BROCHURE - Unlike competitive products focused on raw performance, AMD technology-based servers deliver one platform to support the top-line demands of your business with a total cost advantage you can take right to the bottom-line.
Posted: September 15, 2009 | Published: September 15, 2009


Topics:  IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Performance Testing | Processor Architectures | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Software | VMware

WEBCAST - This webcast discusses how you can accelerate your data analysis, reporting and business intelligence (BI) applications with the help of a column-based analytics server.
Posted: September 11, 2009 | Premiered: September 11, 2009


Topics:  Application Server Hardware | Application Server Software | Business Intelligence | Data Mining | Grid Computing | Load Balancing | Network Performance | Query Tools | Server Hardware | Server Management

VIDEO - Leveraging vast engineering and field experience architecting and implementing data warehouses with the Oracle Database, Sun created a set of data warehouse solutions to help IT managers quickly select a configuration, thus reducing the risk and deployment times for data warehouse solutions.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Premiered: September 9, 2009


Topics:  Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | High Availability | IT Managers | Oracle (Product) | Server Hardware | Storage Hardware

CASE STUDY - Read this case study to learn how CDW helped Wipfli CPA and Consultants optimize their IT environment to overcome power, cooling, and space challenges, while simultaneously improving IT response times.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Published: September 9, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine | VMware | VMware Server

WHITE PAPER - Advanced technology allows businesses to get maximum bang out of hardware buck while reducing server counts and support costs. Read this whitepaper to learn how virtualization can help your business get the most out of its server hardware.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Published: September 9, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization

CASE STUDY - Lakeview Medical Center needed to optimize their IT environment to combat data center infrastructure challenges. CDW helped them put VMware to work consolidating their servers and providing a more efficient environment. Read this quick case study to learn how they reduced backup times, improved response times, and reduced cost of ownership.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Published: September 9, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | VMware | VMware Server

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

ASSESSMENT TOOL - This tool is designed as a guide for customers with a comfortable knowledge of virtualization and their server/storage environment. Simply enter in a few vital pieces of information and the Dell Virtualization Advisor will create a customized virtualization solution to match your needs.
Posted: September 3, 2009 | Published: September 3, 2009


Topics:  Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | Systems Management

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

TECHNICAL ARTICLE - Server virtualization is helping IT organizations improve data center productivity in fundamental ways. To gain the full value of virtualization, you need servers that are built to handle the heavy and ever-changing demands of a virtualized and consolidated computing environment. Read on to learn more . . .
Posted: September 3, 2009 | Published: September 3, 2009


Topics:  IT Management | Processor Architectures | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Software | Software Virtualization

BROCHURE - Whether you need a tower, rack, or blade server, or a combination of these, Dell's comprehensive, award-winning PowerEdge family can meet your needs. Dell servers excel in virtualization, power and cooling, embedded systems management, and purposeful design.
Posted: September 2, 2009 | Published: September 2, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Construction | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Rack Servers | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Tower Servers

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

WHITE PAPER - The support team for Microsoft SQL Server has published guidelines for virtualizing this database engine. Read this paper to learn how to move forward with the process and create supported SQL Server virtual machines (VMs) that can be hosted on Dell PowerEdge servers.
Posted: September 2, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Microsoft Virtual Server | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | SQL | SQL Server | Virtual Machine | Virtual Machine Migration | Virtual Machine Monitor

WEBCAST - PlateSpin Forge disaster recovery appliances provide fast out-of-the-box protection for your server workloads. When servers go down, you can quickly recover business-critical workloads and run them on the PlateSpin Forge appliance until they can be restored to your production environment.
Posted: September 1, 2009 | Premiered: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Centers | Data Management | Data Recovery | Disaster Recovery | Network Security Hardware | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Management | Systems Maintenance | Virtualization Security

WEBCAST - In this expert webcast, learn the basic steps to take when selecting and setting up your organization's server room, with details on security considerations, environmental factors and more.
Posted: August 27, 2009 | Premiered: August 27, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Network Security | Server Hardware | Server Management | Storage Systems | Windows | Windows Security