12.24.08
Posted in Dell at 12:06 am by william
Brocade completes Foundry acquisition
Brocade Communications on Friday completed its acquisition of Foundry Networks, a deal that brings a solid Ethernet LAN company into a giant of storage-area networks.
The companies agreed to an approximately $3 billion deal in July , but soon afterward, downturns in the stock and credit markets raised questions about large transactions and the health of IT spending. Brocade got financing for the deal, but Foundry's shares declined, and in late October Brocade lowered its bid to $16.50 per share in cash, or about $2.6 billion. A vote on the transaction by Foundry shareholders was delayed several times, and they finally approved it on Wednesday.
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Foundry's products and its approximately 1,100 employees will now be integrated into Brocade. But Bobby Johnson, who founded the company in 1996, won't join Brocade. Johnson "now has the opportunity to pursue several charitable activities that he did not have the time to do while serving in his capacity of CEO," Brocade said in a prepared statement.
Though Brocade won't get that networking veteran, it has hired two others. On Friday, the company said it had hired former Force10 Networks CEO Marc Randall as senior vice president of products and offerings. Randall led the maker of enterprise and service-provider routers and switches from 2003 until this year. He was once vice president of engineering at Cisco Systems, where he led development of the Cisco 7500 Series router, according to Brocade.
Also on Friday, Brocade said it had hired Dave Stevens as CTO. Stevens founded firewall maker Palo Alto Networks and was CEO of the company until he left in June. He is a former Brocade executive who joined the company through its acquisition of Rhapsody Networks in 2003. Stevens' long resume goes back to seminal networking companies such as SynOptics and Bay Networks, as well as Nortel Networks and Atmosphere Networks.
Brocade is a major player in SANs (storage area networks), with more than 55 percent of the market for modular SAN switches in the third quarter of this year, according to Dell'Oro Group. Its nearest competitor, Cisco Systems, trails in that segment with about 44 percent. With Foundry, Brocade goes head-to-head with Cisco across entire enterprise and data-center networks.
The combined company will be able to branch out from a SAN market with approximately $2 billion in annual revenue to the IP network market, which is ten times as big, Brocade CEO Mike Klayko said in a video commentary on the news posted Friday.
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03.30.08
Posted in Dell at 3:08 am by william
Dell offers sub-$1,000 Blu-ray laptop
The PC maker touts a Blu-ray disc playback option with its Inspiron 1525 laptops starting at $879.
Dell Adds Blu-ray to Inspiron for Under $900
Dell said Friday that it began selling an updated Inspiron 1525 on its Web site, a laptop with an optional Blu-ray drive that can be purchased for as little as $879.
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03.28.08
Posted in Dell at 3:03 am by william
Dell Denies Report of Hard Drive Returns
NEW YORK (AP) — Dell Inc. denies an analyst report claiming 20 percent to 30 percent of laptops with so-called solid-state drives are being returned….
Motorola split leads early tech action
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Technology stocks were mostly in the red in early trading Wednesday as the sector dealt with broad-market concerns about ongoing credit issues. Declines came from Dell Inc. , Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. . Electronics contract manufacturer Jabil Circuit Inc. fell $1.73 a share, or 15.5%, to $9.62 after the company delivered a weak quarterly report and outlook late Tuesday. One bright spot was Motorola Inc. , which rose 42 cents a share, or more than 4%, to $10.16 after the communications technology giant approved a plan to split into two companies. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index fell more than 17 points to 2,323.
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03.25.08
Posted in Dell at 3:04 am by william
Dell SP2008WFP
The Dell SP2008WFP 20-inch LCD delivers solid image quality and features a 2-megapixel camera and software that makes video chats fun and easy.
Dell, HP give AMD Phenom boost
Dell is getting set to use the quad-core and triple-core Phenom processors for the first time. 
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03.24.08
Posted in Dell at 3:09 am by william
Dell Denies Report of Hard Drive Returns
NEW YORK (AP) — Dell Inc. denies an analyst report claiming 20 percent to 30 percent of laptops with so-called solid-state drives are being returned….
Dell, HP give AMD Phenom boost
Dell is getting set to use the quad-core and triple-core Phenom processors for the first time.
Dell SP2008WFP
The Dell SP2008WFP 20-inch LCD delivers solid image quality and features a 2-megapixel camera and software that makes video chats fun and easy.
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03.22.08
Posted in Dell at 2:11 am by william
Dell to Buy Components From China
Dell plans to buy $23 billion of components from China this year and $29 billion in 2009, to help reduce costs.
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03.21.08
Posted in Dell at 2:16 am by william
Dell to Buy Components From China
Dell plans to buy $23 billion of components from China this year and $29 billion in 2009, to help reduce costs.
Dell Denies Report of Hard Drive Returns
NEW YORK (AP) — Dell Inc. denies an analyst report claiming 20 percent to 30 percent of laptops with so-called solid-state drives are being returned….
Dell Denies Problems With Solid-State Disks
Reports that Dell is experiencing a high rate of returns for notebooks that include solid-state disks are flatly untrue, a Dell spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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03.20.08
Posted in Dell at 2:13 am by william
Dell Denies Problems With Solid-State Disks
Reports that Dell is experiencing a high rate of returns for notebooks that include solid-state disks are flatly untrue, a Dell spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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03.18.08
Posted in Dell at 2:31 am by william
Different season, same goals
Alamogordo Daily News - We want another district title, and we want that Blue Trophy,” junior Jeffery O’Dell, the new Tiger No. 1, said. “We just have to do it, work hard to get it done.
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03.17.08
Posted in Dell at 2:36 am by william
Weekend results
New Zealand Herald - Dell (NHB) 57.97s 1, K. Wright (ACA) 59.52s 2, K. Hurley (Pak) 1m 1.30s 3. 800m: H. Barker (Whak) 2m 14.43s 1, E. Orchard (ACA) 2m 16.87s 2, C.
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