Dell news from Network World

Dell puts Linux and Atom in Vostro PCs for emerging markets

John Ribeiro — 2008-08-27T00:00:00Z

Dell unveiled Wednesday two new laptops and two desktops in its Vostro range designed to meet the needs of small and medium-size enterprises (SME), governments, and educational institutions in emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe.

Dell gains, Sun loses in worldwide server market

James Niccolai — 2008-08-22T00:00:00Z

Dell posted the biggest gains in worldwide server revenue in the second quarter, helping it to nudge Sun Microsystems out of third place, Gartner said Thursday.

N-Data back with different patents

Jeff Caruso — 2008-08-19T00:00:00Z

Six months after settling with the FTC on an Ethernet-related patent, Negotiated Data Solutions, or N-Data, is back in the headlines.

$196M should cover costs of bad graphics chip, Nvidia says

Sumner Lemon — 2008-08-13T00:00:00Z

Nvidia took a one-time warranty charge of US$196 million against its second-quarter revenue on Tuesday, saying that amount should cover the cost of replacing bad Nvidia graphics chips used in a range of laptop models from different manufacturers. Chairman and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang stopped short of ruling out additional charges related to this problem in the future, but said Nvidia was not obligated to replace the bad graphics chips.

Dell says it's 'carbon neutral'

Jon Brodkin — 2008-08-07T00:00:00Z

Dell has met its goal of becoming carbon-neutral with projects to reduce its own energy consumption and offset carbon emissions around the world.

MIC: Netbook shipments to exceed 8 million this year

2008-07-31T00:00:00Z

Global shipments of the popular new category of mini-laptops, netbooks, will likely reach 8.02 million [M] this year and then more than double in 2009, according to a report by Taiwan's Market Intelligence Center (MIC).

NetApp, Compellent, HP, Dell top the field in 12-product test

Joel Snyder — 2008-07-28T00:00:00Z

A terabyte isn't what it used to be. Disks are slower than you think. And a Gigabit Ethernet is plenty of bandwidth for many storage applications.

Dell (Equallogic) PS5000XV

Joel Snyder — 2008-07-28T00:00:00Z

When Dell acquired Equallogic early this year, it bought an up-and-coming storage vendor. Our testing of the Dell PS5000XV shows that Equallogic was a first-rate choice.

Building home labs for Cisco certs: what you need to know

Julie Bort — 2008-07-09T00:00:00Z

Wendell Odom, Cisco press author, instructor and blogger was recently a repeat guest for Network World chat. Attendees asked him the best ways to build a home lab, which certs still have power in the market, and strategies for most easily passing the hardest exams.

Under pressure: 10 sources pushing CIOs to go green

Carolyn Duffy Marsan — 2008-07-07T00:00:00Z

Now with a stagnating U.S. economy, CIOs need to squeeze every penny out of their IT operations and that means choosing the most efficient servers and desktops as well as data center power supplies and air conditioning systems.

Is your data center ready for tomorrow's applications?

2004-04-12T00:00:00Z

Click here to see what Gartner, Network World and other experts say about the new data center.