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Increase the Processing Power Behind Your Mission-Critical Applications  from  Dell

Applications with more users and more data present a number of new challenges for the IT administrators that need to build and maintain the infrastructure. The infrastructure behind today's powerful business applications needs to be powerful, built for virtualization and scalable.


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Meet the Increased Demands on Your Infrastructure with Dell and Intel  from  Dell

More users, more devices and more data are a recipe for disaster for an organization with a tight budget. Businesses that are looking to upgrade their server infrastructure need to get the most bang for their buck, with servers that support other cost-saving opportunities like virtualization and the chance to decrease power and cooling costs.


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Simplify IT Management with Dell PowerEdge Servers  from  Dell

The IT staff at many businesses spends a majority of its time on time-consuming low-value procedures and manual IT management tasks. Better tools for systems management can deliver automation and monitoring capabilities that reduce the amount of time needed manage the infrastructure and allow more time for the development and deployment of new applications and IT services.


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Controlling Your Power and Cooling Costs with Dell PowerEdge Servers  from  Dell

Today's powerful business-critical applications and the sheer amount of data created by businesses require organizations to invest in powerful servers that can handle the load. Dell's newest PowerEdge servers, the 12th generation of the PowerEdge line, are designed to improve efficiency and cut costs with a number of energy-efficient features.


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Resolving the Top Three Patch Management Challenges  from  LANDesk Software

Keeping all of an organization’s endpoints patched and up-to-date is crucial to staying ahead of the latest exploits and vulnerabilities. Patch management software automates the repetitive processes of maintaining current vulnerability information, assessing vulnerabilities relevant to an organization’s different software and hardware, downloading the appropriate patch executables, remediating endpoint vulnerabilities, and verifying successful patch deployment. Read this technical white paper to learn how to easily and successfully tackle the top three patch management challenges all organizations deal with on an ongoing basis.


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Manage and Secure Your Systems in 90 Days  from  LANDesk Software

Businesses today face the ongoing challenge of controlling IT sprawl while protecting systems, networks, and applications from internal and external threats, as well as misuse. Unfortunately, this means it’s up to the IT staff to make this happen in a world of increasing complexity and shrinking budgets. This white paper guides you through the steps to gain visibility into your environment, design and implement best practices, and create a data analysis and feedback mechanism for continuous improvement in as little as 90 days — with the ultimate goal of attaining a world-class IT environment.


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Unified Storage for the Rest of Us  from  Nexsan Technologies

The Nexsan NST5000 adds iSCSI block protocol support for true unified storage. Leveraging the speed of solid-state and advanced software architecture and algorithms to accelerate the underlying rotating media, this hybrid storage solution offers the leading cost per I/O.


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Blazing Performance on Unified Storage!  from  Nexsan Technologies

Nexsan unified hybrid storage offers the speed of solid-state with the price and capacity of SATA/SAS. Taneja Group examines how NST5000 has “changed the rules of the storage game" with leading cost per I/O.


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Hybrid Storage: How to Get the Best of Solid-state and Disk  from  Nexsan Technologies

Traditional disk storage has struggled to keep up with the I/O pressure in virtualized environments. SSD-only storage is relegated to the fringe due to cost and capacity. Enter hybrid storage for the best of both.


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6 Tips for Selecting Hard Drives  from  Nexsan Technologies

What type of drives should be used for what types of data? Selecting a drive and interface can seem complex with considerations of random access performance, sequential performance, cost, density and reliability. Gary Watson examines six factors to consider.


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8 Must-Have Data Storage Technologies for the Data Center  from  Dell

Organizations continue to find themselves locked into proprietary storage platforms that can't be easily expanded or upgraded. This lack of flexibility and scalability leads to early obsolescence and costly forklift upgrades. Ultimately, administrators are left to coerce rigid storage systems to address core business needs, only to repeat the cycle with each inevitable system overhaul. This paper discusses eight must-have technologies that create new levels of efficiency and flexibility while cutting cost now and in the future.


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Leveraging a Persistent Hardware Architecture  from  Dell

Traditional hardware vendors have failed to deliver on the promise of SANs. By relying on proprietary hardware designs, imposing restrictions on the types of technology that can be used and prohibiting customers from mixing and matching different drive and interconnect technologies, these vendors doom their products to early obsolescence and force their customers into costly forklift upgrades. Download this paper to discuss the advantages of an open, non-proprietary hardware architecture.


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Exploring Your Data Storage Options  from  Dell

Businesses dealing with a growing amount of electronic data to store can get more from their storage investments by consolidating their storage on a centralized storage resource like a SAN. This issue of Data Storage Insights explores storage consolidation, asks if a SAN is the right choice for your business, and also examines unified storage and the role it can play in your business.


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Managing Data Growth for Growing Businesses  from  Dell

This issue of Data Storage Insights focuses on how growing businesses can manage their data growth. Get expert advice on how to use storage tiering to save your IT budget, how to expand your storage capacity, and how to tell if your organization has outgrown its backup strategy.


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Best Practices for Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 in an iSCSI SAN  from  Dell

As the use of e-mail expands and combines with voice, fax and compliance requirements many Exchange installations face ever-growing demands for increased storage space, higher performance, and increased recoverability. A SAN can consolidate storage resources and provide a more scalable configuration than DAS or NAS, while also improving performance and simplifying management.


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Efficient, Scalable Video Content Storage with Dell EqualLogic Virtualized iSCSI SANs  from  Dell

The proliferation of standards and affordable equipment has led to an enterprise video boom. While diverse in their applications, all video files tend to share two common characteristics. First, video files typically require a great deal more storage - orders of magnitude more, in some cases - than image, email, or other digital data. Second, because video operations usually require large-block, sequential streaming input and output (I/O), applications that ingest, edit and play back video can be extremely sensitive to performance constraints within server, network or storage segments.


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All About Storage Area Networks  from  Dell

As with any major technology purchase, it's important to do your homework when shopping for a SAN. Download this eBook for a review of the most important aspects of a SAN and get guidance to help IT managers make an informed purchase.


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Defining IT Success Through the Service Catalog  from  Cisco

A funny thing happened on the way to IT service management Nirvana: Cloud computing became the most important and disruptive force in IT services in the last 10 years. The service catalog is now the cornerstone of cloud computing and as a service is the new vision for the evolution of IT to an on-demand, self-service, and metered utility. Written by industry experts and using real case studies, this valuable eBook excerpt takes the reader beyond the theoretical to focus on the real business benefits of service catalogs and provides the steps for a successful implementation within any organization.


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Apply Storage Innovations to Create a Competitive Advantage  from  Hewlett-Packard

Learn how businesses can use advanced storage technologies, such as thin provisioning, deduplication and autotiering, to create a competitive advantage by speeding the delivery of IT services to customers and satisfying their ever-changing demands. Although these technologies are easy to acquire and their credibility is established, many IT organizations have been slow to implement the technologies, thus leaving a window of opportunity for savvy competitors. With the unrelenting drive to deliver more IT capability at a low cost, and for less floor space, power and head count, these technologies can help IT organizations cope with dynamic demands and the deluge of data to deliver competitive IT services.


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Energy Efficient Networking Switches  from  Hewlett-Packard

Traditional networking equipment is designed with a primary goal -- to achieve line rate and to increase packet processing performance while decreasing switch latency, power, size, and cost. Download this paper to learn how HP Networking platforms, built around HP Provision Architecture and Silicon, achieve substantial power savings for all customers and all deployment situations.


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