Moving to a consolidated data center reduces the number of servers, which can minimize required investments in hardware, hardware maintenance charges, data center space costs and energy use. This e-book outlines a systematic approach you can use to server consolidation to ensure that your data center reaps all the benefits of virtualization. 

When valuable time is spent maintaining IT operations, it is difficult for companies to focus on the long-term sustainability of their data centers. This short video showcases new server technology that can help you better manage your infrastructure so you can effectively plan for the future. 

This paper shows the value of combining Oracle software with Intel Xeon processors on Dell PowerEdge servers. It begins with an overview of the collaboration that created these synergies, before detailing the major areas where they are manifest to end-customers: intelligent performance, automated energy efficiency, and flexible virtualization. 

Read this paper for resources to help you determine how much powering and cooling the data center is costing your organization, and learn how the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can help reduce these requirements. 

Everyone is talking about virtualization as a critical component to the success of a data center. What are some of the benefits of virtualization? What are the cost benefits of using Windows Server 2008 R2 for virtualization? Learn more in this presentation transcript. 

In this video, Lee Dehmer, IT Manager at Gearbulk Inc, speaks about the benefits of virtualization at their organization. He shares his insight on benefits of pooling all their resources, servers, storage and networking, into a single, virtual infrastructure. Watch this video to learn more. 

Managing power consumption in the data center is a huge concern for IT organizations today. In this videocast, learn about the cost benefits of using Windows Server 2008 R2 for power and energy savings in the data center. The speaker will discuss the trends in this area and offer steps to improve power consumption and costs. 

Data center consolidation can result in many benefits for your business, but it is not a simple undertaking. This short video explores key tips that can help you ensure data center consolidation success. 

Adopting a cautionary approach to data center cooling is a good theory in practice. But you may be keeping your infrastructure cooler than necessary. This video releases key findings concerning the latest environmental standards and explains how you can raise data center temperatures without sacrificing availability. 

Since data centers are usually built over a long period of time, businesses end up with several small data centers scattered over a diverse area. To make more efficient use of these facilities, it’s generally best to consolidate. This resource presents best practices to data center consolidation. 

This classroom, as part of an online learning destination, highlights effective measures you can take to evaluate your data center design and infrastructure to get the most ROI. 

Although the majority of computing today falls within the traditional and virtualized models, private clouds will grow to be the largest component in the portfolio over the next three to five years. Read on to learn the benefits that the private cloud model offers, plus learn about Dell’s next generation architecture for the cloud. 

<p>This Lab Validation Report uncovers how Asigra Cloud Backup v11 performed in a hands-on evaluation and technical auditing. Read now to uncover how this solution performed in terms of breadth, trust, efficiency, performance and scalable manageability for cloud-based data protection. </p>