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Many organizations have adopted virtualization as a standard for server workloads. But virtualization has not proven to be the “game changer” many organizations had envisioned. IT departments face huge challenges related to server sprawl, which has actually increased with virtualization. Although virtualization has brought benefits beyond the physical paradigm of one operating system per server, the true optimal infrastructure for organ...

This white paper from Forrester Consulting reviews the core functionality required to maximize private cloud benefits and provides some best practices for enterprise cloud deployments. ...

NetApp and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are joining forces to deliver NetApp Private Storage for AWS, which combines the performance, security, and compliance of dedicated storage with the economics and agility of public cloud. The solution, which offers a new tier of storage for AWS users, enables bi-directional data mobility for existing NetApp customers between on premises storage and NetApp Storage residing in a Direct Connect co-location facility...

As the rapid rise in the number of mobile devices and users creates an explosion in data and virtual machine instances, datacenter transformation becomes imperative for many enterprises. It is essential enterprises move to consolidate resources and cut both capital and operating costs while still providing support for distributed applications. This brief white paper delves into a Q&A with Eric Sheppard, research director of IDC’s Storage...

As companies transition from traditional, infrastructure-focused deployment architectures to cloud-ready, cloud-enabled and service-centric delivery models, they need to change the way their storage is architected as well. Check out this informative paper to learn how to prepare for IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) with the right storage architecture. Discover the answers to your most burning questions surrounding the private cloud and ITaaS. Read on to lea...

For the 5,000 faculty and administrative staff at Princeton, delivering the best classroom experience means having the most up-to-date software on their computers. But making that possible was becoming more challenging for the university’s 11-person Office of Information Technology (OIT) Software Support team, which manages the desktop infrastructure. This case study reveals how the IT team at Princeton University installed a Dell KACE systems ...

Critical workloads and applications require constant availability and the systems supporting them need more than break-fix support – they need proactive and preventative measures to get ahead of problems before they happen. Read on to learn how Dell ProSupport Plus can proactively improve the performance and stability of your critical systems through environmental intelligence and the right expertise for your organization. ...

As business purposes have changed over the years, IT approaches and infrastructures have had to change in lock-step to serve them optimally.  IT professionals are now combining the best of the centralized approach – via virtualization, federation, and clouds of all sorts – with the best of the decentralized model – via mobile and localized consumption and production.  In this paper, Enterprise Strategy Group examines approac...

To respond to rapid business environmental changes, enterprises are now adopting a more agile and services-oriented model for centralized IT, often characterized as “private cloud.”  Public cloud service providers have become adept at adding new customers, new applications, and more compute-intensive workloads with minimal delay.  While traditional enterprise IT may not be able to fully emulate this model, they can use virtualization...

Over the past couple of years the mid-range storage market has become a hotbed of ongoing innovation.  The mid-market demands enterprise capability -- performance, resiliency, and features -- but with an innovative level of simplification and a unique level of adaptability.  In this Product in Depth paper, Taneja Group surveys mid-range storage systems across key criteria that represent an intersection of mid-range storage challenges, with speci...