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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Purpose-built systems address demands created by the increasing reliance on data analytics and CRM to drive business opportunities. Here’s a look at server innovations designed to meet the new business reality.

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What is the impact of an all-flash array with enterprise features and reliability on the mainstream data center? In the mainstream environment, storage system reliability and consistency are as important as extreme performance. This lab report from Storage Switzerland details how the Dell All-Flash Array achieves this balance nicely, allowing you to do more with the same hardware while spending less time fine tuning the storage for performance.

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For several years, Dell Compellent Storage Center arrays powered by Intel® Xeon® processors have leveraged a unique application of RAID and tiering methods to optimize storage performance and capacity. With the emergence of higher performing controllers, as well as the rapid adoption of SSDs, Dell has a new level of Data Progression optimized for flash drives. The combination of write- and read-intensive SSDs and Flash-optimized Data Progression enables Storage Center arrays to deliver large amounts of high-performance solid-state storage at a fraction of the cost compared to other storage solutions. To introduce Flash-optimized Data Progression, this white paper summarizes Dell's current Data Progression techniques, gives a high-level description of SSDs, and describes the implementation of Flash-optimized Data Progression.

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Over the last three years, enterprise use of flash storage has grown into a $5 billion market. Adoption of flash is accelerating: 32% of IT pros currently use or have definitive plans to deploy flash.Check out this analyst report, which outlines enterprise solid state storage and why it matters to customers. It also highlights findings from a study of more than 550 IT professionals on their plans for SSD deployment. Read on to find out what your peers chose as the #1 vendor of choice to deploy flash and solid state storage technologies.

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Find out which vendor(s) your peers currently use or plan to use to deploy flash/SSDs in this highlight from SSG-NOW's IT professional adoption survey. You also can access the full report, along with additional resources about Dell Compellent Flash-optimized solutions.

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Enterprise storage requirements are exploding as Big Data applications, increased mobile device usage and industry data retention regulations create a perfect storm of demand. View this whitepaper to see how Dell Compellent Storage Center arrays powered by Intel® Xeon® processors can help.

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