WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of specific information required for administrating storage on Linux servers connected to the Dell Compellent Storage Center. The information is intended for administrators with at minimum a basic understanding of Linux systems, specifically general tasks around managing disk partitions and file systems.

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 | Published: 05 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Arnold Worldwide is a Boston-based global advertising agency. They needed to replace its existing SAN with virtualized storage. Read this case study to learn how Arnold successfully addressed their DR and scalability needs, but also reduced its data center footprint and slashed its power and cooling costs.

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: To protect your organization during unplanned downtime, you must have effective disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plans in place. This expert e-guide provides best practices for creating a comprehensive DR strategy and discusses why contingent controls are a vital - yet overlooked - part of DR and BC.

Posted: 30 Mar 2012 | Published: 30 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: This Tech Guide from SearchNetworking.com explores emerging network virtualization protocols and strategies, and uncovers the need for software-defined networking in cloud environments.

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 | Published: 28 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: This expert E-Guide reveals 6 checklists to help you improve and identify deficiencies in your disaster recovery plan to give you the best fighting chance in the event of a disaster. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

EZINE: This e-zine will explore the benefits and risk of relying on the cloud for disaster recovery, how virtualization technologies can keep your employees productive when a disaster occurs and why enterprise organizations are starting to shape disaster recovery strategies around mobile devices.

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript, featuring Jim Reavis of the Cloud Security Alliance, offers advice on how to secure your cloud. Reavis discusses high level vs. detailed cloud security frameworks and suggests questions to ask potential cloud vendors.

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 | Published: 21 Mar 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, learn how your company can successfully transition to a multi-tenant, virtual and converged data center.

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 | Published: 15 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: Check out this E-Guide for tips on backup and data management in today's demanding IT environments. Learn about the "new" information lifecycle management process, discover recent developments in storage tiering (namely automation), receive best practices to help you figure out how much your storage is really costing you and more.

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 | Published: 08 Mar 2012

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to gain more detail into Boston Medical center's quest to lower its operational costs, why it settled on data center virtualization and the benefits it reaped, including $3.2 million in savings in equipment avoidance costs, improved security with desktop virtualization and so much more.

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 | Published: 16 Jun 2010

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn why LaRue County High School in Kentucky deployed a Dell Latitude netbook running Windows 7 to each of its 760 students and was aided by Dell Professional Learning Services, which helped the teachers bring to life a 21st-century learning environment that integrated netbooks into the curriculum on a daily basis.

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 | Published: 14 Dec 2011

CASE STUDY: Read this brief case study to learn more about the storage scalability challenges that Kansas Spine Hospital faced, how it overcame them a Dell solution and the benefits it reaped, including simplified administration, reduced bandwidth and capacity costs, about 85% of acquisition costs for a backup solution by leveraging DR features and more.

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 | Published: 07 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: In this E-Guide from SearchNetworking.com, learn more about upgrading to 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and also uncover many of the common misconceptions regarding this technology.

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 | Published: 29 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: This e-tip analyzes Oracle Database bottlenecks and what IT and database administrators can do if performance lags.

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 | Published: 28 Feb 2012

EZINE: The second edition of BI Trends & Strategies, an e-zine offering advice on business intelligence (BI), analytics and data warehousing, explores whether or not it's the end of enterprise data warehouses as we know them, how to manage multiple business intelligence (BI) tools at once and the potential uses of data virtualization tools.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: Although large data sets contain valuable business insights, they are often difficult for CIOs to manage. This expert e-guide from SearchCIO.com underscores the need for CIOs to make use of this information and describes new technologies that can assist them in their efforts.

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 | Published: 03 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide from SearchCIO.com points out one common mistake companies make after setting up their virtual environments. Find out how IT operations differ in physical and virtual worlds and obtain exclusive advice to help you fully leverage your virtual infrastructure.

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 | Published: 03 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: VDI storage presents a slew of new challenges to data storage professionals. Read this expert E-Guide to explore how to address VDI storage challenges with data dedupe and NAS systems.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 09 Jan 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Automated storage tiering has become the must-have feature for all new storage arrays over the last two years. This presentation transcript discusses the ins and outs of automated storage tiering, and the 4 key ways it can boost your data center efficiency.

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 | Published: 28 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: This E-Guide explores the 6 best practices for data footprint reduction, the overlooked constraints often found in storage infrastructures, which storage tools you need to be using and the future of unified data storage.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 06 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: IT leaders are challenged by the growth of the amount of data they have to manage. While data management encompasses several areas of an organization, ensuring the data protection and business continuity is one of the most critical aspects. Inside this white paper, uncover strategies for avoiding data loss and lack of application availability.

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 | Published: 02 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses some of the new features in vSphere, as well as how to connect a vSphere 5 environment to a Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN.

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 | Published: 02 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Tiered storage is a smart storage solution that directs application workloads to a specific storage location (or "tier") based on performance and cost characteristics. This white paper provides an introduction to tiered storage; learn exactly how tiered storage functions, and how to determine which data should be sent to which tier.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides a brief introduction to several technologies that can help you reap the benefits of storage consolidation. Read on to learn the keys to creating a unified storage infrastructure, and how to lower costs throughout your storage infrastructure without compromising efficiency or performance.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper for a technical introduction to storage tiering and its implementation. You'll learn exactly how tiered storage works, and how to determine if it's the right strategy for your organization. Finally, you'll receive recommendations on how to evaluate available tiered solutions and determine which will best meet your needs.

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2011