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| 10/14/2011 from Direct2Dell | VMware and Dell: Virtualization, Cloud Computing and More VMware was delighted to be a Gold partner of the first annual Dell World event this year. We are looking forward to partnering with Dell on how we together can change the face of IT and impact the global economy. | |
| 10/14/2011 from Direct2Dell | Power to the People At Dell World, Citrix is showcasing the many ways Citrix and Dell are working together to help our customers innovate in how they deliver their desktops and applications. | |
| 10/13/2011 from Direct2Dell | So When Did We Move to Petabytes? A few years ago, many enterprises were talking terabytes of data…dozens to hundreds…but still terabytes. Now the conversations are around petabytes and moving toward exabytes. | |
| 10/13/2011 from dell.com/newsroom | Michael Dell Opens Inaugural Dell World Today Michael Dell welcomed IT professionals to Dell World, Dell’s inaugural customer conference, with fellow industry luminaries and thought leaders. | |
| 10/13/2011 from Direct2Dell | Unlocking Multicore Opportunities in the Virtual Era In the past 3 years, legacy data centers have moved closer to the cloud and workloads now demand more cores, more virtual machines (VMs), power and cost-efficiency, scalability and simplicity | |
| 10/13/2011 from prweb.com/recentnews | Perfect Search Unlocks Search Innovation at Dell World As the only Enterprise Search company certified as a Dell Technology Partner, Perfect Search™ showcases revolutionary innovation at Dell World that enables customers to find the information they need when they need it with speed, scalability and relevancy that sets a new standard in the industry. | |
| 10/13/2011 from news.commvault.com | CommVault Integrates SnapProtect Technology With Dell Compellent Storage Arrays for Application-Aware Data Management Newly available Snapshot Support for Dell Compellent Storage Arrays combines the speed of snapshot-based protection with application-aware recovery. | |
| 10/13/2011 from sys-con.com | Amulet Hotkey Announces World’s First 8 Head PCoIP Blade Solution at Dell World Amulet Hotkey takes the proven data center-grade server platform of the Dell PowerEdge™ M-Series Blade Servers and repurposes it as a high-performance workstation, building in custom components to provide superior desktop graphics and PC-over-IP® (PCoIP®) hardware. | |
| 10/13/2011 from credant.com/ news-a-events | CREDANT Collaborates with Dell to Deliver Best-in-Class Encryption Solution CREDANT Technologies today at Dell World announced new additions to the Dell Data Protection | Encryption portfolio. | |
| 10/12/2011 from dell.com/newsroom | Dell Ups the Ante on Helping Customers Unlock Innovation for the Virtual Era Dell today announced continued customer and partner momentum for its enterprise and endpoint solutions, as well as a broad array of new products and services designed to help customers unlock innovation. | |
| 10/12/2011 from Direct2Dell | Introducing Higher-Level of Security and More Complete Protection for Endpoint Devices Endpoint security management has become more complex and costly due to a number of factors — from increased worker mobility to the proliferation of threats — and has magnified the importance for protecting critical information on endpoint devices. | |
| 10/12/2011 from Direct2Dell | Your #DellWorld Toolkit We can't wait for all the Dell World action to get started this afternoon! We have a toolkit to help make your experience awesome this week. | |
| 10/11/2011 from devonit.com/ about-devon-it | Devon IT Announces Software Customization Services for Thin Client Operating Systems and Devices Devon IT, Inc., a leading provider of thin client and VDI solutions, today announced the availability of thin client operating system customization services. | |
| 10/11/2011 from veeam.com/news | Veeam Nworks Management Pack for VMware Monitoring With Microsoft® System Center Earns Dell Recertification Veeam Software, innovative provider of VMware® data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual data center environments, is pleased to announce that the Veeam nworks Management Pack™ (MP) for VMware has been recertified by the Dell Technology Partner Program. | |
| 10/11/2011 from Direct2Dell | Perfect Search: Unlocking Search Innovation Today’s #DellWorld partner blogger is from Tim Stay, CEO of Perfect Search on their approach to search innovation. | |
| 10/10/2011 from Direct2Dell | Five Reasons a Multihypervisor World is a Good Thing Our next #DellWorld partner blogger is Rick Vanover, a product strategy specialist for Veeam Software based in Columbus, Ohio. Rick is a popular blogger, podcaster and active member of the virtualization community. | |
| 10/10/2011 from Direct2Dell | Dell World Mobile App Available for Download Our first ever Dell World 2011 event is quickly approaching, and we’ve developed a mobile app to help you keep track of the conference schedule, stream-related content, engage with live presentations and compete against other attendees for virtual points and special badges. | |
| 10/10/2011 from prnewswire.com/ news-releases | RED Method Innovates the Conference Experience at Dell World 2011 RED Method, Inc., the world's innovation leader in enterprise mobility solutions, today unveiled the Dell World 2011 Application to power collaboration and conversations at the sold-out Dell World 2011 conference taking place 12–14 October 2011 in Austin, Texas. | |
| 10/10/2011 from quest.com/newsroom | Quest Software to Participate at Dell World 2011 Quest Software will field a booth at Dell World 2011, 12–14 October, at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. Quest’s booth will feature solutions for virtualization, data protection and Windows® management. | |
| 10/05/2011 from Direct2Dell | Unlocking Innovation at Dell World With Gamification Next up in our #DellWorld partner guest blog post series is from Keith Smith at BigDoor. Keith Smith, BigDoor cofounder and CEO, has been working on gamification well before the term was invented. | |
| 10/04/2011 from Direct2Dell | Keep Users at the Center of Your Desktop Strategy This is the first post in a series of guest blogs from our #DellWorld event partners. | |
| 9/28/2011 from Direct2Dell | Can’t attend Dell World 2011? Go Virtually! Dell World 2011 in Austin is now sold out. Join us virtually! It’s free, and you can register now at Dell World: Live Online | |
| 9/28/2011 from Direct2Dell | Dell World Highlight: Speaker Lineup Finalized for OEM CTO Summit The speaker lineup for the OEM CTO Summit is now complete. The OEM CTO Summit, an exclusive event during Dell World, is an invitation-only event for VPs of Engineering and CTOs of our OEM customers (NDAs required), who will be treated to discussions with Dell’s top thought leaders in various technical subjects. | |
| 9/28/2011 from dell.com/newsroom | Customer Feedback Fuels Dell’s End-to-End Solutions Strategy and Shapes Dell World 2011 Dell announced today that it is committed to providing the end-to-end technology solutions that customers have told Dell they want and need to be competitive and innovative in today’s ever-changing technology landscape. | |
| 9/27/2011 from prlog.org | Double Take, now by Vision Solutions, Announces Bronze Sponsorship at Dell World 2011 Vision Solutions, Inc., the world’s leading provider of information on availability of software, services, storage and virtualization, today announced it will participate as a Bronze Sponsor in Dell World 2011. | |
| 9/27/2011 from ntpsoftware.com/ pressroom | NTP Software Precision Tiering for Dell DX Object Storage Platform at Dell World 2011 NTP Software, a Dell Technology Partner and a worldwide leader in providing solutions for file data management, will be available to discuss the cost-reduction benefits and efficiency advantages of NTP Software Precision Tiering for the Dell DX Object Storage Platform during Dell World 2011 taking place from 12–14 October in Austin, TX. | |
| 9/22/2011 from prnewswire.com/ news-releases | Redifining the Conference Experience RED Method, Inc, an Austin-based user-interface design and software development firm, today announced it was selected by Dell to create a mobile application specifically for the Dell World conference, taking place from 12–14 October in Austin, TX. | |
| 9/15/2011 from bigdoor.com/press | BigDoor Powers Gamification of Mobile App for Inaugural Dell World 2011 Conference BigDoor, the most widely used gamification and loyalty platform, today announced it was selected by Dell to power gamification of the mobile solution for the first ever Dell World conference, taking place from 12–14 October in Austin, TX. | |
| 8/23/2011 from Direct2Dell | Dell World 2011: Former White House CIO Vivek Kundra Added as a Keynote Speaker I hope some of you have seen my initial post regarding Dell World 2011. I wanted to spend a few minutes to let you know that we have two additions to the speaker lineup for the event in October — former White House Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and IDC's Michelle Bailey. | |
| 8/23/2011 from dell.com/newsroom | Dell Adds Former White House Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra to Dell World 2011 Speaker Lineup Dell today announced Vivek Kundra, former White House Chief Information Officer and Michelle Bailey, Research Vice President for IDC’s Enterprise Platforms and Datacenter Trends, as the latest additions to the Dell World 2011 speaker lineup. | |
| 8/09/2011 from Direct2Dell | Dell World 2011: Coming to Austin in October In October, Dell is inviting technology leaders to the first ever event. Dell World 2011, taking place from 12–14 October at the Austin Convention Center. The purpose of Dell World is to bring together IT visionaries, leaders and experts from around the world and across industries to learn how to streamline investments that uncover efficiencies and ultimately drive innovation. You will be hearing more about Dell World on this blog and elsewhere in the weeks leading up to the event. | |
| 8/08/2011 from dell.com/newsroom | Dell Invites Technology Professionals to Unlock Innovation at Dell World 2011 Dell today announced its premier customer event, Dell World 2011, bringing together top industry professionals to share strategies, techniques and best practices to harness IT efficiency and unlock innovation in the Virtual Era. | |
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Media and Analyst Agenda: Wednesday, October 12, 2011–Friday, October 14, 2011
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| 12 October | 1:30 PM 4:00 PM | Long Center | Press and Analyst Welcome Event with Michael Dell, Brad Anderson, Paul Bell, Steve Schuckenbrock, Steve Felice and Jeffrey Clarke
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| 6:00 PM | Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater | Welcome Event open to all Dell World attendees | |
| 7:00 PM 9:00 PM | Iron Cactus | Press and Analyst Welcome Dinner | |
| 13 October | 8:00 AM 8:30 AM | Austin Convention Center | Unlocking Opportunity through Innovation: Michael Dell |
| 8:30 AM 9:00 AM | Vivek Kundra, CIO of the United States (2009–2011) | ||
| 9:30 AM 10:30 AM | Dedicated Press and Analyst Tour: Solutions Experience | ||
| 1:30 PM 2:00 PM | The Business of Results: Cloud and IT Services Innovation
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| 2:00 PM 2:30 PM | Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware | ||
| 3:00 PM 4:00 PM | Solutions Experience | ||
| 4:30 PM 5:00 PM | Supercharging Productivity through Workforce Innovation
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| 5:00 PM 5:30 PM | Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, salesforce.com | ||
| 6:00 PM 9:00 PM | Downtown Austin | Austin Experience open to all Dell World attendees | |
| *1:1 briefings throughout the day (prescheduled) | |||
| 14 October | 8:00 AM 8:30 AM | Austin Convention Center | Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft |
| 8:30 AM 9:00 AM | Dynamic Data Center: Driving Innovation in the Virtual Era
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| 10:30 AM 11:00 AM | Open Solutions Experience | ||
| 11:30 AM 12:00 PM | Paul Otellini, President and CEO, Intel | ||
| 12:00 PM 12:30 PM | Accelerating Technology Innovation in Pursuit of Your Organization's Mission: Paul Bell | ||
| 1:00 PM 2:00 PM | Optional Channel Panel for Press & Analysts | ||
| *1:1 briefings throughout the day (prescheduled) | |||
Shuttle Services
Dell World Check-In and Badge Pickup Locations
Media Contacts
Analyst Relations Contacts
Alliance Partner Contact
To and From Airport (Complimentary airport shuttle service will be provided to those arriving on 11 October and 12 October and those departing in the afternoon on 14 October. If you are traveling to or from the airport outside of those dates and times, you will be responsible for booking your own transportation.)
To and From Press and Analyst Events 12 October:
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Dell World Check-In and Badge Pickup Locations
12 October:
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Media Contacts
| Katie Eisenhart Dell office +1 512.728.3812 mobile +1 512.574.6848 katie_eisenhart@dell.com | Emily Laderman Dell office +1 512.728.4845 mobile +1 646.431.6779 emily_laderman@dell.com | |
| Mike Mitchell Axicom mobile +1 503.201.7222 mike.mitchell@axicom.com | Adam Schaeffer Axicom mobile +1 512.644.5118 adam.schaeffer@axicom.com | |
| Frank Smith Dell mobile +1 512.761.2809 frank_smith@dell.com | Jennifer E. Henderson Dell mobile +1 512.554.3700 jennifer_henderson@dell.com | |
| Julie Metting Dell office +1 512.723.7377 mobile +1 512.608.1536 julie_metting@dell.com |



























