Welcome to the Dell Storage Expert Center, where you can explore a variety of strategies for lowering storage costs and complexity of your existing applications. In this ever-evolving age of technology, organizations of all sizes, across a wide range of industries, are experiencing an explosion of data. Unfortunately, many small and midsize businesses don’t have the capacity to manage this massive influx of digital data.
This new, complex environment, along with overburdened IT budgets, makes it difficult for SMBs to effectively manage their storage systems. Today, however, it’s more critical than ever that businesses implement solutions that enable them to efficiently store, access, back up and archive data while also ensuring that performance and retention policies are being met.
With extensive experience in all aspects of data storage, Dell offers a variety of affordable and flexible solutions, providing the tools to automate, optimize, scale, protect and integrate data easily and cost effectively. To find out more about developing an efficient data storage solution, check out our video above and take a look at “Tools and Techniques for Reducing Your Data Storage Footprint,” a featured white paper from Dell that outlines reliable approaches for data reduction and deduplication.
This white paper explores how investing in storage virtualization and automated tiered storage can optimize your data center, lowering your total cost of ownership and offering a significant return on investment. Specifically, it details the benefits of deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 on Data Progression solutions
Microsoft Exchange has become the most deployed messaging environment in the corporate marketplace. One of the first challenges faced by an Exchange administrator is how much storage to allocate and configure. Check out this 2-page white paper to optimize storage for your Exchange 2010 environment.
This white paper provides a specific look at how Microsoft Exchange 2010 uses storage, and describes the challenges presented by Exchange and identifies some opportunities for value-added features in different storage options.
This white paper discusses how Dell has addressed today's data center challenges through the delivery of scalable database solutions built on affordable, standards-based Dell PowerEdge server platforms and the Dell EqualLogic PS Series virtualized iSCSI SAN. Read on to learn more.
On October 24, 2005, Hurricane Wilma made landfall in Florida. Damage in Florida alone totaled more than $26 billion, and in some areas power was out for two weeks. This 2-page case study explores how.
In this expert podcast, founder and senior analyst at StorageIO Group Greg Shulz discusses the importance of managing your data footprint on both online and offline storage, as well as the various tools for doing so, including data archiving, thin provisioning and data deduplication.
In this expert E-Guide, founder and senior analyst at StorageIO Group Greg Shulz discusses how storage managers can reduce their data footprint.
This whitepaper explores eight must-have technologies for IT organisations struggling with inefficient storage systems with dead-end growth paths.
This paper considers current data center storage challenges and outlines features of Dell EqualLogic PS Series SAN arrays that meet the demands of increasingly virtualized IT environments while optimizing investments.
This white paper provides a blueprint for a highly efficient and dynamic datacenter using Microsoft and Compellent technologies. The solution is enabled by Microsoft virtualization and the Compellent Storage Center SAN solution.
Watch this quick webcast to learn how 5 businesses have optimized data movement for this new era of IT, including engineering and environmental firm HDR EOC.
Dell's Fluid Data technology can help you overcome the challenges created by rapid data growth. With innovative technologies like automated tiered storage, thin provisioning and storage virtualization, Compellent can help you create a greener data center with a positive impact on your bottom line and the environment.
Consolidating resources through data center virtualization techniques can improve the return on IT investments, boost productivity and increase system reliability Read this white paper to learn how you can realize the immediate benefits of virtualization.
Featuring a virtualized, enterprise storage architecture and tight integration with VMware software, the Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN helps boost IT agility by efficiently scaling to meet the needs of growing private cloud deployments. Read this white paper to learn more.
A VDI deployment must be carefully designed to ensure it delivers the scalability needed to support large-scale enterprise client computing requirements. Failing to plan properly for a VDI deployment could nullify all of your expected cost and effciciency benefits. Check out this brief white paper to make sure your VDI project is a success.
Read this white paper to learn the essential attributes that every modern backup and recovery solution should include, and 5 top ways to drive down costs while ensuring business continuity.