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Live Events
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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 Briefs
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Compute More, Spend Less: Solaris Operating Systems on Dell PowerEdge Servers
Dell is expanding the range of enterprise class operating systems to offer more choice and flexibility, thereby enabling you to drive standardization in the data center. Dell is Simplifying IT by making it even easier to acquire an integrated Solaris-based solution -- now you can get Solaris certified Dell platforms.
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RISC Migration as a Cost-Cutting Strategy
As demands grow to support more applications and users, and as older systems reach the end of their useful lifetimes, choices must be made. Do you keep these applications running on RISC, or do you migrate to standards-based solutions? Fortunately, there is a compelling case to move many more of these applications off of RISC and onto standard platforms. Download this technology brief to learn more.
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Operational Savings Driven by Migrating RISC Systems to Industry-Standard Platforms
Many companies are opting to retire their RISC-based server architectures in favor of more open, industry-standard equipment and application stacks. The benefits include higher performance, lower expenses, and improved scalability and growth potential. In this brief, we’ll look at some of the operational expenses that can be recouped through migration away from RISC, and discuss Dell’s industry-leading products and services that can help your company make the move.
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The Great Virtualization Migration
Virtualization is a key component of the Dell Scalable Enterprise strategy. Working with industry leaders Intel, VMware, Altiris and EMC, Dell offers mature, proven, best-of-breed solutions that can deliver dramatically higher levels of operational efficiency.
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Protecting Your Critical Data: Best Practices
Losing data can happen many ways including disk failures, theft, or accidental deletion. Find out how easy it is to put this worry behind you. Read this article to learn how to protect your most important IT asset, your data.
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Podcasts
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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 Channel Podcast: How to Grow Your Services Business
Listen to this interview with Rebecca Grigas, Manager of Dell Managed Service Consulting, to learn the fastest path to adding managed services to your portfolio and become a technology partner with your clients.
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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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Smart Papers
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Product Literature
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Mainstream E6400 & E6500
Featuring dramatic innovations in performance, durability and security, Dell Latitude Mainstream laptops provide exception productivity and a low TCO
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Business Ready Configurations for a Virtual Ready Infrastructure
The Business Ready Configurations for Dell PowerEdge blade servers, Dell PowerConnect switches, Dell EqualLogic SAN, and Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (Dell AIM) provides a detailed reference architecture for deploying and utilizing Dell AIM on Dell blades, switches and iSCSI storage environments. Based on extensive engineering work in architectural design and certification, customers can quickly and confidently deploy these proven architectures into production environments, thereby helping to eliminate much of the costly and time consuming trial and error often encountered during complex infrastructure design and implementation.
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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 Advanced Infrastructure Manager
Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) powers the efficient data center by allowing you to transition your current investment in IT assets to a dynamic, easily scalable, and highly efficient infrastructure. It is designed to help you react in real time to your changing business needs while lowering data center costs.
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Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM)
Creating a dynamic infrastructure requires coordinated provisioning and configuration management across servers, network and storage connectivity. Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) eases your transition towards a dynamic IT infrastructure that can quickly react and adapt to changing business needs.
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News Releases
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Center for Digital Education: Campus Technology Infrastructure
Today’s campuses rely on technology to support classroom learning, provide robust research, engage students, enable professional development and improve campus business processes. This report highlights how IT departments are addressing this challenge while keeping budgets in check. It addresses key infrastructure concerns and explores new technologies that may be on the horizon.
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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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VMware Introduces Next-Generation Disaster Recovery with VMware Site Recovery Manager
VMware, Inc., the virtualization leader, today announced VMware Site Recovery Manager, a pioneering new product for disaster recovery automation. The new software will be among the many products and solutions showcased this week at VMworld 2007 in San Francisco. Read the Press Release
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White Papers
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The Smart Money’s on IT: How the Efficient Data Center Drives Sustainable Growth
Today, efficiency is a basic tenet of business survival. The boardroom IT conversation is no longer restricted to cutting costs—it’s about investing in technology to efficiently drive business and organizational success. Virtualization and consolidation can go a long way toward driving data center efficiency, but they are just the beginning.
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Bringing Windows Server Virtualization to Your Production Environment
This white paper discusses the features virtual machines must deliver in order to be considered production-level, and the procedural issues that may be overlooked. It also explains how Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V delivers production-level virtualization, and the ways Dell helps its customers implement virtualization for maximum ROI and minimal setbacks.
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10 Gigabit Ethernet: Unifying iSCSI and Fibre Channel in a Single Network Fabric
Organizations are looking for ways to combine their storage and data networks into a single converged fabric to help reduce the total cost of ownership of the data center infrastructure, connect multiple storage islands, and enhance storage scalability.
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10GbE, Servers, Storage and Virtualization: Interoperability Review and Highlights
Virtualizing a server environment has the potential to lower operating expense dramatically because it increases server utilization, resulting in needing fewer physical servers. Having fewer servers means lower management time and costs, less floor space used and less power consumed.
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13 Common Managed Services Blunders: How to Fail as an MSP, Quickly and with Confidence
At Dell, we’ve spent years working with VARs and other IT organizations, helping them become successful at offering managed services. We’ve seen that there are many paths to success, but there are also many common mistakes. Learn how to avoid these 13 common blunders.
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Articles
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Dell Storage and CommVault Simpana Ease Adoption of Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Migrating data associated with Microsoft operating systems, applications, and other software can be a challenge administrators overlook when planning system upgrades. Dell PowerVault and Dell EqualLogic storage and CommVault Simpana data management software enable flexible data migration and transparent, release-specific data object recovery and backup to help simplify upgrades in enterprise environments.
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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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Advancing Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Dell EqualLogic Virtualized SANs
The widespread use of the Microsoft Windows OS allows many organizations to consider implementing a next-generation virtualized data center, heightening the need for a cost-effective platform to simplify storage area network (SAN) virtualization. Read this article to find out how Dell EqualLogic PS Series Internet SCSI SAN arrays can provide that platform, and how integration enables EqualLogic arrays to work together with Hyper-V to best advantage.
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Best Practices for Scaling Data Center Power Capacity and Avoiding Hidden Costs
As energy costs rise, excess capacity in enterprise data centers has become a financial and ecological burden. Read this article to learn how using a stepped, phase-in approach and deploying scalable uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems can help organizations avoid the hidden costs of conventional UPS designs—creating an infrastructure that can expand efficiently and cost-effectively as IT loads grow.
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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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Tech Analyses
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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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Emerging Trends in Instructional Technology: A look at Current Higher Education Implementations
This analysis takes a brief look at higher education campuses around the country to focus on emerging trends in learning space design, technology integration techniques, and new instructional delivery technologies.
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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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Windows 7 Migration: Analyzing Internal vs. External Deployment Strategies and Costs
With Windows XP’s 2014 retirement looming, enterprises and government agencies are intensifying Windows 7 migration initiatives. Most organizations are faced with the choice of managing their migration internally or tapping a third party to do it. To make an informed decision, this analysis identifies the phases associated with a migration strategy and estimates the time and costs associated with successfully concluding each step.
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Webcasts
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Meeting the Demands for the Secure and Efficient Business Desktop
The fundamental approach to the design and use of Desktop Computers has not changed in 30 years, but as we face numerous demands from the organization that impact the delivery and use of client computing, there is a definitive need for a change. Download this eSeminar to learn more about how Dell's Flexible Computing Solutions provide end-users with superior performance and solve new IT demands.
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Save Your Education IT Budget: Dell's Flexible Computing Changes the Game!
With the economic downturn and reduced support from state and federal governments, Education budgets are under tremendous pressure to do more with less. How can you navigate this situation? Watch this eSeminar to learn more about how Dell's Flexible Computing solution can help schools save time and money.
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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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Take Control! Managing Your Application Library
Learn how Dell Services can help reduce your labor costs and free up your IT talent for strategic projects.
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The Value of Windows Vista in the Business Environment
This session presents the benefits and improvements that Windows Vista brings to both end users and IT staff.
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Videos
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Windows Vista: Essential Benefits and Deployment Strategies
Windows Vista is here, but is your business ready for it? This video provides an update on some of the more practical features of Vista including tighter security measures, like user access control.
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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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Baker Tilly Looks Forward to Running Windows 7 on Dell Clients
Baker Tilly, one of the largest firms of chartered accountants and business advisors in the United Kingdom, was looking for ways to support its dispersed workforce and streamline computer management. The firm wanted to upgrade its operating system and implement an up-to-date Internet browser; read this case study to find out why they chose Windows 7 and the benefits they experienced.
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Brochures
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Flex Computing Solution
Dell delivers the complete package of hardware, software, and services to ensure that your users have the optimal computing environment and your IT department has an easier time managing it. Click through to read an insightful overview of Dell Flexible Computing solutions and the benefits they can bring to your bottom line.
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Flex Assessment Data Sheet
How do you know whether Dell Flexible Computing is right for your organization? Dell Global Services can help, with a thorough assessment of your environment, your users, and your computing needs. This helpful brochure gives you an inside view of Dell’s assessment service.
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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 Asset Recovery Services
Dell delivers peace of mind with comprehensive asset recovery and data security services.
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Client Migration and Deployment Services
End-to-end migration and deployment services for desktops and notebooks.
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Research Reports
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Software as a Service - Selective Hosting Can Boost Flexibility and Speed
The more heavily organizations rely on everyday applications, the less attention they want to pay to them.
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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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Benefits of SAN and LAN Convergence: Evaluating Interest in and Readiness for Unified Fabric
Vendors and analysts have been talking for some time about the benefits of a common network for user-application traffic (or front-end networking) and storage-data traffic (or back-end networking). While the theoretical benefits are clear, such as reduced acquisition and management costs, skill synergies, parts sparing, reduced cabling complexity, the path to getting there is daunting.
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Breaking Down the Barriers to VDI with Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN
This report reviews the current barriers to wider adoption of VDI, validates our claims via benchmark performance tests and from interviews with customers, and will test performance under additional deployment scenarios and dive deeper into the technology at the heart of the XVS hybrid arrays.
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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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Survey Results
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Mobile Computing in Healthcare: Survey Results
Medical information is not easily shared and distributed among doctors, nurses, billing departments, insurance companies, and other healthcare providers. The situation has reached such critical proportions that the federal government is pushing healthcare organizations to adopt electronic health records and phase IT into their operations. Learn more about the extent of the problems and the solutions being chosen.
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Understanding Mobile Security Concerns
Download this report for a look at survey results that shed light on the shifting mobile device landscape, and on the challenges they face. Those challenges include the migration of 'personal' device platforms into corporate settings, the popularity of multiple mobile operating systems, and the need to balance data and network access with data and network security.
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Virtualization in Higher Ed
IT departments in higher educational institutions today must deliver 24x7 services and be nimble enough to roll out new applications as demand arises. Download these survey results to learn the demands being placed on their IT departments and identify the technologies they hope will help cut costs.
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Tools
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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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Microsoft Windows Vista Cost and Benefit Estimator
The Microsoft Windows Vista Cost and Benefit Estimator is a tool that is designed to help quantify the costs and benefits of using Windows Vista.
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What to Do If You Think You Have a Virus
What if your computer suddenly shuts down by itself? Or you find that certain files are missing or won`t open. Or that your programs begin to operate very slowly. Such odd behavior might be a sign of a common hardware or software problem. Or it might mean your PC is infected with a computer virus
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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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Case Studies
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Zion Public Schools Making the Grade
An Illinois school district realized significant savings and improved performance by adopting Dell Flexible Computing and On-Demand Desktop Streaming. Click to learn how the IT department is saving weeks of work, responding more quickly to user requests, and delivering a consistent experience on all computers.
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How Dell Does IT
When Dell moved one of its critical supply chain systems from a legacy UNIX system to industry-standard technology and Oracle Database 10g, it boosted performance and cut $5 million out of IT 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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Product Demos
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Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) Demo
Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) helps IT managers react in real-time to changing business environments by allowing them to dynamically reprovision their server, storage and networking capabilities.
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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 Podcasts
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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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Reviews
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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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