Software installation failures frustrate customers and increase a software company's support costs. But the more complex your application's installation requirements, the more difficult it is to build a reliable, professional installer. 

This screencast details a software-plus-services or cloud computing approach that creates innovative, robust software combined with the power of the Internet. 

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. 

Virtualization offers multiple ways to save money including hardware purchase, power and cooling costs over time and staff time needed when providing a test and analysis environment to name a few. 

Global Knowledge and Red Hat have assembled 10 Tips and Tricks from Red Hat Certified Engineers® (RHCEs) to give you a quick reference guide to help you navigate Red Hat® Linux™ systems. 

CodePro AnalytiX as part of a continuous or nightly-build process, seamlessly integrate it into any Eclipse-based Java development environment, or use a combination of the two implementation approaches. 

Human error and hardware or software failures can easily corrupt Active Directory. AD objects can often be modified or deleted by mistake and faulty scripts can overwrite attributes. The result is unplanned system downtime and lost user productivity. 

Hudson, an open source "continuous integration" (CI) server initially developed at Sun, brings a new level of efficiency and productivity to collaborative software development. This paper describes Hudson's capabilities, compares its key features, and summarizes why Hudson has quickly become the industry's most widely adopted open source CI server. 

This whitepaper provides an overview of using the operating systems deployment capabilities of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007™ to deploy a customized OS image on Dell client systems in a heterogeneous environment. 

In today's rapidly changing business environment, organizations of all types face one common and persistent challenge: how to become—and remain—agile enough to satisfy ever-increasing customer expectations and accommodate new compliance mandates, all while staying ahead of the competition. The solution is building business based on SOA principles. 

Read this Dell case study to learn how a restaurant franchisee gets its IT cooking with the right reporting from Dell Software Inventory & Usage Management. 

Ensuring a consistent software build throughout an organization is one of the most expensive and time-consuming tasks facing any IT organization. Challenges include not only managing multiple client images for a range of hardware platforms and functional groups, but also meeting licensing and compliance requirements. ImageDirect can help. 

TRW, a German automotive company, was facing power and software limitations in the prototyping stages of design development that proved to be costly and slowed performance. This case study shows how they turned to Dell to upgrade their server and storage systems in line with its cutting-edge development processes.