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Tue,22 August 2006 17:00:00 CST Tue,22 August 2006 17:00:00 CST http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/pressoffice/en/rss_howto?c=us&l=en&s=corp Dell 445583 Dell Inc. brad_klenzendorf@dell.com 40 http://img.dell.com/images/us/segments/dhs_odg/rss/gmoon_60x.gif http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/en/newsroom?c=us&l=en&s=corp 60 60 Storage Technology Virtualization http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20090108-Sherbak.pdf Virtualization can offer increased scalability, reliability, and availability while helping simplify management and reduce operating costs. Now, Virtual Remote Desktop solutions based on VMware® Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and virtualized Dell™ EqualLogic™ Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area networks (SANs) can offer similar benefits for the desktop environment—helping reduce the traditional cost and complexity of managing physical laptops, desktops, and workstations. By Timothy Sherbak and Chris Banson Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20090108-Sherbak.pdf Storage Technology Virtualization http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20090107-Gilman.pdf Protecting and restoring virtual machines (VMs) can be slow and inefficient, and can take precious server resources away from critical applications. Dell™ EqualLogic™ Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition enables administrators to quickly and easily create hypervisor-aware snapshots of VMs—helping simplify data management, enhance scalability of data protection and recovery, and increase application performance. By Andrew Gilman and William Urban Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20090107-Gilman.pdf Backup, Recovery and Archive (BURA) Storage Technology Virtualization http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20090153-Symantec-V.pdf Effectively protecting virtualized environments using traditional backup tools can be both difficult and time-consuming. Symantec® Backup Exec™ 12.5 software, part of the new Dell™ PowerVault™ DL2000 – Powered by Symantec Backup Exec, is designed to provide powerful, simplified backup and recovery for VMware® virtualized environments. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20090153-Symantec-V.pdf Server Technology Storage Technology Virtualization http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20090135-Wharton.pdf Dell™ PowerEdge™ blade servers and Dell EqualLogic™ Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network arrays help the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania quintuple computing power while simplifying management and reducing costs. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20090135-Wharton.pdf Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20090162-OptimalBlue.pdf A high-performance, energy-efficient solution based on Dell™ PowerEdge™ blade servers and a Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network array provides Optimal Blue with an anticipated 50 percent improvement in application response time. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20090162-OptimalBlue.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20080396-Locsin .pdf The Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS5500E Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) array allows organizations to simply and cost-effectively deploy high-density, highly scalable, and consolidated SANs for tiered storage, primary and secondary applications, and disaster recovery operations. By Dylan Locsin and Travis Vigil Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20080396-Locsin .pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20080437-Seagate.pdf New Seagate® Barracuda® ES.2 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives, available in Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers and Dell PowerVault™ storage, are designed to provide the exceptional performance, efficient operation, robust data integrity, and seamless integration required by near-line ecosystems in enterprise data centers. By Barbara Craig Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20080437-Seagate.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20080393-CommVault.pdf Dell and CommVault have teamed up to create a next-generation disk-based backup system that combines leading-edge Dell™ hardware with innovative CommVault® data protection software. The new state-of-the-art Dell PowerVault™ DL2000 – Powered by CommVault integrates disk-based backup and recovery with de-duplication technology to help deliver fast, reliable data protection. By Sanjeet Singh and Jeff Echols Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20080393-CommVault.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20080408-CommVault-S.pdf Ongoing data growth can present major challenges for IT organizations. The combination of CommVault® Simpana® backup-to-disk software and Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS5500E Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays can provide a simplified, scalable, cost-effective way to gain control over enterprise data and create a platform to support future growth. By Jeff Echols Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20080408-CommVault-S.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20080444-Symantec-M.pdf Combining high-performance Dell™ hardware with market-leading Symantec® Backup Exec™ software, the new Dell PowerVault™ DL2000 – Powered by Symantec can help organizations of all sizes deploy simplified, cost-effective data protection—helping accelerate backup and recovery, enhance media reliability, reduce total cost of ownership, and minimize the need for IT staff intervention and management. By Sanjeet Singh and Charles Butler Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20080444-Symantec-M.pdf Online-Only Content Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20080419-Trickey.pdf The Dell™ PowerEdge™ Expandable RAID Controller (PERC) 6.1 firmware release introduces multiple features designed to enhance reliability, performance, and ease of use to help organizations meet the challenges of ongoing data growth. By André Dumouchelle, Joe H. Trickey III, and John Seward Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20080419-Trickey.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20080393-CommVault.pdf Dell and CommVault have teamed up to create a next-generation disk-based backup system that combines leading-edge Dell hardware with innovative CommVault data protection software. The new state-of-the-art Dell PowerVault DL2000 – Powered by CommVault integrates disk-based backup and recovery with de-duplication technology to help deliver fast, reliable data protection. By Sanjeet Singh and Jeff Echols Fri, 24 October 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20080393-CommVault.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-Symantec-M.pdf Combining high-performance Dell hardware with market-leading Symantec Backup Exec software, the new Dell PowerVault DL2000 – Powered by Symantec can help organizations of all sizes deploy simplified, cost-effective data protection—helping accelerate backup and recovery, enhance media reliability, reduce total cost of ownership, and minimize the need for IT staff intervention and management. By Sanjeet Singh and Charles Butler Fri, 24 October 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-Symantec-M.pdf Power and Cooling Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080423-YCH.pdf Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e modular blade enclosures connected to a Dell/EMC CX3-20 storage area network helped supply chain provider YCH Group reduce data center floor space by 70 percent and power consumption by up to 45 percent compared with the previous solution. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080423-YCH.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080394-Doherty.pdf Creating application-consistent point-in-time data snapshots at the storage area network level can work well in traditional environments, but can also be a complex, manual process. Dell EqualLogic™ Auto-Snapshot Manager allows IT administrators to quickly and easily create and restore snapshots, clones, and replicas at the application level—helping simplify data management, reduce business disruption, and improve data integrity. By Sarah Doherty Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080394-Doherty.pdf Business Continuity Storage Technology Virtualization http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080395-Gilman.pdf Virtualized IT infrastructures can simplify management and facilitate business continuity while helping minimize power consumption and procurement costs. Virtualization also helps organizations automate disaster recovery plans. Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series arrays and VMware® Site Recovery Manager (SRM) software provide integrated, cost-effective, automated site recovery and testing for enterprise data centers. By Andrew Gilman and Jon Bock Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080395-Gilman.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080351-EMC.pdf Small and medium businesses (SMBs) often contend with the same storage growth challenges as large enterprises, but with limited IT staff and resources. The Dell™ AX4-5 storage array is designed to help SMBs consolidate their data to a streamlined, scalable, high-performance storage environment in a cost-effective, easy-to-manage way. By Greg White and Eric Cannell Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080351-EMC.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080240-Srikrishna.pdf The new Dell™ PowerVault™ MD1120 storage enclosure is designed to provide high-performance direct attach storage for ninth-generation and later Dell PowerEdge™ servers. Taking advantage of energy-efficient, rack-dense 2.5-inch Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drive technology, this enclosure is well suited for applications requiring high I/O or throughput rates. By Rohit Bhat and Vishal Kadam Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080240-Srikrishna.pdf Backup, Recovery and Archive Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20070559-DoubleTake.pdf In heterogeneous storage environments, a lack of interoperability can be a critical barrier to effective data management. Double-Take® software helps overcome this challenge by providing a cost-effective, simplified way to migrate, consolidate, and protect data in these environments, including those using multiple types of Dell™ servers and storage. By Ward Wolfram, Michael Hickey, and Nicholas Schoonover Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20070559-DoubleTake.pdf Backup, Recovery and Archive Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080379-DataStorage.pdf By helping eliminate redundant backup data, de-duplication provides a key way to streamline backup, recovery, and archiving (BURA) for organizations of all sizes. Combining Data Storage Group ArchiveIQ™ software with Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series storage arrays can help overcome common BURA challenges and enable cost-effective, scalable, and simplified disk-based data protection. By Pete Caviness Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080379-DataStorage.pdf Small Business Solutions Storage Technology Systems Management http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080367-Diskeeper.pdf Defragmentation software has long been a standard tool for enterprise servers. Now, an increasingly mobile workforce is demanding top performance and reliability from systems on the go. Diskeeper® 2008 software provides transparent, automatic disk defragmentation designed to boost productivity across the entire system spectrum, from the smallest laptop to the largest server. By Howard Butler Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080367-Diskeeper.pdf Storage Technology Online-Only Content http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080242-Balakrishnan.pdf Brocade® storage area network (SAN) switches are designed to meet the needs of rapidly growing enterprise IT environments. As the first Brocade switch to support both the Brocade Fabric OS® and McDATA Enterprise OS platforms, the Brocade 5000 offers flexible interoperability in a scalable, high-performance switch, while the port-dense Brocade 4900 facilitates cost-effective consolidation. By Nivetha Balakrishnan and Aditya G. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080242-Balakrishnan.pdf Dell Enterprise Software Updates Online-Only Content Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080390-Bernal.pdf Dell periodically releases updates for its servers, storage, and other enterprise platforms. These updates are classified as urgent, recommended, or optional depending on the enhancements they provide. Dell recommends customers keep their system firmware and software up-to-date to take advantage of these enhancements, which are designed to improve system functionality and minimize potential problems. The following tables summarize recent firmware updates for Dell™ PowerEdge™ components and Dell PowerVault™ storage. To sign up for Dell Technical Updates, visit support.dell.com/support/notifications/technicalupdates.aspx. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080390-Bernal.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20080253-RecentCitings.pdf Tues, 5 Feb 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20080253-RecentCitings.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20080249-EqualLogic.pdf Built on a patented peer storage architecture, the EqualLogic® PS Series of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays offers high performance, reliability, intelligent automation, and seamless virtualization of a single pool of storage to enable simplified enterprise storage deployment, ease of management, and comprehensive data protection. By John Joseph, Eric Schott, and Kevin Wittmer Tues, 5 Feb 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20080249-EqualLogic.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20080250-EqualLogic.pdf The advent of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) technology, combined with the latest in server virtualization software, can offer enhanced capabilities and benefits to enterprises of all sizes. This article provides guidance on building a virtualized infrastructure with EqualLogic® PS Series iSCSI storage arrays and VMware® virtualization software. By Timothy Sherbak Tues, 5 Feb 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20080250-EqualLogic.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20080252-EqualLogic.pdf Robust business continuity has historically been out of reach for small and medium businesses (SMBs) because it was often too costly and overly complicated. EqualLogic® PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays enable organizations of all sizes to deploy an enterprise-level storage infrastructure offering comprehensive data and application protection. By Kevin Wittmer Tues, 5 Feb 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20080252-EqualLogic.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20080172-CommVault.pdf Hardware consolidation has become a key way for enterprises to increase efficiency and reduce ongoing data center costs. By combining this approach with de-duplication technologies such as those in CommVault® Simpana™ 7.0 software, which are designed to remove unnecessary copies of data, they can reclaim storage space and extend consolidation down to the data itself. By K. E. H. Polanski Tues, 5 Feb 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20080172-CommVault.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20070484-Singh.pdf Dell and Microsoft have worked together to create unified disk-to-disk-to-tape systems—Dell™ PowerVault™ Data Protection Solutions—that help avoid the drawbacks of traditional tape- and disk-based data protection. Optimized for Microsoft® software–based workloads, these systems can provide versatile, comprehensive protection for environments built with Dell PowerVault servers and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. By Sanjeet Singh and Jason Buffington Tues, 5 Feb 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20070484-Singh.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20070485-Singh.pdf Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 is designed to combine the advantages of traditional tape backup and disk-based continuous data protection processes in a unified platform. This article delves into the key functionality of DPM 2007 and how it can help streamline and enhance data protection processes. By Jason Buffington and Sanjeet Singh Tues, 5 Feb 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20070485-Singh.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20080197-ProStor.pdf The Dell™ PowerVault™ RD1000 removable disk drive provides a flexible, cost-effective way for small and medium businesses to meet data growth and long-term archiving requirements—designed to provide both higher performance and simpler management than traditional tape media while being more portable and durable than traditional external hard drives. By Jeff Boles Tues, 5 Feb 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20080197-ProStor.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20080238-TESCO.pdf Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers, Dell/EMC storage, and Dell OptiPlex™ desktops help online retailer Tesco.com support a 30 percent annual customer expansion rate. Tues, 5 Feb 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20080238-TESCO.pdf Storage Technology Business Continuity http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20070485-Singh.pdf Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 is designed to combine the advantages of traditional tape backup and disk-based continuous data protection processes in a unified platform. This article delves into the key functionality of DPM 2007 and how it can help streamline and enhance data protection processes. By Jason Buffington and Sanjeet Singh Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20070485-Singh.pdf Storage Technology Business Continuity http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20070484-Singh.pdf Dell and Microsoft have worked together to create unified disk-to-disk-to-tape systems—Dell™ PowerVault™ Data Protection Solutions—that help avoid the drawbacks of traditional tape- and disk-based data protection. Optimized for Microsoft® software–based workloads, these systems can provide versatile, comprehensive protection for environments built with Dell PowerVault servers and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. By Sanjeet Singh and Jason Buffington Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20070484-Singh.pdf Storage Technology High-Performance Computing http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20070352-Saify.pdf Qualified high-performance computing (HPC) cluster configurations based on the IBRIX Fusion file system and Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000 storage can provide a robust, cost-effective, high-performance architecture for parallel application deployments. By Amina Saify, Aziz Gulbeden, and Onur Celebioglu Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20070352-Saify.pdf Storage Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20080163-EMC.pdf Midsize businesses face the daunting challenge of managing rapid data growth with constrained budgets and limited staff. Advances in IP-based networked storage technology such as network attached storage and Internet SCSI (iSCSI) can help organizations of all sizes take advantage of existing resources to easily and cost-effectively build, maintain, and manage sophisticated storage networks. By Mike Apigian Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20080163-EMC.pdf Storage Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20080169-Jaffe.pdf The Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i Internet SCSI (iSCSI) array enables enterprises to easily consolidate storage for multiple servers. To illustrate its performance in a consolidated environment, Dell engineers performed tests demonstrating that the PowerVault MD3000i provides sufficient throughput to handle five server workloads as well as two incremental backups over an eight-hour period. By Dave Jaffe, Ph.D., and Kendra Matthews Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20080169-Jaffe.pdf Storage Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20070402-Vigil.pdf Small and medium businesses, remote offices, and departments and workgroups must cope with the same IT pressures as large enterprises, but with smaller budgets and fewer dedicated staff members. Internet SCSI (iSCSI)–based storage arrays such as the Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i offer a cost-effective way for these organizations to consolidate storage while providing powerful, easy-to-use management tools. By Travis Vigil Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20070402-Vigil.pdf Storage Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20080123-CoverStory.pdf Digital data is outstripping storage capacity and complex systems are failing to adapt under the strain as storage demands grow faster than IT budgets. The good news is that easy-to-use IP-based networked storage with built-in data protection and management capabilities promises to bridge the budget gap—and effectively complement traditional Fibre Channel–based storage area networks. By Eric Endebrock; Dave Jaffe, Ph.D.; and Kathryn White Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20080123-CoverStory.pdf Backup, Recovery and Archive Business Continuity http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20070485-Singh.pdf Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 is designed to combine the advantages of traditional tape backup and disk-based continuous data protection processes in a unified platform. This article delves into the key functionality of DPM 2007 and how it can help streamline and enhance data protection processes. By Jason Buffington and Sanjeet Singh Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20070485-Singh.pdf Backup, Recovery and Archive Business Continuity http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20070484-Singh.pdf Dell and Microsoft have worked together to create unified disk-to-disk-to-tape systems—Dell™ PowerVault™ Data Protection Solutions—that help avoid the drawbacks of traditional tape- and disk-based data protection. Optimized for Microsoft® software–based workloads, these systems can provide versatile, comprehensive protection for environments built with Dell PowerVault servers and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. By Sanjeet Singh and Jason Buffington Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20070484-Singh.pdf Storage Technology High-Performance Computing http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20070352-Saify.pdf Qualified high-performance computing (HPC) cluster configurations based on the IBRIX Fusion file system and Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000 storage can provide a robust, cost-effective, high-performance architecture for parallel application deployments. By Amina Saify, Aziz Gulbeden, and Onur Celebioglu Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20070352-Saify.pdf Storage Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-50080159-DellSvcs.pdf A flood tide of digital data and increasingly complex regulatory requirements have made data backup, recovery, and archiving critical aspects of enterprise operations. Dell Services experts can assess how effectively an information infrastructure is getting the job done and deploy integrated, best-of-breed storage solutions to help ensure the safety and recoverability of critical data. Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-50080159-DellSvcs.pdf Storage Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20070564-Cisco.pdf Storage area networks (SANs) have traditionally been reserved for large enterprises with the budgets and IT staff resources to handle them. Now, Dell and Cisco have collaborated to create SAN solutions designed specifically for small and medium businesses, allowing them to deploy high-performance, enterprise-class storage in a cost-effective, easy-to-manage way. By Bala Nagesh Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20070564-Cisco.pdf Microsoft Exchange Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20080166-Singh.pdf Dell-recommended solutions for Microsoft® Exchange environments can help simplify the design and deployment of messaging infrastructures using industry-standard components. This article describes two optimized solutions using Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)–based Dell™ PowerVault™ MD1000 and PowerVault MD3000 storage. By Suman Kumar Singh and Mahmoud Ahmadian Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20080166-Singh.pdf Storage Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20070596-Broadcom.pdf The ability to boot server operating systems over an Internet SCSI (iSCSI)–based storage area network can offer multiple advantages, including increased system reliability, simplified management, and accelerated restore processes. To help enterprises utilize this functionality, Broadcom and Dell have teamed up to offer enhanced iSCSI boot on Broadcom® Ethernet controllers in Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers. By Robert Lusinsky and David Christensen Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20070596-Broadcom.pdf Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20070555-Chen.pdf Following best practices from Dell and Microsoft can help enterprises design a high-performance Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 database on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers and Dell PowerVault™ storage. This article provides specific guidance and best-practice recommendations in the areas of storage, OS, and database configuration. By Wendy Chen, Sumner Stewart, Paul Rubin Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20070555-Chen.pdf Storage Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20070463-Jaffe.pdf The Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 integrated network attached storage system offers cost-effective, versatile storage for small and medium businesses and remote offices. To demonstrate its performance in a high-availability configuration, Dell engineers simulated a mixed environment running key Microsoft® Exchange and SQL Server™ workloads alongside Microsoft Windows® and Linux® file shares. By Dave Jaffe, Ph.D., and Todd Muirhead Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20070463-Jaffe.pdf Microsoft Exchange Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20070415-Symantec.pdf Implementing an e-mail archiving system can bring multiple challenges, including choosing which messages to archive, how long to retain them, and how to find specific messages after they have been archived. The Symantec® intelligent archiving approach enables organizations to efficiently classify, filter, retain, and search for e-mail messages while helping simplify management and control resource costs. By Art Gilliland Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20070415-Symantec.pdf Storage Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20080163-EMC.pdf Midsize businesses face the daunting challenge of managing rapid data growth with constrained budgets and limited staff. Advances in IP-based networked storage technology such as network attached storage and Internet SCSI (iSCSI) can help organizations of all sizes take advantage of existing resources to easily and cost-effectively build, maintain, and manage sophisticated storage networks. By Mike Apigian Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20080163-EMC.pdf Online-Only Content Storage Technology Server Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q07-20070368-Olivarez-OE.pdf The Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)–based Dell™ PowerEdge™ Expandable RAID Controller 5 (PERC 5) can significantly increase performance over previous-generation SCSI-based PERCs. This article outlines the storage system architecture of the PERC 5 and discusses how administrators can optimize RAID storage performance for different types of workloads. By Dustin Sorenson and Leticia Olivarez Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q07-20070368-Olivarez-OE.pdf Backup, Recovery and Archive (BURA) Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q07-50070456-IBM.pdf Featuring a scalable industry-standard format, Dell™ PowerVault™ Linear Tape-Open Ultrium 4 (LTO-4) tape drives and libraries offer lots of room to grow, with outstanding data transfer rates, double-density native storage capacity, and enhanced data encryption capabilities. Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q07-50070456-IBM.pdf Backup, Recovery and Archive (BURA) Business Continuity Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q07-20070455-Krempin.pdf Dell™ PowerVault™ Linear Tape-Open Ultrium 4 (LTO-4) tape drives and libraries afford exceptional storage security and performance to accelerate regulatory compliance and business continuance as well as routine data center backups. Features include native physical capacity of up to 800 GB, native data transfer rates of up to 120 MB/sec, and drive-level encryption. By Curt Krempin Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q07-20070455-Krempin.pdf Backup, Recovery and Archive (BURA) Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q07-20070414-Symantec.pdf Symantec® Backup Exec™ System Recovery is designed to provide advanced protection for systems running Microsoft® Windows® operating systems, enabling flexible recovery to dissimilar hardware platforms, virtual environments, and unattended remote locations. This article outlines the key features and enhancements of Backup Exec System Recovery 7.0. By Charles Butler, Carolina Martinez and Kyon Holman Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q07-20070414-Symantec.pdf Storage Technology Virtualization http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q07-20070401-Baker.pdf Integrating virtualized servers with shared storage is necessary for flexible virtual machine (VM) mobility, but can be more complicated than many enterprises expect. The second article in this ongoing series details the advantages Internet SCSI (iSCSI) offers in virtualized environments, including simplified deployment, comprehensive storage management and data protection functionality, and seamless VM mobility. By Matt Baker and Travis Vigi Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q07-20070401-Baker.pdf Storage Technology Virtualization http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q07-20070260-VMware.pdf Combining VMware® Infrastructure 3 and EMC® layered applications provides powerful high-availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery capabilities that can help organizations create highly resilient IT infrastructures and meet stringent service-level agreements, recovery point objectives, and recovery time objectives for critical systems. By Eric Pan, Josh Donelson, and Mark Clifton Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q07-20070260-VMware.pdf Storage Technology Virtualization http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q07-20070563-Jaffe.pdf Dell™ Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays are designed to provide cost-effective, easy-to-deploy shared storage for software like the VMware® Infrastructure 3 server virtualization suite. This article discusses the key features of these arrays, outlines how administrators can configure them for use with VMware software, and provides test results comparing their performance in a virtualized environment. By Dave Jaffe, Ph.D. Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q07-20070563-Jaffe.pdf Online-Only Content Storage Technology Systems Management http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070197-Talur-OE.pdf Dell OpenManage™ IT Assistant 8.0 helps administrators discover, inventory, monitor, and manage Dell/EMC storage devices. This article provides a brief overview of device discovery prerequisites, procedures, and troubleshooting. By Eranna Talur and Maheswarry Ramakrishnan Fri, 04 May 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070197-Talur-OE.pdf Online-Only Content Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070205-Kadam-OE.pdf The Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000 external RAID enclosure allows multiple servers to access a shared pool of expandable storage, helping enterprises avoid the costs and complexities of Fibre Channel or Ethernet storage infrastructures. This article outlines the hardware, configuration, and management features of this storage system. By Manjusha Gopakumar, Vishal Kadam, and Paul Winston Fri, 04 May 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070205-Kadam-OE.pdf Enterprise Resource Planning Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070271-Loderup.pdf Implementing appropriate hardware and software configurations is key to optimizing performance in complex data centers. This article describes results from the two-tier SAP® Interaction Center Benchmark for the mySAP™ Customer Relationship Management 2005 application on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers. By Morten Loderup Fri, 04 May 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070271-Loderup.pdf Industry Solutions Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070328-Flint.pdf Movie theaters worldwide are rapidly switching from film-based movie projection to digital playback technology. To help theaters manage this transition, the Dell OEM Industry Solutions Group has developed a cost-effective, high-performance digital cinema solution that is designed to be reliable and easy to support. By Franklin Flint Fri, 04 May 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070328-Flint.pdf Database Management Oracle Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070242-Ahmadian.pdf The Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000 storage array offers cost-effective enterprise storage that can scale to help meet future storage and application server requirements. This article discusses the benefits possible when deploying the PowerVault MD3000 along with Oracle® Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters and Dell PowerEdge™ servers. By Mahmoud Ahmadian and Chethan Kumar Fri, 04 May 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070242-Ahmadian.pdf High Availability Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070373-LSI.pdf The Dell™ PowerEdge™ Cluster SE600W is a high-availability cluster solution based on Dell PowerEdge servers, Microsoft® Windows® operating systems, and the Dell PowerVault™ MD3000 storage system. Deploying this solution enables enterprises to achieve highly available service levels in a cost-effective way. By Nam Nguyen, Daniel Moges, Shabana M., and Travis Vigil Fri, 04 May 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070373-LSI.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070335-Vigil.pdf Internet SCSI (iSCSI) technology is changing the face of networked storage, providing a cost-effective and easy-to-manage alternative to Fibre Channel networks. The first article in this ongoing series explores the basics of iSCSI architecture; clarifies several common misperceptions about its performance, manageability, and security; and discusses how enterprises can implement iSCSI using Dell™ PowerVault™ and Dell/EMC storage. By Travis Vigil Fri, 04 May 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070335-Vigil.pdf Backup, Recovery and Archive (BURA) Microsoft Exchange Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070408-Symantec.pdf Symantec® Backup Exec™ 11d for Windows Servers introduces significant backup and recovery capabilities for Microsoft® Exchange environments, including Granular Recovery Technology and Continuous Protection Server, as well as robust capabilities for systems running Microsoft SQL Server™, Microsoft Office SharePoint® Portal Server, and Oracle® software. By Charles Butler Fri, 04 May 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070408-Symantec.pdf Microsoft Exchange Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070364-EMC.pdf Designing a consolidated storage infrastructure is the first step toward successfully implementing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 to help manage ever-increasing e-mail growth. EMC has created an integrated, cost-effective storage infrastructure blueprint for Exchange Server 2007 deployments using Dell/EMC CX3 UltraScale™ series storage arrays and EMC® software that can deliver high availability and performance while scaling effectively for future growth. By Derrick Baxter and Suresh Jasrasaria Fri, 04 May 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070364-EMC.pdf Application Development Cover Story Microsoft Exchange Storage Technology Server Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070355-CoverStory.pdf With intellectual capital flowing through messaging systems and an increasingly mobile workforce, enterprises face significant challenges surrounding data access, operational efficiency, security, and data protection. Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 addresses these concerns by providing a comprehensive, integrated, end-to-end messaging solution designed to reduce costs and complexity, enhance performance, and simplify compliance. By Jeanne Feldkamp, Deb McDonald, and Tom Kolnowski Fri, 04 May 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-20070355-CoverStory.pdf Business Continuity High Availability Microsoft Windows Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-50070340-Poster.pdf In this special poster insert, see how Dell cluster solutions are designed to protect access to business-critical applications and eliminate single points of failure in a wide array of environments. Integrating Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell PowerVault and Dell/EMC storage, and other key components, Dell high-availability cluster configurations can scale flexibly and cost-effectively to meet the management and performance needs of any size enterprise. Fri, 04 May 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q07-50070340-Poster.pdf Server Technology Storage Technology Systems Management Workstation Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q07-20070196-Gopakumar-OE.pdf Dell OpenManage™ IT Assistant 8.0 enables administrators to configure launch points for management applications and tools for discovered networked devices, such as servers, switches, and printers. This article discusses how administrators can set up, customize, and use this feature in their environment. By Manjusha Gopakumar and Gagan Shrestha Thu, 01 February 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q07-20070196-Gopakumar-OE.pdf Backup, Recovery and Archive (BURA) Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q07-20070207-Krempin.pdf Dell™ Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID Storage Manager is a stand-alone storage management application that enables administrators to configure, monitor, and manage storage configurations on SAS controllers, physical drives, and virtual disks. This article discusses the application’s key features for Dell PowerEdge™ SC servers and Dell Precision™ workstations. By Curt Krempin Thu, 01 February 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q07-20070207-Krempin.pdf Backup, Recovery and Archive (BURA) Microsoft Exchange Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q07-20070240-Symantec.pdf Symantec® Backup Exec™ 11d for Windows Servers software, along with the Continuous Protection Server feature and Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server, can provide fast, flexible technology to help protect vital enterprise messaging data in Microsoft® Exchange environments. This article examines how this software can protect Exchange data on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers with Dell PowerVault™ storage. By Charles Butler, Kyon Holman and Carolina Martinez Thu, 01 February 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q07-20070240-Symantec.pdf Backup, Recovery and Archive (BURA) Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q07-20070258-EMC.pdf Tiered storage consolidation can provide an efficient, cost-effective way to manage growing data volumes while helping simplify data management, increase storage utilization and availability, and enhance backup, recovery, and archiving processes. This article discusses implementing tiered consolidation using Dell/EMC CX3 UltraScale™ series storage arrays and EMC® Navisphere® Quality of Service Manager software. By Katie Curtin-Mestre Thu, 01 February 2007 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q07-20070258-EMC.pdf Storage Technology Online-Only Content http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q06-20060434-Golasky-OE.pdf The McDATA 4416 Fibre Channel switch module, when integrated into the Dell™ Modular Server Enclosure, can support a storage area network for a Dell PowerEdge™ 1855 or PowerEdge 1955 blade server system. This switch module builds on the functionality of the previous-generation McDATA Fibre Channel switch module and introduces several features to enhance management of demanding storage infrastructures. By Richard K. Golasky Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q06-20060434-Golasky-OE.pdf Business Continuity Online-Only Content Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q06-20060374-Liberman-OE.pdf Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers running VMware® ESX Server virtualization software provide multiple host-level data protection features. However, none of these features can prevent catastrophic site-level failure resulting from serious accidents or natural disasters. Dell engineers integrated ESX Server with EMC® MirrorView™ software in a Dell/EMC storage area network to demonstrate site-level disaster recovery. By Jacob Liberman and David Ulbrich Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q06-20060374-Liberman-OE.pdf Business Continuity Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q06-20070165-EMC.pdf Implementing a business continuity solution to help protect and ensure the availability of critical data has become increasingly important for many enterprises. This article discusses how enterprises can evaluate their business continuity requirements and how Dell/EMC CX3 series storage arrays and EMC® software can help meet these requirements cost-effectively. By Brad Steckline and Barry L. Ader Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q06-20070165-EMC.pdf Business Continuity Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q06-20060451-CommVault.pdf Recovery management goes beyond the backup-and-restore paradigm to offer an efficient way to protect data and help ensure its continual availability. Using replication and snapshot technology to create a recovery tier within the storage environment, a recovery management implementation can provide enterprise IT organizations with uninterrupted access to data. By Kelly Harriman-Polanski Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q06-20060451-CommVault.pdf High-Performance Computing Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q06-20060426-Gulbeden.pdf Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is the successor of SCSI technology, and is designed to meet the performance requirements of new-generation servers by taking advantage of serial connection to help improve performance and scaling. This article discusses deployment of SAS storage in high-performance computing clusters. By Aziz Gulbeden, Amina Saify, Andrew Bachler, and Ramesh Radhakrishnan, Ph.D. Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q06-20060426-Gulbeden.pdf Server Technology Storage Technology Online-Only Content http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q06-20050311-Kadam-OE.pdf Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) introduces new levels of performance and scalability for direct attach storage. To take advantage of industry-standard SAS technology, Dell offers the Dell™ PowerVault™ MD1000 storage ex-pansion enclosure. When combined with the Dell PowerEdge™ RAID Controller 5/Extended and the Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator application, the PowerVault MD1000 can provide a comprehensive SAS storage system. By Sangram Kadam Tue, 1 Aug 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q06-20050311-Kadam-OE.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q06-20060189-Michael.pdf Storage is an essential data center component, and storage area networks can provide an excellent way to help ensure high availability and load balancing over multiple redundant data paths. To take advantage of these benefits in Linux® OS environments, enterprise IT organizations can use applications to set up multipath I/O configurations. By Tesfamariam Michael, Rezwanul Kabir, Joshua Giles, and John Hull Tue, 1 Aug 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q06-20060189-Michael.pdf Backup, Recovery and Archive (BURA) Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q06-20060387-Symantec.pdf This article discusses some of the ways system administrators can use Symantec® Backup Exec™ System Recovery soft-ware for migration and deployment of new hardware into IT environments with previous-generation system architectures. By Charles Butler and Richard Goodwin Tue, 1 Aug 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q06-20060387-Symantec.pdf Scalable Enterprise Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q06-20060368-Poster-lores.pdf Tue, 1 Aug 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q06-20060368-Poster-lores.pdf Business Continuity Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q06-20060314-Sexton.pdf Disk-based data protection is increasingly essential as a supplement to tape-based protection to meet rapid recovery re-quirements for business-critical enterprise applications. Among the various disk-based solutions, array-based data pro-tection offers distinct benefits that take advantage of the latest technologies to provide fast, affordable recovery for any size organization. By Sonya R. Sexton Tue, 1 Aug 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q06-20060314-Sexton.pdf Cover Story Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q06-20060283-CoverStory.pdf Today’s IT organizations face unprecedented challenges brought on by globalization, rapid expansion, limited resources, and increasing prominence of core enterprise applications. Ninth-generation Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers and Dell/EMC CX3 UltraScale™ series storage arrays offer a world of choices through open management, interoperability, and virtual-ization. By embracing standards to help simplify operations, increase resource utilization, and scale out cost-effectively, these high-performance platforms grow scalable enterprise applications responsively and manage change flexibly. By Mark Nickerson, Joe Pollock, Stori Waugh, and Stacy Hower Tue, 1 Aug 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q06-20060283-CoverStory.pdf Business Continuity Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20060124-CoverStory.pdf Effective risk assessment and business continuity provisions enable organizations to minimize downtime and recover crucial applications quickly when disaster strikes. By analyzing business processes and functions and defining the impact of system downtime in financial terms, enterprises can effectively prioritize the enterprise-wide recovery process to help reduce business consequences. Based on internally honed best practices, Dell’s top 10 rules for disaster planning can help enterprises align recovery efforts with overall business objectives. By Rich Armour, Paul Eno, Michael Kimble and Jesse Freud Thu, 1 Feb 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20060124-CoverStory.pdf Business Continuity Oracle Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20050250-Michael.pdf Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) can be used to create backups and to restore and recover an Oracle database. With Dell/EMC storage, RMAN can provide a foundation for enterprise-class data protection and recovery. By Tesfamariam Michael, Mahmoud Ahmadian, and Bob Ng Thu, 1 Feb 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20050250-Michael.pdf Backup, Recovery and Archive (BURA) Business Continuity Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20060117-Symantec.pdf Symantec Backup Exec 10d for Windows Servers—incorporating the Backup Exec Continuous Protection Server 10d—offers controlled, rapid backup and recovery of critical enterprise files through continuous disk-based data protection. By Richard Goodwin and Kyon Holman Thu, 1 Feb 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20060117-Symantec.pdf Server Technology Storage Technology Virtualization http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20050312-Muirhead.pdf VMware ESX Server software on Dell PowerEdge servers enables a virtualization platform that can support a wide variety of applications and operating systems. Dell engineers tested this software on Dell PowerEdge 2850 and PowerEdge 6850 servers to show how ESX Server can manage multiple workloads. By Todd Muirhead; Dave Jaffe, Ph.D.; and Scott Stanford Thu, 1 Feb 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20050312-Muirhead.pdf Storage Technology Systems Management http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20050296-Brisse.pdf This article describes an architectural approach to booting servers from storage area networks (SANs) that employs an out-of-band boot-from-SAN manager. This approach incorporates both present and future industry standards. By Matthew Brisse, Ahmad Tawil, and Drue Reeves Thu, 1 Feb 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20050296-Brisse.pdf Server Technology Storage Technology Systems Management http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20050212-Habas.pdf Background Patrol Read, a new feature in Dell PowerEdge RAID Controllers (PERCs), is designed to help prevent data loss in a redundant array. This article describes how Background Patrol Read works and how it interoperates with Consistency Check and SMART alerts within the PERC Fault Management Suite. By Drew Habas and John Sieber Thu, 1 Feb 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20050212-Habas.pdf Product/Services Showcase Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20060235-IBMLTO.pdf Intelligent management and Ultrium 3 Linear Tape-Open (LTO-3) technology are built into the first truly modular tape library from Dell for intelligent backup and affordable scalability. By Thu, 1 Feb 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20060235-IBMLTO.pdf Enterprise Resource Planning High Availability Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20050195-SAP.pdf Clusters of Dell PowerEdge servers using Oracle9i Real Application Clusters (RAC) can provide SAP software environments with a flexible, scalable, and highly available database platform. The database will continue to run if one of the Oracle9i RAC database nodes fails; however, vital SAP functionality such as the message server and the enqueue server can still be single points of failure. To help protect these services from failure and thus unwanted downtime or even data loss, IT administrators can run them on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS–based cluster to complement the Oracle9i RAC database cluster and maintain service in a highly available manner. By David Detweiler, Achim Lernhard, Florenz Kley, Thorsten Staerk, and Wolfgang Trenkle Thu, 1 Feb 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q06-20050195-SAP.pdf Server Technology Systems Management http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q06-20060274-Diner.pdf As a component within the Dell Modular Server Enclosure, the Avocent Digital Access KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch provides remote access capabilities to Dell PowerEdge 1855 and PowerEdge 1955 blade servers. Digital Access KVM switches can be cascaded to Dell external KVM devices, such as the Dell 2161DS-2 and 4161DS Remote Console Switches, and can be managed using the On-Screen Configuration and Activity Reporting (OSCAR) interface. By Babu Chandrasekhar and Jake Diner Tue, 1 May 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q06-20060274-Diner.pdf Backup, Recovery and Archive (BURA) Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q06-20060216-Yosemite.pdf Virtual tape libraries combine the best of both worlds, using disk as the primary backup medium and tape for long-term archiving. Using backup software from Yosemite Technologies, IT organizations can combine the strengths of Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell PowerVault disk and tape hardware to create virtual tape libraries designed to improve the performance, reliability, flexibility, and scalability of network backup and restore operations. By Neil MacLean, Mike Weimann, Jake Swim, and Jim Lee Tue, 1 May 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q06-20060216-Yosemite.pdf Storage Technology Virtualization http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q06-20060306-CommVault.pdf CommVault Galaxy software is a powerful suite of Unified Data Management capabilities optimized for large-scale, enterprise deployment. This suite includes capabilities for data backup, recovery, replication, snapshots, and archiving. These capabilities can be used to help manage data in VMware ESX Server virtualized environments. By Kelly Harriman-Polanski Tue, 1 May 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q06-20060306-CommVault.pdf Product/Services Showcase Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q06-50060332-emc.pdf Increased drive capacity, expanded host connectivity, and improved system availability mark the second generation of the world’s easiest SAN storage array. Tue, 1 May 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q06-50060332-emc.pdf Online-Only Content Virtualization Microsoft Exchange Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q06-20050314-Stanford-OE.pdf Dell engineers explored virtual CPU resource-management options and the benefits of using a dynamic resource-allocation mechanism to help meet quality of service requirements for various Internet mail protocol scenarios. In this study, the test team ran the Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Outlook Web Access front-end service on VMware ESX Server–based virtual machines that were configured on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 server. By Amresh Singh and Scott Stanford Tue, 1 May 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q06-20050314-Stanford-OE.pdf Online-Only Content Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q06-20060188-Latief-OE.pdf Leveraging advances in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology, Dell OpenManage software can help simplify the configuration and management of SAS and Serial ATA (SATA) storage hardware. This article discusses how Dell OpenManage Server Administra-tor Storage Management tools can help administrators increase the bandwidth, capacity, and data integrity of the enterprise storage infrastructure quickly and cost-effectively. BY NADINE LATIEF AND TERESA TAYLOR Tue, 1 May 2006 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q06-20060188-Latief-OE.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080240-Srikrishna.pdf The new Dell PowerVault MD1120 storage enclosure is designed to provide high-performance direct attach storage for ninth-generation and later Dell PowerEdge servers. Taking advantage of energy-efficient, rack-dense 2.5-inch Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drive technology, this enclosure is well suited for applications requiring high I/O or throughput rates. By Rohit Bhat and Vishal Kadam Mon, 16 June 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080240-Srikrishna.pdf Microsoft Windows Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080294-CommVault.pdf Migrating data associated with Microsoft® operating systems, applications, and other software can be a challenge administrators overlook when planning system upgrades. Dell™ PowerVault™ and Dell EqualLogic™ storage and CommVault® Simpana® data management software enable flexible data migration and transparent, release-specific data object recovery and backup to help simplify upgrades in enterprise environments. By K.E.H. Polanski Thu, 8 May 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080294-CommVault.pdf Microsoft Windows Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-50080342-Dell-WS08.pdf Thu, 8 May 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-50080342-Dell-WS08.pdf Backup, Recovery and Archive (BURA) Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20070524-Symantec.pdf The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M-Series modular blade enclosure and blades can offer significant advantages, including high efficiency and rapid deployment. For enterprises planning to migrate from stand-alone servers to blade servers, Symantec® Backup Exec™ System Recovery 8 provides powerful, versatile features to help ensure a smooth, rapid transition. By Charles Butler Thu, 8 May 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20070524-Symantec.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080314-EqualLogic.pdf Thin provisioning is designed to address the storage management and capacity planning challenges posed by fast-growing enterprise applications. This article explores how a thin provisioning strategy using Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays can help increase storage utilization rates, improve staff productivity, and reduce costs. By Kevin Wittmer Thu, 8 May 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080314-EqualLogic.pdf Storage Technology Backup, Recovery and Archive (BURA) http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080231-Albatal.pdf In 24/7 production environments, advanced backup and recovery features can be critical to minimizing downtime. Combining Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 and Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays can provide an efficient and cost-effective way for enterprises of all sizes to implement comprehensive, enterprise-wide data protection. By Kevin Wittmer and Jason Buffington Thu, 8 May 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080231-Albatal.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080311-Intel.pdf Booting servers from an Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network further enhances the enterprise advantages of iSCSI, helping significantly reduce the time needed to deploy new or replacement servers. This article provides hands-on guidance for configuring iSCSI remote boot on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers with Intel® Ethernet adapters. By Travis Vigil and Jordan Plawner Thu, 8 May 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080311-Intel.pdf Storage Technology Networking Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080255-Dixit.pdf The Dell™ PowerEdge™ Expandable RAID Controller (PERC) 6 family of enterprise-class Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID controllers is designed for enhanced performance, increased reliability and fault tolerance, and simplified management—providing a powerful, easy-to-manage way to create a robust infrastructure and help maximize server uptime. By Bhanu Prakash Dixit, Sanjay Tiwari, Kedar Vaze, and Joe H. Trickey III Thu, 8 May 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080255-Dixit.pdf Implementation Study Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080341-Shanghai.pdf Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers and Dell PowerVault™ storage arrays helped the Shanghai Community International Schools enhance high-capacity data storage and backup, reducing data recovery time by an estimated 98 percent and server administration time by approximately 60 percent. Thu, 8 May 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080341-Shanghai.pdf Implementation Study Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080344-MisterArt.pdf For online retailer MisterArt.com, the Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i Internet SCSI (iSCSI)–based storage array simplifies storage management and provides high performance in support of 80 percent annual business growth. Thu, 8 May 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080344-MisterArt.pdf Online-Only Content Storage Technology Networking Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080312-Dixit.pdf The Dell™ Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 6/iR family of integrated RAID controllers provides a cost-effective, entry-level RAID configuration and management solution for internal storage on Dell PowerEdge™ servers and Dell Precision™ workstations. By Bhanu Prakash Dixit, Sanjay Tiwari, and Kedar Vaze Thu, 8 May 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080312-Dixit.pdf Online-Only Content Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080190-Long.pdf By evaluating the expected reliability of different RAID levels alongside that of other system components and key factors such as performance, enterprises can choose a data protection configuration appropriate to their environment and overall IT strategy. By Abraham Long Jr. Thu, 8 May 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080190-Long.pdf Dell Enterprise Software Updates Online-Only Content Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080181-Bernal.pdf Recent firmware updates for Dell PowerEdge components and Dell PowerVault storage can help improve system functionality and minimize potential problems. Thu, 8 May 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080181-Bernal.pdf Storage Technology Server Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080283-SUNY.pdf For institutions of higher education, a scalable IT infrastructure can be critical. To demonstrate the scalability and performance of SunGard Higher Education’s Banner software on Dell hardware, Dell collaborated with the State University of New York to build and test a proof-of-concept architecture designed to handle up to 175,000 students with sub-second response times. By Dave Jaffe, Ph.D., Kai Yu, and Dan Brint Fri, 27 June 2008 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080283-SUNY.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090238-Sherbak.pdf IT infrastructures tend to become ever more complex as administrators support growth with incremental hardware expansion, which in turn calls for increased real estate, power, cooling, and maintenance. Faced with shrinking budgets, many organizations end up dedicating a majority of their IT spending to simply maintaining data center resources—placing serious constraints on their ability to advance new initiatives.The computing pod is an exciting model for IT infrastructure that helps significantly advance enterprise efficiency. It is defined as a self-contained building block encompassing an optimized power and cooling footprint to facilitate scalability; integrated compute, storage, and network nodes of significant size and processing power; and simplified data center deployment and management to help reduce operational costs. Dell recommends that each pod include the Dell™ PowerEdge™ modular blade enclosure with PowerEdge blade servers; virtualized storage such as Dell EqualLogic™ PS6000 series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays; virtualization software such as the VMware® vSphere™, Microsoft® Hyper-V™, or Citrix® XenServer™ platforms; a management module with software such as the Dell Management Console; and switches with stacking capability such as Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3100 series switches. This pod architecture then becomes the basic unit of data center deployment.By elevating data center intelligence through advanced virtualization and software tools in combination with latest-generation server, storage, and network infrastructure, organizations can create highly scalable, self-managing data centers designed to reduce IT infrastructure complexity, simplify management, and increase cost-efficiency. And because this approach can be customized to specific needs, it can provide a flexible computing infrastructure that can quickly and easily adapt to evolving requirements.Also covered: How Dell Business-Ready Configurations can provide a simplified, scalable, resilient architecture for computing pod deployments. By Timothy Sherbak and Chris Auger Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090238-Sherbak.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090236-Locsin.pdf As online transaction processing (OLTP) and other key enterprise applications take on increasing workloads, administrators are pressed to find ways of handling the performance demands on their storage systems. Traditional mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs) have built-in performance characteristics such as seek time and rotational latency that can make it difficult to keep up with escalating needs from transaction-intensive applications.A new option now available for Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series storage is solid-state drive (SSD) technology. SSDs offer exceptional performance—enabling significantly faster random read/write response time compared with traditional mechanical HDDs—along with enhanced reliability, energy efficiency, and space efficiency. To help organizations take advantage of SSD technology, the Dell EqualLogic PS6000S storage array provides outstanding performance in a cost-effective SSD-based array that can easily integrate into multitiered EqualLogic Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area networks (SANs).Although SSDs can offer dramatic performance advantages, their cost and capacity limitations make them most effective when deployed as a targeted solution in particular use cases. For example, SSDs can be a key solution for workloads that require low latency and high IOPS combined with limited capacity (such as virtual desktop infrastructure deployments), and those in which the transfer block size is small (such as OLTP applications). In a tiered storage environment, SSDs enable IT organizations to provide a customized balance of cost-effective capacity and performance with exceptional throughput and response time.SSDs have emerged as an excellent high-performance storage option for certain enterprise workloads. As part of the Dell EqualLogic PS Series of virtualized storage arrays, the EqualLogic PS6000S SSD array can help organizations simply, scalably, and cost-effectively meet escalating application performance demands with enhanced reliability and energy efficiency. By Dylan Locsin, Ujjwal Rajbhandari, and Wendy Chen Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090236-Locsin.pdf Server Technology Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090346-Garuda.pdf Jakarta-based PT Garuda Indonesia is Indonesia’s flag carrier. Recently, the airline has been challenged by competing international airlines and budget carriers as well as changing economic conditions—placing pressure on the company to maximize its efficiency and effectiveness.This case study describes how Garuda Indonesia deployed a series of high-performance Dell™ PowerEdge™ M600 blade servers with quad-core Intel® Xeon® processors in PowerEdge M1000e modular blade enclosures to help boost the efficiency of its business operations and support key front-end SAP® and Microsoft® applications. The blade servers, which connect to a set of Dell/EMC CX3-20c storage area network (SAN) arrays, have enabled the company to reduce its power consumption by as much as 40 percent and reduce its data center footprint by 50 percent—helping optimize energy use while maximizing data center performance and density. Although many servers are running in Garuda Indonesia’s data center, the company has entrusted the Dell blades with running the most critical front-end applications, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. The Dell OpenManage™ suite, meanwhile, helps simplify server deployment, management, and problem resolution.Garuda Indonesia has received positive feedback from users of applications that run on the blades and from the IT staff benefiting from improved ease of management. Looking ahead, Garuda Indonesia wants to further enhance its operations with new customer-facing applications and the delivery of new fleets for long-haul flights to Europe, and is confident that Dell can help them scale to meet new demands. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090346-Garuda.pdf Storage Technology Virtualization http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090348-Borgers.pdf Johann Borgers is the leading provider of acoustically efficient textile components for the automotive industry, with more than 4,700 employees worldwide. The company’s core administrative activities are centralized at its headquarters in Bocholt, Germany, where office-based employees need constant access to key financial and performance data as well as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. However, the seven end-of-life servers in the data center could no longer provide the reliability, availability, or performance the company required.This case study describes how Johann Borgers deployed virtualized Dell™ PowerEdge™ 2900 servers with quad-core Intel® Xeon® processors along with a Dell/EMC CX3-10c storage area network (SAN) to help create a reliable, scalable, and highly available server and storage solution. Using VMware® ESX 3.5 virtualization software on the PowerEdge servers enabled the IT team to create virtual machines (VMs) running the Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 OS and Citrix Presentation Server™ 4.5 software—offering its base of 120 users anytime, anywhere access to the Infor ERP and Microsoft Office applications. Dell Services teams worked with Dell partner CEMA to design and deploy the solution, and the Johann Borgers IT staff also received in-depth SAN training as part of the company’s Dell ProSupport for IT agreement.Transferring management of the local client desktop to the data center offers a single hardware and software management point for IT staff, helping provide total administrative time and cost savings of around 25 percent. The solution has also reduced running costs, cooling costs, and maintenance costs while dramatically improving the availability of critical data and the performance of key IT services. Based on its experience with this project, Johann Borgers now plans to work with Dell on further simplifying its departmental servers and storage. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090348-Borgers.pdf Security Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090225-McConnell.pdf Internet SCSI (iSCSI) can provide a number of advantages in enterprise storage area network (SAN) infrastructures—offering similar scalability, availability, and manageability as Fibre Channel in a cost-effective way, and enabling IT administrators to work with standard, familiar Ethernet components rather than specialized Fibre Channel equipment. iSCSI-capable Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SAN arrays, Dell PowerVault™ storage systems, and Dell/EMC storage systems can provide a simplified, scalable way to implement iSCSI SANs.The underlying technologies—the iSCSI protocol, Ethernet, and TCP/IP transport—help provide a well-known, mature, and cost-effective security infrastructure for iSCSI SANs. Key areas of security that effective iSCSI security strategies must address include data-at-rest (DAR) and data-in-flight (DIF) security; authentication, authorization, and data coherence; and defenses against passive, active, and operational attacks. Key best practices for securing iSCSI SANs include isolating the iSCSI domain, consolidating and securing management portals, disabling unused switch and router features, using access control lists for authorization, using Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) and IP Security (IPsec) when appropriate, and defining a practical and secure key management strategy.Strong security does not necessarily mean expensive security. By taking advantage of the maturity of Ethernet and TCP/IP technologies that serve as the basis for iSCSI networking and following key iSCSI best practices, administrators can cost-effectively implement robust, secure iSCSI SANs as part of a comprehensive enterprise security strategy. By Robert Winter and Dan McConnell Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090225-McConnell.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090199-Matthews.pdf The Dell™ NX4 network attached storage (NAS) device is designed to provide flexible, enterprise-class file storage for Microsoft® Windows®, Linux®, and UNIX® environments while incorporating advanced EMC® features that provide functionality well beyond simple file servers, including support for both Internet SCSI (iSCSI) and Fibre Channel. The Data Access in Real Time (DART) OS supports concurrent use of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) and Network File System (NFS) protocols, enabling seamless file sharing without compromising data integrity and without requiring performance-reducing emulation.The Dell NX4 is designed to provide high availability without compromise—enabling organizations to continue operating at the same performance and service levels even in the event of a failure. EMC Celerra® SnapSure™ software enables administrators to create logical point-in-time snapshots to help meet recovery point objectives (RPOs), while optional Celerra Replicator™ software provides a powerful, simplified tool for asynchronous replication and can integrate with SnapSure and VMware® Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to help simplify the testing and execution of disaster recovery processes. Support for multiple backup and restore options helps maximize flexibility.In addition, file-level deduplication and compression can help organizations effectively handle the proliferation of unstructured data, while file-level retention features help them comply with enterprise, industry, or government requirements. The optional Celerra Anti-Virus Agent (CAVA) helps identify and eliminate known viruses before they infect files on the storage system. The open Celerra FileMover application programming interface (API), meanwhile, supports tiered storage access to help reduce costs, increase storage utilization, and enhance service levels. The advanced features of the Dell NX4, combined with flexible file management and support for both iSCSI and Fibre Channel, make this system well suited to help meet enterprise-class requirements while also helping to simplify data management and reduce costs. By Scott Sinclair Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090199-Matthews.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090305-CommVault.pdf Redundancy is a major contributor to sustained data growth in enterprise data centers. Regular replication, backup, and archiving using traditional tools, for example, often requires organizations to deploy significantly more storage than they actually need simply to maintain unnecessary copies of the same data across many different storage systems. The systems necessary to store this redundant data represent not only an up-front investment in hardware, deployment, and configuration, but also ongoing operational costs for power, cooling, and management.Deduplication technology, which is designed to eliminate duplicate copies of data, offers an important method of combating uncontrolled data growth. Dell and CommVault have worked together to create a backup and archive deduplication solution that combines high-performance Dell™ hardware with innovative CommVault® Simpana® 8.0 software: the Dell PowerVault™ DL2000 – Powered by CommVault. In contrast to traditional backup and archive architectures, CommVault Simpana 8.0 can write compressed, deduplicated, and even encrypted blocks to disk targets, enabling organizations to maximize use of existing storage hardware and helping reduce the amount of data sent over the network.CommVault Simpana 8.0 also introduces the Virtual Infrastructure Agent for VMware® and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ virtualization platforms, helping provide seamless backups in virtualized environments. Remote office servers, meanwhile, can benefit from a global deduplication strategy that reduces backup footprints before they are sent to a centralized location, helping further simplify backup and recovery processes.As administrators struggle with increasingly restricted IT budgets, they need tools that can deliver cost-effective, simplified data management. The deduplication capabilities in the Dell PowerVault DL2000 – Powered by CommVault can help overcome these challenges, offering an efficient way to consolidate data, streamline storage requirements, and control costs. By Jeff Echols Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090305-CommVault.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090296-Seagate.pdf Keeping up with space constraints and the rising costs of energy are two of the greatest challenges facing IT departments today. By controlling power consumption and related heat output at the system level, however, organizations can deploy their hardware resources for optimum power and cooling efficiency to help control ongoing costs.The modular, rack-dense Dell™ PowerVault™ MD1120 direct attach storage (DAS) array is designed for efficiency and scalability—holding up to 24 low-power, 2.5-inch hard drives in a compact 2U enclosure for up to 12 TB of total storage capacity. A single dual-port Dell PowerEdge™ Expandable RAID Controller (PERC) 6/E can connect to up to six PowerVault MD1120 enclosures, enabling use of up to 144 total drives and helping simplify management. And now, the PowerVault MD1120 can also support energy-efficient Seagate® Constellation™ Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives.These industry-first 2.5-inch, 7,200 rpm, 500 GB drives are designed from the ground up specifically for enterprise-class nearline storage, providing the capacity, performance, and reliability to support high-density tiered storage applications. In Storage Performance Council (SPC) SPC-1C benchmark tests performed by Seagate engineers in January and February 2009, a 2U PowerVault MD1120 enclosure with 2.5-inch Constellation drives provided 93 percent higher performance than a 3U PowerVault MD1000 with 3.5-inch drives, or 2.9 times the performance per unit of rack space, while also consuming 40 percent less power. By deploying the Dell PowerVault MD1120 DAS array with Seagate Constellation hard drives, organizations can combine enterprise-class reliability, nearline performance, and scalability in a rack-dense, energy-efficient storage system. By Barbara Craig and Tom McCaffrey Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090296-Seagate.pdf Storage Technology http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090235-Ansley.pdf The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e modular blade enclosure offers a number of advantages over typical rack-mounted servers, including increased density, rapid deployment, reduced power and cooling requirements, reduced cabling, simplified management, and an advanced integrated I/O module architecture. Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays, meanwhile, can also offer compelling benefits that make them well suited to support blade server deployments.Administrators can take any of several approaches to integrating PowerEdge M1000e enclosures with an EqualLogic SAN using the available Ethernet I/O modules—the Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch (CBS) 3130G, Cisco CBS 3030X, and Dell PowerConnect™ M6220 switch—in the PowerEdge M1000e. One possible design consists of a multitiered Ethernet switch infrastructure, in which the EqualLogic SAN and a set of external switches are on one tier and the PowerEdge M1000e enclosures are on a separate tier. A second design uses the PowerEdge M1000e pass-through I/O modules with a set of external stackable switches such as the Cisco Catalyst 3750-E or Dell PowerConnect 6248. A third design relies only on the PowerEdge M1000e Ethernet switch I/O modules for the SAN.Each of these three strategies has its own trade-offs in cost, performance, complexity, and scalability. Ultimately, successful integration of a PowerEdge M1000e with an EqualLogic SAN hinges on a few criteria: the solution should provide full redundancy; enough inter-switch bandwidth to support hosting SAN traffic, inter-array management, and load balancing; and enough I/O and minimal latency between the blades and arrays to meet the requirements of the attached host applications. The PowerEdge M1000e enclosure along with external Ethernet switches can provide the flexibility and scalability necessary to build a high-performance virtualized storage architecture that can meet almost any storage need. By Tony Ansley Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:00:00 CST http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q09-20090235-Ansley.pdf