Ben Ruset on August 28th, 2008

Yesterday one of my former co-workers sent me an IM asking for help with VMware on a PowerEdge 1950. He had Googled for the problem and found my blog. I suppose I may be an “expert” at VMware on the PowerEdge 1950.
Anyway, he found that when he powered on a 64 bit guest, [...]

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Ben Ruset on July 1st, 2008

I have been buying Dell gear for personal and business use since 1998 or so. Over the years I’ve been personally responsible for the purchase of countless Latitudes, Optiplexes, and PowerEdge servers, as well as a bunch of Dimension and Inspiron desktops. With the exception of the Toshiba Satellite I had a few years back [...]

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Ben Ruset on January 11th, 2008

I spoke with Chris, who is the Regional Sales Manager for the New York area. Essentially, I’m pretty much stuck where I am now. The idea is to give the new account team 90 days, and then from there we’ll see what happens. Not to sound too cynical, but I am sure that what will [...]

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Ben Ruset on January 10th, 2008

My company, over the course of the last year or so, has been standardizing on Dell servers for our infrastructure projects. We’ve always used Dell desktops and notebooks, but over the last year and a half have bought fifteen dual quad core PowerEdge 1950 servers, a giant PowerEdge 2900, and a host of other various [...]

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