CASE STUDY - Wells' Dairy needed to provide cost-effective services and promote business continuity and agility. It deployed the Windows Server 2008 Datacenter operating system and Hyper-V™ virtualization technology. Today, it has a scalable server consolidation solution and a data center that is saving more than US.$12,000 in annual electrical costs.
Posted: September 8, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Clustering | Disaster Recovery | Green Data Center | High Availability | Microsoft Hyper-V | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Windows Server Software

CASE STUDY - The Barkley ad firm implements consolidation, virtualization and replication to strengthen business-continuity and disaster-recovery planning. With the goal of getting to 100 percent availability, the firm uses HP's blade hardware, VMware's virtualization software and a variety of existing storage platforms.
Posted: September 8, 2009 | Published: September 4, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | VMware Disaster Recovery

ANALYST REPORT - Despite progress in Virtualization, much development still remains. With predications that virtualization will become pervasive, this research highlights forthcoming challenges and strategic issues facing IT planners.
Posted: September 3, 2009 | Published: February 11, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | Regulatory Compliance | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Virtualization is a rapidly evolving technology with many moving parts, making increasingly difficult for customers to develop an effective strategy. Every organization moves at a different pace. Dell delivers tailored solutions for every customer.
Posted: September 3, 2009 | Published: September 3, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | IT Infrastructure | IT Spending | IT Workforce | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Whether you are deploying virtualization for the first time or looking to increase the value of your existing solution, choosing the right hardware is as important as choosing the right virtualization software. This paper will discuss some of the basics of server virtualization.
Posted: September 3, 2009 | Published: September 3, 2009


Topics:  IT Infrastructure | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Software Installation

WHITE PAPER - Dell commissioned Principled Technologies to estimate how many months it would take to recapture initial investment costs when consolidating multiple 4-year-old Dell™ PowerEdge™ 2850 server and storage solutions onto a Dell PowerEdge R710 server and storage solution using Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™
Posted: September 2, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Microsoft Hyper-V | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Storage Architectures | Storage Infrastructure | TCO

ANALYST REPORT - Dell has teamed-up with Intel and Red Hat and developed a migration strategy to simplify the consolidation of the enterprise data center from an outdated, proprietary architecture to an easily managed open systems platforms. To learn about how easy it is to migrate from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell PowerEdge servers, please read on.
Posted: September 2, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Database Architectures | Linux | Linux Server Hardware | Open Systems Standards | Operating Systems | Server Consolidation | Server Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - With its new unified management and auditing tools, SQL Server 2008 makes it easier to manage multiple instances on fewer servers. And by hosting these instances on Dell PowerEdge Servers powered by multi-core processors, you can guarantee the best levels of availability, as well as ensure the best possible performance.
Posted: September 1, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Management | Data Storage | Database Management | Database Performance Management | High Availability | Server Consolidation | SQL Server

ANALYST REPORT - Latency is an important metric that should be considered when evaluating web application delivery solutions. Through tests performed, Citrix NetScaler exhibited very low latencies and was at least 3x fast than F5 BIG-IP in almost all test scenarios.
Posted: September 1, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Security | Application Server Software | Applications Management | Load Balancing | Server Consolidation | TCO | Web Application Security | Web Caching Appliances | Web Switches

WEBCAST - Watch this webcast to learn about a new unique workload profiling tool that takes the guess work out of identifying underutilized physical servers and virtual hosts. Learn how to leverage this tool for improved use and longer life of your current hardware.
Posted: August 28, 2009 | Premiered: August 28, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | IT Management | Network Capacity | Network Performance | ROI | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | VM

WEBCAST - In this expert webcast, you'll learn the most common issues involved with server virtualization and how to overcome them.
Posted: August 27, 2009 | Premiered: August 27, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | IT Management | Network Best Practices | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | VM

WEBCAST - In this expert webcast, learn the basic factors that go into choosing a new server for your environment, with details on processors, server types, consolidation options and more.
Posted: August 27, 2009 | Premiered: August 27, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | Rack Servers | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Storage Systems | Tower Servers | Windows

WEBCAST - Many IT managers face the challenge of providing greater business service while keeping costs low. Watch this webcast to learn how to simplify resource management. Gain insight into an advanced processor technology that reallocates energy budget from underutilized cores to those that need to run faster.
Posted: August 14, 2009 | Premiered: August 14, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Management | VMware

EGUIDE - Once an organization sets up a Linux server, they must tackle the complex process of migrating Unix-based applications to this new server. In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchEnterpriseLinux.com and Arrow, you will discover how to get started on a Unix-to-Linux migration.
Posted: August 10, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Databases | Linux | Linux Desktop Environment | Linux Server Hardware | Scripting | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | UNIX | UNIX Server Hardware | UNIX Shells

ANALYST REPORT - This report by Mark Madsen will explain what data integration is, and especially the difference between Operational Data Integration and Analytic Data Integration. It highlights the benefits of open source for data integration, and provides a series of recommendations to make the integration job easier, repeatable and more productive.
Posted: July 28, 2009 | Published: January 28, 2009


Topics:  Data Integration | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Open Source | Open Source Software | Server Consolidation