Dell rolls out storage, servers and cloud brokerage
November 6, 2014
Grazed from The Australian. Author: Stuart Kennedy.
An upbeat Mr Dell took Dell private a year ago and was touting the ability of his firm to bring products to market quicker than as a public company. He described the new DCS XA90 storage unit as being capable of holding 90 3.5-inch drives in one 4U chassis and able to store 720 terabytes.
“This thing is cloud scale storage to the max,” said Mr Dell at the firm’s annual Dell World user and partner event in Austin, Texas. Dell also announced a number of fresh servers and an all flash memory storage array that sells for about US$25,000. Mr Dell described it as the cheapest all flash array from any major vendor…
The company switched on the beta of a new cloud brokerage service where users could select cloud computing from a range of vendors including AWS and Microsoft. The brokerage is so far only available to US customers. The reworked Venue 11 Pro 7000 tablet packs one of Intel’s new Core M processors which are designed to run in tablet and ultrabook PCs without the need for a noisy cooling fan. It’s thinner than the previous model, has a 1920 by 1080 pixel 10.8 inch IPS display and features two detachable keyboards — a notebook like keyboard and a thinner one for better portability…
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