August 05, 2010 - (Free Research) It's no secret that there is discord between IT staff and facilities managers in organizations with large data centers. This e-book serves as a guide for IT pros looking for information to ensure that their physical infrastructures support the data center. It also provides insight into some of the challenges facing data center facilities teams.
October 30, 2008 - (Free Research) Read this paper for an informative guide to helping you consolidate your Microsoft® SQL Server® 2000 and SQL Server 2005 databases from multiple machines onto a single SQL Server 2008 server system.
June 15, 2010 - (Free Research) Midmarket organizations considering physical server upgrades must evaluate their environments, sift through offerings and integrate the servers with existing tools. This e-book will guide you through these complex efforts by covering three components: determining needs and requirements, understanding your options, and putting it all together.
March 05, 2010 - (Free Research) In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com and Dell, you will discover how to balance the storage and networking demands of today’s virtual environments.
September 01, 2010 - (Free Research) You can’t make the best storage decisions for your business if you’re not asking the right questions. Our “New Storage Buying Criteria for Shared Virtual Infrastructure RFP template” makes it easy. Use it to help ensure the solutions you choose can deliver extreme flexibility and efficiency, and a “future-proof” foundation.
April 30, 2010 - (Free Research) Security information management systems are effective platforms for the collection, analysis and storage of events from a broad range of systems and devices. We’ll outline what you should look for to get the most relevant data from SIMs. Read this paper to find out more.
September 10, 2009 - (Free Research) This Guide is a companion to How to Guide: Consolidating multiple SQL Server systems onto Dell PowerEdge Servers using Microsoft’s Hyper-V. In this Guide, we use the Dell PowerEdge R900 and PowerEdge R905 as target servers.
August 16, 2010 - (Free Research) This data deduplication technology tutorial will look at all of the data dedupe alternatives and take a look at some of the most significant deduplication backup products. Learn about global data deduplication, what to look for in a data deduplication product, inline vs. post-processing deduplication, and more.
August 16, 2010 - (Free Research) This advisory guide will discuss both strategic and tactical considerations, to assist in decision making to select and apply deduplication technologies in line with different organizational needs.
March 11, 2010 - (Free Research) This expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com and Dell, provides an overview of the expenses associated with virtualization and highlights the virtual server trends expected for 2010. Gain insight into the tangible virtualization costs, and learn how to keep pace with the changing server virtualization market.
March 31, 2010 - (Free Research) What do you do to prepeare for the inevitable invasion of server virtualization? How are you going to get from 20% virtualization to 60% virtualization in three years or less. The first and by far most critical step is to make sure that you have in place an infrastructure that is optimized for virtualization.
September 03, 2009 - (Free Research) This tool is designed as a guide for customers with a comfortable knowledge of virtualization and their server/storage environment. Simply enter in a few vital pieces of information and the Dell Virtualization Advisor will create a customized virtualization solution to match your needs.
April 09, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper outlines the impact of data deduplication on data protection, and specifically how EMC Data Domain pioneered, and now leads, the combination of storage system interfaces and software to make the disk-based solution an efficient and cost-effective alternative to tape-based methods.
April 08, 2010 - (Free Research) There is no out-of-a box software that you can buy to Next, Next, Finish your way to a complete virtual desktop environment. Instead, multiple technologies must be integrated in careful ways to create the necessary architecture. It's likely that you already have many components in place. Read this white paper to learn more.
December 11, 2008 - (Free Research) This guide primarily focused on storage arrays based on their support for key virtualization features, such as high availability and virtual machine migration.
August 25, 2010 - (Free Research) This ESG white paper discusses the key criteria you need to consider before making your next IT investment and why it’s time to modernize your approach to storage.
August 30, 2010 - (Free Research) Improving DR plans is always top of mind for storage professionals at small and medium sized organizations. This guide provides storage pros with the necessary information to improve the effectiveness of their overall DR plan. You'll learn what to be aware of when putting a DR plan in place, as well as what every DR plan should have.
August 24, 2010 - (Free Research) In this expert e-Guide, sponsored by SearchStorageChannel.com and KineticD, you will learn about the advantages, concerns, available opportunities and how you can get involved with cloud-based backup.
August 20, 2010 - (Free Research) Download this e-guide to learn more about storage tiering and VDI solutions that streamline the provisioning of new or upgraded desktops, while reducing the cost and complexity of backup and recovery.
August 13, 2010 - (Free Research) In this e-guide on VMware and data backup, catch up with the latest developments in VMware backup and recovery. Learn about new VMware data backup and recovery tools, whether or not VMware Consolidated Backup is right for your organization, how to use VMware Data Recovery Manager and more.
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.
July 27, 2010 - (Free Research) Download this brief guide to learn the top 5 questions you should be asking to ensure that your choice of a cloud storage provider will meet your business needs.