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  1. @StorMagic If you don't use the NSH service on your SVA and an ESX host goes down, do you risk data loss or corruption? 6:37 AM May 24th via web
  2. RE: Dan - thanks for the question.  The M420 sleeve is removable, like a blade server.  Dell some great videos of thi… disq.us/7hn7bj 10:57 AM May 23rd via DISQUS
  3. RE: @Kevin_Houston  Expand Thanks for the comment, Andreas.  Yes, to have all 10GbE ports on each M420 active, you'll… disq.us/7hlmob 9:13 AM May 23rd via DISQUS
  4. RE: @Kevin_Houston Thanks for the comment, Andreas.  Yes, to have all 10GbE ports on each M420 active, you'll need to… disq.us/7hlmhe 9:13 AM May 23rd via DISQUS
  5. New BladesMadeSimple Post, "Dell M420 Memory Architecture" - bit.ly/LoP8Vb #in 9:11 AM May 23rd via WordTwit Plugin
  6. RE: Thanks for the comment about #Dell M420 workloads.  It was designed for HPC, cloud and other high node density us… disq.us/7hklqs 8:05 AM May 23rd via DISQUS
  7. 2,048 CPU cores in a 42u rack@- the #dell M420 can do it bladesmadesimple.com/2012/05/detail… 5:06 PM May 22nd via Echofon
  8. New BladesMadeSimple Post, "Details on the Dell PowerEdge M420 Blade Server" - bit.ly/KRmCcs #in 3:15 PM May 22nd via WordTwit Plugin
  9. New BladesMadeSimple Post, "IBM Announces New Blade Servers" - bit.ly/L3EfdZ #in 4:18 AM May 15th via WordTwit Plugin
  10. @aarondelp Well, I can understand it with it being part of the Intel Xeon E5-2400 CPU rollout. It's "entry level" where you don't see 10Gb 8:09 AM May 14th via TweetDeck in reply to aarondelp
  11. For those keeping track - #IBM released the BladeCenter HS23E today www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladec… 8:00 AM May 14th via TweetDeck
  12. New BladesMadeSimple Post, "Dell Announces 3 New Blade Servers–M820, M520 and M420" - bit.ly/KgL5YA #in 7:52 AM May 14th via WordTwit Plugin
  13. How about a 4 socket Sandy Bridge blade server - yes, #Dell has it in the PowerEdge M820 dell.com/us/enterprise/… 6:25 AM May 14th via TweetDeck
  14. Check out #Dell's new 1/4 height blade server- PowerEdge M420 dell.com/us/enterprise/… (blog post coming later) 6:24 AM May 14th via TweetDeck
  15. #Dell releases 4 CPU Sandy Bridge today (PowerEdge R820) - available to purchase TODAY configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/conf… 6:21 AM May 14th via TweetDeck
  16. @da5is Just looking for some data on the benefits of using GPUs in a VDI environment (as opposed to something like Fusion I-O) 11:54 AM May 9th via TweetDeck in reply to da5is
  17. Looks like #Microsoft applied for a patent for "Load Balancing GPU Enabled Virtual Machines" - read it at freepatentsonline.com/y2012/0084774.… 10:53 AM May 9th via TweetDeck
  18. Anyone know of a good resource that discusses using GPUs in a #VDI environment? 10:50 AM May 9th via TweetDeck
  19. @HPStorageGuy Good info - thanks for sharing! 3:05 PM May 8th via Tweet Button in reply to HPStorageGuy
  • Name Kevin Houston
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  • Bio Server Specialist, Global 500 East at Dell. Christian father of 2 girls, husband of 19 years.
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