March 25, 2009 - (Free Research) Storage consolidation brings many applications together to a single storage pool. It improves storage utilization, simplifies management, and increases reliability in well implemented SANs. While consolidation makes it easier to manage, provision, and backup your data, how do you manage different application service level requirements?
April 22, 2009 - (Free Research) This analyst report will illustrate specific challenges encountered when virtualizing the data center and outline how management tools with visibility and monitoring from virtual machines to storage are required.
July 09, 2008 - (Free Research) Built on patented peer storage architecture, the Dell EqualLogic PS Series of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays offer high performance, reliability, intelligent automation, and seamless virtualization of storage to enable simplified enterprise storage deployment and management, and comprehensive data protection.
March 31, 2010 - (Free Research) The next-generation virtual-ready data center infrastructure is being achieved through the implementation of innovative solutions such as the Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM), which helps to deliver significant improvements in ROI. Read this paper to learn more about this innovative solution.
August 24, 2010 - (Free Research) Deduplication, compression, and bandwidth enhancement technologies available in Dell™ PowerVault™ DL2100 backup and Blue Coat® ProxySG® WAN Optimization appliances can alleviate stress on networks - helping organizations enhance data protection and application recovery at remote or branch offices.
July 08, 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper explains how storage administrators are using file virtualization to control storage sprawl, keeping users happy and making it much easier to manage data.
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.
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.
July 30, 2010 - (Free Research) Few organisations are willing to pay more for storage every year. Data reduction can get you off the treadmill by reducing the amount of data you need to store, backup and manage, and this e-book explains compression, data de-duplication, archiving and several other techniques to achieve this outcome.
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 01, 2010 - (Free Research) The management tools selected to support virtualization are essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff required to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Continue reading this white paper to learn more.
March 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper introduces IP storage technologies and the platform benefits for Oracle running on consolidated IP storage over NFS. It also reviews the features of Oracle 11g Direct NFS and summarizes the business and performance benefits observed after extensive lab testing on EMC® Celerra® network-attached storage (NAS).
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.
June 25, 2010 - (Free Research) Watch this video case study to learn how Signature Styles, a leading marketer of women's apparel and accessories, simplified its storage and increased performance with Oracle's Sun Unified Storage Systems.
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.
February 11, 2009 - (Free Research) Despite progress in Virtualization, much development still remains. With predications that virtualization will become pervasive, this research highlights forthcoming challenges and strategic issues facing IT planners.
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.
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.
October 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Dell Inc. (Dell) commissioned Principled Technologies (PT) to consolidate 35 4-year-old HP ProLiant DL385 server and storage solutions onto 5 Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 blade server and storage solutions using VMware vSphere 4 (vSphere). Read this test report to learn about key findings from PT's consolidation testing.
May 14, 2009 - (Free Research) Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SANs help to reduce the cost and complexity of IT Consolidation and uniquely integrate with VMware® Infrastructure to enable the fully virtualized IT environment.
November 10, 2009 - (Free Research) Read this paper to see how grid computing is delivering above and beyond the promises of virtualization. You'll also learn how grid computing is especially impactful in database consolidation with results like better availability, scalability, flexibility, lower costs, and better service levels of every kind.
October 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Dell Inc. (Dell) commissioned Principled Technologies (PT) to consolidate 35 4-year-old HP ProLiant DL385 server and storage solutions onto 5 Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 blade server and storage solutions using Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. Learn about the benefits achieved from this consolidation solution in this test report.
