Windows on an iPad: OnLive Desktop rents you PC in the cloud

Can iPads and tablets eventually kill the laptop? OnLive thinks it has the solution. The limitations currently make such a proposition unlikely, but OnLive's announcement of a cloud-based Windows environment for the iPad provides an alternative to the App Store. Color us intrigued, but skeptical. OnLive Desktop for iPad (photos) Read the original article here

Streak 7 Is No Longer Available

Streak 7 Is No Longer Available Link to Dell site here

Dell Thin Client Software Solutions with Echo

Join us for a chat on Dell Thin Client Software Solutions with Echo. Click here to join the conversation and chat with experts on Dell Thin Client Software Solutions with Echo Tuesday Nov. 29th, 2011 Link to the original page here

Dell Streak gets DISA approval, Androids look to Pentagon invasion

Android conspiracy theories? They go all the way to the top -- or will soon, thanks to the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The department has given the green light to use Dell's Mobile Security for Android platform on defense networks. The testing process utilized the Dell Streak, because apparently being giant is an important part of national security. Read the original article here

Dell Makes the Case It’s Turned Channel Corner

It’s hard to imagine Dell will soon sign its 100,000th solution provider to its PartnerDirect program. While Dell has always had go-to-market reseller partners – particularly in foreign markets and the government sector – it’s primarily sold direct until four years ago. Now, it’s fast becoming a channel powerhouse with partner-led sales approaching one-third of the company’s revenue. Channel development and maturation are themes playing heavily in the inaugural Dell World in Austin this week. CEO Michael Dell and other executives aren’t just talking channel, but embracing partners as the catalyst of a remarkable portfolio and philosophical transformation that began in 2007. Read the original article here

Chrome extension enables remote computer control

Months of work on "chromoting" have reached fruition with Google's release on Friday of a new Chrome extension to let a person on one computer remotely control another across the network.
The Chrome Remote Desktop beta version, which arrived Friday, is a browser-based equivalent of remote desktop software for conventional operating systems. Such software is handy for IT administrators managing employees' machines, people taking care of their relatives' computers, or individuals getting access to their own machines from afar.

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Dell VCenter PlugIn!

Managing hardware in a virtualized environment is harder than it needs to be. You face problems, such as:

Multiple consoles to switch between
The lack of an efficient, consistent non-preboot execution environment (PXE) process to deploy hardware and hypervisors
No integration between hardware alerts from your servers and remediation actions inside your virtual console
The physical and the virtual simply don't talk to one another. We've fixed that.

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Dell at VMworld

Dell at VMworld