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White Paper
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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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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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Building a Highly Available Unified Communications Infrastructure
Learn the key elements needed to create a highly available, unified communications infrastructure.
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Dell Automated Deployment
Dell`s automated deployment solution meets the challenges that IT managers face, according to Windows expert and author Jerry Honeycutt.
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Dell EMC CX4 Series Virtual Provisioning Overview
Learn how Virtual Provisioning and the new Dell/EMC CX4 Series arrays helps organizations simplify storage management and reduce application downtime.
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Case Study
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Making the Grade
This is an opportunity to learn how deploying Dell Flexible Computing Solution for On-Demand Desktop Streaming addressed a customer’s challenge effectively. Challenges included updating labor-intensive standard software images, limiting new applications, a heterogeneous IT infrastructure, and a school district wanting to increase efficiency by standardizing on a single platform.
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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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City of Lafayette Outsources for Cost Effective IT Support
The city of Lafayette, one of 18 cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, maintains a small staff of employees, is supported by a volunteer system of committees, and practices a conservative fiscal policy.
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Podcast
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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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Dell Enterprise Podcast Series
Hear experts talk about key enterprise infrastructure strategies that can help you grow your business.
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Webcast
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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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Designing Unified Communications for Mobile Users
Learn best practices for providing a compelling and highly useful Unified Communications experience for Mobile users.
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On-Demand Desktop Streaming – Opening the Door to Flexible Computing
An Independent Industry Analysts and author of several books about Citrix and Virtualization kicks off an interesting discussion about today’s dichotomy between I.T needs and the ever increasing end-user needs common to most organizations. A solution to meet both needs is presented and validated through a customer testimonial within the context of alternate computing solutions.
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Moving to Unified Communications Without Hardware Issues
When moving to a Unified Communications environment, minimize the issues around hardware integration by using pre-tested, configured, and documented hardware platforms in both the server and client product sets.
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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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Product Literature
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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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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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News Release
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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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Purdue University Chooses Dell for Campus Supercomputer
Purdue University scientists conduct research in a variety of fields.
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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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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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A Roadmap to Starting Your UC Implementation
Learn how to implement a UC solution that meets all your requirements.
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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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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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Software as a Service
Use this report to understand how your peers are making SaaS part of their existing technology initiatives and what challenges they face. Selecting the right vendor partner can often make or break a deployment. It`s worth noting that most business technology professionals report their SaaS vendors are meeting expectations, but very few are exceeding expectations.
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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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Securing Government Records
Security and flexibility in government settings.
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Prescription for Healthcare IT: Data On Demand
On-Demand Desktop Streaming helps healthcare organizations provide secure access to medical information and delivers the required desktop performance, all while simplifying IT’s management chores.
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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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Everdream Solutions for HIPAA Compliance
The tables in this brief show the relevant sections of the HIPAA Security Rule where Everdream’s on-demand desktop management services provide compliance support. Broken down into the HIPAA sections with the detailed control objective on the left and the Everdream solution on the right, these tables facilitate cross reference to the HIPAA standard.
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Protecting Your Critical Data: Best Practices
Losing data can happen many ways including disk failures, theft, or accidental deletion. Find out how easy it is to put this worry behind you. Read this article to learn how to protect your most important IT asset, your data.
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Tool
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Client Migration and Deployment Services
End-to-end migration and deployment services for desktops and notebooks.
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Dell Asset Recovery Services
Dell delivers peace of mind with comprehensive asset recovery and data security services.
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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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Dell ImageDirect
Simplified, Web-Based Image Management for Dell Systems
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Dell Precision M2400 Mobile Workstation
The Dell Precision M2400 Mobile Workstation is a highly portable powerhouse of productivity.
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