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Some like it cool: HP/EDS fellow shares data center best practices

I spoke last week with Ed Kettler, a fellow for Hewlett-Packard who comes to the company via HP's acquisition of systems integrator EDS. Kettler has been involved with two major data center overhauls that EDS undertook before it became part of HP, including the retrofit of a facility in Wynyard,...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Best Practice, Kettler, Tulsa, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-18

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News to know: Yahoo, Blackberry Storm, Black Friday leaks, Smartphones

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Yahoo dips below $10; Icahn, board called out Larry Dignan: Verizon Wireless: Storm lands Nov. 21 Sean Portnoy: Best Buy...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Smartphone, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Dell CTO Kettler retiring

Kevin Kettler, Dell's Chief Technology Officer and an active member of the Austin, TX community, reportedly will retire, sources told CNET. His departure is not part of Dell's reorganization activities Apparently, word of his retirement has been expected for some time and he recently announced it to...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Financial Accounting, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Michael Dell promises 'Greenprint' reference architecture

Michael Dell used his keynote at Oracle OpenWorld for product promotion and teased the audience with a "green" reference architecture. "In the next year Dell will introduce a reference architecture--the Greenprint (not to be confused with GreenPrint, a software provider that lets users manipulate documents in a print preview mode...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Tablets, Blade Servers, Notebooks, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-14

Speculation about embedded hypervisors

Several stories in the news include a mention of something Kevin Kettler, Dell CTO, said during his keynote address at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. Dell is exploring the concept of embedding a lightweight hypervisor in the firmware of some future Dell servers. Although this may or may not actually become...

Tags: Hypervisor, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2007-08-08

Dell likes Linux for virtualization

Dell likes Linux for virtualizationYes, Linux is here to staylet the old guards of business 101 be aware, the model has mfr support that it did not have in years past. Now for the customers to fulfill said promise, because without customers, liftoff is limited. Hopefully, cost reductions...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Dell Computer Corp., virtualization, benchmarking, operating system product, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-08-08

Dell Preloads Ubuntu Linux in Europe, Offers SUSE Linux Desktop in China

Dell has begin shipping Ubuntu Linux preloaded on consumer PCs and notebooks in Europe and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 on business PCs in China.Dell CTO Kevin Kettler announced the news during his keynote at LinuxWorld 2007, claiming such efforts will expand adoption of Linux on the desktop worldwide. The CTO displayed a photo of founder and chief executive officer Michael...

Tags: Desktop, Ubuntu, Linux, Dell Computer Corp., Linux Desktop, SuSE Linux Desktop, Ubuntu Linux, SuSE Linux, SuSE, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-08-07

Dell shows off new technology

PC maker displays cooling system and moreAt a press event in San Francisco May 17, Dell CTO Kevin Kettler and Jay Parker, head of the company's server business, showed recent and upcoming technologies that they hope will beat out competitors in the business computing market. Among the offerings was a...

Tags: Servers, Dell Computer Corp.

Videos 2007-05-17

Dell's Project Hybrid: Pre-packaging the datacenter

Dell executives met with the press today in San Francisco to have a discussion about the company’s strategic direction, but it turned into more of a lecture about how Dell is going to leapfrog HP and IBM in delivering datacenter solutions.Dell’s CTO Kevin Kettler and Jay Parker, director of PowerEdge...

Tags: Dell, Datacenter, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, virtualization

Blog posts 2007-05-17

Whatever Dell's Kevin Kettler is on (re: Vista), please pass some to me

Whatever Dell's Kevin Kettler is on (re: Vista), please pass some to meThe SP1 myth" Not to mention how businesses are loathe to make the move until after the first service pack — the one that corrects the first highly publicized wave of nightmares — is released"Service packs often add...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-25

Whatever Dell's Kevin Kettler is on (re: Vista), please pass some to me

Either our sister site's Sylvia Carr (over at Silicon.com) heard it wrong, or Dell CTO Kevin Kettler has had a momentary lapse of reason.  Wrote Carr: Businesses will upgrade to Microsoft's Vista in droves as consumers bring their love of the next-generation operating system from home to work, a Dell...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Kevin Kettler

Blog posts 2006-10-25

Dell bullish about Vista adoption

Dell bullish about Vista adoptionDell bullish about Vista adoptionEverywhere I turn I just keep hearing more and more good things about Vista. You know that if Dell picks up on Vista its going to become the #1 operating system. Don't need to upgarde hardware, improved security. Reasons...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-24

Dell adds AMD-based PowerEdge servers to mix

The big AMD/Dell news is two PowerEdge Dell servers with Opteron processors, following on Dells use of Opterons in desktop products. The PowerEdge 6950 is a four-socket server, designed for database applications, server consolidation, virtualization. The PowerEdge SC1435 is a two-socket, rack server designed for high-performance compute clusters."You will see...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Kevin Kettler

Blog posts 2006-10-23

Dell CTO Kettler on virtualization

Dell CTO Kettler on virtualizationDell and visualizationOdd to use the two words in the same heading! How does Dell stay in business? Nobody in their right minds purchases a Dell - visualization or not. Dell should really get some foresight before branching out into...

Tags: virtualization, Dell Computer Corp., Dating Agency, Click Here

Discussion threads 2006-08-21

Dell CTO Kettler on virtualization

Dell is apparently putting some of its muscle behind blogging. This morning, I woke up to an email that Dell now has a manager -- Lionel Menchaca -- for its public facing Direct2Dell blog. Apparently, the strategy is for any commentary coming from Dell execs and techs...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., virtualization

Blog posts 2006-08-18

So, Dell's not a Wintel lapdog? It should probably thank AMD.

So, Dell's not a Wintel lapdog? It should probably thank AMD.Will VIA follow in AMDs footsteps?In the old days, x86 processors were in a 3-way race. You had a choice between InHell, AMD and Cyrix. Today, VIA owns the Cyrix "patents", and with its base in the far east -...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Kevin, Wintel, Microsoft Windows, Vista Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista, hypervisor, Dell Computer Corp., virtualization, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-04-12

So, Dell's not a Wintel lapdog? It should probably thank AMD

According to a report by News.com's Stephen Shankland, Dell wants the world to believe that it's not the Wintel sycophant that it used to be (or, at least that other OEMs could be accused of being). Wrote Shankland:[Dell's chief technology officer Kevin Kettler] outlined several areas where Dell has...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Intel Corp.

Blog posts 2006-04-12

Dell exec: We're not Wintel's lapdog

Dell exec: We're not Wintel's lapdoginnovation redefined"Among standards for which he said Dell deserves credit are 802.11 wireless networking..."Apple had 802.11-equipped Pismo Powerbooks on the market more than a year before Dell got around to including that standard in their products. As I recall, back in late 2001, Michael Dell...

Tags: Web browsers, Wi-Fi, Processors, Wintel, Dell Computer Corp., applet, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-04-10

Dell CTO scores A on virtualization test

If you ask me and maybe VMware president Diane Green, Dell CTO Kevin Kettler has got virtualization right. According to a News.com report by Stephen Shankland, yesterday, Kettler told a LinuxWorld Boston crowd:There are lot of players that have been entrenched in the virtualization market" that need to understand...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., VMware Inc., Xen

Blog posts 2006-04-06

Photos: Dell CTO pushes virtualization

Kevin Kettler describes the mechanics of virtualization in a speech at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston.

Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, virtualization, LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, mechanics, CTO, Boston, Dell Computer Corp.

Image galleries 2006-04-05