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Dell Business Service Management (BSM) Expert Center

The Dell Business Service Management Expert Center is a coordinated and centralized team of IT service integration experts that helps our largest customers realize the full business value of IT.

Enterprise monitoring with open source

31 Jul 2010 By : Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier

Monitoring an enterprise environment need not be expensive, or lock you into a single vendor. Open source enterprise monitoring systems stack up favorably next to proprietary solutions — for free or at a much lower cost.

How to Set Up the Perfect Physical Disaster Recovery Center

26 Jul 2010 By : Pam Baker

For most companies, the best disaster recovery (DR) strategy is a blend of physical and virtual. The trick, of course, is in figuring out what goes where. To that end, it’s a good idea to determine the 'where' and the 'what' before the 'how'.

Planning your Green Data Center

23 Jul 2010 By : Alyson Behr

It is literally quite cool to be green these days, but how do you get there? Following that green stripe in the Fidelity financial planning commercials won’t do it, but there is a path to take to develop a needs analysis plan for your data center.

Fire recovery: The first 24 hours

22 Jul 2010 By : Lisa Nadile

Here's how to fight back in your worst-case scenario: a fire in your data center. Fire happens all the time. An electrical discharge, a dumb employee, a malfunctioning piece of equipment can waylay all your careful planning.

Choosing fire protection equipment for the data center

22 Jul 2010 By : Lisa Nadile

Water can do your electronics a world of good. On July 2, 1959, an alarm went off at 10:49 a.m., and just five hours later, 4,000 square feet of the world’s largest office building and all the computer equipment in that area were destroyed by a fire.