Tag: Dell

  • Sucking Air Through Their Teeth, 50/50 success/failure, and Dell’s $43B AI Server Quarter – Related to your interests, Friday

    Sucking Air Through Their Teeth, 50/50 success/failure, and Dell’s $43B AI Server Quarter – Related to your interests, Friday

    Also: the improbable life, four years working at AWS, an AI-SDLC panel debate. Spotted by Dan Bettinger in Austin. Related to your interests Most generative AI and custom model projects will be a bust: Gartner – ‘Analyst firm Gartner thinks at least half of all generative AI projects “will overrun their budgeted costs due to…

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  • AI Pees in the Pool, Permanent Indenture, and the Metric Fuck-Ton – Related to your interests, Monday

    AI Pees in the Pool, Permanent Indenture, and the Metric Fuck-Ton – Related to your interests, Monday

    Also: does anyone actually use microwave food-buttons? Castanet handler. Related to your interests Platform Engineering in the Age of AI: Why Operational Complexity Is the New Bottleneck – “while coding is becoming cheaper and faster, operational complexity hasn’t disappeared” // Day 2 operations is always the bottleneck. // Also included is the current Syntasso/Kratix pitch.…

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  • Relative to your interests, Sunday

    Is Your AI Assistant Creating a Recursive Security Loop? – AI-assisted coding is starting to eat its own tail: the same LLMs that write code are increasingly asked to review it, explain security decisions, and even override their own warnings. That creates recursive trust loops where “explain your reasoning” becomes an attack surface, and models…

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  • “We’re very focused on delivering upon the AI capabilities of a device—in fact everything that we’re announcing has an NPU in it—but what we’ve learned over the course of this year, especially from a consumer perspective, is they’re not buying based on AI,” Terwilliger says bluntly. “In fact I think AI probably confuses them more…

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  • Dell no longer sponsoring engineering for Crowbar

    [I]t is time for Dell to allow an independent open source community to take the reins of the Crowbar project. Dell “will stop sponsoring engineers to be committing and supervising the [Crowbar] project,” meaning they that the company is no longer funding developers to work on Crowbar. As Crowbar lead Rob Hirschfeld points out in…

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  • Dell’s business sales are 1/3 through partners

    The channel business at Dell is about $20 billion per year. Dell said he can see that growing to $40 to $50 billion. Suggesting $60bn in “commercial” sales total for Dell? Dell’s business sales are 1/3 through partners

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  • We are also seeing big growth in the private cloud space. But in terms of building a public cloud to compete with partners we are not doing that at all. Michael Dell in an interview with CRN. See also the longer piece on CRN going over Dell’s cloud strategy.

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  • For those who don’t have 3.5 hours, some highlights from #TheAppGap

    As I mentioned, a few weeks back I was in a recorded “think tank” put on by Dell which was, largely, about the changing nature of IT and how CIOs could go about managing it. For those who don’t want to nuzzle up to a 3.5 hour recording (perhaps with a six pack and some…

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  • [new.livestream.com/accounts/…](http://new.livestream.com/accounts/1639890/events/2523952/videos/40302837/player?width=960&height=540&autoPlay=false&mute=false) This week I was lucky enough to be invited to a Dell hosted think-tank discussing how the application needs of companies are changing. You could also phrase it: “how is all that cloud stuff changing how CIO’s run their company’s IT?” It was a great session, driven by the discussion of the CIOs on…

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  • Finally, a monitor priced like the good old days: $3,499

    Speaking of which, The UltraSharp 32 is now up for grabs worldwide for $3,499, while the $1,399 UltraSharp 24 is only available in South and North America to begin with and elsewhere on December 16th. No word yet on how much exactly the UltraSharp 28 will cost, but Dell did say we can expect it…

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  • Touch Screen Precisions

    That looks pretty cool: New Dell Precision M3800 Mobile Workstation.

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  • https://www.brighttalk.com/clients/js/embed/embed.js When I was at Dell I worked in strategy and M&A, so speaking publically was not really in the job description. Nonetheless, I pitched in with my marketing friends from time-to-time, as in this talk going over cloud as Dell saw it and advice for users. (Source: https://www.brighttalk.com/)

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  • Lazy robots, or, Is cloud meeting your expectations?

    As I mentioned earlier, Roy and and I had a webinar today about Dell’s cloud portfolio and strategies. Here’s a recording of it, enjoy. And, there’s also one on DevOps, from Barton and Willis.

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  • Building a Great Team (Dell buys Enstratius)

    With the Enstratius acquisition, Dell is getting a group of people with deep influence in the community. Founder George Reese is an O’Reilly author and a cloud pioneer. He is supported by James Urquhart, Bernard Golden and John Willis, all recognized as influencers in the cloud community. —Alex Williams, TechCruch cloud strength.Welcome @botchagalupe @davidajbagley @georgereese…

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