March 12, 2010 - (Free Research) This E-Guide details how to deploy unified storage and network fabric. Learn the necessary components, differences in approaches to deploying this technology and best practices for choosing the right adapter.
December 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is replacing Fibre Channel drives in high performance applications such as online transaction processing, real time analytics & streaming media. The key reasons for this transition are that SAS drives have the same or better reliability and data availability characteristics of Fibre Channel drives but are less expensive.
February 01, 2010 - (Free Research) This article will provide an overview of the reasons Data Center Bridging (DCB) is being developed and how it can improve networking in the data center for applications, servers, and storage.
February 22, 2010 - (Free Research) Watch this webcast to learn how unified fabric can be utilized to improve data center management. Discover the benefits of unified fabric, and learn how your organization can migrate to this data transport technology incrementally to preserve your existing data center investments.
February 19, 2010 - (Free Research) For IT professionals, disk-based backup is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to slow and cumbersome tape backup in the data center. Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs) bridge the two technologies – combining modern disk backup with traditional tape infrastructure.
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.
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.
October 09, 2009 - (Free Research) In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchITChannel.com and Dell, you will discover how solution providers are finding significant revenue opportunities in the consulting, planning, deployment and management of server virtualization and networking projects.
May 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Mosaic Technology sought to partner with a larger company to obtain sales, marketing and technical support, thereby extending its reach into the server and storage virtualization market.
December 18, 2009 - (Free Research) Watch this Flash Demonstration of Virtual Machine and Blade Servers optimized SAN features. Learn about VMware optimized SANs utilizing Cisco MDS NX-OS software and switching modules.
April 01, 2009 - (Free Research) For many midsized and large businesses, IT infrastructure is more than just the data center - it is what runs the business. Ensuring that mission critical systems perform efficiently and reliably amid the complexity of multivendor, multiplatform infrastructures can become an insurmountable task without the right tools.
March 18, 2010 - (Free Research) Watch this informative video to learn how you can improve your IT quality of life with desktop virtualization solutions from Dell. You'll learn about Dell's family of virtualization solutions, offering you the broadest set of tools and resources available to help you realize your virtualization vision.
February 24, 2010 - (Free Research) The purpose of this article is to examine the unique benefits of Intel® Solid State Drive (Intel® SSD) over traditional HDDs and competing SSDs, and to explore the benefits one could realize in using these new high performance SSDs in storage and embedded applications.
March 04, 2010 - (Free Research) Storage virtualization has become a prominent solution in the IT world by offering continued benefits and a lower cost infrastructure. This podcast examines the benefits and top challenges with storage virtualization and approaches to build storage solutions for virtual environments.
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.
July 01, 2008 - (Free Research) An aging, proprietary enterprise resource planning (ERP) system at Kelly Tractor limited the company's ability to integrate information from separate departments and build new, innovative sales and services tools. Read how the company benefited from Dell and VMware virtualization.
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.
June 01, 2009 - (Free Research) In this report, Enterprise Strategy Group discusses how Hitachi midrange storage systems can be deployed to cost-effectively provide easy-to-configure storage for Exchange environments of all sizes with excellent operational efficiency, offering affordable scalability, reliability, availability, and performance.
December 30, 2009 - (Free Research) The University opened a brand-new data center facility to accommodate massive growth in scientific and administrative computing with Cisco Nexus 7000 Switch.
December 30, 2009 - (Free Research) The Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, also known as the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), has installed two innovative Nexus 5020 switches from Cisco on its high‑performance network. By using the Cisco® Nexus 5000, ZIB has very cost effectively increased the speed at which huge volumes of data are transported to and from its in-house supercomputer.
June 10, 2009 - (Free Research) The purpose of data deduplication is to increase the amount of information that can be stored on disk arrays and to increase the effective amount of data that can be transmitted over networks. Read this white paper to learn more about data deduplication as well as Quantum Dxi-Series disk-based backup solutions.
December 18, 2009 - (Free Research) EMC’s storage expertise, innovative products, and service capabilities have allowed it to become the market leader in IP storage. According to the IDC research, EMC, along with its wide network of Velocity Partners, is the revenue leader in IP-based storage solutions. Read this paper to find out why.