Deploying VMware® vSphere™ 4 virtualization with 11th-generation Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers and Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage helps IT organizations confidently virtualize mission-critical Microsoft® applications and achieve outstanding performance, simplified management, and granular data protection. 

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. 

In 2010, what are your plans for server virtualization? What key feature is most important to you when evaluating virtualization technologies for your organization? Take this survey to contribute your thoughts on server virtualization for SMBs! 

Take the "Servers for SMB Survey" and share your input on server selection, application upgrades, and processor selection & preferred vendors. 

This expert e-guide details how to derive maximum value from your business information by building an effective end-to-end data and information management process that encompasses the entire lifecycle of both structured and unstructured information and ultimately optimizes the use of data as a strategic business asset. 

This paper is an introduction to the Oracle Optimized Solution for Lifecycle Content Management, which offers integrated content management, tiered storage, and archival1. Included is a discussion of the business needs for an integrated solution and the value of implementing such a strategy. 

The enterprise applications that you rely on to run your business must remain current if you want them to deliver competitive advantage consistently. In view of a number of business drivers—including changing processes and requirements, upgrade deadlines. 

Data management technology is on the verge of a new era – and users who commit to its architectural innovations earlier will gain disproportionate rewards in performance, scalability, flexibility and cost. Read this white paper for a description of Oracle’s Exadata V2 solution, also known as the Sun Oracle Database Machine. 

Existing approaches to data management prevent many businesses from harnessing the value of the huge volumes of data generated by today's Web-oriented, virtualized, real-time applications. Read this paper to learn how to meet increasing demands for immediate information with the modern data management products of the VMware vFabric platform. 

Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn’t working. What’s needed is a modern approach to data that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance without sacrificing data consistency or integrity. View this webcast to learn best practices for modern data management. 

In this white paper, David Loshin from Knowledge Integrity explores the data management requirements necessary to support compliance with the reporting requirements for physician payment transparency and disclosure in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009. Read this paper to learn more. 

This paper discusses virtual data services for operational business processing and data management as well as successful virtualization use cases.