VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Alienware m15 R5 and Alienware m15 R6 launched in India:  The first AMD-based Alienware machine in over a decade, has now made its way to India. Following the availability of the   Alienware m15 R5 Ryzen Edition , Dell has now introduced the Alienware m15 R6 gaming laptop, the first device powered with 11th generation Intel® Core™ processors and accompanied by the NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 30-series graphics. Dedicated to fuelling the rise of Indian gamers, Dell and Alienware are tapping into the pulse of this thriving community.   With support for the AMD Ryzen R7-5800 H-Series Mobile Processors and  NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 30  Series Laptop GPUs, the Alienware m15 R5 is the first Alienware notebook engineered with AMD processors and NVIDIA graphics, suitable for creation and entertainment.   The Alienware m15 R6 offers the Core i7-11800H Tiger Lake-H CPU. Graphics options range from the NVIDIA RTX 3060 to the RTX 3080 Laptop GPUs which offer the Dynamic Boost fea...

Dell has recently announced the launch of XPS 13, a high-performance, artfully constructed laptop in India. The stunning 13.3-inch laptop sports virtually borderless Infinity Edge touch display, a design pioneered by Dell, and is backed by the unmatched Intel 8th-generation core processors offering increased performance. Dell XPS 13 has been consistently winning accolades as one of the best 13” Windows notebooks and is one of the jewel products of the XPS family. The XPS 13 has all of the manageability and select security features of Latitude in an aggressively thin and competitive form factor. The Dell XPS range is an acclaimed range and has garnered over 300 product awards, with a number of industry “firsts” and “bests” across form factor breakthroughs, display prowess, battery life to its acclaim. Dell’s iconic virtually borderless InfinityEdge display maximizes screen space by squeezing a 13.3-inch display in an 11-inch form. With a bezel only 5.2 mm thin, starting ...

Dell has enhanced its high-performance computing (HPC) portfolio, including the availability of new Dell HPC Systems, early access to innovative HPC technologies, technology partner collaborations, and successful global customer implementations. “While traditional HPC has been critical to research programs that enable scientific and societal advancement, Dell is mainstreaming these capabilities to support enterprises of all sizes as they seek a competitive advantage in an ever-increasing digital world. As a clear leader in HPC, Dell now offers customers highly flexible, precision built HPC systems for multiple vertical industries based upon years of experience powering the world’s most advanced academic and research institutions. With Dell HPC Systems, our customers can deploy HPC systems more quickly and cost-effectively and accelerate their speed of innovation to deliver both breakthroughs and business results,” said Jim Ganthier, Vice- President & General Ma...

Adding innovation to technology, Dell has unveiled a new line of Inspiron 2-in-1s and a new generation of feature-packed personal laptops ideal for students, entrepreneurs and families seeking an affordable solution to meet their everyday computing needs. The newly-launched devices include the Inspiron 17 7000 2-in-1 laptop. Inspiron 2-in-1 lineup includes premium 7000 Series, a mainstream 5000 Series, or an entry-level 3000 Series. These new devices are available with a wide range of processor options and configurable features, enabling students, families and users to connect, learn and achieve more... Read More

Dell has kicked off its “Back to College” campaign for 2016 with a tagline of “Aim High for Success with the Dell Advantage”. The programme was conceptualized using insights on what drives the youth of today. Dell celebrates the dedication of India’s youth to aim high and explore their limits, by providing the right technology tools to help them expand their potential to grow and succeed. The Back to College campaign also aims to provide avenues for the youth to pursue their passions and discover new-age skills that could help them to chart their own path. Dell believes technology plays a crucial role in shaping the overall development of an individual and is intent on being a constant companion throughout this journey of self-discovery. Alongside the seasonal Back to College purchase offers and vouchers, the integrated 360-degree campaign aims to build a deeper connect with the youth across offline and online platforms, to help them become “future ready” by equip...

To help accelerate the industry shift to modern, flash-based storage architectures, Dell has announced Storage Center Operating System 7. Neeraj Matiyani, Director, Storage Solutions, Dell India, said, “We, at Dell, are customer-focussed in our product innovation and SCOS 7 marks Dell’s most groundbreaking storage software release, to date. It offers a revolutionary approach and economics for all-flash and hybrid flash arrays with deeper intelligence and efficiency. SCOS 7 also delivers industry-leading deduplication, greater flexibility, virtualization and control with enhanced support for VMware, cloud and multi-tenancy environments. With this new OS release, customers will now have access to better technologies that will enable them in addressing workload demands and significant business benefits.” Read More

Dell has released its award-winning SharePlex database replication and near real-time data integration solution. With the latest release of Dell Shareplex, company continues expansion beyond traditional Oracle-to-Oracle replication enabling users to replicate Oracle Data directly to SAP HANA, Teradata, and EnterpriseDB Postgres it supports a host of target environments, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP ASE, Java Message Service (JMS), SQL and XML Files. With a wide range of innovative new platforms to choose from, organizations are moving away from single-platform consolidation and deploying a variety of database types to lower costs and better align with business and analytics objectives. The expanded platform support from Dell SharePlex gives organizations the agility and flexibility needed grow, diversify and modernize their database infrastructure to better leverage improved performance from in-memory databases and better manage evolving a...

Dell India has expanded its Dell Latitude portfolio. The new range meets the demands of business users by providing them the perfect blend of security, manageability and reliability features, encased in stunning design with an InfinityEdge display and premium materials. The Latitude 3000, 5000 and 7000 Series bring unique benefits to meet the requirements of the increasingly versatile roles played by professionals in the evolving workplace. “With the new Latitude line, we are delivering commercial devices employees will desire for being thinner, lighter and more capable than ever without compromising on the security and manageability requirements of IT. In this manner, we are building customer’s trust and allowing users to identify with Latitude as a brand that is designed for them,” said Sudharsan R, Director – Marketing, Dell India... Read more

To protect organizations’ business-critical systems, applications and data in a better way, Dell has launched a new series of data protection solutions. The offerings are the general availability of Dell Data Protection | Rapid Recovery; three new data deduplication appliances models; new Dell Data Protection | Endpoint Recovery – Free Edition; and the new Dell Data Protection | NetVault Backup 11. “Customers face a major challenge in backing up and protecting their data, especially in complex heterogeneous IT environments. Data is gold. Organizations understand the need to securely protect and back up their mission-critical data in today’s competitive ecosystem... Read more  

Dell has extended its cloud client-computing portfolio Wyse ThinOS 8.2, the latest release of its highly secure thin-client software, which now offers Lync 2010, Lync 2013 and the Skype for Business client for Lync 2015 (UI mode) via the Citrix HDX RealTime Optimization Pack. Dell has also released a new version of its innovative Dell Appliance for Wyse – Citrix, a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) appliance which simplifies and merges the server, storage and networking components required to deploy a Citrix environment into an easy-to-buy 2U module that starts small and provides scale-out capabilities for up to 5,000 users with Citrix XenDesktop... Read more

With Microsoft, Dell has announced expansion of its cloud portfolio with a new hybrid cloud solution. It has been designed to break down the barriers that customers experience on their path to cloud. Additionally, Dell also is offering an industry-unique payment solution to help customers simplify and minimize risks associated with cloud adoption. Manish Gupta, Director, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell India, said, “Most enterprises in India hesitate while adopting new technologies for various reasons as captured in a recent Dell KPMG study. Data sovereignty and privacy were cited as the biggest barriers to the adoption of emerging technologies such as the cloud. Customers adopting cloud are challenged with various complications when they switch from legacy infrastructure to a cloud-based infrastructure. With Dell and Microsoft co-engineering, the industry’s first hybrid cloud system using a unique payment structure, customers can move to the cloud with zero comp...

Dell has announced that its seventh annual Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network Summit for female entrepreneurs globally, will be convened on June 27 & 28, 2016 in Cape Town, South Africa. The Summit will bring together more than 150 of the top female entrepreneurs, business leaders, media and Dell partners around the theme of “Innovating for a Future-Ready World”. “The role women play in driving the global economy is becoming more and more foundational to the health and well-being of our world. Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network is all about fostering relationships and providing gateways to the resources women founders need to succeed. There is no better place than South Africa, a burgeoning centre of entrepreneurship, to have these important conversations,” said Karen Quintos, Chief Marketing Officer, Dell... Read more

Dell has announced the successful implementation of Dell Vostro laptops, projectors and tablets for Edutel Technologies Pvt. Ltd, a satellite education company that aims to create a knowledge community of students. This deployment has helped Edutel provide a cost-effective educational interface to rural India and deliver Satellite and Advanced Multimedia Education in 1,000 rural government and aided schools across Karnataka. With its programme, Edutel helps create interactive classes for supplementing classroom instruction, where students not only get to watch and listen to their mentors, but also clarify questions in the real time... Read more

Dell India has once again reiterated its belief that the Personal Computer can be a foundation device to equip the workforce of the future with skill and learning as well as the potential to excel in a knowledge economy like India. Dell believes the PC is the hub of creation, and is the ideal companion device in holistic growth for an individual. This declaration comes in the background of Dell’s PC Literacy Days campaign in commemoration of the annual World Computer Literacy Day on December 2, and is an initiative by the company to enhance knowledge across the country around PC adoption and the optimal use of PC technology. It strives to aid awareness around security, reliability and productivity as the key parts of incorporating PC technology into everyday life... Read more

Dell has come up with its new lineup of Dell Precision mobile workstations and significant updates to the entry fixed line of Dell Precision tower solutions. “We listened to our customers from media and entertainment, engineering, manufacturing, finance and beyond to deliver the highest performing systems for their critical workloads. This year’s lineup of the Precision portfolio brings together industry-leading solutions combining great, new technologies from our hardware partners, seamless functionality with critical applications from our software partners, and amazing innovations from our Dell engineering teams to deliver powerful and beautifully-balanced mobile and fixed workstations to our customers,” said Indrajit Belgundi, General Manager for Dell Client Solutions Business, India... Read more

Dell has introduced a series of new big data and analytics solutions and services designed to help companies quickly and securely turn data into insights for better, faster decision-making. These include a new release of Dell’s advanced analytics software platform and new Analytics-as-a-Service offerings for multiple industry verticals such as banking, healthcare and insurance. The launch of Statistica 13, the latest release of the company’s popular advanced analytics software platform, helps simplify and improve the process by which organizations deploy predictive models directly to data sources inside the firewall, in the cloud, and in partner ecosystems... Read more

Dell has announced additional progress against its circular economy initiatives, including expansion of its closed-loop recycled plastic supply chain, introduction of reclaimed carbon-fiber source materials and new industry collaborations to advance global circular practices. Dell has partnered with supplier SABIC to recycle excess carbon fiber and scrap raw materials into new Dell products beginning in late 2015. Initially, select Latitude and Alienware products will contain recycled carbon fiber, with plans to expand across these two product portfolios in 2016. Dell estimates that by partnering with SABIC, it will prevent 820,000 pounds of carbon fiber from ending up in landfills.  The recycled carbon fiber materials have an approximately 11- per cent smaller carbon footprint than simply using virgin carbon fiber... Read more

In a bid to transform itself from a PC manufacture to a computing powerhouse, Dell has sealed a deal to acquire EMC for a sum of $67 billion. This merger is one of the largest takeovers in the history of technology industry. With this Dell will be more powerful to serve customers across all key enterprise computing segments. The deal would make Dell a Premier End-to-End Technology Company. Dell will offer EMC shareholders $33.15 per share in a deal that includes EMC subsidiary VMware as a tracking stock that amounts to about $9 per share. The deal includes $40 billion in financing from SilverLake. This deal is creating history in every possible way in the competitive IT business and enterprise computing market. Now, Dell is all poised to become the leader in the enterprise segment with a large portfolio of products in the enterprise technology segment, including servers, storage, virtualization, networking, cloud computing services, security, big data and IT services... Read mor...

Dell and InMobi together will further strengthen their partnership by developing and customizing Dell hardware and software specific to the requirements of InMobi. This engineering partnership for a technology collaboration between InMobi and Dell will help expand the global alliance to improve enterprise efficiency. Through this agreement, InMobi will gain exclusive rights to select Dell products made available for beta testing and customization through the InMobi-Dell data center scalable solutions. Dell will leverage the partnership to draw insights into the customer’s needs of server, networking and storage for high computing needs and big data requirements. These insights are expected to become key inputs to design the Dell product roadmap and help build deeper level technology solutions for next-generation devices... Read more

Array Networks has partnered with Dell to promote “open sandwich” Layer-3 architecture for scaling next-generation firewalls (NGFWs). Leveraging the open firewall sandwich design, Dell SonicWALL SuperMassive NGFWs can be horizontally scaled using Array Networks’ APV Series application delivery controllers (ADCs) to overcome the challenges posed by the dramatic increase in secure web-based content and applications. “This combined Array/Dell solution offers unique synergies for education institutions, service providers and other businesses with high-volumes of secure web traffic. Both Array and Dell are industry leaders in price-performance and innovation in their respective markets. In addition, the joint solution is both tested and proven to give users the assurance of a deployment-ready solution,” said Paul Andersen, Senior Director of Marketing at Array Networks... Read more