There is a lot of cognitive dissonance and speculation in the market about Dell’s announcement this week to service public cloud customers by engaging partners.

We’ve all been there. You’re computer’s doing some crazy things and you’re just not sure where to start. Before you start pulling out your hair let’s see if we can help.

Learn firsthand about OpenStack, its challenges and opportunities, market adoption and Dell’s engagement in the community. My goal is to interview all 24 members of the OpenStack board, and I will post these talks sequentially at Dell TechCenter.

In the late 1950s, United States Air Force Lt. Col. Carroll Payne worked closely with the families of several crew members who were killed in an aircraft accident.

Learn firsthand about OpenStack, its challenges and opportunities, market adoption and Dell's engagement in the community. My goal is to interview all 24 members of the OpenStack board, and I will post these talks sequentially at Dell TechCenter.

Virtual machine snapshots preserve the entire state of a running VM at a particular point in time. While the snapshot is active, all changes to the VM are captured in one or more delta disks.

A #Dell colleague, Dave Keller (@davidkeller), alerted me to a YouTube video featuring Vint Cerf, a founding father of the Internet and current Chief Internet Evangelist at Google.

Code named “Dart Frog”, Dell built a 1U rugged server with a depth of less than 20 inches, optimized for harsh environments and space-constrained locations. The server is available to OEM customers with 4 standard configurations.

Today at Citrix Synergy, the Dell Cloud Client Computing team announced the latest addition to its portfolio, Dell Wyse ThinOS 8 firmware. The new firmware is ground breaking in three ways and continues Dell Wyse’s long streak of industry leading innovation in the thin client segment:

Since Dell entered the ICT / Telecommunications market with core network grade hardware, software, and services we have learned quite a bit about what our customers need from us and we strive to bring the right offerings to them based on Dell’s established strengths and growing capabilities.

Sales of Dell’s current in-house multi-tenant public cloud IaaS will be discontinued in the U.S. in favor of best-in-class partner offerings.

Anne Gentle: I'm Anne Gentle, I work at Rackspace and I like to think of the title, Content Stacker, which basically means that I work on the documentation for OpenStack docs.openstack.org, api.openstack.org. I try to maintain that and keep it going with volunteers.