Systems Management Reports

EBOOK: In this paper you will learn how SOA can directly influence the success of your business, which will result from your business’ ability to participate in these new, more dynamic, federated communities. Read on to learn how social orientation is driving both new SOA technology needs and management changes in how technology is delivered and governed.

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 | Published: 05 Feb 2010

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: Read this article to learn about the many capabilities and benefits of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and how Dell products can help simplify the migration to this new operating system.

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 | Published: 25 Apr 2008

EZINE: Tracking and identifying virtual machines on physical hosts or sorting out the source of I/O bottlenecks requires administrators to do a lot of investigative work. Software management tools can help, but well developed business processes are also important. Learn some tips and tricks to make managing virtual environments a little bit easier.

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 | Published: 02 Feb 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, learn how to implement a cost-effective, efficient disaster recovery (DR) plan with virtualization. Discover 4 different DR methods that work with virtualization to help prevent future disasters. Learn how to plan for DR by defining requirements and assigning application inventory to service levels.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 03 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, learn how to ensure high availability (HA) to meet end user needs. Discover how virtualization software helps ensure optimal HA and get tips to plan for your high availability requirements. Find out how to combine virtualization software with servers and planning time to reach high levels of availability.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 03 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores several virtualization applications, and details 10 common use cases for virtualization and it can help your company improve their IT infrastructure. Discover how to enhance your disaster recovery and high availability plans without draining the IT budget.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 03 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript offers recommendations for moving your virtualization project from the testing phase to production. Learn how to plan virtualization design to ensure a smooth transition to production rollout. Discover ways to align your implementation with best practices and determine which next steps to take to prepare for production.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 03 Dec 2009

DATA SHEET: Read how through centrally managing, deploying, enforcing and monitoring device/port access, and more, Microsoft SCCM customers can significantly reduce implementation costs and quickly enhance their security policy enforcement.

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010

EZINE: Analysts say that the 16% of workloads currently running on virtual machines will grow to 50% by the end of 2012. Take a look at TechTarget's survey data to find out how organizations are planning for this explosive growth.

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 | Published: 06 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This Focus profile describes Microsoft Hyper-V and VMM. It discusses Microsoft's server virtualization history, the origins of the Microsoft virtual server technologies and solutions, and the architecture of those solutions.

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 | Published: 28 Mar 2008

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE: Virtualization is driving the choices that data center managers are making when it comes to hardware, software and systems management. Drill down into TechTarget's survey results to learn more about the latest data center trends. Also in this month's issue, find out how to automate IT processes to streamline your workflows.

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 | Published: 09 Dec 2009

EGUIDE: In this Expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and Dell, you will discover the most prominent trends in today's data centers, including power usage, virtualization implementation, and much more.

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 | Published: 09 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Your organization has a dizzying number of platforms, directories, systems and applications - all requiring your attention and administration. So how can you integrate and automate fragmented management tasks while addressing a full range of GRC issues? You can choose the security and system management solution from Novell®

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 | Published: 04 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, get a firsthand look into a virtual platform that is designed to meet your current and future IT demands. Learn how to right-size system capacity and improve workload scalability. Discover industry best practices to increase agility of applications and systems.

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 04 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: While PC prices continue to fall, the total cost of using PCs remains high, when the cost of the deployment activities themselves is considered. To help companies optimize their PC deployment process, Dell has developed a series of offerings that can be used to simplify the deployment process and reduce the time needed to deploy PCs.

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 represents a significant milestone in Microsoft's ongoing efforts to help customers streamline the management of their unique IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn how to manage Windows Server 2008 R2.

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Aug 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript details an approach to optimize your virtualized infrastructure performance. Learn how to leverage key performance indicators and cross-domain analytics to plan for future capacity demands and improve service levels. Discover the secret to managing your VMware infrastructure performance for optimal resource utilization.

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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.

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this transcript of the "Mission Critical Computing" webcast to learn about changing trends in the data center infrastructure. Discover tools to ensure high availability at a low cost to improve IT performance and find out more about innovations to data center operations to help you remain competitive.

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Published: 13 Nov 2009

CASE STUDY: When On-Demand Hosting Provider SoftLayer needed a single provider of SATA/SAS who offered the flexibility they needed, they turned to Adaptec.

Posted: 02 Nov 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper provides the 4 best practices that IT leaders of ROBO organizations need to consider when virtualizing their businesses, providing ROI tips and establishing a roadmap for reducing the Total Cost of Ownership for virtualizing the distributed ROBO environment.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper outlines the benefits derived and the costs associated with virtualization in the Remote Offices/Branch Offices, in the classic model versus the proposed model.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to see how FCBT used Robot/ SCHEDULE to connect and coordinate their job scheduling needs across multiple systems.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores how thin client deployments can enable businesses to achieve efficiency and high-performance benefits in your infrastructure. Receive recommendations for developing your own thin-client strategies.

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 | Published: 14 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Novell Sentinel combines the benefits of identity and systems management with real-time security event management and monitoring. It gives you a comprehensive, real-time dashboard view of user, network and application events, so your IT staff can be much more responsive to potential threats.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009