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Why Virtualization Management Needs Revamping by CA Technologies.

August 18, 2011 - (Free Research)

Most enterprises that have deployed virtualization have realized substantial benefits including more agile server consolidation, provisioning, or providing disaster recovery. However, most enterprises are only 30% virtualized. Learn about management and performance measurement tools that help provide further growth in virtualization systems.

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Introduction to Virtualization E-book, Chapter 3: Virtualizing A Test And Development Lab by Dell and Microsoft

March 19, 2009 - (Free Research)

Now is the time to realize all of the benefits of virtualizing your test and development lab. This chapter highlights some of the benefits of consolidating your test and development environments through virtualization, including costs savings, accelerated time to deployment and system consistency throughout your environment.

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Better Backup for Virtual Servers and Virtual Desktops - Podcast by Dell and VMware

December 16, 2011 - (Free Research)

Introducing virtual servers into your data center both simplifies and complicates your backup processes. This expert podcast explores the best practices for backing up and recovering critical VMs to avoid these potential obstacles.

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Better Backup for Virtual Servers and Virtual Desktops by Dell and VMware

November 29, 2011 - (Free Research)

Introducing virtual servers into your data center both simplifies and complicates your backup processes. This expert webcast explores the best practices for backing up and recovering critical VMs to avoid these potential obstacles.

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SecurStor 12000/16000 RAID by Excel Meridian Data, Inc.

SecurStor 12000/16000 RAID series are high performance cost effective IDE-to- Ultra160 SCSI or 2 Gb Fibre RAID solutions for workgroups, departmental or LAN storage needs. Scalable from 80 GB to 4TB with up-to (16) IDE hard disk drives.

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Performance on VMware vSphere™ 4 by Global Knowledge

September 21, 2009 - (Free Research)

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.

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Virtualizing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 on Dell™ Systems Running Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ by Dell and Microsoft

April 01, 2009 - (Free Research)

In this paper, various configurations of Exchange Server 2007 are tested in physical and virtual environments to evaluate the performance scalability and to understand the sizing requirements for Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized environment.

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Hosting vs. In-House Implementation of Exchange 2010: It’s Decision Time by Dell, Inc. and Intel

April 26, 2011 - (Free Research)

The unified messaging capabilities included in Microsoft Exchange 2010 are making it an obvious upgrade choice for many SMBs.Working with a single vendor like Dell that provides a range of server, storage and service options allows IT departments to roll-out Microsoft Exchange 2010 environments that are tuned to corporate requirements and budgets.

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Improving Data Center Performance through Virtualization of SQL Server Databases by Dell, Inc. and Intel

October 14, 2010 - (Free Research)

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.

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Re-Hosting Mainframe Applications Dramatically Increases Business Performance by HP

October 11, 2011 - (Free Research)

Watch this brief video about the Cedacri Group’s mainframe modernization experience to learn about the cost and performance advantages of a re-hosting strategy as well as how to ensure its success.

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Layered Tech chose Dell servers to build a new infrastructure, increasing performance by 22 percent by Dell and VMware

March 23, 2011 - (Free Research)

Layered Tech chose Dell servers to build a new infrastructure that would take its managed hosting and cloud services to a new level, and saw performance increase by 22 percent. Download this case study for more information.

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Cerner Transforms Healthcare by Intel and HP

September 19, 2011 - (Free Research)

“For us, it’s all about availability. These are life-critical systems that we’re hosting, used 24x7. The HP Mission Critical Partnership helps us meet the challenge.” Bill Graff, vice president, Cerner Technology Infrastructure, Cerner Corporation. In this case study, learn how the HP partnership helped Cerner meet service level commitments.

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Oracle Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Architecture by Oracle Corporation

April 01, 2010 - (Free Research)

Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server provides a combination of freely available and no-cost virtualization technologies, excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) ratings, very high performance hardware, and significant data center efficiency gains. Continue reading to learn more.

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SecurStor 2500 RAID by Excel Meridian Data, Inc.

SecurStor 2500 RAID is designed as a high-performance and high-availability solution, with multiple configuration options providing available No Single Point of Failure redundancy for up-to 64 TB of multi-host cluster-capable storage.

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What’s New in VMware vSphere 5: Platform by Dell and VMware

February 08, 2012 - (Free Research)

Explore the newest features in vSphere 5.0, and find out how this latest release from VMware builds upon previous versions to extend existing features and capabilities to improve your ability to upgrade, patch and maintain your hosts, virtual machine hardware and tools.

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Hosting vs. In-House Implementation of Exchange 2010: It's Decision Time by Dell, Inc.

June 30, 2011 - (Free Research)

This white paper explains why many companies are migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2010. Explore the pros and cons of hosting and determine whether it makes sense for your business.

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Optimizing Desktop Virtualization with Dell Equallogic Hybrid Arrays by Dell, Inc.

April 26, 2011 - (Free Research)

In recent years, we have witnessed great technology leaps from all of the leading VDI software vendors. In this part of our series, we take a close look at a recent performance benchmark to evaluate in detail how Dell’s innovations reduce complexity, improve performance and lower the cost of VDI.

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Backing Up Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualized Servers by Dell and Microsoft

August 10, 2011 - (Free Research)

This comprehensive podcast discusses the challenges of backing up Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized servers.

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Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 for Dell™ PowerEdge™ Systems by Dell and Microsoft

April 01, 2009 - (Free Research)

This document details the four available networking configurations for running Hyper-V on Dell™ PowerEdge™ systems. It also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each networking configuration with an emphasis on typical Dell system configurations.

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Optimizing the Deployment and Management of Virtual Desktop Infrastructures with the eG VDI Monitor™ by eG Innovations, Inc.

January 13, 2010 - (Free Research)

Since virtual machines are used in both server virtualization and desktop virtualization, it is not surprising that administrators try to use the same tool to monitor the performance of both environments. This paper shows how the eG VDI Monitor™ effectively addresses the unique requirements of virtual desktop infrastructure.

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Why Isn't Server Virtualization Saving Us More? by Dell and VMware

January 28, 2009 - (Free Research)

If you're not saving as much money as you'd hoped from your virtualization and consolidation efforts, you can learn from the best practices of the companies that are realizing huge savings. These companies run at least five times more virtual machines per physical host than other companies and use streamlined IT processes.

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Top Reasons to Upgrade to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 by Dell, Inc.

June 30, 2010 - (Free Research)

This white paper takes a closer look at a host of new improvements to SharePoint 2010. Discover the most notable ones, including better performance, support for additional browsers, and more.

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Case Study: Managing Oracle Applications in Cloud by Cisco Systems, Inc.

January 12, 2012 - (Free Research)

This case study explores how companies can lower costs, increase performance, and enable greater levels of scalability by moving from managed application services to a unified computing system. Discover the approach one organization implemented and the benefits they achieved here.

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Server Selection for Production-Level Virtualization Environments by LEGACY - DO NOT USE - Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc

July 2008 - (Free Research)

This document reviews actions that IT managers can take to improve overall server performance within their IT environment, and discusses how to go about selecting servers for large-scale virtualized environments.

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VIRTUALIZED iSCSI SANS: Flexible, Scalable Enterprise Storage for Virtual Infrastructures by Dell | EqualLogic

December 2008 - (Free Research)

This white paper describes a virtualized infrastructure that applies storage and server virtualization technologies to cost-effectively achieve a flexible, high-performance, dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to manage and scale.

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