WHITE PAPER - Business Ready Configurations for Virtualization are pre-configured, easy to order, bundled solutions that include Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers, Dell EqualLogic™ SAN, and VMware vSphere™. This white paper provides a detailed reference architecture for the Business Ready Configurations.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Hardware | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine | Virtual Machine Migration | VMware | VMware Infrastructure 3

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 - Double-Take Flex provides increased functionality by using your existing technology infrastructure, saving you time and money when deploying new computers, protecting workloads and migrating existing workloads to new platforms.
Posted: November 16, 2009 | Published: August 19, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | IT Management | Managed Security Services | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Management Services | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - This HP paper provides performance characteristics for the HP BladeSystem BL460cG6 blade server with XenServer and 64 bit workloads.
Posted: October 12, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Citrix XenServer | Performance Testing | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Check Point IPS Software Blade gives breakthrough performance and protection at a breakthrough price. For more details, check out this paper, which highlights the numerous benefits of Check Point intrusion prevention protection solutions.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: June 12, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Dashboards | Intrusion Prevention | Intrusion Prevention Systems | Security Management | Security Spending | Security Threats | Vulnerability Management

WHITE PAPER - Infinite Cache™ from EnterpriseDB revolutionizes distributed cache management on commodity blade server hardware by substantially increasing the amount of memory available to hold data including entire databases with outstanding performance.
Posted: September 23, 2009 | Published: September 22, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Cache | Cache Server Hardware | Caching | Capacity Planning | Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | Memory | Memory Management | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses detailed best practices for deploying a 150-user, 250-GB, three-tiered SAP® Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) landscape.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: February 13, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | ERP | ERP Software | Server Appliances | Server Management | Server Provisioning | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - Discover best practices for deploying a 250-user/250-GB three-tiered SAP ERP landscape in an HP BladeSystem c3000 blade enclosure with HP ProLiant BL460c blade servers running Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 4400 disk array, and an Ultrium 448c tape blade with HP Data Protector software.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | SAP (Product) | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Software | Server Virtualization | Storage Appliances | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - The recent push for more efficient computing platforms has businesses venturing beyond basic servers and systems. In order to manage resources more effectively, save data center space, reduce IT administrative tasks, and go green, many organizations have turned to virtualization. Learn how your organization can benefit from virtualization.
Posted: September 8, 2009 | Published: September 8, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | Virtual Machine | VMware

WHITE PAPER - The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space. When combined with Dell's world-class storage, management, and support offerings, the result is a total enterprise solution that can help you simplify and save on IT expenses.
Posted: September 3, 2009 | Published: September 3, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | CIOs | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | High Availability | IT Spending

WHITE PAPER - Dell is committed to driving the cost and complexity out of virtualization, helping you accelerate adoption and achieve cost savings sooner without sacrificing productivity. Read this solution guide to learn about Dell's Business Ready Virtualization Configurations.
Posted: August 24, 2009 | Published: June 9, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | VMware | VMware Infrastructure 3

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the principles for achieving power and cooling capacity management.
Posted: July 10, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Blade Servers | Capacity Management | Computer Room Air Conditioning Units | Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | ITIL | Power Consumption Monitoring | UPS

WHITE PAPER - Enterprises of all sizes are deploying or considering deploying blade systems as a way to consolidate resources and lower their total cost of ownership. Read this white paper to learn about the total cost of ownership (TCO) for the Dell PowerEdge servers.
Posted: May 19, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Business Intelligence | Business Management | Cost Benefit Analysis | Rack Servers | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | TCO | Tower Servers

WHITE PAPER - The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space.
Posted: May 19, 2009 | Published: December 1, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Management | Infrastructure Management | Rack Servers | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management

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