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

CASE STUDY - Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A., a Columbia, South Carolina-based law firm with five locations throughout the state sought to consolidate legacy servers, improve availability for remote users, increase storage capacity and implement a new disaster recovery DR/BC strategy. In this case study you'll learn about their new Dell and VMware solutions.
Posted: August 17, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Disaster Recovery | Email Management Software | High Availability | Legal Services Industry | RPO | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | VMware | VMware Infrastructure 3

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 - When it was time to refresh the headquarters' IT infrastructure, the Earth Rangers IT group knew that any new computer systems had to meet their own high environmental standards. In this case study, you'll learn why they decided to create a virtualized server infrastructure using solutions from Dell and VMware and the benefits achieved.
Posted: August 17, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Green Data Center | IT Infrastructure | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | SMBs | VMware | VMware ESX

CASE STUDY - Read this case study to learn how the Citizant IT group worked with Dell to design a virtualized IT infrastructure that includes VMware virtualization software to accommodate business growth, enhance IT flexibility, and improve worker productivity by creating a virtualized infrastructure in-house.
Posted: May 29, 2009 | Published: March 2, 2009


Topics:  Email Management | IT Infrastructure | Outsourcing | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | VMware | VMware Server

EGUIDE - In this informative Pocket Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com, Dell and VMware, learn more about the virtual management tools on the market and their functionality. Discover which product capabilities organizations should consider when evaluating virtual infrastructure management technologies.
Posted: June 22, 2009 | Published: June 22, 2009


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Hardware | Project Management | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Service Creation Tools | VMware

EGUIDE - In this Pocket Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com, Dell and VMware, discover the central tasks in the assessment and planning stages of a virtualization project.
Posted: June 22, 2009 | Published: June 22, 2009


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Hardware | Hardware Configuration Management | Project Management | Server Consolidation | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | VMware

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

PRODUCT LITERATURE - Virtualization technology presents a number of opportunities for driving capital and operational efficiency for SMBs. Read this brief paper to learn ten cost-saving strategies.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Published: December 31, 2008


Topics:  Budgeting | Business IT Alignment | IT Infrastructure | Server Virtualization | SMBs | VMware | VMware Server

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

VIDEO - Are you wondering about VMware's latest ESX product? Watch this interview with Eric Henderson, Director of Technical Services for the IT consulting firm New Age Technologies as he discusses VMWare's vSphere.
Posted: August 19, 2009 | Premiered: August 19, 2009


Topics:  Application Monitoring | Applications Management | Cloud Computing | High Availability | VMware

VIDEO - In the traditional IT approach, every new software application required a new server. This added costs to every project and deployment took days to weeks. This also drove server sprawl. Watch this demo for an animated explanation of how virtualization addresses common data center challenges.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Premiered: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Downtime | Hardware Virtualization | Server Appliances | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization

VIDEO - Discover benefits of virtualization like improving utilization, simplifying operations, and rapidly provisioning new servers. Learn more about the benefits of virtualization by viewing these brief flash overviews.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Premiered: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Operating System Virtualization | Operating Systems | Server Consolidation | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper provides an overview of the networking architecture for VMware® Infrastructure 3 on Dell™ PowerEdge blade servers. It provides best practices for deploying and configuring your network in the VMware environment.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Network Architectures | Network Best Practices | Network Management | Network Managers | Networking | Systems Management | VMware | VMware Infrastructure 3

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes validated architectures for Dell | VMware™ virtual infrastructures. The Virtualization RA is intended to provide customers with an example basis to consider, evaluate, and select the Dell virtualization solution components that best fit their requirements.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Hardware | VMware | VMware ESX