Dell, Microsoft to Develop Server Software
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Dell (Dell:Nasdaq - news - research) and Microsoft (MSFT:Nasdaq - news - research) are partnering to develop and sell software that makes it easier for large businesses to manage their servers, the two companies announced Monday.
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Microsoft and Dell are looking to merge their Systems Management Server and OpenManage suites to create a powerful, easy and cost-effective server management solution.
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On February 27, 2008, Microsoft will jointly release Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008, kicking off what it calls a "launch wave" with hundreds of events worldwide. Microsoft will pitch the products as a platform for next-generation Web service applications.
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Google Inc.  and Dell Inc.   said on Thursday that the No. 1 personal computer  maker will install Google software on its systems, potentially  dealing a blow to Microsoft Corp. .
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Former Microsoft senior vice president Brad Silverberg and some ex-BEA executives are teaming up to launch an open-source company that aims to become the Dell of the softwareï¿½industry.
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A software tools maker is staking its future on helping developers prepare for streamlined coding for Web services (define) as well as Avalon, the graphics display component in the works for Longhorn, Microsoft&#39;s next version of Windows.
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Dell and Microsoft have teamed up to develop a combined enterprise IT management tool designed to offer a single point of administration for hardware and software.
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Dell will roll out a line of servers preconfigured with Microsoft's SQL Server database.
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Microsoft is preparing a wave of enterprise products, including the long-awaited update to Windows Server.
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(InfoWorld) - DellÂ and MicrosoftÂ rolled out a new storage system on Wednesday for file and application data that integrates hardware and software from both vendors. The system pairs Dell's PowerVault NX1950, a serial-attached SCSI (SAS) back-end storage array that can use up to 45 drives, with Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003, a file server and package of management tools. The companies said the paired products are aimed at the midrange and include advanced management tools. Together, the products eliminate the need for separate licenses for additional features such as snapshots, replication and resource management. The system starts at $17,000 with a configuration for 4.5TB of storage at $24,000. It will work with Windows, Unix, Linux, and Macintosh systems. Dell also announced a new member to its PowerVault line, the MD3000, aimed for high-performance tasks such as serving up video or applications with high transactional performance needs, such as databases and e-mail. The company said the product is the first external RAID (redundant array of independent disks) SAS array from a Tier 1 vendor. The MD3000 is capable of 1,400MBps of throughput and approximately 90,000 input/output operations per second, Dell said. Pricing for the MD3000 starts at $6,499. Â
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems Inc. will begin building servers with one-time foe Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system installed directly inside of them, instead of forcing customers to install the ubiquitous software on their own or defect to a competitor for one-stop shopping.
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To help ensure that Windows Server 2008 won't lack for compatible software, Microsoft released a beta version of a tool that can check whether applications will work with the upcoming OS.
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Host Depot announced today that they are launching a new next generation dedicated server offering. The new products will be powered by Dells' new PowerEdge(TM) server line.
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Microsoft will come out with a special version of Windows next year for clusters, but it won&#39;t run on Intel&#39;s most powerful server chip, at least for now.
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Dell CEO Michael Dell&#160;plans to announce a series of new products aimed at making life easier for IT managers.The announcement of these products is scheduled to happen during a keynote by Dell at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Nov. 14.&quot;What you&#39;re going to hear Michael talk about ... is some real products and services coming down the pipe here very shortly on how we simplify IT for customers of all sizes,&quot; said Brad Anderson, senior vice president and general manager of Dell&#39;s Business Products Group, during an interview.Among the products and services that Dell plans to announce are a cheaper and simpler virtualization product, new blade servers for large datacenters, and IT support services for small companies that face the same challenges confronted by corporations with large IT departments but don&#39;t have the same resources, Anderson said.The ultimate aim of these products and services is to help reduce the costs companies bear when they purchase new computers or roll out new software applications.&quot;You&#39;ve got to think about how customers procure [IT products like a server], how they deploy it, how they manage it on an ongoing basis, how they dynamically reconfigure it for their changing requirements, and maybe how they retire it,&quot; Anderson said. &quot;How can we really streamline and simplify each step of that lifecycle so the customer invests less of his or her money to go do those things?&quot;This effort to make lives easier for IT managers will start at the manufacturing level, where Dell is offering customers the ability to have PCs and servers shipped with software applications pre-installed and tested, Anderson said.&#160;
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Dell (Quote, Chart) officials announced Wednesday an agreement with Linux distributor Novell (Quote, Chart) to distribute and support SUSE Enterprise Server 9 on its single- and dual-processor line of servers.
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Dell Inc. chairman Michael Dell announced a long-term partnership between his company and other hardware and software vendors to develop best practices in deploying a grid computing infrastructure.