Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment. 

This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blue print or a starting configuration, for designing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 storage in a virtualized server environment using Dell™ EqualLogic™ arrays. 

Traditionally, backing up virtual machines (VMs) involves taking a snapshot of the VM, moving that data to a staging area, and then copying the snapshot from the staging area to the dedicated backup medium. This podcast covers a product that leverages new capabilities to eliminate the staging area traditionally involved in VM backup. 

Dell commissioned Principled Technologies to estimate how many months it would take to recapture initial investment costs when consolidating multiple 4-year-old Dell™ PowerEdge™ 2850 server and storage solutions onto a Dell PowerEdge R710 server and storage solution using Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™ 

Read this case study to learn how the US Army HRC selected the Altor VF virtual firewall, with integrated intrusion detection (IDS) capabilities as well as the Altor Center for centralized management and the optional reporting module. 

Microsoft® Online Services provide businesses with subscription-based Microsoft-hosted online services that offer access to rich communication, collaboration, and productivity applications from anywhere. Read this white paper to learn more. 

Learn how you can deploy an enterprise private cloud in less than 30 days with Brian Wilson, Surgient VP of Services. 

Change data capture (CDC) technology has become a strategic component of many data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) architectures. Read this paper and learn how to use change date capture technology with Microsoft SQL server intergration services in real time. 

This white paper explains the different alternatives to open source data integration, and presents the visible and hidden costs of these alternatives, on several types of projects. 

Organizations are often challenged by the need for a “mixed” data protection strategy that includes VCB or esXpress, agent-based backups of VMs, and backups of non-VMware systems. Quantum provides a broad portfolio of highly scalable disk and tape solutions designed to meet the data protection needs of any VMware environment. 

This video compares Microsoft Virtualization to VMware and outlines the additional cost for VMware because they require four layers - hardware, virtualization, operating system and applications and Microsoft only requires three - hardware, operating system with virtualization, and applications. 

The challenge of effectively managing the planned change of migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 has become more prevalent as the general availability of Windows 7 nears. Ensuring a successful transition includes managing the application integration and compatibility across operating systems so that end-users experience a seamless transition.