Dell Unveils $60 million Fund for “the Next Big Thing”

Dell Ventures, the investment arm of Dell, wants to find and fund the “next big thing.” So the Round Rock-based company has unveiled a $60 million investment fund focusing on early stage companies in the “storage, server, networking, cloud computing and virtualization, analytics/BI/Big Data, mobility, end-user computing, services and software” businesses, according to a news […]

The Open Compute Project helps data centers save energy and increase efficiency

By L.A. Lorek Data centers gobble up energy. But some of the smartest minds in the information technology industry want to change that. They are meeting in San Antonio today and tomorrow to rethink the old ways of putting together servers, power and cooling units and the rest of the guts of data centers to […]

HP uses Calxeda’s technology to power its servers

Calxeda introduced its high-performance low power semiconductors Tuesday to power Hewlett Packard’s servers. The Austin-based start-up held an event in Palo Alto to introduce its new products along with its partner HP. But in its hometown, employees, customers, analysts and others gathered to watch a live stream broadcast of the event and to celebrate. They […]

The PC market is growing, says Michael Dell at Dell World

The PC market is alive and well. “We don’t see PCs going away at all,” Michael Dell said Wednesday afternoon, during a question and answer session at a Dell World press and analysts event in Austin. “There are a billion and a half PCs in the world and that seems to me like a pretty […]