Cloud Computing Strategies for the CIO
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Convergence as a Continuum to Driving Superior Customer Outcomes
Read this exclusive white paper to gain access to a converged infrastructure solution strategy for your company
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IT Handbook: Exchange Virtualization for VMware
VMware has received a lot of attention for its flexibility and reliability, but that doesn't guarantee it's the best hypervisor for your Exchange environment. This IT handbook examines how VMware compares to Microsoft and Citrix and discusses tools and tips to help you navigate the Exchange virtualization process with ease.
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Overcoming Performance Issues for Successful SharePoint Installations
The key to an effective SharePoint installation is a well thought-out plan and knowing how to avoid the potential pitfalls. This guide provides expert tips to ensure that your SharePoint implementation is a success. Discover how to mitigate the top SharePoint performance challenges, 3 vital steps to a successful installation, and more.
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Rack vs. Tower vs. Blade servers: Which is Best for your Organization?
Many IT organizations rely on a number of different platforms and management systems to meet their business needs. This white paper explains how you can eliminate complexity and unnecessary IT infrastructure by leveraging comprehensive industry-leading servers.
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A Primer to SQL Server 2012
Read this expert e-guide to learn why features supporting business intelligence and big data management— among other new capabilities— have industry experts declaring SQL Server 2012 Microsoft's strongest release to date. Also, find step-by-step guidance on how to test and update client applications for compatibility with SQL Server 2012.
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SQL Server 2012: New capabilities and benefits
If SQL Server 2008 R2's self-service business intelligence (BI) features made the release appealing to business users, then the data quality, analysis, and master data management capabilities that give IT more control over self-service BI in SQL Server 2012 will make this latest release attractive to DBAs. Read this expert e-guide to learn more.
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E-Book: The Secrets of Effective SharePoint Deployments
In this e-book, you will gain advice on building a business case for the adoption of SharePoint and planning a SharePoint project from experienced users and industry analysts. Also learn best practices for successful SharePoint deployments, tips for managing SharePoint installations and potential pitfalls involved in SharePoint implementations.
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SQL Server Insider E-Zine - Volume 2
Are you going to upgrade to SQL Server 2012? This edition of SQL Server Insider sets out to help you decide whether the investment is worth it or not. Read this edition to learn if several IT pros are going to upgrade and why, how this release will affect the database marketplace and pros and cons of actually upgrading.
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E-Guide: SQL Server Virtualization Pros and Cons
Hypothetically, SQL Server virtualization will save you money and manpower. However, there are some risky components involved, and a few major scenarios in which SQL Server virtualization won't benefit you. Read this expert e-guide to learn if virtualizing SQL Server is a good idea for your organization and find tips on avoiding potential pitfalls.
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E-Brief: Virtualizing Exchange Server 2010
Gain best practices and expert advice for virtualizing Exchange Server 2010 in this e-brief. Find out how you can avoid common pitfalls and maximize the performance of your mail server.
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Common SharePoint integration issues with Exchange and Outlook
Discover how you can avoid common pitfalls and successfully integrate SharePoint with Exchange to simplify business communication and collaboration at your company.
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Tech Guide: Building and Optimizing Private Clouds
This Tech Guide from SearchNetworking.com explores the ins and outs of building and optimizing the private clouds. In three articles, learn about application performance, top challenges you may encounter, and an overview of cloud computing architecture.
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Introducing Dell 12th Generation PowerEdge Servers
This short video examines the importance of remote server management, especially as organizations expand globally. Discover new design features that enable you to quickly detect issues, regardless of the physical location of your data center.
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Virtualization & Networking - What's New with Dell 12th Generation PowerEdge Servers?
This brief video explores key server purchasing criteria for your virtual environment. Discover a recommended hardware offering that optimizes memory utilization, reduces latency, and eliminates I/O bottlenecks here.
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Benefits of Solid-State Storage
In this paper, explore how solid-state storage (SSS) can help narrow the gap between server and storage performance. View now to explore the different types of SSS and the benefits of each.
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Presentation Transcript: Five Things You Must Do Before Letting Your Employees Work From Anywhere
This presentation transcript explores how businesses can leverage the latest technologies to transform their workplaces and create collaborative, mobile and productive environments. Learn about the benefits of implementing a connected workplace strategy.
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E-Guide: Software-defined networking could make Network-as-a-Service a reality
Read this e-guide to find out the role of OpenFlow as a software-defined networking architecture, its benefits, limitations and how it can make Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) a reality. Discover why OpenFlow NaaS would offer enterprises more control over data center and inter-data center cloud traffic than is available today with Ethernet or IP.
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E-Guide: Private cloud performance assurance: Best practices
While public cloud computing is typically accessed through the Internet, leaving users little control over their experience, most private cloud environments inherit the existing WAN technology to connect users with conventional data centers. This e-guide offers best practices to help you tackle the responsibilities that come with private clouds.
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E-Guide: Cloud computing: Where, when and how to start
This expert e-guide outlines the requirements of any cloud computing network and details the differences between networking for public, private and hybrid clouds. Read on to discover why cloud computing networks are straying from the typical three-layer switching topology, the role of storage in cloud networks and so much more.
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VDI: How is your network affected?
In this expert resource, learn how the private cloud model affects network utilization, performance and applications, and how your network must be adapted to accommodate private clouds. Additionally, explore how the dynamics of a VDI and a private cloud strategy impact the network.
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Expert Server Considerations for Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Virtualization and cloud computing technologies are here to stay - and this presentation transcript explains how each impacts the hardware landscape and how your server choice can influence the success of your IT environment.
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Private Cloud Is Imminent, But Is the Physical Network Hostile?
This E-Guide from SearchNetworking.com describes why building a private cloud can be hostile to the physical network as we know it. Explore why physical networks don’t cut it in the private cloud and what must be done to ensure cloud success.
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5 Things You Must Do Before Letting Your Employees Work From Anywhere
This webcast explores how businesses can leverage the latest technologies to transform their workplaces and create collaborative, mobile and productive environments. Learn about the benefits of implementing a connected workplace strategy.
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Exclusive Comparison of Server Performance and Power Consumption
Choosing the right hardware for your virtual environment can be a painstaking process, especially since it is difficult to predict how a platform will perform once it is deployed. This white paper examines one hardware configuration and measures the number of orders per minute and virtual machines it can support.
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iSCSI SAN Remains Strong After a Decade
This year marks the 10th anniversary of iSCSI SANs! Check out this expert E-Guide to learn why iSCSI SAN performance remains strong after 10 years, and why iSCSI SAN is cheaper and less complicated than Fibre Channel.