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Jump-start your move to Windows 8
This exclusive paper discusses helpful services you can utilize to help ensure that all areas of your environment are ready to make the jump to Windows 8.
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Why Dell and Windows 8 for Business
This informative white paper examines how tech titan Dell is releasing mobile devices that are designed for Windows 7 and 8 to provide a seamless experience, enhancing enterprise mobility, employee productivity, and overall operational efficiency.
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It's Not Too Soon to Think About Windows Licensing
While you may not be ready to hop on the Windows 8 bandwagon quite yet, it's never too early to start the planning process. This expert E-guide from SearchConsumerization.com provides the best strategies for upgrading your operating systems and explores the benefits it can provide your organization.
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E-Guide: Best Practices for Installing Windows 8 on Your Laptop
This e-guide takes a first look at Windows 8 features and discusses best practice for installing this OS upgrade. Discover how to streamline deployment for your laptops and review the security and user interface enhancements of this latest Microsoft OS.
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IT Handbook: Windows 8 Migration Station
This handbook presents best practices for moving to Microsoft's latest operating system, including assessing your organization's needs to determine whether Windows 8 is a good fit, which applications should move over, and what help is out there for your migration project and licensing.
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E-Guide: SQL Server virtualization, hardware tips and trends
When it comes to SQL Server virtualization, there are a few pitfalls lurking among the undeniable benefits, including hardware considerations specific to a virtualized SQL environment. Read this e-guide to learn expert tips for ensuring a successful SQL Server virtualization initiative.
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E-Guide: Purchasing hardware for SQL Server
SQL Server performance is highly dependent on how you configure your server's storage subsystems. With that in mind, this e-guide dives into a benefit/cost comparison of the increasingly popular solid-state drive (SSD) trend and explains some of the top mistakes people make when purchasing hardware for SQL Server.
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Server Optimization, Hardware and Virtualization
In this expert e-guide, find out how to optimize SQL Server with the right choices for hardware, storage devices, and virtualization. Inside, find articles on: what not to do when purchasing hardware; if solid-state storage devices are worth the cost; hardware and risk considerations for an inevitable virtualization initiative.
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Why Unified Storage?
Check out this expert E-Guide to learn more about unified storage including why the adoption rate is rising among users, how it works and the top advantages of this type of storage.
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Can your network infrastructure handle it all? 7 Steps for a unified IT organization
This expert E-Guide explores the best practices to adjust to and the top demands that come along with virtualization.
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Bringing Order to Healthcare IT Chaos
Aging IT systems, shrinking budgets, and inefficient, paper-based processes are creating an unsustainable and error-prone work environment. This white paper reveals the major obstacles to EHR adoption and explores the cost benefits of virtualization with Hyper-V.
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Dell Windows 7 Readiness Assessment
To capitalize on the benefits of Windows 7, you must make sure your computing environment is ready for the upgrade. Dell's Windows 7 Readiness Assessment is designed to identify application compatibility, hardware compatibility and migration readiness and to provide the recommendations needed to help make your transition to Windows 7 smooth.
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Presentation Transcript: Three IT Questions for the Small Business Owner, Part 1 - What is a Server and Why Should I Care?
In this webcast Q&A transcript with expert Greg Shields you'll learn how to take the first step to taking on a server into your infrastructure.
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Presentation Transcript: Three IT Questions for the Small Business Owner, Part 3 - What is IT Management and Why Should I Care?
In the third presentation transcript of this three-part Q&A series with expert Greg Shields, learn what IT Management is and why, as a small business, you need to understand and care about IT Management.
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Presentation Transcript: Three IT Questions for the Small Business Owner, Part 2 - What is a Network and Why Should I Care?
In this presentation transcript you'll hear expert Greg Shields discuss what a network is as well as why a network can act as a backbone for running a business.
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Using Server-Based Networks to Meet your Small Business Challenges
Today's server technology is surprisingly affordable and user-friendly and well worth your attention. Read this paper to learn about key benefits a server-based network can bring to your business.
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Dell Application Compatibility Reporting Assessment
Dell Application Compatibility Reporting Assessment provides a detailed compatibility analysis of your application portfolio. ACR includes extensive testing and investigation of each application to determine installation and functional compatibility with Microsoft® Windows® 7 and will accommodate either MSI or unpackaged applications.
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Do I Need a Server? If you’re looking to grow your small business, make sure you have the right tools
Whether they know it or not, many small businesses can benefit greatly from adding a centralized server to their network. In this article, you'll read about many of these benefits.
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Dell's Application Migration and Management Services
Dell's application migration services include application compatibility assessment, remediation, and expert packaging using Dell's unique, global, scalable, and cost effective factory approach.
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How Server-Based Networks Boost Small Businesses
This paper describes how any small business can benefit from the advantages of a server-based network. Putting a fast and well-equipped server to work increases your productivity, enables smart backup and archiving, and vastly improves the security of your data.