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Live Event
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5 Must-Dos When Starting Your Own Business
We all have had the itch at least once, to start and run our own business. The ability to have a career that we feel passionately about, or feel a real skill in executing is very attractive, but there are a lot of critical issues that you need to get a handle on if you are going to be successful.
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Technology Brief
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A Smart Approach to IT in Education
Schools satisfy higher expectations on their computing systems.
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A Synergistic Relationship: Marrying Latitude Notebooks and Windows Vista
In today’s fast-paced business environment, workers and executives need uninterrupted access to applications and data -- anytime and anywhere. IT departments must deliver this availability while dealing with the increased mobility of today’s workforce.
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A Windows Vista FAQ
Companies contemplating a Windows Vista migration over the next year to 18 months need to start planning now. Download this guide from Dell that walks you through the migration planning process and answers the questions you likely need to address before you make the move.
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Achieving Continuous Availability for HPC clusters with IBRIX Fusion Cluster File System
In this article, Dell engineers demonstrate how the IBRIX Fusion file system maintained data access availability in three failure scenarios: HBA failure, segment server failure, and NIC failure.
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Addressing Today's Alternate Desktop Management Needs
Desktop support can drain IT resources. On-Demand Desktop Streaming offers a secure, robust, flexible computing alternative for meeting today’s desktop user needs.
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Podcast
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Best Practices: Migrating to Windows Server 2008
The hardest part of adopting any new software is migration. Migration is always scary, but best practices already exist to reduce the time and risk. Hear from the actual engineer that has been working for two years on Windows Server 2008 about ways to simplify migration, so you can start getting the benefits sooner and with less hassle.
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Dell Enterprise Podcast Series
Hear experts talk about key enterprise infrastructure strategies that can help you grow your business.
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Dell Flexible Computing Podcast
Industry experts discuss Flexible Computing as a holistic strategy to drive simplicity and lower cost in your IT infrastructure to help customers grow their businesses. You will hear about cultural and business evolutions that continue to add complexity to the issues and challenges already faced by IT managers, which can be alleviated by alternate computing technologies.
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How to Be Ready for Windows 7
Today, IT professionals are mandated to lower operating costs, enhance security, and simplify both systems administration and management. Yet, challenges persist in the realm of End User/Client Computing. The good news is that substantial relief is on the horizon with Windows 7. Download this podcast to learn about the benefits of Windows 7 and best practices for migration.
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Overview of New Security Features in Windows Server 2008
Hear about Bitlocker, and important component in WS08 that adds whole disk encryption and secure startup.
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Product Literature
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Data Protection Using Premium Features: PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i
Dell offers key-enabled premium features to help enhance then functionality of the PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i storage arrays. These optional premium features include Virtual Disk Snapshot and Virtual Disk Copy. These data protection features provide real-world benefits for data backup and data management.
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Dell Database Solutions: SQL Server 2005
Dell has partnered with Microsoft to create partner reference configurations that offer a single source for sizing, installation, and support of all hardware and software.
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Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services: Virtualization
Dell Virtualization Consulting Services help you realize tangible results by designing and implementing practical, reliable and comprehensive virtualization solutions for your unique goals.
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Dell Latitude Essential E5400 & E5500
Dell Latitude Essential laptops revolutionize business technology by helping reduce IT costs and maintaining flexibility.
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Dell PowerEdge SC1435 Server
Delivering incredible price/performance and performance/watt for cost-sensitive environments, the PowerEdge SC1435 server is optimized for Web serving, high performance computing clusters (HPCC), and small business single server deployments.
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News Release
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Dell`s New Remote-Assistance Tool Helps Resolve Most Common Computer Issues
With 95 Percent Customer Satisfaction Rate, DellConnect Expands to Support U.S. Consumers, Small Businesses
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Purdue University Chooses Dell for Campus Supercomputer
Purdue University scientists conduct research in a variety of fields.
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The Importance of Defragmentation in RAID Environments
Automatic defrag allows RAID to provide the full benefit for which it was intended
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The Right Defrag Prevents Unnecessary Hardware Upgrades
A hard drive is the only computer component that has mechanical, moving parts that can break down. Every time a file is requested, a read write head must move across the disk platters and retrieve that file, and file fragmentation adds additional movements for every fragment.
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Top Ten Reasons for VARs to Embrace Defrag
After a one year case study at over 75 Channel events, Diskeeper Corporation today announced the Top Ten Reasons for VARs to Embrace Defrag.
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White Paper
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7 Steps to Local Search Dominance
Right now, in every community in America, increasing numbers of people of all ages are turning to the World Wide Web to find products and services right there at home. This trend, known generically as local search, presents a huge opportunity for small businesses that are focused on winning in this arena. Download this white paper to learn more.
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A Migration Guide for Porting Applications
When porting an application to a new hardware platform, engineers must resolve issues across several development areas. Download this white paper to learn what these issues are and how to avoid them.
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A Practical Guide to Building a Patch Management Process
This guide will assist system administrators and IT managers who have been assigned the task or have identified the need to establish a patch management strategy. It details best practice approaches for implementing a sound patch management process and outlines methods to control and mitigate vulnerability risks within information systems.
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Accelerated HPC Productivity with Intel Cluster Ready
High-performance computing (HPC) clusters can be extremely effective for solving large, complex problems in areas such as computational fluid dynamics, weather modeling, bioinformatics, and oil and gas exploration. However, they can also be extremely complex and time-consuming to deploy, manage, and maintain. Download this white paper to learn more.
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Accelerating Dell PowerEdge Blade Server Migration with Symantec Back-up Exec
Migration from traditional servers to your new Blade Server can be a time consuming and expensive task. See how Dell has mitigated this problem via their partnership with Symantec.
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Article
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Accelerating OS Deployment with Microsoft Windows Deployment Services
Microsoft Windows Deployment Services (WDS) provides an accessible, flexible way to perform mass deployments of current and legacy Windows operating systems. Using customized answer files and taking advantage scripting and other tools with WDS can help dramatically reduce the time to perform highly configured mass deployments with minimal infrastructure impact.
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Building the Efficient Enterprise with Dell, Intel, and VMware vSphere 4
The next generation of virtualization solutions goes beyond just servers to include virtualized storage, networking, and I/O. When IT managers combine VMware vSphere software, 11th-generation Dell PowerEdge servers with the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, and advanced Dell EqualLogic storage arrays, they can create the ultimate in powerful, flexible computing models: an internal cloud. Read this article to learn more.
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Compute More: Consume Less Smart Policies Unleash Data Center Productivity
This article discusses how changing your mind-set can help meet compute demand for years to come. By setting operational policies around virtualization, regular hardware refreshes, and best-practices data center design, IT leaders can help improve productivity and lower
power consumption—enabling much more useful work to be performed within facilities that are already in place.
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Dell Enterprise Technology Center
Have questions about how you can leverage High-Performance Cluster Computing to take your enterprise to the next level? Get the answers you need at the Dell Enterprise Technology Center.
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Dell Power Solutions Article: Systems Management Simplified
Enterprises are getting hit by a double whammy as systems management complexity spirals out of control and outstrips infrastructure spending. By giving administrators single-pane access to comprehensive management functions and scalable process automation across a broad range of Dell and partner systems, the new Dell Management Console Powered by Altiris from Symantec can free vital IT resources to advance innovation and help lower the cost of doing business. Read this article to learn more.
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Tech Analysis
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Disaster Recovery Using Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage and VMware Site Recovery Manager
This tech analysis shows how VMware Site Recovery Manager along with Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage replication can help make disaster recovery manageable, affordable and automated. Download to learn more.
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M600 Performance Comparison vs. HP and IBM
The renowned testing firm, Principal Technologies, provides specific performance comparisons for Dell, HP, and IBM Blades and shows how Dell wins.
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Out of the Box Comparison -- Dell, HP, IBM Blade Servers
What happens when your blade system arrives? Well you'd be amazed at how different the experience is. See the benefits that third party analysis firm Principal Technologies found for the Dell M1000e.
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Webcast
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4 Steps to Better Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery might not be something you think about everyday. But it’s something that should be alive and ready everyday. Business continuity planning can help your company survive many kinds of adverse events. Download this webcast to learn what these events might be and how your company can overcome disaster.
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A New Healthcare Approach with Dell Mobile Clinical Computing to Lower Cost & Meet Compliance
These are very turbulent times for the IT capabilities in the Healthcare Industry, and the reality for IT Infrastructure is that the old approach of PC Centric client computing is just not up to the tasks that are demanded. Watch this eSeminar to learn more about Dell's new approach to client computing, Mobile Clinical Computing.
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Assessing Your Windows Vista Readiness - Leveraging Tools & Experience for Effective Migration
See how Dell can help you assess the Windows Vista readiness of all the client systems in your organization.
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Better Business Continuity with Replication
Business continuity is a complex problem for all companies. Download this webcast to learn how disaster, recovery, backup and strategy all play an important role in business continuity planning.
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Big Benefit, Less RISC (Part 2): Migrating RISC-Based Infrastructure to Industry Standards
Join experts from Dell, Intel, and Principled Technologies in this informative e-seminar to learn more about the big benefits and surprising ease of migrating from RISC-based systems to industry standard servers. You’ll hear about the real-world testing and experiences of migrating infrastructure applications from RISC systems to Intel Xeon processor systems, and gain valuable insights from those who have done the work and helped organizations similar to yours make the migration.
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Video
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Addressing Today's Alternate Desktop Management Needs Webcast
On-Demand Desktop Streaming allows for improved support and reduced tasks.
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All-day Computing & Battery Life
Experience "All-Day-Computing" and how one user overcomes multiple obstacles while staying connected.
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ATLAS: From Dream to Reality
ATLAS is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Watch this showcase of images and video clips from the construction of the ATLAS experiment up to the moment when the first splash of particles in ATLAS was seen on September 10, 2008.
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Customer Success Story: Zion-Benton High School in Illinois
This short video is a powerful customer testimonial illustrating a subset of benefits received by this high school from implementing On-Demand Desktop Streaming. It incorporates views on I.T simplification, security optimization, and resulting reliability and improved scalability. The video illustrates how IT staffs can do more with less, in less time.
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Dell E-Family Launch
Jeff Reed, Senior Industrial Designer at Dell, talks about the new design for the Latitude family of notebooks.
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Brochure
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Certified Applications
Download this brochure to learn the most up-to-date certified applications for Windows Vista.
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Client Migration and Deployment Services
End-to-end migration and deployment services for desktops and notebooks.
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Dell - Microsoft Hyper-V and SCVMM
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft’s next generation hypervisor technology, adds an exciting new dimension to the server virtualization market. With Hyper-V and Microsoft’s integrated Server Management suite, you can take advantage of a powerful set of tools to help simplify infrastructure management and better utilize your hardware investments. Dell closely collaborated with Microsoft during development of Windows Server 2008, gaining expertise in all aspects of its functionality, including virtualization. By working with Dell, you benefit from a fully engineered virtualization solution and extensive experience to help simplify and accelerate your virtualization deployments.
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Dell and Solaris: Standardizing the Datacenter
Simplifying IT for customers means offering choice and flexibility. Discover the right solution for your IT infrastructure with Solaris available on Dell PowerEdge Servers. This new solution combines proven Dell hardware with the Solaris Operating System.
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Dell Asset Recovery Services
Dell delivers peace of mind with comprehensive asset recovery and data security services.
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Research Report
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A Roadmap to Starting Your UC Implementation
Learn how to implement a UC solution that meets all your requirements.
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Business Risk of a Lost Laptop: A Study of IT Practitioners
This study was conducted to understand the risks to organizations’ personal and confidential information as the number of lost or stolen employee-assigned laptops increases. Dell Corporation and Ponemon Institute also wanted to learn if there are significant differences in how companies in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Mexico and Brazil are addressing the business risk of lost laptops.
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Dell Latitude E4300 Ultra-Portable Notebook Competitive Analysis
Dell commissioned Principled Technologies to test the performance and features of two 13-inch ultraportable notebook systems: Dell Latitude E4300 and Lenovo ThinkPad X301. Download this research report to learn what the findings were.
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Desktop Virtualization in Healthcare
In this research report, Forrester Consulting examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment that enterprises may realize by deploying VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. This report illustrates the financial impact of moving from a traditional one-PC-per-user model to a centralized, hosted virtual-desktop delivery model.
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DNS Migration to a Dell-Solaris Platform
This research report measured the DNS performance of Dell and Sun servers running on the Sun Solaris operating system. The study compared a typical existing installation with a typical new purchase configuration, so as to analyze what customers might experience if they were staying with Solaris and its bundled BIND DNS server software, but were migrating from RISC to x86. Read the report to find out the results.
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Tool
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10 Essential Blogging Tools
Nearly every small business has a ton of knowledge and expertise on the key aspects of the business, the products or services it provides, and the customers it serves. Sharing that wealth of information can benefit your customers and your suppliers. Download this tool to learn more.
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Best Practices for Windows Vista Migration Presentation
Dell and Microsoft recently held a series of face-to-face seminars entitled, "Best Practices for Windows Vista Migration." During this invitation-only series, top industry experts shared all the information needed to put together a successful Windows Vista migration plan, and they offered an exclusive look at the Best Practices they put in place for such a migration.
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Build Your Business Credit
Small business owners know how difficult it can be to stay on top of financial obligations. When your company’s available working capital is limited, you may need access to business credit in order to meet your expanding business needs. The flexibility to obtain financial resources when most needed can help your company to reduce business risk.
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Cost Benefits of Migrating to Windows Vista Now
Download this tool to learn about Windows Vista’s cost savings. Discover how your company can save with: Security, Increased Productivity, and Simpler Management.
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Dell Data Center Capacity Planner
You need to know what impact a new server or storage systems will have on your data center before it shows up on the dock.
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Case Study
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A Model of Virtualization
Business growth and a fast-paced product development cycle require the Dell IT team to accelerate deployment of new servers and applications—without exceeding data center space and within power constraints. Download this case study to learn how Dell PowerEdge servers enables the Dell IT team to speed new server deployment, use data centers more efficiently, and dramatically reduce server costs.
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Absolute Scalability: Improve IT Staff Efficiency by 15 Percent
SoftLayer needed a scalable storage solution that would allow it to provide SAN storage capacity to customers on demand. The company also wanted to unify three separate storage islands for better manageability. Using Dell EqualLogic storage arrays, SoftLayer allows customers to “provision” their own storage on demand via a Web-based portal.
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Airport Insecurity: The Case of Lost Laptops
Everyday business travelers are putting the sensitive and confidential data of their organizations at risk when they travel through airports. Sponsored by Dell, Ponemon Institute conducted this study, Airport Insecurity: The Case of Lost Laptops to understand the current risks posed to sensitive and confidential data contained in the laptops of business travelers.
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Aquatics Technology Supplier Updates Servers for Reliable, Robust Infrastructure
This case study shows how Eheim picked Dell services and technology to significantly boost their systems performance and reliability.
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Calling on Consolidation
This case study outlines how Data Guard Systems used virtualized Dell servers to consolidate 45 backup database servers and cut their power costs by as much as $10,000 per month.
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Product Demo
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VMware DRS Demonstration of Dynamic VM Migration with Spikes in Workload
Using the DVD Store Application, workload is generated on a VMware DRS cluster to create an unbalanced environment. DRS recognizes this unbalance and migrates the VM using Vmotion to another ESX Host in the cluster that has free resources.
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VMware HA/DRS Demonstration of Planned Maintenance
This demo shows the ability of VMware DRS to easily migrate VMs off ESX Hosts in need of planned maintenance. Planned maintenance such and firmware and BIOS updates can then be performed with little impact to the users on those VMs.
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VMware High Availability Demonstration of an Unplanned Outage
This demo shows what happens when the Virtual Infrastructure is presented with an ESX Host failure. A Dell PowerEdge blade is physically removed from the chassis, and the resulting failure and recovery of the VMs is seen in the demo.
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eWeek Podcast
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Dell Polishes Platinum Service
eWEEK Labs Director Jim Rapoza gives his thoughts on benchmarking and Peter Coffee says doing the wrong things faster is not as powerful a strategy as doing only the right things.
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Dell Recalls Millions of Notebook Batteries
In this eWEEK Podcast, Dell recalls millions of notebook batteries, Microsoft prepares another Vista build, COBOL developers look to Java and XML, and IT managers look to cool down hot data centers.
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iSCSI Storage a Virtual Reality
In this eWEEK Podcast: Server virtualization only addresses half the problem of data center footprint, with storage being at least as critical a concern. Peter Coffee talks with EqualLogic exec Tim Sherbak about the opportunities for a fusion play combining iSCSI standards with VMware platform refinements to make storage more manageable and cost-effective.
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Ubuntu Talks Dell
In an exclusive interview, Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, talks with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli about the news that Dell will ship Ubuntu Linux preinstalled on some of its desktop and laptop computers.
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Review
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Dell Axim X51v
The Dell Axim X51v is the first Windows Mobile 5 handheld and trades some speed for more features and improved battery life. (PC Magazine Review)
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Dell Bolsters High-end Blade System
PowerEdge 1855 is built for 64-bit but doesn’t support 4-way technology. (eWEEK Review)
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Dell Dimension 9100
If you crave an upgrade from that 2- to 3-year-old midrange system sitting on your desk, the Dimension 9100 can take the home media hobbyist to the next level. (PC Magazine Review)
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Dell Dimension E310
The Dell Dimension E310 is an entry-level Media Center PC with the innovative and desperately needed DataSafe backup technology. (PC Magazine Review)
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Dell Dimension E510
This is a good Media Center for entry-level users or those moving beyond basic multimedia tasks. (PC Magazine Review)
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Trial Download
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Undelete 2009 Home
Undelete 2009 captures and protects all deleted files, allowing instant file recovery with just a few mouse clicks
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Undelete 2009 Professional
Undelete 2009 captures and protects all deleted files, allowing instant file recovery with just a few mouse clicks.
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Undelete 2009 Server
File deletion accidents don't need to cost the company time and money. Why suffer through one more restore from backup? Undelete 2009 Server Edition gives your users real-time data protection with instant recovery. No file server should be without it!
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