August 04, 2010 - (Free Research) Watch this video and see how one school district optimized its backups and disaster recovery using an ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication solution.
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.
June 03, 2010 - (Free Research) Read this case study to learn how the Raytown School District has revamped their IT infrastructure by virtualizing its storage and server environments.
June 03, 2010 - (Free Research) Hear what customers are saying about Xiotech virtualization! In this video, Charles Kanavel of Campbell Union (CA) High School District discusses how they have combatted the "Technology Treadmill" of replacing 25% of their desktop inventory every year with a virtualization solution that increased performance and saved money at the same time.
April 29, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper outlines the critical requirements - reliability and availability, scalability, security, and performance - of an SMB messaging environment and describes and end-to-end messaging solution that meets those requirements.
July 16, 2010 - (Free Research) This podcast discusses how to achieve increased efficiency by implementing VDI best practices and storage tools. Learn how one university utilized storage virtualization and their applications to ensure optimal performance and end user satisfaction.
December 18, 2009 - (Free Research) In this webcast Q&A transcript with expert Greg Shields you'll learn how to take the first step to taking on a server into your infrastructure.
December 18, 2009 - (Free Research) In this podcast Q&A with expert Greg Shields here about how to take the first step with taking on a server into your infrastructure.
December 18, 2009 - (Free Research) In this webcast Q&A with expert Greg Shields here about how to take the first step with taking on a server into your infrastructure.
April 06, 2010 - (Free Research) This first in a three-part series details some of the basic things small business users should consider in choosing a server system to fit their business needs.
December 10, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper describes how any small business can benefit from the advantages of a server-based network. Putting a fast and well-equipped server to work increases your productivity, enables smart backup and archiving, and vastly improves the security of your data.
April 29, 2010 - (Free Research) What brand of servers do you currently have in place? What kind of virtualization software do you currently have installed in production? Take the "Server Virtualization for Small to Mid-sized Business Survey" to provide your input on virtualization for SMBs and learn about virtualization solutions from Dell and VMware.
December 05, 2008 - (Free Research) This paper proposes several sample virtualization architectures based on Dell's server and storage products. Architectures are divided into three main categories: Small, Medium, and Large. These categories are based on the features and capacity of each product, as well as the complexity of the overall architecture.
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.
December 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Nebraska-based Chemistry Advertising implemented Windows Server® 2008 R2 Foundation to address the issue of a lacking centralized file storage system. The company now has an easy-to-manage system that helps employees to better organize and collaborate on projects. Read this case study to learn more!
July 15, 2010 - (Free Research) Join Vice President of Gartner Research, Dave Russell as he discusses recent developments in disk backup in this 7 minute interview recorded for you to listen at your convenience.
July 20, 2010 - (Free Research) The backup and recovery choices for a small- to medium-sized business (SMB) can easily be broken down into three broad segments: tape-based backup, disk-based backup and cloud backup. Each offers a different set of advantages and disadvantages. This tutorial will help you choose a data backup system that will best serve your storage needs.
September 29, 2009 - (Free Research) Dell has a full line of the latest sever and storage hardware and software to enable you to consolidate and virtualize your environment, control your costs, and satisfy all of your IT needs. To learn more about the newest line of single- and dual-socket servers and storage in the Dell lineup, please read on.
July 25, 2009 - (Free Research) Even if you have a disaster recovery plan in place already, you may wonder if it is good enough to keep your business running without any downtime. This paper walks through the steps every organization needs to take to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster.
February 2009 - (Free Research) The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions.
June 2010 - (Free Research) Nothing in virtualization is as simple as it first seems. Smaller IT organizations have neither the expertise nor bandwidth to resolve frustrating virtualization issues. This paper will briefly examine those unintended problems, current industry workarounds, as well as industry solutions.
