CASE STUDY: Midway Independent School District sought to gain control over server sprawl and implement a consolidated solution for growth. Read this case study to learn how Dell servers, storage and Intel technology provided a firm foundation for education applications, growth and 50% power and cooling savings.

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

CASE STUDY: Boston Medical Center (BMC) needed to find ways to lower its operational costs to work within smaller budgets despite exploding data volumes, a sprawling server farm and 6,000 desktop users who needed access to clinical applications for patient care. The hospital pursued a data center virtualization strategy after partnering with Dell.

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how Dell helped BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York harness blades to shrink its data center footprint by 75 percent and improve efficiency by more than 50 percent.

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how Alfred University saved 80% on hardware, refreshing SunGard Higher Education Banner Unified Digital Campus infrastructure with Dell servers.

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 Nov 2009

CASE STUDY: Acadia University wanted to enable students to purchase their own laptops but needed to narrow their selection to models that would meet exacting requirements and student approval. Dell™ Latitude™ and Dell XPS™ laptops were among several models the students selected. Read this case study to learn more.

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2008

PRODUCT LITERATURE: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a VMware vSphere 4.0 based solution that is tightly integrated with Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage to offer centralized disaster recovery management, automation, and testing for a virtualized datacenter. Read this solution brief to learn more about the features and benefits of this solution.

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 | Published: 02 Feb 2010

ANALYST REPORT: This ESG Lab report examines the economic excellence of highly scalable EqualLogic iSCSI storage solutions compared to traditional direct attached storage (DAS), Fibre Channel storage area network (FC SAN), and multi-protocol solutions (defined as systems that provide FC, iSCSI, and NAS connectivity).

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

DATA SHEET: The Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series is fundamentally changing the way IT organizations think about purchasing and managing storage. This data sheet provides a detailed look at the ease of use, reliability, affordability, and enterprise performance of the Dell PS Series iSCSI storage arrays.

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 | Published: 18 Jun 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Built on breakthrough virtualized peer storage architecture, the EqualLogic PS Series simplifies the deployment and administration of consolidated storage environments. Read this product overview to learn more.

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 | Published: 18 Jun 2010

ANALYST REPORT: The data center of every business, whether SMB or enterprise, needs to find its own sense of balance between simplification and optimization that needs to be attained in order to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the enterprise information technology (I.T.) infrastructure. To learn how Dell can lower the TCO of your data center, read on.

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 | Published: 30 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses usage and configuration of F5 Network's BIG-IP© Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM) in combination with VMware's View 3.0 solution on Dell servers and Dell EqualLogic iSCSI storage.

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Improving your storage management and better leveraging your network-attached storage (NAS) data or block storage data is a challenge for many IT organizations. Read this transcript to learn best practices for improving storage management and how to better control NAS data storage systems via data classification, tiering techniques and more.

Posted: 19 May 2010 | Published: 10 May 2010

DATA SHEET: The Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS6510E is a virtualized iSCSI SAN that combines intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to provide simplified administration, rapid deployment, enterprise performance and reliability, and seamless scalability. Read this data sheet to learn more!

Posted: 11 May 2010 | Published: 06 Nov 2009

DATA SHEET: The Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS6010XV is a virtualized iSCSI SAN that combines intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to provide simplified administration, rapid deployment, enterprise performance and reliability, and seamless scalability. Read this data sheet to learn more!

Posted: 11 May 2010 | Published: 26 Oct 2009

WEBCAST: This presentation describes the use of enterprise flash drives in Oracle environments and Dell/EMC storage arrays.

Posted: 04 May 2010 | Premiered: Mar 15, 2010

EBOOK: Chapter 4 of the Advanced Virtualization e-book will examine the nuances of virtual storage, including provisioning, performance and remote storage methods that help ensure you allocate the right amount of storage - at the right performance level - for each application.

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 | Published: 29 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is more than a technology. It is a way of thinking about problems that allow us to go beyond the physical limitations nor­mally associated with entire classes of hardware, from servers to storage. Attaining the maximum benefits of virtualization, however, requires a plan and constant monitoring to ensure peak performance.

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 | Published: 29 Apr 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript outlines how to converge storage traffic onto a common, unified data center with 10 gigabit ethernet (10GbE). The benefits of this conversion include lower costs, easier deployment and greater flexibility and performance within the storage network. Download this transcript to learn more.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores monitoring challenges that IT pros face. Gain insight into how to streamline your processes and improve monitoring efficiency. Learn how server enhancements and other improvements could factor into your organization's virtualization decisions.

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 | Published: 31 Mar 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Watch this informative video to learn how you can improve your IT quality of life with desktop virtualization solutions from Dell. You'll learn about Dell's family of virtualization solutions, offering you the broadest set of tools and resources available to help you realize your virtualization vision.

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 | Published: 18 Mar 2010

PRODUCT LITERATURE: Dell Infrastructure Manager offers an open, standards-based software solution designed to unify and simplify management of heterogeneous servers, storage devices, and networks - while offering a smooth migration path toward a virtualization-ready data center that can adapt quickly and easily as enterprise needs change.

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Green IT equals efficient IT - and that equals an efficient and sustainable enterprise with a healthy bottom line. Getting started along the path to a green data center does not have to be a complex undertaking. Read this paper to learn about the three critical steps that can empower CIOs to reduce both infrastructure costs and GHG emissions. 

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2009

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: In this technical brief we provide an overview of the reasons Data Center Bridging (DCB) is being developed and how it can improve networking in the data center for applications, servers, and storage.

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 | Published: 03 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper shows how enterprises may make the transition to 10GbE for storage using Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series arrays and Dell PowerConnect™ switches.

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)offers enhanced performance and throughput for connecting networked storage to servers. Whether using the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel protocols, organizations have a clear path for unifying a network fabric in 10GbE environments.

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009