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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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Deploying Windows Vista to the Desktop: Get It Right with Dell
The release of Windows Vista is more than just the debut of a new operating system. It brings new benefits in PC deployment, and Dell is ready to help IT organizations with services that enable efficient automated deployments.
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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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Accelerated HPC Productivity with Intel Cluster Ready
High-performance computing (HPC) clusters can be extremely effective for solving large, complex problems in areas such as computational fluid dynamics, weather modeling, bioinformatics, and oil and gas exploration. However, they can also be extremely complex and time-consuming to deploy, manage, and maintain. Download this white paper to learn more.
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Advantages of Dell PowerEdge 2950 over Hewlett-Packard Proliant DL 585 G2
There is a lot of debate these days around what is the optimal hosting platform for a virtualization deployment. Most of this debate is centered around the decision to deploy either 2 socket or 4 socket building blocks as the basis of the infrastructure.
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Case Study
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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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Engineering by the Numbers
Learn from your peers in this case study with Stanford University.
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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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Bowe Bell + Howell Achieve Control of a Distributed Desktop Infrastructure
Everdream’s Compliance Software Services has allowed BBH to adhere to both corporate IT standards, as well as regulatory and licensing requirements. Everdream enables BBH to maintain a precise hardware and software inventory for PC and mobile systems across the organization. Download this case study to learn how.
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Calling on Consolidation
This case study outlines how Data Guard Systems used virtualized Dell servers to consolidate 45 backup database servers and cut their power costs by as much as $10,000 per month.
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Podcast
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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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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 Latitude Essential E5400 & E5500
Dell Latitude Essential laptops revolutionize business technology by helping reduce IT costs and maintaining flexibility.
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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 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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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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Marrying E Family Hardware and Windows Vista
The new Latitude E Family line takes advantage of Windows Vista features to help meet the requirements of workers in today’s business environment.
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Dell EMC CX4-120 Spec Sheet
An introduction to the Dell/EMC CX4-120, 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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Simplifying HPC Clusters
Read this tech brief to learn how to bring supercomputing power to workgroups and departments while avoiding the normal administrative and management burdens.
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Connect and Protect Workers on the Go with Dell ProSupport Mobility Services
Dell ProSupport Mobility Services offers a comprehensive suite of professional support services.
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Tool
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Dell Deployment Optimization Calculator
The price of a new PC is just a start. Tasks like deployment, application loading and image creation carry both costs and potential savings. This calculator shows what you should expect to pay today, and what you can save through an automated deployment.
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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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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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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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Video
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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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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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All-day Computing & Battery Life
Experience "All-Day-Computing" and how one user overcomes multiple obstacles while staying connected.
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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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Customer Success Story: Zion-Benton High School in Illinois
This short video is a powerful customer testimonial illustrating a subset of benefits received by this high school from implementing On-Demand Desktop Streaming. It incorporates views on I.T simplification, security optimization, and resulting reliability and improved scalability. The video illustrates how IT staffs can do more with less, in less time.
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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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Simplifying IT With Dell On-Demand Desktop Streaming
The Dell On-Demand Desktop Streaming solution with Dell EasyConnect technology is designed to stream virtual disks from servers to diskless client systems. Deploying this solution can help enterprise administrators simplify IT, increase efficiency, and enhance security while providing end users with stable, robust client systems.
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Brochure
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Dell Precision M4400 Mobile Workstation
The Dell Precision M4400 Mobile Workstation unites lightning-fast processors with stunning graphics technology.
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Dell EMC CX4 and Dell AX4 5 Storage Family Brochure
An overview of the features and benefits of the Dell/EMC CX4 and Dell AX4-5 storage array families.
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High-Performance Computing Solutions
Growing demand for computing power is accelerating the need for and adoption of new architectures.
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Certified Applications
Download this brochure to learn the most up-to-date certified applications for Windows Vista.
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Client Migration and Deployment Services
End-to-end migration and deployment services for desktops and notebooks.
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