All Research Sponsored By:DellEMC and Intel®
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Dell NX4: Achieving Storage Efficiency with Data Deduplication
This paper illustrates the concepts of Celerra Data Deduplication. It also shows how a user can use and manage deduplication on the Dell NX4 network-attached storage (NAS) system.
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Dell NX4: Advanced File Sharing and Management
Dell NX4 offers a variety of advanced features that can help organizations achieve storage efficiency and lower TCO, including data deduplication that can reduce required storage capacity and an open API that works with third-party policy engines to enable tiered storage access.
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Meeting Economic Challenges Through Accelerated Virtualization
With the current economic state the way it is CIOs must rethink how they manage IT costs and operations. This white paper will take a closer look at how virtualization can help cut down the costs as well as improve efficiency of the data center.
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Get More Virtual with Dell and VMware vSphere
Learn how Dell has designed and integrated the Dell EqualLogic Virtual SAN with VMware® vSphere 4.0 with to help you save money and get more virtual.
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Auto-Snapshot Manager/Vmware Edition Automated, Integrated, and Scalable Protection of Virtual Machines
This paper will discuss High performance, space-efficient hypervisor-aware SAN-based snapshot and replication support, backup and recovery, IT infrastructure, as well as virtual security.
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Enhancing Virtualization Performance with VMware VStorage
VMware® vSphere™ is the industry's first private cloud operating system that provides a comprehensive framework from which Dell can help deliver enhanced virtualization capabilities to clients.
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Protecting a Paperless Office
Peterson Sullivan PLLC needed a consolidated yet scalable IT infrastructure. They created just that with VMware software, Dell PowerEdge servers, and Dell EqualLogic storage while enhancing data protection with Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition software for automated, integrated, and scalable protection of virtual machines.
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A Smart Path to Virtualization
Read this white paper to learn about how Dell is providing answers to key virtualization questions for the enterprise. Topics include; how to migrate to a fully virtualized environment as well as how the IT infrastructure should be configured for maximum benefit.
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Security through Maturity: A Brief on Securing iSCSI Networks
Read this white paper to learn about how Internet SCSI (iSCSI) offers a scalable, simplified, and cost-effective way to implement storage area networks (SANs) using Ethernet components.
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iSCSI for TL-Series Tape Libraries
To supplement the growth in iSCSI SANs, Dell has introduced an iSCSI-to-SAS bridge card for the TL-series of tape libraries. This allows a customer to directly attach a tape backup target to their iSCSI 1Gb Ethernet SAN with little to no degradation in transfer speed. This white paper explores this setup and configuration.
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Dell/EMC CX4 Exchange Performance
This white paper takes a high-level look at the features and functionality that make the CX4 an excellent choice for Microsoft Exchange and other electronic mail systems. It examines new features, discusses disaster recovery and VMware integration, and provides a brief example of CX4's performance in Exchange environments.
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Benefits and Best Practices For Deploying SSDS In An OLTP Environment Using Dell Equallogic PS Series
Using Solid State Disks (SSDs) in enterprise storage arrays is one of today's hottest storage trends. This whitepaper discusses the best practices for deploying SSDs in an OLTP environment using Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays.
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Integrating Blades Solutions with Dell EqualLogic SANs
There are many ways that blade enclosures can be attached to a Dell EqualLogic SAN. This paper reviews three ways, but depending on the blade enclosure design features there may be other options. Each of the three architecture strategies presented here provides different trade-offs in cost, complexity and scalability.
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Migrating SQL 2000 to SQL 2008- a Dell Deployment Guide
This Deployment Guide reviews the approach that Dell and Principled Technologies recommend for a tested and validated migration of SQL Server 2000 databases to SQL Server 2008 on the Dell PowerEdge R900 server and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise.
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The Value of Storage Consolidation
When storage solution provider VeriStor Systems, Duluth, Ga., bid on consolidating the storage environment at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., it put its reputation and its money behind an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN. This white paper gives the details.
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ISCSI SAN Boot - Simplifying Server Operations On SANS
Storage area networks (SAN) deliver consolidated storage and advanced storage management features. This paper explains the benefits of three different server boot operations provided by one advanced SAN configuration. It counsels that you should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of each before committing your organization's storage system to one.
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Storage Virtualization - The Next Step in Controlling Spiraling Costs
Storage consolidation provides a partial solution to soaring storage administrative costs by expanding device connectivity and reducing points of management. It does this by simplifying cumbersome tasks-like allocating storage, load balancing, configuring RAID, and backing up and restoring data. Get the details here.
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Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition for Hyper-V
Dell's Auto-Snapshot Manager / Microsoft Edition is an innovative bundled data protection feature of the Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN. It's designed to help deliver high-performance, redundant, highly-available storage platforms for Hyper-V deployments - supporting departmental to mission-critical Windows server applications.
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Application Tiering and Tiered Storage
Storage consolidation brings many applications together to a single storage pool. It improves storage utilization, simplifies management, and increases reliability in well implemented SANs. While consolidation makes it easier to manage, provision, and backup your data, how do you manage different application service level requirements?
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Automatic Load Balancing Relieves Administrative Burden
Storage consolidation enables organizations to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and simplify management. But how does an organization ensure that consolidation does not cause performance issues? To avoid performance utilization problems administrators should provision storage so that loads are balanced across resources evenly.
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Presentation Transcript: Building and Integrating Unified Communications
Check out this transcript of a webcast sponsored by Dell and Microsoft to learn why a Unified Communication Solutions from Dell is easy to implement, less disruptive to daily operations and is designed to deliver outstanding ROI for existing Windows environments.
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Presentation Transcript: Getting Started with Unified Communications in an Exchange 2007 Environment
Check out this webcast transcript to learn how to implement Office Communications Server in a Microsoft Exchange environment, looking at unified communications solutions encompassing unified messaging, data web conferencing and audio conferencing.
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Presentation Transcript: Eliminating Information Silos with Unified Communications
In this presentation transcript, Blair Pleasant identifies the elements of unified communications and discusses how often the potential of these elements are limited because they are locked within information "silos." Read on to learn how to link all your communication elements and unlock the value of true business process integration.
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Data Protection for the Mobile Workforce - Presentation Transcript
This presentation transcript shares with you some of the best ways you can deal with the security challenges associated with your mobile workforce - including data loss and system unavailability.
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Data Deduplication with the PowerVault DL2000 - Powered by CommVault
IT Departments today are facing an explosion in the amount of data they have to manage, backup and restore. In this videocast, learn how data deduplication can help address the problems of redundant data and reduce storage disk storage requirements.