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.
April 30, 2010 - (Free Research) This Webcast discusses the pitfalls of performing backup and recovery operations over WANs and how to maximize the benefits of deploying virtualization in a business continuity environment. It will also show you how to reduce your network bandwidth utilization requirements and overhead costs. Watch this Webcast to learn more.
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.
January 25, 2010 - (Free Research) The protocol utilized to transport data between servers and storage for High Performance Computing (HPC) and to define a Storage Area Network (SAN) is Fibre Channel(FC). Fibre Channel is an "invisible" protocol, because it is only known to the technicians that implement it and keep it working. This paper will provide an overview of this technology.
May 05, 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper defines six types of replication and looks at the advantages and drawbacks of each. It also provides an overview of factors (such as protocol and total cost of ownership) that should be taken into account when developing a replication strategy.
August 16, 2010 - (Free Research) It’s important to approach VoIP with your eyes wide open – to understand the technology involved, the investment required, and an affordable migration path to VoIP that will deliver value to your business, both short- and long-term, without compromising the quality of your communications. Read this paper to find out more.
April 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This whitepaper provides an overview of the networking architecture for VMware® Infrastructure 3 on Dell™ PowerEdge blade servers. It provides best practices for deploying and configuring your network in the VMware environment.
August 26, 2010 - (Free Research) Learn backup expert W. Curtis Preston’s take on the state of virtual server backup today including an overview of the different approaches to virtual server backup, the importance of Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Services (VSS) for backing up VMs and more.
July 16, 2010 - (Free Research) Learn backup expert W. Curtis Preston’s take on the state of virtual server backup today including an overview of the different approaches to virtual server backup, the importance of Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Services (VSS) for backing up VMs and more.
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.
November 30, 2006 - (Free Research) Storage challenges for IT professionals are particularly complex in today's environment of rapid obsolescence of storage hardware and digital media.
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.
February 01, 2009 - (Free Research) ServiceU Corporation was challenged to deploy reliable hardware to support
its Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 environment and virtualize other applications to enhance business flexibility. Read this case study to learn about the benefits that ServiceU achieved through by implementing Dell hardware and Microsoft Hyper-V technology.
March 05, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper compares traditional data protection options and provides an overview of the impact data deduplication is having on the storage industry. Deduplication is quickly gaining momentum in the growing disk-to-disk backup market and offers several significant improvements over traditional data protection methods.
April 30, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper provides an overview for deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment for VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 (U4) running on the latest PowerEdge M610 and M710 blade servers and EqualLogic PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays.
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.
June 03, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper explains what is meant by storage thin provisioning, the way it works and the storage problems it addresses. It describes its potential benefits as well as a few pitfalls for potential users to watch out for.
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 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.
June 07, 2010 - (Free Research) The June 2010 cover story of Storage magazine provided insights on where solid state makes sense in today’s storage environments. This month’s issue also reveals the winners of our latest Quality Awards survey for backup and recovery software, best practices from W. Curtis Preston for backing up Microsoft SharePoint and much more.
March 12, 2010 - (Free Research) Your backup application looks a lot different than it did a few years ago. In the March edition of Storage Magazine, see what new capabilities are being built in by backup vendors plus other storage related articles.
December 01, 2008 - (Free Research) Virtualization is changing everything, from how you manage resources to the way you support your business, it addresses many of today's IT challenges - cost, responsiveness, availability, disaster recovery - and is a key element for achieving a more automated, agile infrustructure. Dell helps you virtualize at the speed of your business...