To help simplify enterprise desktop management, Dell and VMware have created a flexible, highly scalable desktop virtualization reference architecture based on Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN arrays, and powerful new VMware View 4 technology. 

Every year people come from around the world to hear from leading industry experts, vendors and Brian Madden himself on the state of the industry and where things are going. Now, for the first time ever, select sessions of BriForum Chicago 2011 are going online in our BriForum Online Academy. 

This free Sybase presentation provides a high-level overview of Complex Event Processing (CEP). It begins by defining CEP and its capital markets applications, and culminates with the powerful Sybase Aleri CEP platform and its features and benefits. 

Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. 

The Dell™ Virtual Integrated System (VIS) Self-Service Creator tool streamlines provisioning and virtual desktop management in heterogeneous environments, helping reduce administrative burden, increase responsiveness, and ensure security and compliance. 

A VDI deployment must be carefully designed to ensure it delivers the scalability needed to support large-scale enterprise client computing requirements. Failing to plan properly for a VDI deployment could nullify all of your expected cost and effciciency benefits. Check out this brief white paper to make sure your VDI project is a success. 

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. 

This comprehensive, multi-media tutorial explores how desktop virtualization with Dell VMware can benefit SMBs in many different ways. 

<p>When choosing a desktop virtualization platform to manage your desktop infrastructure, your architecture and capabilities may be limited by the features offered by each product. This document details the features and benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops 3.0 in comparison with current market competitors.</p> 

Although leveraging virtualization to support desktop workloads can improve IT management efficiency, costs, and capabilities, choosing the vendor that best fits your needs can be overwhelming.This white paper offers a detailed vendor analysis that offers a way to determine which desktop virtualization solutions most benefit your business. 

Virtual desktops may make management easier, but you have to make sure you have the right storage in place. Check out this 2-page white paper for an overview of storage-allocation tactics and technologies that will help you fully reap the cost and efficiency benefits that VDI promises. 

IT departments need a solution that meets the evolving needs of both the employees and IT— something not possible with a traditional PC model.  This paper illustrates the benefits of moving beyond the physical PC to a modern desktop that is highly flexible, easy to manage, customizable to suit users’ needs, and ready for new and future technology. 

The benefits of storage consolidation and centralized management are well known - they include lower costs, better information protection, and improved IT efficiency. Server consolidation using virtualization software is aimed at generating these same results.