Upgrading from VMware ESX and/or ESXi 3.x to vSphere 4 successfully involves careful planning. There are hardware, software and database requirements, as well as third-party software compatibility considerations. This transcript provides guidelines for planning a successful upgrade, and walks you through a proposed upgrade path step-by-step. 

Upgrading from VMware ESX and/or ESXi 3.x to vSphere 4 successfully involves careful planning. There are hardware, software and database requirements, as well as third-party software compatibility considerations. This podcast provides guidelines for planning a successful upgrade, and walks you through a proposed upgrade path step-by-step. 

<p>This white paper discusses various options for properly configuring Exchange 2010. Determine which architecture is best for the number of mailboxes you must support, your average user profile, and more.</p> 

Check out this case study to follow the Oak Hills District's journey to a desktop virtualization solution that allows them to meet both IT goals and budget requirements. In this paper you'll learn about the high-performance, highly scalable technology implemented to help meet these requirements 

This webcast explores the option of moving your contact center applications and Unified Communications strategies to the cloud. Uncover the benefits and opportunities of cloud-based solutions, and get help deciding whether being in the cloud or on-premise is best for your organization. 

This paper outlines the critical requirements - reliability and availability, scalability, security, and performance - of an SMB messaging environment and describes and end-to-end messaging solution that meets those requirements. 

<p>Too often, organizations choose x86-based platforms over more cost-effective mainframe alternatives. This white paper reviews the key benefits of the mainframe and discusses the savings you can expect by using these systems to support heavy I/O applications in your Linux environment.</p> 

Virtualization implementations are in full swing and server consolidation has led to a wave of savings associated with reductions in physical space requirements and management overhead. Check out this white paper and explore Dell and VMware solutions that are designed to deliver on the promise of virtualization and cloud computing cost benefits. 

<p>This white paper examines the newest server enhancements designed to meet the growing messaging requirements of today's users. Learn about their key characteristics and obtain detailed information about various configuration options.</p> 

<p>This test report evaluates two leading servers and their ability to support increasing communications requirements. Find out how each of these platforms performed under a variety of conditions and explore the advantages of consolidation.</p> 

<p>As new messaging requirements emerge, companies are quickly realizing the limitations of their server and storage infrastructure. This white paper showcases a hardware configuration that improves energy efficiency while providing the capacity, density, data throughput, and availability needed to support Exchange 2010.</p> 

Small and medium businesses need to support growth while wringing every ounce of value out of the investments they've already made. This paper looks at the benefits of virtualizing SQL Server databases, as well as how to get the most out of your virtual infrastructure.