This guidebook provides the answers with a series of detailed sections including essential activities such as planning, forecasting, risk management, team selection, communication and collaboration. 

The knowledge gained from this paper will assist in formulating strategies and methodologies to achieve near-zero downtime dynamic database migrations to Oracle10g or Oracle11g. Read this white paper to learn more. 

To fully benefit from Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V and Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) technology, a fully engineered virtualization solution is needed, that is both cost effective and easy to manage whilst simultaneously ensuring high availability with enterprise performance and stability. 

This document details the four available networking configurations for running Hyper-V on Dell™ PowerEdge™ systems. It also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each networking configuration with an emphasis on typical Dell system configurations. 

In October 2003, DaimlerChrysler South Africa decided that significant cost savings could be achieved by migrating its mission critical systems onto a contemporary low cost platform and in the process remove the mainframe. This case study presents the challenges the company faced as well as the solution and benefits achieved. 

To capitalize on the benefits of Windows 7, you must make sure your computing environment is ready for the upgrade. Dell's Windows 7 Readiness Assessment is designed to identify application compatibility, hardware compatibility and migration readiness and to provide the recommendations needed to help make your transition to Windows 7 smooth. 

Business Productivity Online Standard Suite delivers hosted communication and collaboration tools that feature simplified IT Management, high availability and comprehensive security. This whitepaper will help you understand what is needed to prepare to migrate your current systems to a hosted model. 

Companies that seek infrastructure consulting from Dell often want to cut expenditures. Dell can help customers reduce costs by taking advantage of Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, and Dell products and services. Read this case study to learn more! 

Dell Client Migration and Deployment Services are designed to save cost and deployment time, mitigate risk, and reduce network traffic to ensure a successful migration. 

Alinean, a leader in IT value measurement, teamed up with HP and Novell to assess the financial merits of moving from a legacy Sun Solaris and SPARC environment to Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) running on HP ProLiant DL 785 G6 x86 Servers versus upgrading to SUN Solaris 10 running on Sun SPARC T5440. Read this paper for the results. 

This document provides recommendations and best practices for moving a user’s data from their physical corporate workstations into the virtual Citrix XenDesktop environment. 

This IP address management freeware is a complete solution with the complete feature set of the Infoblox IP address manager, including Smart Folders, Network Map (with subnet management) and leading IPv6 capabilities.