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A Cost-Effective Solution for Building and Managing a Complete Cloud Infrastructure
This helpful resource reveals effective strategies and tools for building and managing an effective, efficient and flexible cloud infrastructure that can ease the burden on your IT and allow room for growth.
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E-Guide: Public Cloud vs. vSphere
In this expert e-guide, discover which solution is best for your SMB, a public cloud, or a vSphere environment, by comparing the benefits and drawbacks of each.
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Storage Magazine Online: December 2012 – 6 Hot Storage Technologies for 2013
Our final issue of Storage Magazine Online in 2012 features one of our most popular annual columns: Hot Technologies for Next Year. Explore this month's cover story, in which our team of editors team up to tell you the six technologies to watch in 2013 - and why they should be on your radar if they're not already.
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Windows Server 2012: New Features to be Aware of
This expert guide discusses the latest features of Server Message Block 3.0 (SMB 3.0) for Windows Server 2012. Additionally, learn how to set up scale-out file servers and ensure you receive the maximum benefits of this Microsoft upgrade.
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Modern Infrastructure: November 2012
November's edition of Modern Infrastructure e-zine offers advice on the current trends in the modernized data center including information on migrating legacy applications, advanced public cloud offerings, BYOD, and software-defined networking.
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Presentation Transcript: Intro to Hybrid Cloud Computing
Access this exclusive presentation transcript to learn about hybrid clouds and the role that they could play in your business.
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Presentation Transcript: Understanding the Differences Between Desktop and Server Virtualization
Access this exclusive resource to discover the fundamental differences of virtual desktops and virtual servers and how to find out which one is best for your organization.
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Presentation Transcript: Analysts React: Dell Blades Announcement
SearchStorage.com editors interviewed industry experts Howard Marks, Terri McClure and Andrew Reichman to get their reactions to Dell Inc. launching the Dell EqualLogic PS-M4110 Blade Arrays at Dell Storage Forum 2012.
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Presentation Transcript: Network Performance Improvement - What You Need to Know
In this presentation transcript, get help setting goals for your network before jumping into server virtualization, and discover how these goals can be applied to any sized business. Gain insight on connecting your network to a disaster recovery network, and considerations to make when migrating to the cloud.
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Presentation Transcript: Why Desktop Virtualization Pilots are Not Scaling?
Read this presentation transcript, featuring expert Brian Madden, to discover why desktop virtualization pilots are not scaling. Learn what you can do to avoid these challenges and make your desktop virtualization project a success.
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Presentation Transcript: Designing of Desktop Virtualization Architecture
Where exactly does virtualization come in when implementing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)? This white paper takes a look at how server virtualization and storage relate (or don't relate) to VDI, and offers advice on virtualizing your desktops.
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Presentation Transcript: How to Get Started with Cloud-based Disaster Recovery: Tips, Tricks and Vendors
What about cloud for disaster recovery? Read this presentation transcript to learn how to set up cloud DR, the strengths and limitations of this technology, a list of vendors currently offering the service and more.
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Presentation Transcript: Disaster Recovery Strategies for VMware Environments
In this presentation transcript, expert Mike Laverick reviews the different disaster recovery options available for VMware infrastructures. He covers VMware Site Recovery Manager, host-based replication technologies, stretching high-availability technologies across multiple sites, and scripting custom solutions using PowerCLI.
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E-Guide: Key Considerations for Extending Virtual Desktops to the Cloud
This e-guide from SearchVirtualDesktop.com explains why it is important to start with an organized objective-based approach when implementing this technology. Get an understanding of cloud computing architecture models and gain expert insight into which five questions you should ask before planning a cloud architecture.
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E-Guide: Tips for creating a VDI backup plan
This e-guide from SearchVirtualDesktop.com explains how to develop a VDI backup plan to protect your virtual desktops against disaster. Learn why it is essential to focus on both the virtual desktops and the infrastructure when developing a backup strategy.
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IT Handbook: Migrating Internal Apps to the Cloud
Moving to the cloud can be a thorny process for organizations that don’t take the time to prepare. Follow this step-by-step approach from concept to implementation to ensure that your cloud-computing roadmap leads to success.
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Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Success: Adjusting the IT Mindset
This paper discusses the radical change in datacenter and IT processes brought about by virtualization and by the inception of a cloud- or service-led model for delivery of IT resources. Perceived risks and organizational hurdles are analyzed, and guidance is given for organizations as they move to the cloud.
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Global Cloud Computing Adoption: Transformation Is in the Air
This paper analyzes the benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing cloud services, examines the business benefits and risks, and provides the steps you should take for a successful implementation.
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Extending Benefits of Virtual Remote Desktops Using VMware and Dell EqualLogic SANs
Virtualization can offer increased scalability, reliability, and availability while helping simplify management and reduce operating costs. Now, Virtual Remote Desktop solutions based on VMware® Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and virtualized Dell (iSCSI) storage area networks (SANs) can offer similar benefits for the desktop environment.
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How Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition Helps Protect Virtual Environments
Dell™ EqualLogic™ Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition enables administrators to quickly and easily create hypervisor-aware snapshots of VMs--helping simplify data management, and increase application performance.
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Using Tiered Storage in a PS Series SAN
This Technical Report describes the concepts and benefits of tiered storage, and describes how to take advantage of storage pools and other features of EqualLogic PS Series Firmware to implement tiered storage in a PS Series SAN.
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Dell Equallogic PS Series and VMware View Enhance Virtual Desktop Project Success
Read this white paper to to learn how VMware View can help IT administrators decrease operating costs by centralizing management, data protection and security.
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Flexible Computing: Advancing End-User Productivity with Centralized Control
Supporting an increasingly distributed workforce can be a huge drain on IT resources. By enabling a customized end-user experience with server-based control of data, settings, and applications, the Dell™ Flexible Computing Solutions suite of products and services is designed to simplify management, enhance security, and lower TCO.
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Optimized Virtualization with Citrix, Dell, and Intel
By taking an end-to-end approach, Citrix, Dell and Intel have integrated their products and made highly flexible, centralized, optimized and virtualized computing a reality. This paper introduces the key components of this approach: simplifying IT, enabling flexible computing, optimizing datacenters, and rethinking the desktop.
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Xtium Provisions Tier-1 Apps and Virtual Desktops 30 Times Faster with Dell EqualLogic and VMware vSphere 4.1
In this case study, learn about Xtium's upgrade to Dell EqualLogic Firmware 5.0 which enabled the use of thin clones—thin-provisioned, writeable copies of data volumes—and leveraged direct integration with their VMware vSphere 4.1 environment with vStorage APIs.