Company & technology update Sam Forsbom, Antti Löppönen
A brief history of Dell People 78,700 Dell people around the globe Financials $57.9bn revenue over the past four quarters # 25 on Fortune 500 Market Entry 1984 - Desktops 1991 - Notebooks 1996 - Servers 1998 - Storage 2002 - IT Services 2003 - Printers 2006 - IT Solutions 2
Dell s Global Presence Limerick, Ireland London Austin, TX Nashville, TN Xiamen, China Direct Countries In-direct Countries Restricted Countries Countries Not Presently Served Manufacturing Facilities Regional Headquarters Porto Allegre, Brazil Penang, Malaysia Singapore
Dell Confidential Global Infrastructure to Support Your Business 5 Enterprise Command Centers 15 Enterprise Expert Centers Americas EMEA Japan Malaysia China
Dell product portfolio Notebooks Desktops Workstations & Displays Durable & reliable notebooks in all needs Stable and customizable platform for all needs High-performance professional workstations Server & Storage Reliable, scalable and powerful server solutions Latitude for corporates, Inspiron for consumers OptiPlex for corporates, Dimension for consumers Ideal for demanding designing, content creation, rendering, etc... Dell EMC storage solutions, Dell is the biggest partner of EMC Complete portfolio of large displays, printers & peripherals PowerEdge for servers, PowerVault for storage, Dell EMC for large data centres and storage
Export compliance Due to the US export regulations Dell needs to restrict export to 5 countries: Iran North Korea Cuba Sudan Syria
TECHNOLOGY UPDATE
64-bit is coming why and what is new? 64-bit environment is already used in high-performance servers and workstations 64-bit not widely adopted to desktops and notebooks + OS support getting better (64-bit Vista & XP Pro, some Linux) BUT: software and drivers still partially waiting for 64-bit versions 32-bit max memory 4 GB is not enough in some cases anymore Bigger file sizes: Files sized over 4 GB can cause trouble to 32-bit system. i.e. DVD, Blu-ray 64-bit max memory ~1.6 billion GB (1600 Petabytes = 2 64 ) - Same data in memory occupies slightly more space in 64-bit - can have implication for efficient CPU cache utilization
Blu-ray Disc The next generation of DVD Ability to store 25 GB of data / layer - vs. DVD 4,7 GB / layer - dual layer disks released = 50GB Ideal for storing HD-quality multimedia or other large files ~ 9hour HD video ~ 23hour standard video Faster max bitrate DVD ~ 10Mbit/s Blu-ray ~ 54Mbit/s Already available on Precision M90 Source: http://www.blu-ray.com/
Blu-ray s Industry Support Advantage Category Blu-ray Disc HD-DVD Consumer Electronics Personal Computers Studios Video Gaming ~80-85%* Hitachi, LGE, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Thomson, JVC, TDK, Sanyo Apple, Dell, HP, Sony, Panasonic Disney, Lion s Gate, Warner Sony Pictures/Columbia-TriStar 20 th Century Fox, MGM, Paramount Sony Playstation 3, Electronic Arts, Vivendi Universal Games ~80% Toshiba, Sanyo, Thomson ~10-15%* Toshiba, NEC, Microsoft, Intel, HP Warner, Universal, Paramount Microsoft Universal Music Group, Sony BMG ~50% Music Industry --- *discounts Chinese manufactures source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/blu-ray_disc
Solid state disks (SSD) Flash-based Solid State Disks (SSD) are coming Instead of a spinning disk the device is using flash chips to store the data Better reliability less parts Lower power consumption, no mechanical parts Better performance, faster startup, read & seek At the moment limited availability & sizes & high cost First SSDs will be available in notebooks 2007 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/solid_state_disk
Single core, dual core, quad core... Single core: one processor has one core. Traditional CPU. Dual core: one processor has two cores Quad core: one processor has four cores. As number of cores is growing the terms 1 CPU unit or 2 CPU units get confusing. * To be clear it is more easy to mention the quantity of CPU sockets the system has. Multicore processing comes useful especially in multitasking or if the application supports multiple threads Lower power consumption Benefits Responsiveness Performance Throughput Scalability Maintains power envelope MULTI-CORE SINGLE-CORE 2000 2004 2008+ FORECAST
Multi-Core power efficiency System Power (measured system Watts) Lower is better Perform more business operations per second within a stable data center power infrastructure 323 335 322 Performance Higher is better (SPECjbb2005*) 102313 153500 1.5X dual-core Over 4X single core Intel Core Microarchitecture Exceptional Software Scaling Same Power Envelope Single Core Dual- Core 5160 Quad- Core E5345 33114 Single Core Dual- Core 5160 Quad- Core E5345 Outstanding Performance per Watt 3.60 GHz 3.00 GHz 2.33 GHz 3.60 GHz 3.00 GHz 2.33 GHz Data Source: Published or Intel measured results as of Oct 9, 2006 using SPECjbb2005* Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit http://www.intel.com/performance/resources/limits.htm
Client management vpro, DMTF, DASH, ASF... Client infrastructure (notebooks, desktops, workstations...) is usually huge on a corporate level and takes a lot of resources to maintain many standards, vendors, tools, versions,... However centralized management has been provided so far only for servers Client management can include hardware, software, drivers, patches, health monitoring, etc...
Client management: DMTF / DASH DMTF: The Distributed Management Task Force Inc: organization for development, adoption and promotion of management standards DMWG: Desktop and Mobile Work Group (part of DMTF), aims to develop a standard for client management Dell is the founder of the DMWG as we want to help to simplify the systems management DASH: Desktop and Mobile Architecture for System Hardware Industry supports DASH. Dell, Intel, HP, Microsoft, Novell, IBM, Symantec... Source: http://www.dmtf.org
Client management: DASH Desktop and Mobile Architecture for System Hardware One goal of DASH is: - to enable the same tools, syntax, semantics and interfaces to work across a full range of products traditional desktop systems, mobile and laptop computers, bladed PCs, as well as thin clients. One goal of DASH is: - to allow the same management interfaces to be used, independent of system state. Source: http://www.dmtf.org
Client management: DASH The next generation of hardware management Developed to provide out-of-band management hardware support Centralized client management with hardware support built in Improved security Responsive times shorter even proactive The next generation of OptiPlex desktops will support DASH Source: http://www.dmtf.org
Dell Precision models @ ABB ABB has 2 standard workstation models: Precision 390 & Precision 690 Precision 390 - single-socket workstation - up to 8 GB of RAM - Quad-Core CPU available Precision 690 - dual-socket workstation - up to 64 GB of RAM - Quad-Core CPU available
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