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- Photos: Dell Precision R5400 rack workstation
- The Dell Precision R5400 rack workstation is Dell's 2U data center-hosted desktop product line. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Photograph, Dell Precision, Workstations, Desktops, Hardware, Jason Hiner, Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation, dell, remote workstation
- Image galleries 2008-07-23
- Measure Dell M1000e and M600 Power Consumption
- "Going green" is popular these days. Whether your organization is buying into the movement for social or financial reasons, you'll still need to measure your success. Dell's new M1000e chassis and M600 blade servers have built-in methods to get power information. Scott Lowe explains. by Scott Lowe
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Blade, Chassis, Scott Lowe, Power Supply Reading, Individual Blade, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Top 10 IT headlines for July 3: Michael Dell buys $100 million in Dell stock, Microsoft opens XP to more low-cost PCs
- Top 10 IT headlines for Thursday, July 3, 2008: Michael Dell makes a $100 million statement, the best ways to get an iPhone 3G on July 11, Microsoft eases restrictions for XP on low-cost PCs, Firefox market shares surges, and more. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Stock, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Computerworld, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Dell hits their green computing benchmark
- Dell reported that they have made dramatic progress on one of their green initiatives as their server power supplies now sport 92 percent efficiency when the server is at a 50 percent load. by Andy Moon
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Power Consumption, Server, Computing, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Top 10 IT headlines for July 17: PC shipments remain steady, call center workers sue Dell
- Top 10 IT headlines for Thursday, July 17, 2008: PC shipments solid in second quarter, call center workers bring class action lawsuit against Dell, SCO ordered to pay Novell millions, say goodbye to the computer mouse, and more. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., CNET Networks Inc., PC, Information Technology, Worker, Mice, Strategy, Hardware, Peripherals, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Businesses can still buy new Dell and HP computers with Windows XP Pro
- Dell and HP are selling select, business computers loaded with Windows XP Professional. Customers can have Windows XP preinstalled and get a DVD to upgrade to Vista when they are ready. by Bill Detwiler
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows Vista, Computer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Bill Detwiler
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Live Webcast: Before You Migrate: 5 Considerations in Protecting against Email Outages and Data Loss
- According to Osterman Research, more than 50% of organizations using Microsoft Exchange will upgrade to Exchange 2007 by 2009. While in the final planning stages of an upgrade, are you considering how your new email infrastructure will address high availability, archiving, recovery, compliance, e-Discovery and the growing...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Dell Computer Corp., Webcast, Data Loss, Microsoft Exchange Server, Outage, MessageOne, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-06-30
- Developing Effective Security policies
- Security measures are most effective when they arise from well-designed, comprehensive, broadly communicated organizational policies and are enforced by human engagement as well as technical solutions. This article discusses the importance of security policies and examines those in place at most organizations. It also provides guidelines on how to develop,...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Policy, Security
- White papers
- Dell Case Study: American Airlines
- American Airlines is one of the largest scheduled passenger airlines in the world, providing 2,400 daily departures to destinations throughout North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and the Pacific. Many American Airline employees do not have access to a computer during work hours and those who do often do...
- Tags: American Airlines, Dell Computer Corp., Productivity
- Case studies
- Remodeling the Data Center: A Centralized Data Storage Management Model Using a Dell | EMC SAN and NAS on SAN Enables Bombay Company to Revamp Its Most Important Room
- The Bombay Company, Inc. designs and markets a unique line of home furnishings and decorative accessories-including lamps, prints, and mirrors-through specialty catalogs, the Internet, and 422 retail outlets in the United States and around the world. The challenge for the IT department at Bombay was to keep the company's inventory...
- Tags: NAS, Dell Computer Corp., Data Storage, Data Center, SAN, EMC Corp., Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Management, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Servers, Hardware
- Case studies
- Dell on OpenManage
- Dell Computer Corporation runs its business on thousands of Dell PowerEdge servers and PowerVault storage systems distributed across several data centers. It's absolutely critical to Dell's business to keep these servers up and running around the clock. To ensure maximum availability of its data center resources, Dell uses its own...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies
- Collaborating on a Bright Idea: Lithonia Lighting Uses Dell, Intel, Oracle, and Red Hat Linux to Control IT Costs and Keep Systems Growing in Step With Business
- In 1946, Lithonia Lighting was launched in a garage in Lithonia, Georgia, not far from Atlanta. The company finished and assembled parts fabricated by other firms and sold them locally. The challenge faced by Lithonia Lighting was to accommodate growing business volume and complexity and reduce strain on company data...
- Tags: Linux, Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Information Technology, Red Hat Linux, Intel Corp., Open Source, UNIX, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Databases, Enterprise Software, Servers, Processors, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components
- Case studies
- Dell Implements Microsoft and Changepoint to Build a Comprehensive Knowledge Management Solution
- When Dell Technology Consulting DTC-the consulting and implementation services arm for Dell Corporation-faced a growing need to run its consulting business more efficiently, it turned to Changepoint to provide a solution. Changepoint Professional Services Automation software integrated key business processes such as marketing and sales management, engagement management, project management,...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Changepoint Corp., Knowledge, Microsoft Corp., Consulting, Compuware Corp., Knowledge Management, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Case studies
- Guidebook to the Datacenter of the Future
- As enterprise trends and technologies evolve, IT organizations must prepare for the future while addressing the challenges of today. How? This white paper focuses on Dell’s Scalable Enterprise strategy. Through standardization, utility and dynamic computing models, and scaling-out versus scaling-up, customers can address today’s issues as well as lay the...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Data Centers, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- White papers
- Dell Helps Lead Scale-Out Industry-Standard Server Computing
- Meeting business requirements for less. It’s the perennial struggle for IT managers, made even more difficult by the economic climate of the past three years. Many have turned to server farms, clusters, or grids of x86 industry-standard servers as cost-effective alternatives to larger, proprietary symmetrical multiprocessing systems. As a worldwide...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Computing, X86 Server, Servers, Hardware
- White papers
- Maximizing HPC Cluster Remote Management
- Reduced total cost of ownership, high uptime, and expanded remote manageability. They are essential characteristics of well-designed, high-performance computing clusters HPC. This article discusses the last factor, management, by carefully examining how LM sensor management, Wired for Management WfM, Intelligent Platform Management Interface IPMI, and other industry standards can help...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Management, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers
- Achieving 99.999 Percent Uptime on Windows
- All key functions within the enterprise today - inventory control, order placement and confirmation, customer support, communications, accounting, and workgroup collaboration - are dependent on the information technology IT infrastructure. And Microsoft Windows environments have emerged as one of the major platforms for today's mission-critical applications, such as messaging and...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Collaboration, Uptime, Infrastructure, Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Groupware, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software
- White papers
- Architecting Linux High-Availability Clusters - Part 2
- In the past, clusters for high-availability HA solutions were expensive and usually required proprietary hardware and software support. Today, with the availability of Linux HA software solutions, users can build a cost-effective, high-availability environment for their business-critical applications. This paper addresses methods for protecting shared storage, resolving internode communication failures,...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Failover, High-availability, Linux, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers
- Dell Consolidates European Support System With Oracle Enterprise Grid on Dell
- Founded in 1984, Dell rose quickly to market dominance by selling standards-based computer products and services directly to customers. To accommodate the region's fast growth, Dell had expanded the Eurostar European reporting server to run on four servers, each running a separate copy of the database. The distributed system required...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Storage, Productivity, Databases, Servers, Open Source, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Lithonia Lighting Case Study: Red Hat, Oracle, Dell Solution Halves Batch Processing for ERP Applications
- Lithonia Lighting, an Acuity Brands Company, is one of the largest industrial and commercial lighting manufacturers in the world, relying heavily on technology to provide a competitive edge. But when fast-growing product databases and user activity tested the limits of the company's existing environment, Lithonia needed a change. To handle...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., ERP, Open Source, Databases, Processors, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Case studies
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