May 24, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper provides an overview of recommended servers, storage, software, and services. It can be used to plan, scope, and procure the required components to set up a virtualization infrastructure.
August 10, 2009 - (Free Research) Servers play a crucial role in daily enterprise operations. But even the most powerful and resilient servers are useless without adequate storage. Storage solutions contain the operating systems, applications and virtual images needed to operate every server. This eBook chapter will help you better understand your data center storage challenges.
September 01, 2009 - (Free Research) The reference architecture illustrated in this article shows how enterprises may make the transition to 10GbE for storage using Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series arrays and Dell PowerConnect™ switches.
September 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper shows how enterprises may make the transition to 10GbE for storage using Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series arrays and Dell PowerConnect™ switches.
April 26, 2010 - (Free Research) Read this paper to learn the significant benefits of deploying a single vendor solution when planning and building a network infrastructure for a distributed multi-site chain. D-Link's single-vendor solution offers the full range of products required to build a highly secure infrastructure featuring centralized management of remote operations.
June 18, 2010 - (Free Research) Are you worried about how server administrators configure virtual switches? Do you wonder when virtualization and live VM migration will create chaos on the network?If so, you are invited to a Webinar that discuss both performance inhibitors and solutions for critical applications migrated to a virtualized environment.
May 07, 2010 - (Free Research) D-Link implements and supports unified network solutions that integrate capabilities in switching, storage, wireless, security and network cameras for IP Surveillance. D-Link's standards-based products stretch constrained IT budgets as they enhance and interoperate with your existing network environment.
July 24, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper presents an example configuration and best practices for deploying and configuring a highly available architecture using an example solution configuration and then discussing how the configuration helps in maximizing uptime.
May 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This document provides a detailed overview of using EMC Celerra with VMware vSphere 4. VMware vSphere is an infrastructure virtualization suite that provides virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability, and operational automation capabilities in an integrated package.
August 31, 2010 - (Free Research) The reason for the rise of 10GbE iSCSI is simple ‐ it offers the lowest cost of ownership and the highest performance among all SAN fabric alternatives. Read this white paper to learn more about these exciting developments.
August 26, 2010 - (Free Research) This booklet reviews best practices for test and troubleshooting methods as well as the test tools to ensure that installed optical fiber cabling provides the transmission capability to reliably support LAN or enterprise network applications.
December 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This ESG Lab report examines the economic excellence of highly scalable EqualLogic iSCSI storage solutions compared to traditional direct attached storage (DAS), Fibre Channel storage area network (FC SAN), and multi-protocol solutions (defined as systems that provide FC, iSCSI, and NAS connectivity).
August 12, 2009 - (Free Research) The purpose of this white paper is to describe the benefits of a clustered architecture in comparison with traditional controller-based architectures, and to discuss the technology that makes HP LeftHand SANs better by design.
May 07, 2010 - (Free Research) Server virtualization is now beginning to deliver functional and economic benefits to nearly all classes of enterprises willing to take the virtualization plunge, down to and including organizations with just a few hundred seats.
August 19, 2010 - (Free Research) This joint white paper prepared by Legrand/Ortronics and Fluke Networks reviews best practices for the technician performing field tests on installed optical fiber cabling. As traffic over networks expands and expectations of reliability increase, testing optical fiber cabling after installation is more important than ever.
August 06, 2010 - (Free Research) To realize the full benefits of vSphere, you need networked storage. And when it comes to virtualized servers, iSCSI is viewed as the top choice over Fibre Channel. In this month's cover story, Eric Siebert goes under the hood of VMware vSphere to show you how to make iSCSI work for virtual machines plus other essential and informative articles.
April 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A., a Columbia, South Carolina-based law firm with five locations throughout the state sought to consolidate legacy servers, improve availability for remote users, increase storage capacity and implement a new disaster recovery DR/BC strategy. In this case study you'll learn about their new Dell and VMware solutions.
July 13, 2010 - (Free Research) The Dell/EMC NS family of unified storage enables organizations to easily and cost-effectively consolidate both unstructured file-system data and structured application data into a single shared storage system - helping organizations control costs, streamline management, and enhance storage availability and performance.
June 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Dell worked with partner Symantec to provide ENGlobal, an energy engineering firm, with a data protection and deduplication solution running on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers and Dell EqualLogic™ iSCSI storage arrays. Read this case study to learn how these solutions helped cut storage management time by 50% and improve data protection.
April 30, 2010 - (Free Research) Bob Laliberte, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, discusses EMC's new Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) technology. Learn why FAST is one of the most important innovations in IT today.
January 28, 2009 - (Free Research) If you're not saving as much money as you'd hoped from your virtualization and consolidation efforts, you can learn from the best practices of the companies that are realizing huge savings. These companies run at least five times more virtual machines per physical host than other companies and use streamlined IT processes.
July 21, 2009 - (Free Research) Each month many companies, big or small, well known or unknown, experience a data security loss with the potential exposure of thousands to millions of sensitive customer or employee records. This brief examines cryptographic methods, specifically tape data encryption, to combat such security losses.
