Integrated System
Open, Capable, Affordable - Dell VIS It’s always interesting travel, you learn so many new things. And so it was today, we arrived in Bangalore yesterday to bring two of the sprint teams in our...
View ArticleSenior Architect – Enterprise Systems Management and more
With things really rolling here at Dell on the software front we are still in the process of hiring,and are looking for some key people to fit into, or lead teams working on current and future software...
View ArticleWhat’s on your glass?
James Governor, @monkchips, makes some great points about UI design in his latest blog post. James discusses how Adobe is changing it’s toolchain to better support, endorse HTML5 and how open is a...
View ArticleSimplicity versus, well non-simplicity
I’ve had an interesting week, last Friday my corporate Blackberry Torch that was only 2-months old, was put in a ziploc bag with my name on it, and I was given a Dell Venue Pro phone with Windows Phone...
View ArticleSimplicity – It’s a confidence trick
My friend, foil and friendly adversary James Governor posted an blog entry today entitled “What if IBM Software Got Simple?“ It’s an interesting and appealing topic. It was in some respects what got in...
View ArticleNew Servers, New Software and more
Dell announced Monday our Dell PowerEdge 12th Generation Servers and always, the hardware garnered much of the interest, it’s tangible and you can see it, as in this picture of my boss and Dell VP/GM...
View ArticleDell Software – Accelerating Results
Today was a major day for Dell Software group. Out in San Francisco many of our team and some great customers, were talking about real Dell Software products. Why was this major? Because it wasn’t...
View ArticleMore on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX
While my blog is called “Adventures in SystemsLand” while I’ve diverted off to another one of those occasional career tracks that has me working in a non-systems area, it remains something I will...
View ArticleResponse time monitoring for AJAX and Javascript
[Updated 10/31, 7:50pm central] John Newsom, VP of our APM (Application Performance Monitoring) team has had a great overview of the issues and challenges around Web 2.0 monitoring published in The...
View ArticleDell Software VP: lightweight app monitoring is, well, just too lightweight –...
Good interview with Steve Rosenberg on our App monitoring strategy, approach. Dell Software VP: lightweight app monitoring is, well, just too lightweight – CWDN.
View ArticleJoin the Foglight beta
If you read the prior post, a Q&A with our VP of Monitoring, Steve Rosenberg and want to know more, or would just like to try our future Foglight app monitoring solution out, it’s now available in...
View ArticleIBM 3090 Training
Between 2001 and 2004, I had an office in the home of the mainframes, IBM Poughkeepsie, in Building 705. As a Brit’, it wasn’t my natural home, also, I wasn’t a developer or a designer, as a software...
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