“Convergence” is getting quite a workout these days. For example, the local “Dog and Car Wash,” “Accounting and Auto Repair,” “Attorney-at-Law and Catering,” “Pizza and Wedding Chapel” combinations are popping up all over.

Today, we’re pleased to announce our Dell OEM Carrier Grade Systems Online Demo, an interactive tool that virtually provides product demos of our family of carrier grade products.

Join the 1st OpenStack User Group Meetup in Szczecin (Poland) 06-06-2013, Technopark Pomerania, Niemierzynska 17a (3rd Floor, room 301), Szczecin, Poland: with Boris Renski (Mirantis), Tim Bell (CERN), Eric Windisch (Cloudscaling) & Atul Jha (OpenStack India).

Seeing the creativity unleashed by students from around the world at the 2013 Dell Social Innovation Challenge this week was certainly a high moment. The brilliance of each of the students and the socially good projects they created were showcased and the winning projects were announced.

Features like multi-touch, modern UI and gestures and access to Windows 8 apps offer the end user an immersive multimedia experience with all the essential tools for workplace productivity.

Dell today announced Q1 revenue of $14.1 billion and non-GAAP earnings of $0.21 per share. You can tune into Dell’s Q1 Earnings Conference Call at 3:45pm Central Time, or follow @DellShares or #DellEarnings on Twitter.

Today Dell announced fiscal 2014 first quarter results. Revenue was $14.1 billion, down -2% Y/Y and sequentially. Pricing adjustments that affected gross margins and continued acquisition-related costs in the quarter resulted in GAAP earnings of $0.07 per share and non-GAAP earnings of $0.

One of the success factors for private cloud management is optimization. In practice, IT administrators need to manage their infrastructure to actively and dynamically distribute the workloads across available infrastructure resources.

Join the 1st OpenStack User Group Meetup in Szczecin (Poland) 06-06-2013, Technopark Pomerania, Niemierzynska 17a (3rd Floor, room 301), Szczecin, Poland: with Boris Renski (Mirantis), Tim Bell (CERN), Eric Windisch (Cloudscaling) & Atul Jha (OpenStack India)

Join the 1st OpenStack User Group Meetup in Szczecin (Poland) 06-06-2013, Technopark Pomerania, Niemierzynska 17a (3rd Floor, room 301), Szczecin, Poland: with Boris Renski (Mirantis), Tim Bell (CERN), Eric Windisch (Cloudscaling) & Atul Jha (OpenStack India)

Join the 1st OpenStack User Group Meetup in Szczecin (Poland) 06-06-2013, Technopark Pomerania, Niemierzynska 17a (3rd Floor, room 301), Szczecin, Poland: with Boris Renski (Mirantis), Tim Bell (CERN), Eric Windisch (Cloudscaling) & Atul Jha (OpenStack India).

The speed of business continues at a break-neck pace while adapting new applications, more users and newer infrastructure to manage the growth. At the network level, many businesses have deployed and continue to deploy modular chassis switches to assure capacity and performance for the future.