August 31, 2010 - (Free Research) This podcast explores the key features of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. Find out how this technology compares to its predecessor and gain insight into the benefits you can expect to achieve from using Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows 7.
August 24, 2010 - (Free Research) View this video how SEDs offer both security and performance advantages over software and help organizations comply with increasingly stringent laws and industry regulations for protecting data on laptop PCs.
December 08, 2008 - (Free Research) In 2008, Forrester answered 106 end user inquiries on archiving, including questions on eDiscovery, retention, message archiving, and using archiving to cope with the data growth explosion. This white paper summarizes these answers and explains why it's necessary to retain data for regulatory compliance or legal discovery purposes.
July 12, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper provides a list of the Top 10 ways you can improve SQL Server performance with the hardware you already own.
April 23, 2010 - (Free Research) Read this white paper for an exploration of how organizations can gain significant performance and cost benefits by upgrading legacy 2-socket servers to new Dell PowerEdge 11th generation 4/2-socket servers.
March 31, 2010 - (Free Research) By turning to a virtual-ready infrastructure, IT has the opportunity to create a next-generation architecture that fundamentally changes the way data centers work for the future. In doing so, IT has the opportunity to transform its own value to the organization by making the infrastructure more flexible and ready to move at the speed of business.
September 09, 2009 - (Free Research) This data sheet highlights the features and benefits of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server, a storage product highly optimized for use with Oracle Database.
December 01, 2009 - (Free Research) As virtualisation technology continues to develop, you will want to be sure your security solution keeps pace. Download this white paper to find out how.
August 09, 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper explores the need for uptime, explains the three components that contribute to uptime, reviews some of the problems with existing enterprise server management, provides a clear definition of clustering, and finally gives an honest explanation of what it can and can’t offer your organization.
June 01, 2010 - (Free Research) Boston Medical Center (BMC) needed to find ways to lower its operational costs to work within smaller budgets despite exploding data volumes, a sprawling server farm and 6,000 desktop users who needed access to clinical applications for patient care. The hospital pursued a data center virtualization strategy after partnering with Dell.
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).
June 18, 2010 - (Free Research) The Dell™ EqualLogic™ family of virtualized iSCSI SANs provide responsive, reliable support to end users while increasing efficiency and decreasing the cost of data management. The PS6000XVS and PS6010XVS are two high-performance offerings in the PS6000 family created to support the data availability requirements of tiered applications.
July 27, 2010 - (Free Research) To simplify compliance with PCI-DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, Novell® Sentinel™ LogManager enables you to collect, store, analyze and manage data logs from all across your enterprise.
April 01, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper will examine Cisco's Unified Computing System as a solution to the requirements of today's highly complex data centers and will describe the journey that organizations that invest in UCS can expect to experience.
February 04, 2010 - (Free Research) When you lose data, the only thing that really counts is your ability to restore your systems and data in a timely manner. What level of confidence do you have in your current solution?
May 01, 2010 - (Free Research) Oracle's unified storage systems are well positioned to address current market needs by providing simple-to-use and scalable storage solutions. Industry-standard hardware and open source software have the potential to greatly improve the overall economics of storage for customers. Read this IDC white paper to learn more.
June 22, 2010 - (Free Research) Virtualization's abstraction of resources offers some compelling solutions for keeping around old equipment past its usefulness for primary workloads. In chapter 4 of this e-book, you'll learn smarter ways to deal with reallocating your unused server and storage hardware.
September 04, 2009 - (Free Research) The Barkley ad firm implements consolidation, virtualization and replication to strengthen business-continuity and disaster-recovery planning. With the goal of getting to 100 percent availability, the firm uses HP's blade hardware, VMware's virtualization software and a variety of existing storage platforms.
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.
May 29, 2009 - (Free Research) Acme Truck Line, Inc. wanted to develop a cost-effective, comprehensive disaster recovery plan. Read this brief case study to see how they implemented VMware Infrastructure 3 and Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs to deliver an affordable and flexible virtual platform that supports disaster recovery needs for companies of all sizes.
May 01, 2010 - (Free Research) Professional Accounting Solutions needed to reduce power consumption to benefit from a price reduction in a co-location facility and consolidate its 40 servers and 2 SANs to minimize its hardware footprint. Read this case study to learn about the benefits PAS achieved by implementing solutions from Dell, Dell/EMC and Microsoft.
November 25, 2009 - (Free Research) Access this paper now for a detailed look at the processes that operate at the solution, file system, and system hardware levels of the Quantum’s DXi®-Series disk backup solutions.