The oil-services company, otherwise known as CGG, has purchased 1,125 new Dell PowerEdge servers to go into computing clusters used in searching out oil and gas deposits based on seismic modelling, Dell said in a statement Wednesday.
A PC dealer in Europe has begun selling Dell desktops equipped with Linux, but Dell emphasised that the systems were customised by the dealer and that this isn't the first time this has happened. Dell spokesman Jeremy Bolen acknowledged that...
Dell said it will install the 64-bit operating system on its Precision workstation line and on its PowerEdge servers. Orders for the Dell Precision 470 and 670 workstations can be placed starting Monday, while the server OS will be available on...
Certain PowerEdge servers now come with 2.5-inch hard drives instead of 3.5-inch drives, which results in "significant" power savings, he added. Dell has announced the launch of a tree-planting scheme for owners of its computers to offset the...
For example, 60 percent of the company's customers use VMotion, and that feature is only just arriving in XenSource's XenEnterprise product and has been removed from Microsoft's first version of Viridian.
Sun and Dell announced on Wednesday a distribution agreement under which Dell will distribute Sun's Solaris 10 operating system on Dell PowerEdge servers. Under the multi-year agreement, Dell also will provide Solaris support services to its...