Charles King

Last week at Dell Technologies World 2022, founder, chairman and CEO Michael Dell focused on concepts uniting technology and innovation, as well as the company’s new data-driven solutions and its global sustainability efforts. As Michael Dell pointed out in his keynote on the conference’s first day, “The twin engines of human inspiration and technology together […]

The value of reputation is pretty much indisputable. As Warren Buffet noted with great clarity, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” That truism has been proven time and again when people and organizations falter or fail and lose the credibility, respect and accord of those who once […]

IBM recently hosted a virtual leadership summit, The Future of Hybrid Cloud, that explored the latest developments in hybrid cloud, data usage, business insights, and how to use and integrate those technologies to become a catalyst for innovation and digital transformation. Let’s consider some of the takeaways. Also see: Top Digital Transformation Companies Timeliness and […]

“Sustainability” is not a new concept, but over the past decade or so, the word has become a catch phrase for a wide range of environmental and climate efforts. Those include everything from hands-on habitat conservation and restoration projects to business strategies aimed at reducing organizations’ carbon footprints to government programs designed to positively impact […]

Business computing hardware launches are usually pretty straightforward. After considering markets, talking with customers and partners, and analyzing component characteristics, vendors develop and launch new products with features they believe will address specific business opportunities. However, you can observe this process from another viewpoint: where new solutions reflect how a vendor perceives or understands its […]

In the tech industry, strategic partnerships are often layered with nuance. Some aim to enter or capture market opportunities that the partners have recognized or targeted. Others subtly shift the stance or terms of long-established relationships. A formalized deal between long time competitors likely reflects negotiations and horse trading that went on for months ahead […]

“Legacy” systems don’t get a lot of love in the tech industry, mainly because of the way that some vendors derogate the term while hyping their own shiny new products as replacements. Yet any time that a new server or other data center solution is deployed it becomes, for all practical purposes, a legacy system. […]

Choosing the technology that has evolved most over the past two decades would be a daunting task, but it is likely that high performance computing (HPC) would be among the top contenders. In the early 2000s, HPC installations and performance were largely dominated by systems leveraging proprietary technologies, such as processors and interconnects. But by […]

Programs for tech vendors’ partners don’t receive as much attention as they should. That’s mainly because as business-focused organizations, partners such as solution providers, Value Added Resellers (VARs), cloud service providers (CSPs) and OEM-focused players live and work beneath the radars of most traditional media outlets. In addition, much of the work partners perform is […]

As enterprises have increasingly chosen multi-cloud deployments over single vendor engagements, the need to define and address complexity has never been greater. Dell Technologies’ new APEX services and DevOps capabilities for multi-cloud applications offer a prime example of how vendors can proceed. Dell expressed two goals in launching APEX as-a-Service solutions in May 2021: to […]