May 10, 2010 - (Free Research) Improving your storage management and better leveraging your network-attached storage (NAS) data or block storage data is a challenge for many IT organizations. Read this transcript to learn best practices for improving storage management and how to better control NAS data storage systems via data classification, tiering techniques and more.
October 08, 2009 - (Free Research) CIOs need to control storage costs while staying competitive simultaneously. Read this Gartner research paper to learn best practices on ensuring that the storage team is effective and efficient - ultimately resulting in better storage management.
July 06, 2010 - (Free Research) This webcast highlights best practices for setting up a virtualized Exchange 2010 infrastructure. Learn about the major changes made to Exchange 2010. Find out about various deployment scenarios, recommended storage architectures, and backup and recovery strategies for the new version of Exchange.
April 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This whitepaper provides an overview of the networking architecture for VMware® Infrastructure 3 on Dell™ PowerEdge blade servers. It provides best practices for deploying and configuring your network in the VMware environment.
November 13, 2009 - (Free Research) Operational cost savings have proved elusive for many customers adopting virtualization, either in-house or with outsourcers. However, some customers have achieved significant cost efficiencies thanks to five best practices that are surprisingly high-level in approach. Read this Gartner report to learn key findings and recommendations.
June 17, 2010 - (Free Research) The benefit of leveraging virtualization is obvious: more virtual servers at DR sites means reduced capital expense for disaster recovery and fewer physical servers that need to be purchased. Download this exclusive guide to learn best practices for strategizing and deploying a sound DR plan.
June 14, 2010 - (Free Research) Server virtualization is becoming a no-brainer for any business that runs more than one application on servers. This white paper covers many of the best practices for implementing iSCSI storage in order to optimize the resiliency, flexibility and performance of your virtual server environment.
July 12, 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper provides a reference architecture based on the Dell Business Ready Configurations for Virtualization targeted towards virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 with Microsoft Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V in an iSCSI environment. The tests results described in this white paper will highlight some of the new features in Windows Server.
July 06, 2010 - (Free Research) This webcast provides a roadmap for configuring SharePoint. Learn how to select a server protection strategy and gain insight into the interdependencies between critical SharePoint components.
June 29, 2010 - (Free Research) In this webcast, Blue Gecko, experts in remote database administration and an Amazon Web Services Partner, and Sentrigo, a leader in database security solutions, will deepen your understanding of the aspects you have to consider before planning to deploy your databases in the cloud.
April 07, 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper is intended for people who are proposing solutions, who are providing installation services or consulting, and who might be assisting in deploying VMware ESX backup solutions with HP ProLiant servers and HP StorageWorks storage technologies.
March 29, 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper illustrates new ways of looking at your desktop management practices and provides several approaches for simplifying and streamlining processes across your business.
November 17, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses the different ways for installing the Data Protector package and shows the pros and cons of each method. You can choose the method which fits your requirements. At the end of this white paper, a troubleshooting chapter lists error messages and necessary steps for fixing these problems.
June 02, 2010 - (Free Research) VMware vSphere v4 includes the ESX server virtualization layer, VMware VMotion for live virtual machine migration, VMware DRS for continuous load balancing, and more. VMware ESX abstracts processor, memory, storage, and networking resources into multiple virtual machines (VMs), enabling greater hardware utilization and flexibility.
July 01, 2010 - (Free Research) Read this article as W. Curtis Preston explains those things you should (or shouldn't) be doing if you are performing data deduplication.
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.
September 01, 2010 - (Free Research) Lost your way with use case bloat? Finding use cases are becoming mis-use cases? Help is here. Susan Burk shares her experiences on how and why use cases can go off-course and how to get them back on track.
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.
September 10, 2009 - (Free Research) DBA's have always been faced with the difficult task of maintaining a successful database environment, but recently new trends have come along to further challenge them.
July 16, 2010 - (Free Research) This podcast discusses how to achieve increased efficiency by implementing VDI best practices and storage tools. Learn how one university utilized storage virtualization and their applications to ensure optimal performance and end user satisfaction.
May 24, 2010 - (Free Research) Read this all inclusive backup guide for a detailed explanation of how to get started with data deduplication, how CDP is used in today’s storage environment, and ensuring availability in disaster recovery planning.