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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper examines a new approach to improving application performance, which is capable of delivering millions of IOPS and tens of GB/s throughput and allows capacity and performance to scale independently. Read on to learn about this cost effective, easy to use approach to dramatically improving application performance.
March 17, 2010 - (Free Research) Need to know the difference between copper and optical fiber? Want to learn what the acronyms PBX, PC, PCI, PCIe, PCM, PDA, and PDU mean? Our "Geek Speak v2.0" can teach you all this and more. An update to our popular v1.0 "Geek Speak", this white paper will teach you more than 650 popular IT words, phrases, and acronyms.
