In 2005, Intel IT began planning, engineering, and implementing a virtualized business computing production environment as part of its overall data center strategy. Read this white paper to learn more about how Intel’s virtualization strategy has helped lower costs, increase agility, and reduce energy consumption. 

While server virtualization can bring a wealth of computing advantages to your organization, it can be severely limited by your network connections. Take a look at this exclusive resource to learn about the power of 10 gigabit Ethernet. 

This Q&A featuring VMware expert Eric Siebert divulges the advantages and disadvantages of implementing FC SANs to support your virtual server platform. 

This essential resource explores how you can evolve your data center into the cloud era. Access a set of interactive online events to help you optimize your data center by implementing an intelligent cloud strategy. Learn where data center transformation is headed and how a smart strategy can lead to increased efficiency and cost savings. 

Dell is moving well beyond industry expectations to unlock data center efficiency and help organizations work toward the goal of returning as much as 50 percent of their IT budgets. Read this white paper to learn about the Dell Efficient Data Center model and how it can help lower costs and increae IT efficiency. 

Data center networks designed to support traditional client-server software deployment models can’t meet the performance and scalability requirements of the new virtualized data center. Explore how HP networking solutions is helping businesses meet the challenges of the new virtualized data center. 

Data center virtualization and cloud computing strategies are being rapidly implemented across IT infrastructures. This white paper describes how virtualization and cloud initiatives are creating new types of management challenges across physical and virtual data center environments and how you can overcome these challenges. 

IT organizations have the ability to simplify data center connectivity and reduce costs if they consolidate LAN, NAS, iSCI SAN, and Fibre Channel SAN traffic onto a single 10 Gigabit Ethernet wire. 

The protocol utilized to transport data between servers and storage for High Performance Computing (HPC) and to define a Storage Area Network (SAN) is Fibre Channel(FC). Fibre Channel is an "invisible" protocol, because it is only known to the technicians that implement it and keep it working. This paper will provide an overview of this technology. 

Automating data center processes may seem like a cure for tight IT budgets, but if you implement it incorrectly you risk incurring extra costs. Access this expert e-guide to find out how to overcome the top five common automation errors made when automating IT tasks, plus more. 

This expert E-Guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com discusses some of the obstacles facing administrators managing virtual environments. Explore the "side effects" virtualization can bring to the data center and learn how implementing a few new tools can help alleviate some of these pain points. 

Automation is sometimes seen as a cure-all for IT departments looking to cut costs, but IT pros who implement this technology need to be sure they apply it correctly to really save money. This e-guide from SearchDataCenter.com, explores which mistakes are common when it comes to implementing automation. 

MGM Resorts International sought to consolidate the data centers from its latest acquisitions, in order to contain IT costs, increase availability, improve agility and focus on innovation. The company chose Dell™ Services to perform a Virtualization Assessment with partners Intel® and VMware®.