Brodart, a library solutions merchant with legacy servers nearing end of life, sought migration to a virtualized server infrastructure as soon as possible. To simplify the virtualization project, they chose a preassembled validated solution that enabled fast deployment with minimal downtime. Download this case study, "Timing the Move to Virtualization with a Server Refresh" to learn how virtualization solutions can provide organizations with the ability to:

• Deploy quickly - compared with procuring, racking and configuring a physical server
• Clone virtual machines - without waiting for hardware and reducing the time to stage, test and introduce new applications by fifty percent
• Move workloads between physical host servers – enabling high availability for applications and databases once virtualized

Private cloud resources are at times limited in their scalability, resulting in disrupted workflows and requiring immediate hardware investments. With "hybrid clouds," access to additional resources allows the tiering of computing requirements between private and public clouds. Download "Integrating Private and Public Clouds to Form Hybrid Clouds" to learn about the advantages to hybrid cloud solutions, including:

• Share/move workloads from private to public clouds and/or vice versa, as needed
• Provide access to extra resources when the private cloud hits a wall on utilization
• Ensure a highly secure and “clean” sharing of data to/from public and private clouds

Finding the right partner/s that can design, deploy and manage an end-to-end hybrid cloud solution can yield sufficient bandwidth and performance benefits for the organization. Download the whitepaper.

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs are growing exponentially as more employees begin to utilize their personal devices for work. Yet research reflects that employees are rarely supplied with the access, hardware, software and applications required to fulfill employers' expectations. Download "Insights on the Current State of BYOD" to find out how IT Managers across four countries are looking at BYOD programs to understand:

• Primary Barriers to allowing employee-owned computers, tablets, or smartphones for work
• Gaps between employees’ expectations and what the organization provides
• Anticipated Benefits of BYOD programs

Read this report to learn how IT managers across borders are experiencing similar challenges and benefits for their own BYOD programs. Download this whitepaper now.

Organizations faced with tight IT budgets consider it easier to resume 'business as usual' in maintaining older servers, despite the greater likelihood of server failure, productivity and security risks. Download "The Time is Right to Migrate to New Servers" to realize the benefits of new server technology, including:

• Increasing and simplifying administration of security features and deployment
• Establishing the foundation for a robust cloud infrastructure
• Improving organizational performance productivity and manageability

New server migration can be introduced in stages or via a complete migration, ensuring a richer experience for all users, regardless of their locations. Download the whitepaper.

Finding a virtualized infrastructure that is simple to deploy, manage and upgrade is a common challenge among IT Professionals. This guide provides additional information on the benefits of utilizing a scalable, robust solution that can reduce downtime due to highly available architecture. Download "Dell 3-2-1 Reference Configurations: Scalable Performance and Simplicity in Setup" to learn about the easy steps involved in completing upgrades and the benefits of robust management, including:

• Provide simplified management experience for the virtual environment
• Monitor Dell systems and virtual machine health with increased ease
• Increase remote management and troubleshooting capabilities

Dell 3-2-1 Reference Configurations provide scalable performance and simplicity in setup. Download this whitepaper now.

Faced with slower server capacity, response times, and increased downtimes, many organizations must decide on whether to postpone their server migration or to make a partial/full migration to new server technology. Download "Dell PowerEdge 12G Servers with Windows Server 2012: The Time to Migrate is Now" to evaluate three of the most common approaches to upgrading and their pros and cons, including whether to:

• Continue to run legacy hardware and software
• Perform a partial migration and upgrade
• Perform a full upgrade

Migrating will need to occur sooner or later. Making the move now ensures your organization is able to fully control the migration process and improve ROI. Download the whitepaper.

How to Fulfill the Needs of an Innovative Start Up Company

Trying to resolve the proper services, hardware and software that require integration with other applications is not an easy feat for any startup company. Download "Current Motor Gets its All-Electric Super Scooter to Market Six Months Faster" to find out how Current Motor, with the integration of Dell solutions and financial services, was able to:

• Find capital-efficient technical solutions that speed time to market
• Integrate Salesforce.com™ software and the cloud in a short amount of time
• Reallocate Series A capital for marketing and R&D, instead of for IT infrastructure/cloud services

Achieving long-term success and growth for any organization oftentimes means finding the right strategic partner first. Download this whitepaper now.

Delivering an Integrated, Scalable Solution without any Downtime

CMPC Celulose Riograndense needed to build its own SAP environment and then import a great deal of data into that environment. Despite the tight timeline, they were able to implement a solution that enabled them to deploy storage hardware and migrate data without any downtime. Download "Delivering an Integrated, Scalable Solution while Avoiding Downtime" to read how this organization succeeded in:

• Deploying a new virtual infrastructure within a week
• Avoiding any downtime of ERP system during transition
• Streamlining server and storage management for IT staff

Organizations are now shifting towards leaner, high performance systems. Find out more by downloading this whitepaper.

All Organizations are faced with the challenges of exploding data growth; they are also dealing with the reality of fewer resources and the need to eliminate redundant processes. This guide takes the reader along the process of aligning people, processes and technologies, in the quest for creating a more efficient data center. Download "5 Steps to Transforming the Data Center" that addresses:

• Moving beyond hardware virtualization and delivering new efficiencies at every point
• Preparing for transformation and eliminating unnecessary workflows
• Building an intelligent infrastructure that meets the needs of dynamically changing workflows

Discover the benefits of a transformed data center and the strategies needed to streamline virtual environments. Download the whitepaper.

The increasing noise level around cloud computing is breeding confusion and uncertainty among decision-makers. Taking a pragmatic approach is all about simplification and making it easier to plan, implement and manage cloud-based services. Download "In Cloud Computing, Simpler is Smarter" to sort through the confusion about cloud and its misconceptions, including:

• Cloud is not a rip-and-replace strategy for most companies
• Cloud security is not the real problem; finding the right level of security and efficiently deploying this need is key
• Cloud solutions are not all created equal

Make cloud computing a strategic asset by sorting through the cloud maze and building your own road map to success. Download this whitepaper.

Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative Company was hampered with an old backup and recovery system that lacked reliability. With the installment of a reliable and flexible backup and recovery system, the ability to restore an entire server, or just a single file became an easy task. Download, "Arkansas Power Company Recovers Quickly Using 75% Less Storage after Switching to Dell AppAssure" to learn how to realize minimal recovery time and ensure benefits such as:

• Efficiency: 75% less backup storage space than previous system
• Reliability: Incremental snapshots every 15 minutes
• Recovery: Hot standby for virtual recovery

Achieve new levels of efficiency while safeguarding business critical data. Download the whitepaper.

Leading apparel company Hagger ran virtual servers and desktops on legacy networks that were causing network bottlenecks for the virtual desktop environment. To achieve better overall performance, the company consolidated data from both storage systems and replaced their legacy data protection and storage solutions. Download, “Fabricating an Agile, Efficient IT Infrastructure” to learn about how this organization is realizing better end user productivity and reclaiming:

• 40+hours/month for end users by moving to high performing storage
• 70% less IT staff time spent on storage management
• 75% faster restores with onsite backup data

Simplify your IT infrastructure with one that is agile and easily scalable. Download this whitepaper now.

As organizations continue to migrate to virtualization as a means to reducing costs and keeping up with ever-changing technology needs, many recent improvements have been made to create a smoother transition that's efficient and flexible. Download "20 Fast Facts about Microsoft Windows Server 2012" to learn how Organizations can:

• Promote and make the transition to virtualization a success
• Enable your business to migrate while managing legacy requirements
• Create a scalable infrastructure that supports dynamic capacity demands without sacrificing stability

Virtualization enables businesses to create more efficient and scalable computing models, resulting in a leaner organization. To find out more, download this whitepaper now.

The cloud, virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure make IT’s life easier, and the whole organization more agile. Yet each of these features presents serious security challenges. This UBM Tech Brief details how Windows Server 2012 helps mitigate those risks while streamlining compliance.

To find out more, download this whitepaper now.

As organizations continue to migrate to virtualization as a means to reducing costs and keeping up with ever-changing technology needs, many recent improvements have been made to create a smoother transition that's efficient and flexible. Download "20 Fast Facts about Microsoft Windows Server 2012" to learn how Organizations can:

• Promote and make the transition to virtualization a success
• Enable your business to migrate while managing legacy requirements
• Create a scalable infrastructure that supports dynamic capacity demands without sacrificing stability

Virtualization enables businesses to create more efficient and scalable computing models, resulting in a leaner organization. To find out more, download this whitepaper now.

The cloud, virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure make IT’s life easier, and the whole organization more agile. Yet each of these features presents serious security challenges. This UBM Tech Brief details how Windows Server 2012 helps mitigate those risks while streamlining compliance.

To find out more, download this whitepaper now.

As organizations continue to migrate to virtualization as a means to reducing costs and keeping up with ever-changing technology needs, many recent improvements have been made to create a smoother transition that's efficient and flexible. Download "20 Fast Facts about Microsoft Windows Server 2012" to learn how Organizations can:

• Promote and make the transition to virtualization a success
• Enable your business to migrate while managing legacy requirements
• Create a scalable infrastructure that supports dynamic capacity demands without sacrificing stability

Virtualization enables businesses to create more efficient and scalable computing models, resulting in a leaner organization. To find out more, download this whitepaper now.

The cloud, virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure make IT’s life easier, and the whole organization more agile. Yet each of these features presents serious security challenges. This UBM Tech Brief details how Windows Server 2012 helps mitigate those risks while streamlining compliance.

To find out more, download this whitepaper now.

Dell KACE Systems Management Appliances offer remote control capabilities that allow IT administrators to remotely manage clients. These appliances offer remote control capabilities that allow IT administrators to remotely manage clients and deliver improved remote management and recovery capabilities.

Download “Dell KACE Remote Systems Management with Intel vPro Technology” to learn what remote management with vPro support can do for you, including:

• Discovering, grouping and tracking systems
• Connecting to remote systems with installed agents even when the operating system is not functional or over Wi-Fi
• Taking full hardware control of the system including the ability to power on systems

Download this white paper to learn how to effectively manage remote systems with hardware and startup issues.

Smartphone and tablet adoption has skyrocketed to all time highs with dozens of different devices available in the market. Many organizations are increasingly adopting tablets as either the primary or the secondary computing device, as they offer the convenience of an easily portable form factor, coupled with comprehensive functionality.

Download “Dell KACE 3000 Mobile Management Appliance” to learn about key KACE appliance capabilities that can help you manage your mobile appliances, such as:

• Single-step secure setup
• Support smartphones and tablets
• Device security and policy management

Download this white paper to gain ease-of-use and affordability to the mobile management of iOS and Android devices for your organization.

The Dell KACE K3000 Mobile Management Appliance extends proven systems management to tablets and smartphones. It empowers IT to say “yes” to the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, thereby enabling “anytime, anywhere” productivity. Roll out mobile device support quickly through the single-step secure setup, and be up and running in minutes.

Download "Say 'Yes!' to BYOD: Enable Anywhere, Anytime Productivity" to learn about features to help address BYOD, such as:

• Simplifying the provisioning process for most personal devices
• Enabling IT to detect what versions of applications and software are installed and running on personal devices
• Creating and enforcing configurations on personal desktops and laptops that connect to the corporate network

Download this white paper to learn how you can protect corporate data on personal devices and track security policy adherence.

Exchange 2010 has redefined the way activities of interest can be logged. Unlike Exchange 2007, which uses the Windows SACL entries for configuring auditing and the security event log for viewing audit events, Exchange 2010 uses mailboxes to store audit entries. While these auditing improvements are excellent for ad-hoc auditing, larger organizations with more ongoing auditing requirements will find that audit configuration, data consolidation and reporting require custom scripts.

Download “Exchange 2010 and Your Audit Strategy” to understand activities that should be considered priority auditing activities, such as:

• Changing administrative security groups
• Providing access to “Key Mailboxes”
• Changing membership of “Key Distribution Lists” to distribute important and sensitive e-mail

Download this white paper to create an audit strategy for your organization that will assist in mitigating risks and identifying incidents.

The concepts of regulatory compliance, centralized policy management, and compliance auditing have not been around that long, and until very recently, they really applied only in specific scenarios like banking and government data classification. Today, most corporations and government entities are required to adhere to multiple overlapping requirements around business policies, data handling, and more. And because of technology’s reach into virtually every aspect of the modern workplace, IT is hit hard by compliance requirements.

Download “Compliance Is Easy When You Do It in Advance” to learn how to make great IT decisions, based on a few key elements, including:

• Immediate Reaction—Does this decision “feel” right based solely on the information at hand?
• Return on Investment (ROI)—How much is the company spending and how much will the company recoup based on this decision?
• Legal Liability—Could I go to jail, face penalties, or be put out of business based on this decision?

Download this white paper to learn how to achieve regulatory compliance by auditing access to critical systems and detecting inappropriate or suspicious access-related events.

The problem with Web analytics solutions is that you don’t gain visibility into why customers are leaving. There could be hundreds of reasons. Foglight User Experience Management like having a digital video recorder trained on every customer who visits your site. You can replay any customer’s experience and determine not only how the customer behaved but why. With this information, you can rapidly zero in on the causes of problems and respond quickly.

Download “Beyond Web Analytics: Understanding the Why Behind the What of Online Customer Behavior” to understand how Foglight can help your business capture detailed data on every user experience, such as:

• Customer attributes - user ID, geographical area, connection speed, and browser type
• Hit attributes - date and time of day
• Segmented response times - client time in the browser

Download this white paper to understand why online customers behave as they do and leverage the data to increase your business’ revenue.

In May of 2012 Enterprise Management Associates analysts surveyed 202 respondents on User Experience Management (UEM) – which was defined to include Customer Experience Management and Business Impact The results showed that business impact, customer experience and user experience were indeed a continuum, while also reinforcing a continuity in terms of the rising importance of UEM with the earlier 2008 research.

Download “User Experience Management and Business Impact – A Cornerstone for IT Transformation” to review the top seven areas for UEM change and growth, such as a:

• Greater concern for business development and customer management
• Need for formalized and established organization
• Increased applications performance management

Download this white paper to determine if your business is putting the right level of emphasis on UEM.

One of the key market trends driving the adoption of solutions of transaction-centric application performance management is the emergence of modern application architectures. However, managing these applications requires a new set of capabilities, and organizations using multi-tier applications are more likely to take a transaction-centric approach for APM, as compared to their peers.

Download “Transaction-Centric vs. Infrastructure Centric Application Performance Management” to be aware of the following points as you evaluate APM solutions:

• An optimal approach for APM is determined by specific requirements of end users
• Solutions for transaction-centric APM are more effective in managing complex, multi-tier applications
• End-to-end visibility into application transaction allows organizations to establish a common language between different IT domains and troubleshoot performance issues faster.

Download this white paper to learn how to choose the right APM solution for your business to optimize performance.

Business is in the cloud, not at the desk. Instead of accessing information in the office, we now need real-time answers from our business applications in any place, at any time—which means relying more and more on browser-based access.

Download “Desktop to Cloud – Browser Integration in the Enterprise ” to ask the right questions when moving to a predominantly web-based environment:

• What challenges must be overcome in order to successfully migrate web-based applications?
• How do you take an application designed for yesterday’s desktop environment and make it work on tomorrow’s platform?
• What does the growth of social networking mean to organizations

Download this white paper to learn how you can migrate your enterprise's websites, web-based applications and intranets to a cloud platform through a modern browser.

During the early days of Windows 7 desktop migrations, many organizations eschewed the 64-bit platform, fearing massive device and driver level compatibility issues that would only arise during later, more detailed and expensive UAT testing. But when large enterprises did assess their application portfolio for compatibility with the 64-bit version of Windows 7, extensive analysis found that most applications would support 64-bit versions of Windows 7, with most organizations experiencing 90% or higher rates of application compatibility.

Download "Windows 7 Migration: An Industry View of Application Compatibility" to understand the evolutionary changes that have happened with the migration process, such as:

• Adoption of application virtualization will increase
• Blended virtualization scenarios with multiple vendors
• Application virtualization conversion will now be a key application management effort

Download this white paper to understand the challenges facing those who haven't yet migrated to Windows 7, and the benefits that early adopters enjoyed.

A new data and information management approach, called "modern data protection," is key to keeping pace with today’s changing physical-virtual-cloud environments and ensuring servers, data and applications achieve always-on availability.

Download "CIO Strategies for Storage: Modernize Data Protection Practices" to review the benefits of data protection modernization, including:

• Minimized data loss
• Maximum resource efficiency
• Streamlined and integrated workflows

Download this white paper to find out how to augment or even replace traditional solutions with a modern infrastructure that can help you deliver flexible, cost-effective solutions for reliable protection and fast recovery.

To enable rapid adoption of new technologies and usage models—and provide protection in an evolving threat landscape—Intel IT has embarked on a radical five-year redesign of Intel’s information security architecture. This new architecture is designed to dynamically adjust a user’s access privileges as the level of risk changes, depending on factors such as location and the type of device used—such as a trusted mobile business PC or an untrusted personal smartphone.

Download “Rethinking Information Security to Improve Business Agility” to understand the new architecture, which is based on four pillars, including:

• Trust calculation
• Security zones
• Balanced controls
• User and data permiters

Download this white paper to learn how this technology will allow faster adoption of new services and capabilities while improving survivability

From mobile phone, to tablet, to desktop, Windows 8 delivers cross-platform functionality that today’s bring-your-own-device (BYOD) era calls for. To fully meet the personal and professional needs of your end users and IT staff, Dell has designed Windows 8 desktops, laptops, tablets and other devices from the ground up that provide:

• Enhanced security
• Easier management
• Ubiquitous data access
• Reduced WAN traffic
• Application unification across the Windows 8 ecosystem

Misinformation has circulated around Windows RT, the new Microsoft OS for tablets that powers a range of new Dell devices. This white paper confronts the top myths and helps to clarify the true capabilities of Windows RT related to:

• Manageability
• Security
• Enterprise readiness
• Line of business applications
• “Bring your own device” compatibility
• Robustness as an OS

From mobile phone, to tablet, to desktop, Windows 8 delivers cross-platform functionality that today’s bring-your-own-device (BYOD) era calls for. To fully meet the personal and professional needs of your end users and IT staff, Dell has designed Windows 8 desktops, laptops, tablets and other devices from the ground up that provide:

• Enhanced security
• Easier management
• Ubiquitous data access
• Reduced WAN traffic
• Application unification across the Windows 8 ecosystem

Misinformation has circulated around Windows RT, the new Microsoft OS for tablets that powers a range of new Dell devices. This white paper confronts the top myths and helps to clarify the true capabilities of Windows RT related to:

• Manageability
• Security
• Enterprise readiness
• Line of business applications
• “Bring your own device” compatibility
• Robustness as an OS

From mobile phone, to tablet, to desktop, Windows 8 delivers cross-platform functionality that today’s bring-your-own-device (BYOD) era calls for. To fully meet the personal and professional needs of your end users and IT staff, Dell has designed Windows 8 desktops, laptops, tablets and other devices from the ground up that provide:

• Enhanced security
• Easier management
• Ubiquitous data access
• Reduced WAN traffic
• Application unification across the Windows 8 ecosystem

Misinformation has circulated around Windows RT, the new Microsoft OS for tablets that powers a range of new Dell devices. This white paper confronts the top myths and helps to clarify the true capabilities of Windows RT related to:

• Manageability
• Security
• Enterprise readiness
• Line of business applications
• “Bring your own device” compatibility
• Robustness as an OS