WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides insight into the rapidly changing business landscape and explains how it is making limitless collaboration and on-demand information sharing possible. Discover a framework that unifies technologies, improves agility, and simplifies operations in the data center.
Posted: December 13, 2011 | Published: December 13, 2011


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Center Networking | Data Centers | Network Architectures | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper for a performance review of Oracle databases on physical versus virtual servers.
Posted: January 3, 2012 | Published: December 29, 2011


Topics:  Data Centers | Database Administration | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | Oracle (Product) | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | VMware | VMware Server

WHITE PAPER - This paper outlines the benefits and challenges of collaboration. It offers a guide to implementing an integrated collaboration environment based on Microsoft SharePoint and Dell servers with Intel processors that is designed for performance, availability, and the changing requirements of an SMB poised for growth.
Posted: March 31, 2010 | Published: March 31, 2010


Topics:  Collaboration | Collaborative Applications Software | Content Management Software | Data Management | Enterprise Computing | Multi-core Processors | Server Hardware | SMBs

CASE STUDY - In this case study Emerson virtualizes on Dell servers, eliminating 3,600 servers, reducing approximately 135 data centers down to 4, and decreasing the operating cost of its Windows server environment by 15 percent per year.
Posted: March 23, 2011 | Published: March 23, 2011


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Server virtualization is an increasingly common tactic used to boost data center performance. Access this exclusive white paper learn both why the most up-to-date server hardware is a necessity for a virtualization deployment.
Posted: August 26, 2011 | Published: August 26, 2011


Topics:  Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

CASE STUDY - Read this white paper to learn how American Gateway Bank used such technologies as SANs and server virtualization from HP to reduce infrastructure spending, help IT staff focus on business-critical initiatives and harden the company’s disaster recovery preparedness plan.
Posted: May 25, 2011 | Published: May 25, 2011


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments | Server Hardware | Storage Hardware | Virtualization Security

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: May 1, 2010 | Published: April 29, 2010


Topics:  Email Server Software | Fax Software | Instant Messaging | Messaging Middleware | Messaging Software | Microsoft Exchange | Productivity | Server Hardware | Small Businesses | SMBs | Storage Hardware

WHITE PAPER - This white paper defines and explores the concept of SMB server bundles, which are essentially turnkey versions of specific operating systems preinstalled on server hardware. Often times these solutions are preconfigured in order to simplify management, and will include common core applications that a small business needs. Read on for more.
Posted: December 6, 2011 | Published: December 6, 2011


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backups | Server Hardware | Server Management | SMBs | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - Intel IT and Intel's Data Center Group conducted proof of concept (PoC) testing and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to compare two- and four-socket servers based on Intel Xeon processors for a variety of virtualization scenarios. Download this white paper for a detailed look at this test and its results.
Posted: March 23, 2011 | Published: March 23, 2011


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | TCO

CASE STUDY - This exclusive resource explains how one SMB employed a converged infrastructure to increase uptime with minimal administration. Discover how a converged infrastructure solution can help your organization improve recovery time for critical servers, reduce hardware failure rates, increase reliability, and much more!
Posted: February 8, 2012 | Published: February 8, 2012


Topics:  Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Hardware | Hardware Management | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
Posted: April 25, 2011 | Published: November 30, 2010


Topics:  Data Modeling | Data Warehouses | Database Performance Management | Database Performance Management Software | Databases | Hardware | Hardware Configuration Management | Hardware Management | OLTP | Oracle (Product)

WEBCAST - This webcast explores the role that planning plays in the success or failure of virtualization adoption.  Gain insight into each phase of the project life cycle and how the associated processes can be improved for effective implementation.
Posted: March 16, 2010 | Premiered: March 16, 2010


Topics:  Best Practices | Microsoft Hyper-V | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Software | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Virtual Machine | Windows Server Software

VIDEO - Introducing virtual servers into your data center both simplifies and complicates your backup processes. This expert webcast explores the best practices for backing up and recovering critical VMs to avoid these potential obstacles.
Posted: December 20, 2011 | Premiered: November 29, 2011


Topics:  Backup for Virtualized Servers | Backups | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage for Virtualized Servers | Storage Virtualization | VM

PODCAST - Introducing virtual servers into your data center both simplifies and complicates your backup processes. This expert podcast explores the best practices for backing up and recovering critical VMs to avoid these potential obstacles.
Posted: December 20, 2011 | Premiered: December 16, 2011


Topics:  Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage for Virtualized Servers | Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers | Storage Virtualization | VM

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn how a Dell First Server with Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008 supplies the basis of a secure, accessible, and collaborative organization.
Posted: April 22, 2010 | Published: April 22, 2010


Topics:  Collaboration | Collaborative Applications Software | Document Management | Remote Access Software | Remote Computing | Server Hardware | Server Management | Small Businesses | Windows Server Software