Sponsor: Dell Computer Corporation

Transforming Your Business with Tablets

Tablets with Intel Inside® are an attractive form factor for consumers. They’re small, lightweight, portable, and offer an engaging user experience for content consumption and simple tasks like Web browsing and video watching. As with many consumer technologies — especially the mobile ones — tablets are increasingly finding their way into the workplace as workers become accustomed to their portability and ease of use, and find no point in switching between work and home devices. This paper highlights solutions and strategies to overcome the obstacles that often prevent IT departments from deploying tablets in the business.

** Intel, the Intel logo, Intel Atom and Intel Atom Inside are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

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Mobility Myth Busting: BYOD, Tablets, and Mobile Apps

Mobile technology is an irrepressible force that’s reshaping not only popular culture but also business strategy. Still, many organizations are mired in antiquated myths and misconceptions about mobility in the enterprise that keep them from realizing its full potential. Here are three mobility myths exposed and the truth laid bare about implementing an effective mobile strategy.

**Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

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Mobile Security: Confidence Ebbs as BYOD Booms

It seems that barely a week goes by without news of a security breech at a major corporation. The stunning proliferation of mobile devices has added even more complexity to the IT security matrix, and more urgency to IT departments. Download this paper detailing recent IDG Research results and get expert advice on securing your organization's data in an increasingly mobile world. Brought to you by Dell and Intel®.

**Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

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Building the Business Case for Tablets in the Enterprise

Despite initially strong acceptance of tablet PCs in the consumer market, businesses have not adopted tablets as aggressively, especially in large enterprises. While many IT managers have accommodated bring-your-own-device requests, it doesn’t appear to have encouraged widespread adoption in the enterprise. But is there a surge of acceptance on the horizon? Download this paper for insights into what is driving the increased utilization of tablets and how your organization can reap the benefits and still maintain high IT performance standards.

**Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

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Leveraging Application Deployment Automation in the Cloud

Event Details: July 16, 2014 at 1:00 PM Eastern

Faster time to deployment is a vital component of cloud computing, regardless of what cloud platforms you are using. Automating the deployment of your applications can significantly speed up launch time and simplify management.

Dell Cloud Manager allows you to easily create reusable application blueprints. Design and configure an application stack once, then save for future use. Any authorized user can leverage the blueprint as a ready-made template, or simply deploy to the cloud platform of their choice at the click of a button. Using Chef or Puppet? We integrate with both - or you can use our built-in service catalog.

Join us for this informative session where you will learn how your organization can benefit from leveraging the cloud for application delivery.

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What If IT Dev and Ops Teams Worked Together in the Cloud?

Join Dell and Gigaom Research for an analyst roundtable webinar focusing on bringing together IT and developers to better realize the full potential of cloud computing. James Urquhart, Director of Product, Cloud Management Systems, will be part of a panel, along with Ben Kepes from Diversity Analysis and Robert Benefield from Evolve Beyond, moderated by analyst Paul Miller.
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Control Your Clouds with Dell Cloud Manager

Learn how Dell Cloud Manager enables IT to take control of cloud operations, maintain governance policies and increase business agility. This tool allows you to control your cloud infrastructure and the applications you deploy into your private, public or hybrid clouds. You can secure your clouds, deploy applications with a click of a button and monitor usage to ensure compliance needs are met. The webinar includes a product demo featuring self-service provisioning of resources, quick application deployment, application automation in one or multiple clouds, configuration management, role-based access controls and financial controls/tracking.
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Cloud DevOps: Achieving Agility Through the App Lifecycle

The shift to automated processes operating on a cloud infrastructure requires changes to how applications are provisioned and operated throughout their lifecycle. Developing an integrated strategy to achieve lifecycle agility has given rise to a new operating paradigm commonly referred to as DevOps. Read about the shift to DevOps, and why and how integrated cloud management as part of an overall DevOps strategy enables true application lifecycle agility.
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Rise Above The Competition by Empowering Your End Users

Dell Cloud Client Computing enables new mobile and remote work styles through desktop virtualization. Download this infographic to learn how you can reap the benefits of better security, increased efficiency and cleaner infrastructure - all with one comprehensive end-to-end solution.
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What to Look for in Enterprise Desktop Virtualization

Many enterprises are beginning to view desktop virtualization as a critical enabling technology for agility, mobility, security and a wide range of applications and use cases that will help to define their next-generation compute environments. Desktop virtualization gives IT organizations unprecedented control over the user experience throughout the enterprise, while at the same time simplifying many of the tasks and processes involved in supporting a wide range of workers using a variety of devices. With a successful desktop virtualization initiative, the IT department and workers across the organization can be far more productive and flexible.

But what does it take for an enterprise to successfully implement desktop virtualization, and what are some of the key features, functions, use cases and opportunities that are enabling companies to reap the many benefits of desktop virtualization? Read this whitepaper to understand some of the questions you may have.

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Top 10 Reasons to Implement Desktop Virtualization Now

IT professionals have been hearing about the potential benefits of desktop virtualization for a number of years. Despite a large number of successful deployments, there have also been projects that never left the pilot stage. The momentum is starting to shift, however, and the groundswell of demand for desktop virtualization is becoming more and more apparent.

Two factors have come together to cause this shift: (1) less-expensive and simpler-to-deploy desktop virtualization solutions, and (2) the demand on IT to manage the proliferation of new devices as part of BYOD initiatives. There are now more reasons than ever to try desktop virtualization. Read on to see the full list of 10 reasons.

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Dell DVS Enterprise Builds on Strong Momentum with Solutions for 3-D Graphics, Unified Communications and More

Desktop virtualization is now part of a converged infrastructure. It supports high-end 3-D graphics and enables simplified unified communications, which represent a series of important breakthroughs that have the potential to not only accelerate desktop virtualization adoption, but also significantly expand the use cases and user groups that can leverage its benefits. If you've been considering adopting desktop virtualization, or if you have a single pilot project and are considering expansion, now is the time to take a closer look at the offerings available from Dell and Citrix.
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Build a Business Case

When you think about many of the key challenges facing IT departments these days, you can see why there is continued excitement and pent-up demand for the benefits promised by desktop virtualization. Trends such as BYOD, the consumerization of IT, the rise of social media and increased mobility are making it more incumbent upon the IT department to exert control over what devices are attached to the corporate network and what applications users are deploying. Now, with state-of-the-art appliances such as the Dell DVS Simplified Appliance, IT professionals have a new opportunity to cost-efficiently and simply deploy desktop virtualization solutions. See how the Dell DVS Simplified Appliance can help you bring desktop virtualization into your organization.
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Making Smarter Mobile Access Decisions

Smartphones and tablets are everywhere today - embraced by soccer moms, college students and employees of large organizations. But for all their user-friendly features, mobile devices can represent a significant threat to corporate data. So what do IT departments need to know before deciding on the smartphone and tablet platform that is safe, easy to configure and flexible enough to meet the needs of employees and senior executives alike? That's one of the biggest challenges ahead for IT managers.
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