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 expert E-Guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com discusses some of the obstacles facing administrators managing virtual environments. Explore the "side effects" virtualization can bring to the data center and learn how implementing a few new tools can help alleviate some of these pain points. 

The Dell Energy Smart architecture provides a comprehensive, system-wide approach to balancing performance and energy use in new 11th-generation Dell PowerEdge servers - capabilities that are critical to simplifying IT and meeting the power and cooling challenges of enterprise data centers. 

What brand of servers do you currently have in place? What kind of virtualization software do you currently have installed in production? Take the "Server Virtualization for Small to Mid-sized Business Survey" to provide your input on virtualization for SMBs and learn about virtualization solutions from Dell and VMware. 

While security pros try their best to educate and enforce policy, hackers are working tirelessly to gain your users' trust. This podcast, featuring Bit9's CTO Harry Sverdlove, discusses how to protect against the most common technique used in today's targeted attacks – spear phishing. 

Explore the current challenges of eliminating spam in this essential resource. Find out how improved techniques such as advanced reputation and protocol connection filters are helping admins combat spam effectively. 

This edition of BI Trends and Strategies opens with a piece by Lou Agosta on the need for data warehouses to adapt to new data types, innovation and big data. Alan R. Earls also offers advice for incorporating spreadsheets into your BI programs without problems and Richard Herschel calls for universities to step up their BI and analytics programs. 

Read this white paper to get a framework, plan and recommended best practices for transforming your siloed contact centers into a multi-channel servicing environment. 

What's the difference between agent and agentless backup for virtual environments? Learn how admins can simplify backup for mixed and virtual environments with agentless backup in this resource. Explore the pros and cons of both methods, and discover how admins can integrate the two techniques for the best of both worlds. 

This issue examines how network managers can simplify their management tools gather from the network through the use of protocols like NetFlow and IPFIX and hardware like matrix switches. Learn how network managers are adopting new tools that give them better control over virtualized infrastructure, cloud environment and multi-vendor networks. 

IT operations are evolving in a number of ways. Some of the obvious changes include virtualization and the cloud. However, there are 5 less obvious trends that are changing the dynamics of IT operations, each of which is explained in this white paper. 

In this webcast, Vantage Point Performance’s Michelle Vazzana will reveal how to coach your reps to better performing pipelines. Watch this now and learn three classic errors in pipeline management and how to avoid them, proven best practices for managing a sales pipeline, a foolproof framework for conducting pipeline coaching sessions and more. 

In this expert podcast, founder and senior analyst at StorageIO Group Greg Shulz discusses the importance of managing your data footprint on both online and offline storage, as well as the various tools for doing so, including data archiving, thin provisioning and data deduplication.