The Ultimate Guide to BPMN2

We realize that many people and organizations who could benefit from BPMN have yet to give it a try. It may be that you’ve been putting it off under the mistaken assumption that you need to be an expert to use BPMN. Or it may be because the standard itself, and many of the things written about BPMN, are bit unwieldy and hard to dissect.
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The Fastest Way to Microsoft® App-V 5.0

App-V 5.0 is a pivotal upgrade to Microsoft’s application virtualization technology. With this upgrade comes a reworked App-V package format, improved streaming, easier connectivity among virtualized applications and side-by-side support for existing 4.5/4.6 packages. Other key features include mounting of App-V applications to folders instead of the Q: drive, removal of size limitations and streamlined integration of virtualized applications with other desktop applications via extensions.
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A Smart Strategy for Windows Server 2003 Migration

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 will reach its end-of-life by July 2015, servers will no longer be receiving security updates, leaving critical business systems vulnerable to attacks. The server operating system has run for many years and there are many customers, who have Windows Server 2003 in production today and some will continue to do so until end-of life of Windows Server 2003 for different reasons. If you are still using Windows Server 2003, now is the time to consider your options. The place to start is to develop a business case around operating system migration. A migration project requires many resources and will take some time and planning.
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Mitigating Mobile App Risk to Ensure Safe, Reliable Deployments

Driven by the trends of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Bring Your Own App (BYOA), and the consumerization of IT, the mobile device tsunami is inundating enterprises around the world. In many organizations IT is responding by giving employees unfettered access to these apps. But that can expose the organization to considerable risk.
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Achieving Application Readiness Maturity

Imagine that you’re a production line manager in a manufacturing company and you’re under pressure to deliver an increasing number of products that are rapidly growing in complexity. You also have to deliver an increasing number of versions of each product. And you have to speed up the production line substantially. If you can’t meet these requirements, your company’s customers will find what they need elsewhere.
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Redefining the Economics of Storage

This white paper assesses Dell's storage and services vision and the company's ability to meet market demands.

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Boosting Storage Performance for IO Intensive Enterprise Applications

The business-critical applications that keep enterprises humming place ever-increasing I/O demands on storage. The Dell™ Compellent™ Storage Center™ platform optimizes I/O-intensive workloads in virtual desktop, messaging and database environments. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

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Redefining the Economics of Your Enterprise Data Center

With the volume, velocity and value of data accelerating at an ever-increasing pace, making a departure from the costly and complex approach to storage of the past is critical. Dell is redefining the economics of enterprise storage through modern storage architectures, a focus on customer workloads, and an end-to-end integrated portfolio of server, storage, networking, software and services offerings. Read this whitepaper by Dell and Intel® to see how. Intel Inside®. Powerful Solution Outside.

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The Dirty Little Secret of Storage TCO

Upgrading your storage system is a huge investment. Sometimes, storage professionals are forced to upgrade their storage system before it has stopped working. Why does this phenomenon occur? Access this white paper by Dell and Intel®, written by storage expert George Crump, to shed the light on the storage upgrade situation. Read on to discover his critiques about storage vendors, and what they can do to prevent technology obsolescence. Intel Inside®. Powerful Solution Outside.

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Six Signs it May be time to Switch Server Vendors

The server marketplace has undergone dramatic change in the past decade. Impressive technical advances, dramatic improvements in price/performance and increasingly imaginative ways to package servers have made them the heart of compute infrastructure, often replacing—or at least supplementing—legacy mainframes. Reconsidering your technology alternatives is a good idea under any circumstances, if for no other reason than to fully evaluate your options and ensure that your current supplier remains your best choice going forward. But the IBM-Lenovo transition has been a catalyst for a deeper and more strategic evaluation of compute infrastructure choices. It’s important to look for and recognize the signs that now may be a good time to reconsider your server vendor, especially for high-volume x86 requirements. This paper reviews six signs that it may be time for you to make the switch.

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High-Speed Databases: The Three Key Challenges Every IT Organization Must Face

Business demands for high-speed databases are growing, driven by the need for real-time decision support based on huge volumes of data. Dell provides a variety of cache-based and in-memory solutions to meet the new need for speed. Dell’s solutions address not only performance, but data security and cost as well. Discusses Dell Fluid Cache for SAN, PowerEdge servers, workloads like SAP HANA, HADOOP, OpenManage, SQL Server.

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Supporting Mission-Critical Workloads: Key Server Innovations

Advanced server and storage technology from Dell helps businesses achieve better database performance, improve control through the application lifecycle, and deliver business results. Discusses R920 and proficiency with SAP and Oracle OLAP workloads.

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Anywhere, Anytime Server Management

As virtualization becomes pervasive, and application servers are more than ever at the heart of the business, what makes a truly “manageable” system has changed. New technology provides a simple and affordable way to manage local and remote servers in today’s increasingly virtualized data centers. Servers with Intel® Xeon® processors provide a superior hardware platform for virtualization that delivers industry-leading performance.

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Managing Virtualization Everywhere

No one debates the logic of consolidating 20 lightly used systems into one virtualized server, but the case for creating a virtual cloud or software-defined data center isn’t so clear. Take the risk out of virtualizing your data center by using hardware and management systems designed with virtualization in mind.

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