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Unix-to-Linux Migration for the Modern Enterprise
1/18/2013
Achieve the performance, flexibility and innovative advantages of an industry-standard platform by migrating from UNIX systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell PowerEdge servers. Discover the benefits of transitioning from proprietary platforms with Dell and Red Hat.
Red Hat and Dell: Strategic Partners in Virtualization
10/17/2012
Deliver cost-effective solutions that combine the proven business benefits and technological innovations of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with the power and scalability of Dell PowerEdge servers. Learn more about the benefits of this virtualization alternative.
Red Hat and Dell: Strategic Partners in Virtualization
10/17/2012
Achieve a cost-effective and enterprise-class virtualized environment using Dell PowerEdge servers with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization solution. Discover how this configuration can help you increase flexibility and reduce risks.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Sizing Guide
8/14/2012
Review the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guidelines for setting up a VDI environment. Examine the parameters used to develop this guideline and its results, which are presented in terms of RAM, processors, IOPS and network bandwidth.
Unlock the Future With Red Hat, Intel and Dell
6/23/2012
Increase your computing capabilities while containing or reducing total costs with Red Hat Linux running on Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers powered by Intel® Xeon® E5 series processor — an optimized solution for virtualization and cloud computing.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server: Features and Benefits
11/10/2010
Dig deeper into the features that make Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server one of the best platforms for applying the latest in OS innovation to achieve value and scalability in the data center.
Datasheet: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
11/10/2010
Learn about the performance, scalability, interoperability and reliability of release 6 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a premier open-source OS that provides a consistent application environment across physical, virtual and cloud deployments.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 Datasheet
3/30/2010
Learn about the flexibility, scalability, interoperability and stability of the 5.5 release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a premier open-source OS trusted by thousands of enterprises around the world.
Planning Guide: Migrating From SPARC Solaris to Dell and Linux
3/30/2010
Plan a successful transition from a Sun SPARC Solaris server to a newer Intel-based Dell PowerEdge server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
A Simple Migration: A Stronger Infrastructure
10/20/2009
When making the move from UNIX to Linux, look to Dell ProConsult services to achieve the same or better performance, reliability and security with Linux as the latest UNIX platforms — with lower acquisition costs and total cost of ownership (TCO).
Migrating From Sun RISC to Intel® Xeon® — Flatten TCO, Achieve Unprecedented ROI
7/22/2009
When you compare the total benefits — both direct (hard) cost-savings and indirect (soft) returns — delivered by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux-Dell-Intel solution, you'll see dramatic results.
JBoss and Dell Just Work: The Modular SOA Environment
7/14/2009
The JBoss on Dell service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategy simplifies IT for customers by decreasing development complexity and enabling unparalleled flexibility.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension
7/14/2009
You rely on the .NET framework in order to develop the best applications for your customers and your organization. SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension can help you achieve maximum flexibility.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Data Sheet
7/14/2009
Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a modular, general-purpose operating system that is suitable for a wide range of workloads.
Dell and JBoss Inventory Management Clustering System
7/10/2009
Dell and JBoss Inventory Management Clustering System on JBoss Enterprise Middleware
JBoss on Dell Performance Brief
7/10/2009
Middleware is the glue that holds enterprise applications together. Learn how JBoss and Dell together deliver the scalability, flexibility and power enterprises need — all at a competitive price point.
Volume Software Licensing Center
7/10/2009
Volume software licensing from Dell can help you select, deploy and manage the best software for your needs under the most favorable licensing programs.
Dell ProSupport
7/10/2009
Dell ProSupport is a suite of professional support services designed to address the technology challenges you face today.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Info Brief
11/8/2007
Get more performance and support from your virtualized infrastructure with Dell platforms and peripherals that run Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5. Become familiar with the implementation details, key benefits, usage models and services of Dell products with RHEL 5.

Audio: An IT Executive's Guide to Effective UNIX Migrations
2/11/2011
Listen as Dell expert Scott Sawyer explains how Dell Services can help you plan for migration of your legacy UNIX infrastructure to modern open standards technology.
Video: Mattox on Dell, RHEL 6 and Open Source in the Enterprise
12/3/2010
Dell’s Tim Mattox talks about how the new features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 — KVM support, improved virtualization support, multipath I/O — mesh with the Dell approach of open, capable and affordable IT design.
Video: Bohanan on Dell and Red Hat Services, RHEL 6 and Virtualization
11/18/2010
Dell's Bo Bohanan discusses how Dell and Red Hat services can help you find efficiencies during migration to Red Hat Linux and how the virtualization capabilities of RHEL 6 make it a perfect platform for virtualization and cloud solutions.
Video: Hull on the Advantages of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
11/18/2010
Dell's John Hull discusses how Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is a big win for Dell customers, including KVM virtualization, RHEL integration with Dell embedded server management, improved iSCSI support and open-standards-based systems management.
Video: Leauanae on Dell as a Complete Linux Solution Provider
11/18/2010
Tui Leauanae highlights Dell as a one-stop-shop for Linux solutions, with expertise not only in hardware and systems management, but in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and open-standards cloud technology.
Benefits of the Dell, Microsoft and Novell Interoperability Program
6/21/2010
It’s easier for you to achieve interoperability in a mixed IT environment with the combined resources of Dell, Microsoft and Novell.

ACK STORM
5/1/2013
ACK STORM predicts 30 percent growth in first 12 months of cloud service, offering autoscaling and automatic application deployment.
CHG-MERIDIAN Group
5/1/2013
CHG-MERIDIAN helps customers procure solutions faster by integrating Dell’s B2B ecommerce solution PremierConnect with TESMA© Online.
Westin Engineering
5/1/2013
Westin Engineering gives geographically distributed employees "anytime, any device" access to email in the cloud, helping them enhance productivity and customer service.
Texas Advanced Computing Center
5/1/2013
Texas Advanced Computing Center’s Stallion can take you from inside an atom to the edge of the universe.
Glenbrook High School District 225
5/1/2013
Glenbrook High School District 225 provides high resiliency and supports fast growth with a Dell networking, server and storage solution.
CloudMosa
5/1/2013
CloudMosa counts on Dell cloud servers and green technology from Samsung to deliver a “wicked fast” experience for mobile users.
Pendleton County School District
5/1/2013
Pendleton County School District improves students’ learning environment by financing fast, efficient lab computers.
Guatefacturas, S.A.
5/1/2013
Guatefacturas exceeds government performance requirements for electronic invoicing in batch transactions by 500 percent with next-generation storage solution.
Good Energy
5/1/2013
Renewable energy company in the United Kingdom increases performance threefold, boosts scalability and secures valuable customer data with cost-effective solution.
ING Direct Italy
5/1/2013
ING Direct Italy improves application performance and cuts issue resolution time by 28 percent with Foglight.
SBI Japannext Co., Ltd
5/1/2013
SBI Japannext increases number of transactions processed from 5,000 to 120,000 with a more robust server infrastructure.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU)
5/1/2013
Kwantlen Polytechnic University is replacing 1,600 desktops with Dell Wyse thin clients, enhancing IT services for staff and students and achieving savings of about $647,000.
CERN
4/1/2013
Researchers at CERN drive pioneering research into the origins of the universe with a powerful HPC solution analysing one billion proton collisions per second.
Lopez Negrete Communications, Inc.
4/1/2013
Fast-growing Hispanic marketing agency reclaims hours of productivity every day with new virtualized storage platform and upgraded network infrastructure.
Society of the Sacred Advent Schools
4/1/2013
Society of the Sacred Advent Schools achieves $362,000 in savings by migrating to a data center consolidated on Dell Compellent storage.
Plas Plastic Packaging
4/1/2013
Plas Plastic Packaging in Turkey virtualizes IT, gaining return on investment in 12 months and helping employees save 10 working days a year.
How Dell Does IT: SonicWALL Aventail Secure Remote Access
4/1/2013
Dell empowers its workforce to be productive from virtually anywhere with a stable, scalable remote-access solution.
affilinet
4/1/2013
affilinet increases the speed of its business-critical database by up to 10 times.
Affirmative Technologies
4/1/2013
Affirmative Technologies deploys a super-low-latency infrastructure from Dell, increasing transaction-processing performance and delivering secure, encrypted services for customers.
First Command
4/1/2013
First Command, a leading financial services firm for government and military families, optimizes IT efficiency and customer service with a converged Dell server and networking solution.
The Florida Aquarium
4/1/2013
Needing high-level disaster recovery protection for its critical data and marine-life supporting systems, The Florida Aquarium turns to Dell AppAssure.
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
4/1/2013
Texas Advanced Computing Center has built one of the world’s most powerful super computers with Dell, helping scientists make world-changing, breakthrough discoveries.
ABB Automation GmbH
4/1/2013
Leading provider of automation systems in Germany delivers greater customer service while cutting maintenance costs in industrial IT lifecycle management.
Redstation
4/1/2013
Redstation sees continued growth of 70 percent a year by offering customers dedicated servers and cloud services delivered by 12th-generation server technology.
Univates
4/1/2013
The IT department at Univates supports the university’s growth strategy by increasing its data center efficiency.
A10 Networks
4/1/2013
A10 Networks increases efficiencies and decreases costly errors.
Birk
4/1/2013
Germany-based Birk increases employee productivity and enhances customer service with five times faster storage and ten times faster data recovery.
Amerijet Holdings, Inc.
4/1/2013
Amerijet Holdings reduces the time to close flights by 96 percent, expediting freight transportation and achieving more customer service successes.
TAGAL
4/1/2013
TAGAL improves mission-critical enterprise resource planning (ERP) performance by two times using Dell’s innovative platform optimization driven by reduced instruction set computing (RISC) migration approach.
SURFsara
4/1/2013
High-performance computing and e-Science support centre provides cutting-edge technology to scientific and research community, to accelerate complex, large-scale computations.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
4/1/2013
Accelerating industry with supercomputing.
Indianapolis Public Schools
4/1/2013
Indianapolis Public Schools optimizes storage performance for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) with solid-state drives (SSDs) and perpetual licensing, saving $2 million every desktop refresh cycle.
Pacnet
4/1/2013
Pacnet increases server footprint by 30 percent while reducing energy consumption by 50 percent to launch new CDN solution.
Bay District Schools
4/1/2013
Bay District Schools reduces storage total cost of ownership (TCO) by 38 percent while improving productivity for students, faculty and staff.
DirectNetworks, Inc.
4/1/2013
DirectNetworks prepares to serve 10-fold more customers with cloud-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) Webtop solution while cutting rack footprint in half.
St. John Medical Center
3/1/2013
St. John Medical Center uses a team approach to ensure successful implementation of new electronic health record initiative.
How Dell Does IT: OpenStack
3/1/2013
Dell IT deploys OpenStack as the platform to develop flexible, scalable and cost-effective customer solutions.
Iowa 80 Group Inc.
3/1/2013
Iowa 80 Group provides 100 percent uptime for security camera data, avoiding liability in lawsuits based on fraudulent claims.
Lincoln County Healthcare (LCH)
3/1/2013
Lincoln County Healthcare (LCH) deploys a backup and recovery solution, improves regulatory compliance and helps its IT team work on critical projects.
Kenora-Patricia Child and Family Services and Anishinaabe Abinoojii Family Services
3/1/2013
Child and family services agencies enable fast, reliable data backups with off-site disaster recovery solution.
Southeastern Urological Center
3/1/2013
Healthcare provider Southeastern Urological Center has maximized the availability of critical patient services and data with Dell™ AppAssure backup and recovery software.
Lincoln Electric System (LES)
3/1/2013
Lincoln Electric System enhances service uptime for end users and customers with Dell™ AppAssure.
H+H U.K.
3/1/2013
H+H U.K. increases business agility by deploying IT services in hours rather than weeks thanks to its flexible server and storage environment.
UAH Property Management, L.P.
3/1/2013
UAH Property Management saves staff 16,900 man-hours a year and enables two IT employees to manage a distributed infrastructure by leveraging Dell ProSupport Services.
Won Kwang University Hospital
3/1/2013
Won Kwang University Hospital improves network stability by 80 percent after end-to-end Gigabit network upgrade.
Essex Industries
3/1/2013
Leading manufacturer Essex virtualizes 280 desktops with Dell to lower hardware and management costs, enhance business continuity and improve customer service.
Ward Hadaway
3/1/2013
Ward Hadaway helps employees maximise customer service by rapidly updating PCs and completing inventory checks 87 percent faster thanks to efficient systems management.
Advantage Sales and Marketing LLC
3/1/2013
Advantage Sales and Marketing achieves 100 percent on-time delivery of customer reports by implementing a more stable and efficient storage platform.
Yunyun.com
3/1/2013
Yunyun.com achieves 120 percent ROI through virtual network architecture solution.
Woonzorg
3/1/2013
Woonzorg halves deployment time, improves desktop stability and looks to achieve significant time savings for staff through remote client deployment and support.

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