This White Paper is intended to help organizations who are attempting to set up an enterprise architecture practice. It shows how organizations can use a modular, iterative, and incremental approach in order to develop an architectural capability that is otherwise a large and complex undertaking. 

There is no question that the successful implementation of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) relies on a careful and holistic approach to business planning. One of the most important tools in the evaluation, purchase, and ongoing use of SOA is this body of best practices that vendors, consultants, and customers have compiled. 

<p>This technical white paper provides Exadata Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) insight for rapid deployment and efficient operation of Exadata Database Machine, focusing on the areas of: Exadata MAA Architecture, initial deployment, post-deployment Exadata MAA configuration, and Exadata MAA operational best practices.</p> 

Review this informative paper and uncover the 7 essential SOA practices that can help your company gain competitive advantage and increase revenues. 

This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blueprint or a starting configuration, for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized server environment and provides guidelines for designing and sizing the storage for the same using Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage systems. 

This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers. 

Although it is not new technology, service-oriented architectures (SOAs) continue to be loved, for their modern and agile approach to development, and loathed for their extended deployment times and often high costs. Read this white paper to learn the secret behind being able to benefit from SOAs instead of getting caught up in high costs and risk. 

 Visit this interactive learning environment to learn how to improve SAP performance and enable greater operational efficiency by leveraging automation and other emerging technologies and best practice. 

Business Ready Configurations for Virtualization are pre-configured, easy to order, bundled solutions that include Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers, Dell EqualLogic™ SAN, and VMware vSphere™. This white paper provides a detailed reference architecture for the Business Ready Configurations. 

This white paper presents a cost/benefit analysis of VDI based on research, surveys, benchmarks, and analyst reviews. Find out how this architecture compares to traditional PCs and obtain key findings and best practices for success. 

Ready to work in the cloud? Get a detailed overview of cloud computing technology—common types of architectures and services and perceived risks impacting widespread adoption. Learn best practices for optimizing critical systems for cloud deployment in existing facilities, including optimizing power architectures for high availability. 

Whether your organization's service-oriented architecture (SOA) has 50 services being used by one customer, or 50 customers using one service, you need SOA governance; increased business agility depends on it.