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On the Case
A Video Case Study – Translational Genomics Research Institute

Enabling People and Organizations to Harness the Transformative Power of Technology
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TGen IT: Where We Are Now
5|15|12   |   06:58   |   No comments

TGen is breaking new ground in genomic research by using Dell's storage, cloud, and high-performance computing solutions.
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TGen IT: Where We Were
4|27|12   |   06:45   |   6 comments

The Translational Genomics Research Institute wanted to save lives, but its efforts were hobbled by immense computing challenges related to collecting, processing, sharing, and storing enormous amounts of data.
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1,200 Percent Faster
4|18|12   |   02:27   |   11 comments

Through their partnership, Dell and TGen have increased the speed of TGen’s medical research by 1,200 percent.
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IT May Improve Children's Chances of Survival
4|17|12   |   02:12   |   5 comments

IT is helping medical researchers reach breakthroughs in a way and pace never seen before.
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Medical Advances in the Cloud
4|10|12   |   1:25   |   3 comments

TGen and Dell are pushing the boundaries of computing, and harnessing the power of the cloud to improve healthcare.
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TGen: Living the Mission
4|9|12   |   2:25   |   3 comments

TGen's CIO puts the organizational mission at the heart of everything the IT staff does.
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TGen Speeding Up Biomedical Research to Save More Lives
4|5|12   |   1:59   |   7 comments

The Translational Genomics Research Institute is revamping its computing to improve speed, storage, and collaboration – and, most importantly, to save lives.
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Computing Power Helping to Save Children's Lives
3|28|12   |   2:13   |   3 comments

The Translational Genomics Institute’s partnership with Dell is enabling them to treat kids with neuroblastoma more quickly and save more lives.
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Putting Dell World Lessons to Work
11|30|11   |   3:15   |   1 comment

The Dell World conference changed how CIOs and original equipment manufacturers will approach their work, and it changed how people perceive Dell.
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Out of the Box Talk: Jon Ramsey: Proactive Security in a Virtual World
11|11|11   |   8:10   |   1 comment

Learn how to prevent threats and vulnerabilities facing IT organizations in this illustrated whiteboard discussion with Jon Ramsey, executive director for development engineering for Dell SecureWorks.
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Out of the Box Talk: JP Sarkis: IT Transformation
11|11|11   |   5:58   |   No comments

JP Sarkis, Dell Packaged Applications, talks about the steps an organization must take to complete its IT transformation in this Out of the Box whiteboard discussion.
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Out of the Box Talk: John Dietrich: Saving Money Is Too Expensive
11|11|11   |   10:30   |   No comments

Watch as John Dietrich, Dell Corporate Thought Leadership, shows us why saving money is too expensive in the "yes, now" IT environment. An illustrated whiteboard presentation supports this Out of the Box discussion.
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Out of the Box Talk: August Calhoun & Jamie Coffin: Innovation in Healthcare
11|11|11   |   7:31   |   No comments

Jamie Coffin and August Calhoun, Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences, share their vision on innovation within healthcare using an illustrated whiteboard in this Out of the Box discussion.
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Out of the Box Talk: Michael Dell & Marc Benioff at Dell World, Part 4
11|11|11   |   3:03   |   1 comment

What are the biggest problems Michael Dell and Marc Benioff CEO want to solve? Hear what they shared with Dell Services CMO Colette LaForce onstage at Dell World.
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Out of the Box Talk: Michael Dell & Marc Benioff at Dell World, Part 3
11|11|11   |   3:15   |   No comments

Michael Dell and Marc Benioff CEO in a humorous lightning-round Q&A with Dell Services CMO Colette LaForce onstage at Dell World.
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Out of the Box Talk: Michael Dell & Marc Benioff at Dell World, Part 2
11|11|11   |   5:34   |   No comments

Michael Dell and Marc Benioff CEO reflect on their childhoods -- on everything from Atari to programming to taking apart PCs -- and how their adventures shaped their personal career aspirations.
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Out of the Box Talk: Michael Dell & Marc Benioff at Dell World, Part 1
11|11|11   |   4:07   |   No comments

Michael Dell and Marc Benioff CEO share an entertaining exchange on the genesis of cloud computing in an exclusive Dell Services Out of the Box presentation.
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Out of the Box Talk: Steve Schuckenbrock: Cloud & the Future of IT Services
11|11|11   |   11:14   |   No comments

Steve Schuckenbrock, President of Dell Services, chats with Dell Services Vice President and CMO Colette LaForce about the "yes, now" mindset of IT users today and the ways cloud is enabling business transformation.
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Out of the Box Talk: Rick Mears: Innovation at Owens & Minor
11|11|11   |   7:49   |   No comments

See how Rick Mears, CIO of Owens & Minor, is taking an innovative approach to streamlining medical and surgical supply distribution in this illustrated whiteboard discussion.
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Dell World in Six Minutes
10|31|11   |   6:42   |   No comments

A rapid-fire tour of Dell World from top to bottom, beginning to end, attendees to Michael Dell himself, all in six minutes and 42 seconds.
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Dell World: Managing the Enterprise Cloud
10|24|11   |   10:34   |   No comments

Johnny Ola and Roy Ritthaler of BMC Software meet executive editor Curtis Franklin at Dell World to talk about the latest technology for building and managing an enterprise cloud.
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Dell World: VMware Moving to Cloud & Client
10|20|11   |   6:07   |   No comments

VMware is expanding its horizons beyond the datacenter, making a stand in both cloud services and client virtualization.
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Dell World Connects AMD With the Right Customers
10|20|11   |   1:41   |   No comments

Dell partner company AMD made the right connections in Austin.
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Dell World: Healthcare Supplier Uses Dell Strategic Services
10|19|11   |   4:08   |   No comments

The CIO of Owens & Minor says he’s using Dell’s new business strategy services to better serve medical centers and improve the healthcare supply chain.
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Dell World: Benioff on the Future of the ‘Social Enterprise’
10|19|11   |   9:17   |   No comments

The Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com comments on how Salesforce.com’s platform-as-a-service helps companies transform into social enterprises, why multi-tenant cloud security is no worse than single-tenant security, and how social tools impact corporate culture and public opinion.
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Dell World: How Citrix Brings Virtual Desktops to Mobile Devices
10|18|11   |   5:04   |   No comments

Citrix’s new solutions enable greater mobility and let users connect to their desktops from their smartphones.
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Dell World: Food Truck Montage
10|18|11   |   1:00   |   2 comments

Cupcakes, pizza, barbecue, burritos... there was no reason to leave Dell World hungry.
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Dell World: A Tour of a Datacenter in a Box
10|18|11   |   1:40   |   No comments

In lieu of a sprawling sea of servers, consider this air-cooled, self-contained unit that can sit on your roof, use less energy, and provide plenty of places to plug in your hair-dryer.
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Dell World: Dell & Benioff Share Origin Stories & Cloud Visions
10|18|11   |   11:25   |   No comments

The CEOs of Dell and Salesforce.com trade stories of their humble beginnings in Radio Shack and discuss how the cloud will continue to drive IT innovation.
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Dell World: OEM Changes & Challenges
10|17|11   |     |   No comments

Josh Neland, Technology Strategist for Dell OEM Solutions, describes the expanding definition of “OEM” and OEMs’ increasing demands for a sophisticated technological backbone.
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Dell World: Q&A With Dell Social Networking Expert
10|17|11   |   4:26   |   No comments

Rishi Dave explains the crucial roles social networking can play in enterprises, and tells us how Dell gave all employees – even engineers – the permission and the ability to talk directly to customers.
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Dell World: Q&A With Michael Dell
10|14|11   |   3:06   |   No comments

Michael Dell recommits to an end-to-end enterprise IT strategy, underscoring the critical role of client devices.
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Dell World: Steve Ballmer Keynote
10|14|11   |   1:59   |   1 comment

Working in partnership, Microsoft and Dell are delivering agile, powerful interfaces and capabilities to enterprise customers of all sizes.
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Dell World: Vivek Kundra Keynote
10|13|11   |   3:25   |   No comments

Security has grown in complexity and has become the equivalent of a global arms race, according to Vivke Kundra, CIO of the United States.
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Dell World: Michael Dell Keynote
10|13|11   |   3:33   |   No comments

Dell is adding to its servers and storage capabilities to give enterprise customers maximum flexibility and performance.
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Dell World: Scenes From Austin City Limits
10|13|11   |   0:49   |   No comments

Attendees at Dell World get their ACL on.
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Enterprise Efficiency Arrives at Dell World
10|12|11   |   0:54   |   1 comment

E2 editors share what’s in store this week at Dell World. Be sure to stick with us for the latest Dell World updates!
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See VMWare & Dell Team Up to Make Your Job Easier
10|10|11   |   3:06   |   No comments

At DellWorld check out vStart and other Dell-VMWare partnerships that can simplify virtualization rollouts, cloud migration, infrastructure integration, and customer support.
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AMD Wants to Meet You at Dell World
9|30|11   |   3:22   |   No comments

Not only will AMD exec John Byrne happily listen to your business challenges, he'll also tell you where to find a "phenomenal martini" in Austin.
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Swap Success Stories (or Sob Stories) at Dell World
9|7|11   |   1:20   |   2 comments

Idea Exchange sessions give you the opportunity to swap stories with peers and thought-leaders (brain-swapping and mind-reading not required).
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Unlock Innovation at Dell World
9|1|11   |   1:32   |   No comments

Coming to Austin in October, Dell's new conference will hand CIOs the keys to IT innovation and business growth.
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The Fathers of Austin
9|1|11   |   2:22   |   No comments

The home of Dell World 2011 will be Austin, Texas – a great city named after a peculiar assortment of great men.
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Embrace IT Innovation at Dell World
8|23|11   |   05:11   |   No comments

IT innovation is key to the success of modern business, but embracing new technologies can be an intimidating prospect. Hear the wisdom of some Dell executives who know a thing or two about innovation, and build up the confidence to take the first few steps.
Tom Nolle
Big-Data Analytics in the Cloud?
5|11|12   |   2:10   |   1 comment

Google is now offering its search and big-data algorithms as a service, and while the list price to store and process big-data in the cloud is high, some enterprises are reporting very steep discounts for volume deals. If the trend continues, big-data analytics as a service may become real.
David Wagner
The Answer to Stagnant Wages
5|8|12   |   3:16   |   4 comments

A lesson in microeconomics might help solve the problem of stagnant wages.
E2 Interview
More Competitive Business via Datacenter Strategy
5|4|12   |   2:46   |   No comments

Businesses need to be competitive, yet efficient, and both goals affect datacenter design.
E2 Interview
The Recipe for Greater Efficiency
5|3|12   |   3:14   |   1 comment

Intel supplies the best ingredients to drive greater datacenter efficiency and support new compute, storage, and networking needs.
E2 Interview
Datacenters Enabling Business Transformation
5|1|12   |   06:37   |   No comments

Dell’s Gaurav Chand says that for the first time ever datacenter technology is truly enabling all kinds of organizations to transform their business and achieve new objectives.
E2 Interview
Simplifying IT Architecture
4|30|12   |   05:03   |   1 comment

Steve Felice, president and chief commercial officer of Dell, tells us about customers’ main priorities, which include creating a simpler, more agile, more scalable architecture.
Tom Nolle
New Switch Options for the Midsized User
4|27|12   |   2:20   |   No comments

The over-100-and-under-1000 employee companies have slipped into a crack in the network product lineup, too big for off-the-shelf and too small for giant network vendors' direct attention. Computer vendors and new competitors are enriching the choices here.
Sara Peters
E2’s New End-User Computing Home Base
4|5|12   |   1:11   |   4 comments

Meet E2 at the new place to talk about all things end-user computing.
Tom Nolle
Citrix Sends the Wrong Cloud Message
4|5|12   |   2:12   |   6 comments

Citrix's decision to move from OpenStack to CloudStack may improve its competitive position relative to Amazon and EC2 but it might also focus the cloud on the wrong thing; vendor competition instead of building maximum user value.
Tom Nolle
Cloud Data: Big AND Persistent!
3|28|12   |   2:11   |   10 comments

We always hear about "Big" data, but a real issue in cloud storage is not just bigness but also persistence. A large data model is less complicated than a big application repository that somehow needs to be accessed. The Hadoop send-program-to-data model may be the answer.
Tom Nolle
Data Smooth as Butter?
3|20|12   |   2:12   |   7 comments

A lot of companies are looking for a big-data, cloud-ready, Linux file system, and Oracle may have given us one with Btrfs ("Butter-FS"), designed on the binary tree model, extensible to zetabytes, and cloud-enabled. It's available in production version now and worth checking!
Tom Nolle
EC2 Pricing Says 'Look Beyond Iaas'
3|8|12   |   2:11   |   2 comments

Amazon's zillionth EC2 price reduction should be sending a message: Businesses in general, and SMBs in particular, need to look beyond IaaS to find the cloud revolution. Amazon's greatest discounts are coming in more platform-like offerings.
Sara Peters
How CIOs Fight Poaching
2|29|12   |   2:28   |   4 comments

Government CIOs on tight budgets have to try extra hard to retain staff who are being pursued by head-hunters.
Tom Nolle
Office for iPad: Bad Idea for Everyone?
2|22|12   |   2:15   |   6 comments

Apple's supposed to be cooperating with Microsoft to create an Office version for the iPad, but this notion seems like a bad idea for all the parties involved. Not only does it undermine a Windows tablet, it undermines iCloud!
David Wagner
Build or Destroy
2|17|12   |   3:06   |   6 comments

The way we play helps us figure out how we work.
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TGen IT: Where We Are Now
5|15|12   |   06:58   |   No comments

TGen is breaking new ground in genomic research by using Dell's storage, cloud, and high-performance computing solutions.
On the Case
TGen IT: Where We Were
4|27|12   |   06:45   |   6 comments

The Translational Genomics Research Institute wanted to save lives, but its efforts were hobbled by immense computing challenges related to collecting, processing, sharing, and storing enormous amounts of data.
On the Case
1,200 Percent Faster
4|18|12   |   02:27   |   11 comments

Through their partnership, Dell and TGen have increased the speed of TGen’s medical research by 1,200 percent.
On the Case
IT May Improve Children's Chances of Survival
4|17|12   |   02:12   |   5 comments

IT is helping medical researchers reach breakthroughs in a way and pace never seen before.
On the Case
Medical Advances in the Cloud
4|10|12   |   1:25   |   3 comments

TGen and Dell are pushing the boundaries of computing, and harnessing the power of the cloud to improve healthcare.
On the Case
TGen: Living the Mission
4|9|12   |   2:25   |   3 comments

TGen's CIO puts the organizational mission at the heart of everything the IT staff does.
On the Case
TGen Speeding Up Biomedical Research to Save More Lives
4|5|12   |   1:59   |   7 comments

The Translational Genomics Research Institute is revamping its computing to improve speed, storage, and collaboration – and, most importantly, to save lives.
On the Case
Computing Power Helping to Save Children's Lives
3|28|12   |   2:13   |   3 comments

The Translational Genomics Institute’s partnership with Dell is enabling them to treat kids with neuroblastoma more quickly and save more lives.