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Dell bigger and better for Gitex Technology Week 2009

  • United Arab Emirates: Wednesday, October 14 - 2009 at 13:24
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Dell Middle East is making final preparations for it biggest Gitex presence yet in partnership with Intel by adding final touches to a 150 square meter stand, featuring Intel and strategic alliance partner branded areas, demonstrating its continued confidence in the U.A.E., wider Gulf region and Middle East.

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This year for the first time, Dell will test its PowerEdge servers live against benchmarks that will illustrate enhanced performance, ease of management and energy efficiency of Dell's enterprise technologies.

Dell's high performance clustered computing (HPCC) offerings will be demonstrated at Dell's stand, HPC computing is credited with tackling some of the most challenging computational-intensive tasks facing large organizations, particularly the oil and gas industry in the region. By integrating the latest advances in standards-based hardware, high-speed interconnectivity and leading open source and commercial software, Dell's HPC solutions deliver results with the simplicity and value of standards-based computing.

Throughout the week, Dell will host a series of forums and roundtables that will focus on helping public and private sector customers build efficient enterprises through technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing, IT-as-a-service and software-as-a-service.

On Oct. 19, Stephen Murdoch, vice president and general manager of Dell's Large Enterprise business unit in Europe Middle East and Africa region, will also address attendees of the Gitex Technology Week conference, highlighting how IT can give organizations a competitive advantage.
John Coulston, head of marketing Dell Middle East, commented, "We have put together our most comprehensive presence at Gitex ever and look forward to meeting with our customers and partners. We're thrilled to have so many industry partners on the stand with us, showing the power and value of industry-standard products and services."

Coulston added,

"Dell subject matter experts and executives will be flying into Dubai this week to bring the full value of their experience to bear for those who are looking to optimize their IT infrastructures, particularly as budgets are tight this year. With an anticipated 2010 refresh cycle on the horizon, Gitex promises to be a week of planning and assessment and the Dell team will be on hand to help in any way we can."


Khaldoun Aboul-Saoud, Intel market development manager for the GCC commented, "The collaboration between Intel and Dell at Gitex this year brings the latest Dell innovations based on the revolutionary Intel Atom, Intel Core and Intel Xeon family of processors. Intel Core processors are the newest, smartest, and fastest processors from Intel, delivering outstanding intelligent performance. The culmination of 40 years of technology leadership."

A number of leading industry alliance partners, including EMC, VMware, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, Wave Technologies, QLogic, and SunGard Higher Education, will join Dell's stand to showcase their solutions and technologies.
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About Dell
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value.

About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com.

About Our Gitex Partners

EMC at Gitex
Through its presence on partner Dell's stand, EMC will highlight its latest technology on unified storage with its innovative CLARiiON & Celerra product ranges by showing companies in the Middle East how they can use these systems to increase the efficiency of their IT infrastructure. Storage is a key focus for EMC and customers seeking further information can visit the EMC professional team who will be on hand to demonstrate the enhancements in EMC's unified storage systems for different size organizations. EMC's team will demonstrate to visitors how to lower the cost of ownership and optimize the efficiency of their physical or virtual IT infrastructures through new technologies such as De-Duplication or through new solutions for Storage, email archiving [SourceOne] and back up [Avamar].

About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks, Inc. is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper offers a high-performance network infrastructure that creates a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. This fuels high-performance businesses. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.

About SunGard Higher Education
SunGard Higher Education serves colleges and universities worldwide, helping them build the resources they need to support new communities of learners. Every day customers rely on a broad portfolio of solutions and expert guidance to find better ways to teach, learn, manage and connect. To learn more, please visit www.sungardhe.com.

About Wave Systems Corp.
Wave provides software to help solve critical enterprise PC security challenges such as strong authentication, data protection, network access control and the management of these enterprise functions. Wave is a pioneer in hardware-based PC security and a founding member of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), a consortium of more than 100 companies that forged open standards for hardware security. Wave's EMBASSYŽ line of client- and server-side software leverages and manages the security functions of the TCG's industry standard hardware security chip, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and supports the TCG's "Opal" self-encrypting drive standard. Self-encrypting drives are a growing segment of the data protection market, offering increased security and better performance than many existing software-based encryption solutions. TPMs are included on an estimated 300m PCs and are standard equipment on many enterprise-class PCs shipping today. Using TPMs and Wave software, enterprises can substantially and cost-effectively strengthen their current security solutions.

Media Contact Information for Dell:

Jordana Tasker C&W UAE +971 501594987
Wael Karbala C&W UAE +971 502732766

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