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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

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However, in the software domain, each still relies on multiple individual products to accomplish tasks such as SW provisioning, HA/availability, VM management, load balancing, etc. In comparing it to the Dell, HP, and IBM systems I've managed in the past I certainly have developed a love for how logically it's laid out.

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Todays announcement marks a modest but meaningful step in Egeneras relationship with Dell, and in overall Simplification of IT. If you dont believe Dell hardware is ready for the Data Center, then think again. Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I posted a Blog outlining Dell & Egeneras latest Datacenter-in-a-Box offering. The Dell PAN offering unifies 12 of the 13 functions, and provides them from within a single console is called PAN Manger. Big Data. (6).