Dell's Q1 earnings call this saw the one-time bete noire of traditional IT suppliers undershoot expectations, and admit that it was walking away from business where it couldn't compete and where it was having trouble closing "transactional" business. It also virtually bypassed the question of the channel. The fact that it was …

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Saturday 26th May 2012 00:42 GMT Anonymous Coward

What "past glory"?

Dell's idea of a "solution" is clipping their weak iSCSI storage on to their commodity servers and snapping it together with their low ball networking gear. They are not a technology company. They were a one-trick pony, supply chain and direct sales company.

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1. Sunday 27th May 2012 12:36 GMT Badnews
  
  Re: What "past glory"?
  
  "Weak iSCSI!"? If you're referring to EqualLogic you have clearly not been paying attention. With up to 320Gb/s transfer rate and 768 drives per group, Auto-Tiering and application integration there isn't much ot there more powerful... Force10 is Low Ball? Again, what rock are you living under? Dell is No Unix company, but Unix is dying - and smart people byu open / industry standard OS'es that can run om "Commodity" serveres, from Dell, HP or IBM, avoiding the kind of vendor lock in you get with Unix..
  
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  1. Monday 28th May 2012 07:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Re: What "past glory"?
    
    What EQL array are you talking about? Even the largest PS6510 only supports 48 SAS drives per dual controller array with a capacity of 43.21TB under one hood. How are you getting 320gb/s with four cards per controller at 10gbe? "there isn't much ot there more powerful"... EQL doesn't do but 5,000 IOPS by Dell's own admission. While that might work for the low end iSCSI market, I don't think the tier one vendors have anything to worry about.
    
    Force10 is solid gear, a niche provider. It was a "low ball" because Dell bought the low ball bid because they didn't want to fork out the Juniper or Brocade dollars. Force10 has the potential to be first rate technology with the right amount of R&D to fill out their product portfolio. Dell has no track record with R&D. They haven't even integrated Force10 interconnects with their servers.
    
    There is a difference between OS options, "open" x86 (even though the whole x86 server industry is dominated by one company, Intel) and the commodity x86 which Dell churns out. IBM and HP make terrific x86 servers which are high build quality and, in IBM's case at least, differentiated with IP. Dell just pushes PC servers out the door. Zero Dell IP in those servers.
    
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Monday 28th May 2012 06:56 GMT David Strum

Reg is stupid for making a drama out of a global crisis.

Why is everyone expecting anyone in this stinky global downturn to smell of roses? They are all haemorrhaging, and the ones who are appearing to be in great shape, are just plain lying about their profit forecasts. People are simply not buying, and hence Dell, HP and the rest – are not selling. When the sheep are sick, the wolves get a bad tummy.

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