Disclosure: Dell EMC World 2016
Disclosure of the gifts I received in connection with Dell EMC World 2016. Read More
Disclosure of the gifts I received in connection with Dell EMC World 2016. Read More
What will the Dell presentation at TFD10 hold? I’m hoping for cloud services and storage updates, and an overview of the integration possibilities. Read More
Justin talks to Jeff Baher from Dell Open Networking about Dell’s OS10 networking software, and the future of software defined networking. Read More
It’s disclosure post time! This post is all about the corporate largesse received during Dell World 2015. It’s pretty light on swag, since I really didn’t get any, and my bag on the way home was mercifully light. Travel and Accommodation I attended DellWorld 15 as a guest of Dell,… Read More
The DellWorld’15 Solutions Exchange was a fascinating departure from the kinds of show floors I’m used to at recent trade shows. Instead of a raucous visual cacophony of booths competing for attention, the DellWorld show floor was a relatively sedate affair. Aside from a chosen few, the booths were identical… Read More
Inspired by a question from @jfrappier, here is a bunch of vendor swag I’ve received over the years that has actually proved useful. Hopefully this will help marketing at the various vendors to invest in useful swag and not pointless landfill. The biggest issue with swag is its marginal utility:… Read More
I’ve been at the Dell Solutions Tour in Melbourne today, and while the keynote was forgettable, the overall story of Dell continues pretty much unchanged since late 2013. Forrester Gonna Forrester We were talked at by someone from Forrester who waved some barely researched graphs at us (n=150, and really… Read More
I can’t run the numbers on Dell like I did previously, because Dell has, famously, gone private again. From a purely personal perspective, I think this was absolutely the right thing to do. Why? Because Wall Street sucks. The efficient market hypothesis is bollocks. People invest for all sort of… Read More
Multiple tech companies are in the news lately because they’re splitting off parts of themselves. HP, Symantec, and eBay are all splitting off major sections, and there’s speculation about EMC splitting off VMware, and maybe Cisco doing something similar. There was also a conversation about the topic on this week’s… Read More
I mentioned previously that the Dell keynote by Michael Dell was underwhelming, and I’ve been trying to work out why I felt that way. It’s because, once you strip away the boosterism and sloganeering about “disruption” and “World’s Largest Startup”, it didn’t really offer anything new. There were plenty of… Read More