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    Dell's new data center solutions business counts Facebook as a customer. "If you look at Microsoft Azure, if you look at Amazon, if you look at these data centers that are being built to enormous scale, they look nothing like this vision of the enterprise stack ... If I had to guess what the virtualized, multi-tenant world looks like in the future - five years from now - I think it's more like what we're seeing these large web farms do." In other words, the Microsofts and the Amazons do things their own way. Full Article at The Register
    If you look at Microsoft Azure, if you look at Amazon, if you look at these data centers that are being built to enormous scale, they look nothing like this vision of the enterprise stack ... If I had to guess what the virtualized, multi-tenant world looks like in the future - five years from now - I think it's more like what we're seeing these large web farms do.
    Michael Dell – Michael Dell SOURCE: The Register 1 month ago
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Michael Dell primps for Microzon's mega data centers
  1. I do think there is definitely a phenomenon going on with this internet in your pocket ... There are platforms that are emerging from many companies. And when we look at those, they're pretty interesting.
    SOURCE: The Register 1 month ago
  2. different path ... That doesn't mean we can't own certain key parts of IP [intellectual property] that we think is critical for our future.
    SOURCE: The Register 1 month ago
  3. The desire of customers to buy everything from one company and have that company own all of the technology - there's actually not a lot of customers who want that. There are some. But many more customers are interested in someone who will integrate for them the best technologies and bring them - really ...
    SOURCE: The Register 1 month ago
  4. I think you'll see us show up there gradually
    SOURCE: The Register 1 month ago
  5. We're gonna forge a different path
    SOURCE: The Register 1 month ago
  6. I think you'll see us partners, absolutely. But we have some software assets, and we'll probably have some more.
    SOURCE: The Register 1 month ago
  7. This conversation about the enterprise stack has really been focused on the largest customers ... But what we find is that if you go talk to these largest customers, they - of all people - are the least interested in having all the technology from one provider.
    SOURCE: The Register 1 month ago

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