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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/362191/dell-shows-off-its-heavy-metal-server-range

Resident head-banger Steve Cassidy visits London’s O2 arena for some seriously heavy metal, but not of the music variety

In the back of the 02 stadium (the venue formerly known as the Millennium Dome), there’s a room covered in graffiti scrawled by the famous rock stars who’ve played there, and during the steamiest part of this summer fellow editor Jon Honeyball and I happened to be there for Dell’s annual TechCamp.

This event offers techies the opportunity to be let out of their padded server rooms and meet up with writers and analysts from all over Europe, and also to get our hands on kit that’s so rare or expensive that it’s seldom seen the light of day.

Check out the article highlighted above talking about Dell’s annual TechCamp it sounded like an interesting event showing the range of servers and equipment that they have on offer. It’s always good to see where vendors are and (if possible) where they’re headed. Dell have been making great progress in the server and blade space which is good news for the industry and the end user community alike, there will always be those who compare the key vendors, what one vendor’s blade is missing when compared to another’s, but we always have to remember two things, firstly it might be ‘out of scope’, I may only buy one vendor’s server due to a purchase agreement, or I might not need that functionality, secondly it is innovation and product differentiation that makes the world go around, the more options their are (granted with open standard or at least some degree of interoperability), the better for the end user, the development communities and the vendors alike.