The Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series can provide a fully virtualized storage infrastructure that delivers high availability, resiliency, flexibility, and scalability that is simple and cost-effective to deploy, manage and grow. 

In this white paper, learn how Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) technology can help you improve the performance of network switches. 

As enterprises turn to server virtualization to enhance IT flexibility while reducing costs, Server virtualization solutions such as VMware Infrastructure software are helping organizations achieve those goals by abstracting applications from physical resources. Read this paper for 7 Ways Dell Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization. 

In this e-guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com, gain expert advice on how to handle data center growth with capacity planning and resource provisioning. Learn how performance management and capacity planning go hand-in-hand and find out how to interpret capacity management metrics to reduce costs and simplify management. 

Server buyers should consider the implications of vendor roadmaps and consolidation and look to capacity planning and objective tools when updating data center hardware. In this IT handbook you will learn the importance of a server roadmap, factors to consider in server selection, tips on server consolidation and capacity planning, and much more. 

This comprehensive interactive classroom explores what you need to know about server virtualization, and provides insights, analyses, and answers to FAQs. 

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 podcast offers recommendations for moving your virtualization project from the testing phase to production. Learn how to plan virtualization design to ensure a smooth transition to production rollout. Discover ways to align your implementation with best practices and determine which next steps to take to prepare for production. 

This course examines virtual infrastructures, and the evolution of the vSphere 4 environment and the products that are found in that environment. It aims to equip you with the knowledge required to decide which VMware datacenter products best meet your organization's virtualization needs. 

This case study explains why one company chose to consolidate and virtualise its servers and describes the approach they implemented and the results they realised, including significant cost savings, reduction of floor space requirements, and more. 

This Technology Brief discusses different approaches to data deduplication in the market today along with the pros and cons of each, and then matches some of the most common backup problems to a recommended deduplication approach. The brief close with a spotlight on Quantum's DXi7500 enterprise disk backup and replication system 

While the virtualized data center increases capacity, flexibility and efficiency, many of these gains require large amounts of system memory. Take a look at this resource to learn how to optimize the performance of your virtualized data center by using the Dynamic Memory feature of Windows Server 2008 R2. 

The goal of this paper is to describe best practices for deploying Decision Support System (DSS) or Data Warehousing (DW) solutions based on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 using Dell EqualLogic storage. Download now and learn more.