Thousands of IT organizations have adopted clustering to improve the availability of mission critical software services. Today, with the rapid growth of cloud computing environments, clustering is even more crucial. Dell Compellent Fluid Data storage is ideally suited to clustered environments. Read on to learn more. 

This technical white paper is the second in a series that is designed to help map I/O best practices from the physical world into the virtual world supported by logical domains. 

Looking to accelerate your journey to the cloud? The first step is mastering virtualization. This video introduces a comprehensive, fully integrated solution that offers unified management that can simplify your virtualization deployments. With this platform, you can map out your cloud infrastructure and jumpstart your transition today. 

Social channels are here to stay and should be part of your customer engagement strategy, as you will be re­quired to integrate these new channels sooner, rather than later. This paper will help you build the best road map to customer success, integrating both old and new channels into your customer experi­ence strategy. 

The emergence of mobile applications has fundamentally changed the way that millions of people around the world work, play, and communicate. Users can now download every type of application imaginable – from games, to maps, to movie and TV shows, to apps that will turn a device into a flashlight, and more – directly to their smart phones... 

Some IT managers have steered clear of server virtualization technologies because the deployment process can seem too daunting to begin. But this step-by-step handbook maps out the deployment process in four easy-to-follow steps. 

Pitney Bowes MapInfo® location intelligence solutions enable Time Warner Cable to more quickly and accurately identify new customers and increase sales. 

This paper discusses a Grid reference configuration based on Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers and Dell EqualLogic™ iSCSI storage. This Grid implementation is comprised of the physical Grid based on physical servers and the virtual Grid based upon Oracle virtual machines. 

The creation of the Dell Services Oracle Practice builds on the long and successful relationship between Dell and Oracle - a collaboration that can offer significant benefits to organizations running Oracle software on Dell hardware. Read this article for more. 

In this podcast, introduced by independent enterprise storage expert Stephen Foskett and Oracle’s Group Manager for NAS Storage Product Management Alex North, talk about the current state of NAS storage, and point out specific technologies that Oracle is leveraging in its new ZFS NAS platform. Listen now to learn more. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Bill Gates announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, and ask if it has made IT more secure. We look at what Oracle’s latest developments mean for its software users running rivals’ servers, and conclude our Buyer’s Guide to IT consumerisation. Download the issue now. 

Want to know how NetVault Backup compared against other Oracle backup software solutions – and why it’s DCIG’s #1 choice? In this 37-page report you’ll get unbiased, third-party evaluations of Oracle backup software – and why NetVault Backup sits on the top of the list. Download your copy today.