Features

• After forecast miss, Dell CFO looks to enterprise

  By Roy Harris | 23 February, 2012 11:08

  With Dell's missed first-quarter sales forecast this week, a development that knocked its share price down as much as 5 per cent the next day, Dell CFO, Brian Gladden, has emerged with its CEO, Michael Dell, as a second spokesperson for the personal-computer company's future.

• Rackspace, Dell push OpenStack cloud OS

  By Julie Bort | 09 March, 2011 03:31

  Rackspace will help enterprises build private clouds using the OpenStack cloud operating system, the company announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, Dell is seeking enterprises and service providers for proof-of-concept OpenStack trials with its Dell PowerEdge C family of servers.

• Seven reasons to choose the Galaxy Tab over the iPad

  By Tony Bradley | 19 September, 2010 03:24

  The Samsung Galaxy Tab will be available soon in the United States through all four major wireless carriers.

• Is the ViewSonic ViewPad just another Streak?

  By Barbara E. Hernandez | 01 September, 2010 08:07

  Only a few weeks ago Dell was taking a beating over its tweener device, the Streak. But now ViewSonic is unveiling a similar mini tablet, the ViewPad 7, which is a phone with a 7-inch screen and 2.2 Android OS, or Froyo, cameras for front and back and 3G data transmission. Could this signal a larger demand for a bigger phone or a smaller iPad?

• Beauty shots: Technology to drool over

  By Anne B. McDonald | 29 July, 2010 15:24

  Sling Media's small Slingbox 700U won one of three Best in Show awards given by the Industrial Designers Society of America (ISDA).

• Willy Wonka and the Dell factory

  By James Niccolai | 11 June, 2010 08:02

  If Dell's cloud server lab is a candy shop for geeks, littered with components and exotic system designs, then Jimmy Pike is the Willy Wonka of servers.

• SMB Virtualisation: Taking the virtualisation journey

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 21 April, 2010 18:58

  It’s not new technology, but to SMBs, virtualisation can still be a scary unknown quantity. MATTHEW SAINSBURY investigates ways partners and vendors can allay those fears to the profit of everyone.

• Will Dell supersize its Mini tablet?

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 17 April, 2010 08:45

  Everyone loves tablet gossip--blame it on our obsession with Apple's iPad--and today's rumor is a good one for Dell and Android fans.

• Analysis: Would you like a data center with that server?

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 20 January, 2010 08:03

  Faced with the continued commoditization of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward more highly integrated, unified compute platforms.

• A mobile utopia

  By Georgina Swan | 09 December, 2009 15:12

  Mobility has become the dream for corporates both large and small, and an opportunity for the channel to tackle. But presenting a comprehensive mobility solution is a significant technology and business challenge. GEORGINA SWAN reports.

• Is Dell's Android smartphone doomed?

  By Jared Newman | 14 November, 2009 08:14

  Dell confirmed it is releasing an Android-based smartphone, called the Mini 3, in China and Brazil, but the company's lack of details about the handset makes it hard to get excited. Dell's unwillingness to share more about the Mini 3 also has me wondering if the phone just really isn't that exciting and Dell knows it.

• Serving up the latest and greatest

  By Trevor Clarke | 23 September, 2009 10:39

  Although the first quarter of 2009 was a nightmare for many server vendors, new advanced products released during the first six months of the year are helping to pick the market back up. TREVOR CLARKE reports.

• Dell says demand for products is stabilizing

  By Agam Shah | 14 July, 2009 08:59

  Dell said on Monday that demand for its products is "stabilizing" and that it expects to report a sequential increase in revenue for its second fiscal quarter, which ends July 31.

• New Dell mobile devices a dubious prospect

  By David Coursey | 01 July, 2009 06:59

  If Michael Dell decides to release a new Android-based handheld device, as the Wall Street Journal speculates he might, it will be his fourth try at entering the market and he will almost certainly fail, if his track record is a guide to his future.

• Dell Tweets its way to $US3 million in sales

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 13 June, 2009 10:04

  So you thought Twitter was a waste of time? Just fun and games? Stupid even? Dell doesn't think so.