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White Paper
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Building a Highly Available Unified Communications Infrastructure
Learn the key elements needed to create a highly available, unified communications infrastructure.
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Managing the Migration to Windows Vista and Office 2007 - Together
IT managers are aware of the benefits of migrating to Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007, but many are apprehensive about the challenges raised by the migration process. Though their concern is understandable, it’s not a good reason to delay implementation - especially when Dell is there to help.
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Virtualization and Performance
Virtualization marks the next evolutions in data storage technology. This white paper analyzes the virtual machine, performance-threatening dangers, and their real-time solutions.
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Windows IT Pro: The Impact of Disk Fragmentation
This white paper will outline the results of the testing, draw conclusions, and make recommendations regarding managing fragmentation across your infrastructure.
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7 Steps to Local Search Dominance
Right now, in every community in America, increasing numbers of people of all ages are turning to the World Wide Web to find products and services right there at home. This trend, known generically as local search, presents a huge opportunity for small businesses that are focused on winning in this arena. Download this white paper to learn more.
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Case Study
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The Gem Group Achieves 475 Percent Return on Investment through Efficiency Gains
With more than 400 assets across its global, distributed IT environment, The Gem Group needed the ability to manage key functions including asset discovery and inventory, software license compliance, software distribution, patch management and online backup, all from a single, web-based, integrated management console.
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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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Maxol: Oil Firm Grows Business While Trimming Servers by 80 Percent
Maxol offers a range of oil and petroleum products to all sectors of the Irish market. Maxol wanted to curb the rate of server growth and the costs associated with server proliferation. It also wanted to boost utilization of its servers. Maxol used the Windows Server 2008 Enterprise operating system featuring Hyper-V virtualization technology to consolidate twenty-two servers to six.
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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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Podcast
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Best Practices: Migrating to Windows Server 2008
Hear from the actual engineer that has been working for two years about ways to simplify migration, so you can start getting the benefits of WS08 sooner and with less hassle.
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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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Overview of New Security Features in Windows Server 2008
Hear about Bitlocker, and important component in WS08 that adds whole disk encryption and secure startup.
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Simplifying Windows Server 2008 Adoption
Find out how can you reduce the risks (and anxiety) when upgrading your IT infrastructure to WS08 from two experts: Ray Weinstein, acting director on Windows Practice and Burk Buechler, Product Manager for Windows 2008 consulting services at Dell.
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Webcast
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Data Protection Webinar
Gartner Group estimates that at least 20% of users lose data annually due to hardware failure, theft, user error, or viruses. Even a single data loss can be financially devastating due to negative publicity, regulatory non-compliance, and/or legal liability. This makes having a secure, reliable, and cost-effective data protection solution critical to the success of any business.
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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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Assessing Your Windows Vista Readiness - Leveraging Tools & Experience for Effective Migration
See how Dell can help you assess the Windows Vista readiness of all the client systems in your organization.
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Defining Your Most Appropriate Path to Unified Messaging – All at Once or Step By Step
This eSeminar considers some of the key Best Practices when considering the timing strategy of a Unified Communications migration.
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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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Dell Database Solutions: SQL Server 2005
Dell has partnered with Microsoft to create partner reference configurations that offer a single source for sizing, installation, and support of all hardware and software.
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Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services: Virtualization
Dell Virtualization Consulting Services help you realize tangible results by designing and implementing practical, reliable and comprehensive virtualization solutions for your unique goals.
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Dell Latitude Essential E5400 & E5500
Dell Latitude Essential laptops revolutionize business technology by helping reduce IT costs and maintaining flexibility.
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Dell PowerEdge SC1435 Server
Delivering incredible price/performance and performance/watt for cost-sensitive environments, the PowerEdge SC1435 server is optimized for Web serving, high performance computing clusters (HPCC), and small business single server deployments.
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News Release
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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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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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Everdream Offers Daylight Saving Support for Windows Systems
Everdream, the market leader in delivering cost effective, low risk on-demand desktop management services, today announced that it has developed two patches to help companies prepare for the new Daylight Saving Time (DST) schedule.
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Research Firm Calls on IT to Embrace SaaS for Desktop Management
In a new report entitled, “The World of IT Has Taken a Quantum Leap,” leading analyst firm Hurwitz & Associates has called on companies to aggressively adopt the emerging Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model to manage IT infrastructure and deliver software applications.
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Survey: Majority of PCs Not Equipped for Vista Upgrade
Everdream, the market leader in on-demand desktop management services, released a series of data today indicating the preparedness of companies seeking to migrate their computers to the Windows Vista operating system. The data highlights the difficulties many companies, especially small and mid-sized businesses, will face when upgrading their PCs to the latest Windows OS.
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Trial Download
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Undelete 2009 Home
Undelete 2009 captures and protects all deleted files, allowing instant file recovery with just a few mouse clicks
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Undelete 2009 Professional
Undelete 2009 captures and protects all deleted files, allowing instant file recovery with just a few mouse clicks.
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Undelete 2009 Server
File deletion accidents don't need to cost the company time and money. Why suffer through one more restore from backup? Undelete 2009 Server Edition gives your users real-time data protection with instant recovery. No file server should be without it!
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eWeek Podcast
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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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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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Research Report
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The Future of SaaS and IT Infrastructure Management: A Survey of IT Decision Makers in North America
This report describes the results of a research project designed to explore the current and planned use of IT Infrastructure Management Solutions in North American companies, focusing on the role that the SaaS (Software as a Service) delivery model will play in the deployment of such solutions.
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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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Making the Business Case for Unified Communications
The business case for UC: reduced costs, improved worker productivity, increased agility, and faster time to market.
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Power Comparison of Dell PowerEdge 2950 Using Intel X5355 and E5345 Quad Core Xeon Processors
This Research Report compares the performance of the PowerEdge 2950 using two different quad-core Intel Xeon processors that consume different amounts of power.
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Review
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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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Technology Brief
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Application Management with an Eye Toward Vista
When applications must be updated, installed or migrated, companies must ensure that disruptions are kept to a minimum and the process is simple for the user. That’s where application management comes in. This tech brief walks through common application management steps and discusses Dell services that can save your IT staff time so they can work on other projects.
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Dell EMC CX4-960 Spec Sheet
An introduction to the Dell/EMC CX4-960 including features, benefits, and product specifications.
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SaaS Solutions for Remote Systems Management
IT teams have traditionally thought of Software as a Service (SaaS) as a way to speed delivery of business applications to users without expensive infrastructure costs. But a new class of on-demand services is emerging that enables IT organizations to take advantage of SaaS benefits for their own e-mail and systems management needs such as compliance, security and business continuity.
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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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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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Tool
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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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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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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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Product Demo
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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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Tech Analysis
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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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Video
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Dell EMC CX4 Series – Flexibility Video
A brief overview of the Dell/EMC CX4 Series arrays, focusing on the innovations, such as UltraFlex modular I/O and virtual provisioning, of this highly flexible storage platform.
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How to Have a Successful Windows Vista Migration
Watch this video to learn the keys to a successful migration. You will also hear how Dell Services can help at every step of the way--from assessment through design, implementation, and management.
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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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Live Event
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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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Article
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Getting Ready for Microsoft Windows Server 2008
The Microsoft Windows Server 2008 OS promises to supercharge enterprise computing by providing a solid foundation to support critical workloads and deliver rich Web-based experiences—all in an exceptionally secure, industry-standard operating environment. Dell smooths the way by providing business-ready platforms optimized for Windows Server 2008 together with Structured Solution Designs to make the migration flexible, simple, and green.
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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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Dell Storage and CommVault Simpana Ease Ad Option 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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