Practical Technology

Dell has been on good-terms with Linux vendors for ages. The Austin, Texas-based company was the first major original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to ship an Ubuntu Linux PC. Long before that, Dell was shipping Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) on its server lines. Now, Dell is renewing its Linux [...]

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In 2011, we saw, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew for Linux while it shrank for Windows and Unix. What I find especially interesting about this is that IDC doesn’t measure when you or your company install Linux on a bare-metal server or a re-purposed [...]

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The U.S. military stands to be stuck in its way when it comes to technologies. For ages the only smartphone you could use in Department of Defense (DOD) operations was a Blackberry. Now, as first reported by Stars and Stripes, you can use your Android phone and tablet on DOD business and with DOD networks. [...]

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Some people are still in denial. They think that Steve Jobs retiring as Apple’s CEO won’t change Apple much. I beg to differ. I think it changes everything. Further, I think it changes far, far more than just Apple’s role in the world. You don’t replace a Steve Jobs easily. Actually, you can’t replace him [...]

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Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux has partnered with Dell to bring its Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) to business users on Dell’s PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 rack servers. UEC is made up of Ubuntu server instances running on the open-source Eucalyptus cloud platform. This Ubuntu cloud system is designed to work as a private cloud, [...]

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