13 Common Managed Services Blunders: How to Fail as an MSP, Quickly and with Confidence
VARs and other IT organizations everywhere are looking at expanding their business offerings by providing managed services to their customers.
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Addressing Windows 7 Application Compatibility
Microsoft Windows operating systems are no exception. As many learned from the switch from XP to Vista, business applications that are customized to work in a particular OS aren’t necessarily going to work smoothly in a new one. DLLs, Registry settings, and function calls that differ even slightly from the old OS can cause applications to freeze or shut down.
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Optimizing Data Protection, Security, and Compliance for Remote and Branch Offices
Data protection can be challenging for remote or branch offices, particularly when sites are supported only by central IT resources or local IT staff dual-tasked with other functions. Combining Dell EqualLogic PS4000 series storage arrays and disk-based backup with the Dell PowerVault DL2100 – Powered by CommVault helps simplify data protection through scalable storage solutions.
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Business Continuity: The Profit Scenario
Organizational data is the DNA of a business-it makes your operation unique; therefore, protecting company data is vital to your business’ success and survival. More importantly, ensuring continuous data availability goes beyond responsive actions to unplanned failures. It encompasses a proactive approach that leads to competitive advantage.
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The Next Evolution in Storage Design: Intelligent iSCSI Solutions
Analysts estimate that business data is increasing at a 67.1 percentage compound growth rate with storage pools nearly doubling every two years. Even in the face of such growth, IT organizations are expected to raise the bar on standards of availability, reliability and overall functionality without additional cost or complexity.
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Object Storage: A Fresh Approach to Long-Term File Storage
The world is increasingly awash in digital data – not only because of the Internet and Web 2.0, but also because data that used to be collected on paper or media such as film, DVDs and compact discs has moved online.
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Dell Terascala HPC Storage Solution
Cluster computing has become the most popular platform for high performance computing in use today. In all clusters, there are three key challenges that need to be addressed for clusters to run efficiently: the compute nodes, the networking, and the storage I/O systems.
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Using Dell PowerVault MD1200 Storage Arrays as NFS Backend Storage in HPC Environments
Network file system (NFS) provides an easy, standard, and open shared file system solution, and is widely used in the High Performance Computing (HPC) field. It is included in virtually every Linux distribution, and is designed to work with various operating systems including Microsoft Windows.
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Classroom Technologies: Special Report from Center for Digital Education
Quality learning takes place when students connect with information and can internalize it in a way that alters or enriches their thinking. In a world of rich media, instantaneous connectivity and high expectations, educators must deploy techniques that focus student attention while providing meaningful presentations that encourage and engage.
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Virtualize Microsoft SQL Server for Improved Performance with PowerEdge 11th Generation
This white paper describes the benefits and performance of the latest Dell™ PowerEdge™ R810 running Microsoft® SQL Server® in VMware® vSphere™ 4.0 Update 1 (U1) and EqualLogic™ PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays. The Dell PowerEdge R810 offers an ideal platform to consolidate demanding virtual database workloads in space conscious datacenters.
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Reduce Costs and Increase Microsoft SQL Server OLTP Workload Service Levels
The recent trend toward data center and server consolidation makes it important for a database server to be scalable and to perform well for a wide variety of applications. One of the important components in the IT environment is the database.
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Technical Imperatives for Managed Services Providers
There is a fundamental transition underway in the acquisition, implementation and use of technology. With increases in technical complexity, executives at small and medium sized businesses, and IT departments at larger organizations, are seeing the benefits in outsourcing aspects of their IT infrastructure to third parties – Managed Service Providers (MSPs).
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Implementing Remote Managed Services: The Right Way
The information technology (IT) industry is undergoing fundamental changes that are forcing suppliers and service providers to rapidly restructure their portfolios and delivery models in order to survive. Industry winners will be those companies that shift from product-centric to service-oriented solutions, and focus on more profitable remote management services rather than traditional on-site maintenance services.
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Dell Infrastructure Manager and the Virtualization-Ready Data Center
One of the biggest challenges facing IT organizations is the need to rapidly adapt their IT infrastructure to meet changing enterprise demands. Most data centers today are static—administrators determine a server’s function even before deploying it, and the server continues to deliver the same function regardless of usage patterns, utilization, or performance.
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10 Gigabit Ethernet: Unifying iSCSI and Fibre Channel in a Single Network Fabric
Networked storage can provide several key advantages for organizations, including cost reduction and increased efficiency—but it also presents challenges. Storage area networks (SANs) can add their own complexity, and organizations often require increasing levels of throughput for connecting networked storage to servers as the enterprise grows.
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HPC Scheduling and Resource Management
This paper provides an overview of scheduling and resource management considerations in implementing a High Performance Compute cluster from Dell.
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Understanding Alternative Compute Models
Driven by ever-increasing pressure on a multitude of issues – including cost control, manageability, security, regulatory compliance, and business continuity – some IT managers are considering centralized compute models as an alternative to traditional distributed software deployment.
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Application Delivery and Load Balancing for VMware View Desktop Infrastructure Infrastructures
VMware View Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is designed to rapidly deploy secure and manageable Virtual Machine desktops to end users. A key component in green computing, VMware’s consolidated approach to desktop management can reduce power and cooling requirements, simplify I/T processes and decrease risks related to desktop compliance as well as data storage, data security and data loss prevention.
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Automating Processes to Optimize a Windows 7 Deployment
Most organizations skipped the migration to Windows Vista. However, IDC expects around 20 percent of enterprises to adopt Windows 7 within the first 12 months of its release, and another 40 percent to upgrade within 12 to 48 months.
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Dell Solution Profile: Built for Virtualization
Enterprise virtualization has reached a critical inflection point. Capital investment savings from server and storage consolidation are leveling off, and early gains in IT operational efficiency are increasingly at risk in rapidly growing and increasingly complex virtual infrastructures.
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Visualization Clusters Using Commodity Hardware
This paper provides a high-level description of the various types of visualization clusters and briefly covers the use of commodity hardware to build cost effective solutions. It lists a selection of commercial and open source applications by field or specialty, with in-depth descriptions of some of those applications with an emphasis on the unique value provided by the cluster solution.
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Dell High Availability Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V
High Availability (HA) solutions are not new to Windows® environments. Microsoft® has offered native support for HA through its Cluster Services in Windows 2000 and Windows Server® 2003, and with the Windows Failover Clustering feature in Windows Server 2008.
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