PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | High Availability | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | SMBs

PODCAST - Check out this podcast to learn how VMware and Dell are leveraging VMware vStorage with the Dell EqualLogic PS Series SANs for greater virtual server performance and more efficient management.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Premiered: May 29, 2009


Topics:  Data Security | Disaster Recovery | SAN | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | VMware | VMware Disaster Recovery | VMware Server

CASE STUDY - An aging, proprietary enterprise resource planning (ERP) system at Kelly Tractor limited the company's ability to integrate information from separate departments and build new, innovative sales and services tools. Read how the company benefited from Dell and VMware virtualization.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

CASE STUDY - Acme Truck Line, Inc. wanted to develop a cost-effective, comprehensive disaster recovery plan. Read this brief case study to see how they implemented VMware Infrastructure 3 and Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs to deliver an affordable and flexible virtual platform that supports disaster recovery needs for companies of all sizes.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Published: May 29, 2009


Topics:  Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | iSCSI SAN | IT Infrastructure | SAN | VMware | VMware ESX | VMware Infrastructure 3 | VMware Server

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Data deduplication is a must-have technology for today's enterprises. However, there are a wide range of choices and issues to be considered. This article covers six steps an organization can take to make sure implementing a deduplication technology is a smooth process.
Posted: May 20, 2009 | Published: May 20, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Management | Data Replication | NAS | RAID | SAN | Storage Management

CASE STUDY - Facing exponential data growth and lengthening backup times, Victaulic Company's tape backup systems could no longer provide the performance or capacity they needed for efficient data protection. For a cost comparable to tape, Victaulic Company implemented a SEPATON S2100-ES2 virtual tape library (VTL) with DeltaStor data deduplication software.
Posted: May 19, 2009 | Published: May 19, 2009


Topics:  Backups | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Replication | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Dell™ EqualLogic™ Auto- Snapshot Manager / VMware Edition enables administrators to quickly and easily create hypervisor-aware snapshots of VMs-helping simplify data management, enhance scalability of data protection and recovery, and increase application performance.
Posted: May 14, 2009 | Published: November 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Security | iSCSI SAN | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides an overview for deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment for VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 (U4) running on the latest PowerEdge M610 and M710 blade servers and EqualLogic PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays.
Posted: May 5, 2009 | Published: April 30, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Databases | SAN | SQL | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | VMware

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Getting data moved over to a new server is more than merely copying the most recent files and folders to that machine. File security, permissions, shared folders and local groups facilitating access need to be maintained.
Posted: April 15, 2009 | Published: April 10, 2009


Topics:  Data Migration | File Server Software | NAS | SAN | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Security | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - Northern Storage Suite delivers financial returns in three ways: by improving utilization of existing resources, by reducing the pace of hardware investment and by reducing the need for administrative intervention in data management. This paper provides details on these three benefits and how this storage solution can benefit your organization.
Posted: April 10, 2009 | Published: December 5, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | NAS | RAID | ROI | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | TCO

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This presentation transcript highlights a solution that helps eliminate wasteful data and creates a more efficient storage infrastructure by reclaiming crucial storage space.
Posted: March 27, 2009 | Published: February 25, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | NAS | Network Performance | SAN | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - With read/write speeds that are very close to most expensive models in the industry, the ioDrive's price/performance ratio will leave you saying, "WOW!" Read this white paper for more information on this paradigm-shifting data storage appliance.
Posted: March 20, 2009 | Published: March 20, 2009


Topics:  Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | NAS | RAID | SAN | Storage Appliances | Storage Management

EGUIDE - In this E-Guide learn how Microsoft Hyper-V fits into the server virtualization landscape, with insight on exactly what Hyper-V has to offer, and analysis of how the Microsoft technology stacks up against the competition.
Posted: March 18, 2009 | Published: December 17, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Mac OS | NAS | SAN | Server Virtualization | VMware

EGUIDE - In this informative E-Guide learn specifically how Hyper-V is designed to meet high availability requirements, how this technology is being used at the hardware level, role of a 64-bit operating system with virtualization and more.
Posted: March 18, 2009 | Published: December 17, 2008


Topics:  High Availability | NAS | SAN | Server Virtualization | SQL Server | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides general information for using Data Domain deduplication storage systems to backup virtual machines deployed with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Topics include an overview of VI3 components and various methods of backing up data in VMDK images and Guest OS files for discrete recovery - either locally or remotely in a DR site.
Posted: March 14, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | VMware