Josh Neland

Do engineers always want to use the most up to date technology? Not if it has strings attached. Learn why creating a great product is harder than just picking the right parts.

After spending time with over a hundred CTOs since joining Dell OEM Solutions as a technologist, it’s become clear that there are three sweeping trends — cloud, big data, and mobility — that are rooted in IT but biggest impact will be for OEMs of other products and services, many of which have IT at their core.

Much has been written about these trends from a CIO’s perspective. Now it’s time to talk about what these mean for the CTO and product team of every Dell OEM Solutions… Show more

After spending time with over a hundred CTOs since joining Dell OEM Solutions as a technologist, it’s become clear that there are three sweeping trends — cloud, big data, and mobility — that are rooted in IT but biggest impact will be for OEMs of other products and services, many of which have IT at their core.

Much has been written about these trends from a CIO’s perspective. Now it’s time to talk about what these mean for the CTO and product team of every Dell OEM Solutions customer.

In this blog post, I’ll demonstrate why cloud is so much bigger than a traditional IT discussion. Two posts will follow that give the same attention to big data and mobility.

Three ways cloud is about the top-line rather than boring CAPEX vs. OPEX discussions . . . Show less

The game cabinet sat against the wall of the restaurant, quietly beckoning the crowd. I had never noticed it before, but with 10 minutes to burn before the rest of my party arrived, it fit the bill.
After a few rounds of Big Buck Hunter, the polished game experience grabbed me. Like a great pop song, the hooks came early and often, nurturing the urge to keep playing one minute more. With my toy gun in hand, I started to think I might be a pretty good forest commando. Fresh game is healthy… Show more

The game cabinet sat against the wall of the restaurant, quietly beckoning the crowd. I had never noticed it before, but with 10 minutes to burn before the rest of my party arrived, it fit the bill.
After a few rounds of Big Buck Hunter, the polished game experience grabbed me. Like a great pop song, the hooks came early and often, nurturing the urge to keep playing one minute more. With my toy gun in hand, I started to think I might be a pretty good forest commando. Fresh game is healthy, right? . . . Show less

As a marketer for the OEM Solutions team, I found myself enjoying the discussion over the last year as “Big Data” slowly crept into my vernacular. I read some whitepapers on MapReduce, and attended presentations on Cassandra, Pig and Mahout. I found myself feeling like an expert, much like most people probably feel after watching an inspiring TED talk.

Yet, as a computer engineer, I found myself questioning my inch-deep understanding and the more worrisome confidence it inspired . . .

Windows has been the defacto choice for HMI applications for almost two decades, but with the rise of touch devices and a thriving Android codebase, is that about to change?

In rugged environments, keeping x86 systems up and running has been a challenge. Two new trends -- thin-client and hardware consolidation -- are addressing the reliability concerns of the past.

A whitepaper discussiong how to:
1. Evaluate redundancy opportunities within system and subsystem software.
2. Eliminate single points of failure in hardware infrastructures.
3. Configure redundancy in servers, power, cooling, and networking

How you design your product can have drastic implications for you supply chain and operations teams. By looking at characteristics of each component in your product, you can judge the risk of supply disruptions and forced technology changes after launch.

Developers are different beasts, each having prefered languages, libraries, toolkits and IDEs. It's no surprise then that PaaS offerings are brewing that address the precise needs of their audience.

Here’s a riddle: When you think of a computer with a dual blazing-fast NVIDIA cards, a Xeon processor and 16GB of RAM, what type of PC comes to mind? Maybe a high-end Alienware system? Believe it or not, that description matches many of the systems being used to power today’s medical diagnostic devices such as CT scanners and ultrasound machines. In an interesting twist, the same GPU technology that renders high-resolution, imaginary destruction has found its way into the doctor’s office and is… Show more

Here’s a riddle: When you think of a computer with a dual blazing-fast NVIDIA cards, a Xeon processor and 16GB of RAM, what type of PC comes to mind? Maybe a high-end Alienware system? Believe it or not, that description matches many of the systems being used to power today’s medical diagnostic devices such as CT scanners and ultrasound machines. In an interesting twist, the same GPU technology that renders high-resolution, imaginary destruction has found its way into the doctor’s office and is frequently used to save lives rather than virtually vaporize them.

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