May 2011 - (Free Research) This short white paper from Dell and Symantec explores backup and recovery solutions for virtualized environments and recommends which products to use.
July 2009 - (Free Research) James Brissenden, Sr. Strategy Consultant at GlassHouse Technologies, discusses the issues surrounding restoring deduplicated data in this podcast.
February 2012 - (Free Research) SQL Server database administrators (DBAs) are often asked to fix performance problems without being given sufficient training, time or budget. Read this paper to discover three straightforward workaround strategies to use as well as guidelines for fine-tuning your application efficiency that will improve your SQL Server performance.
March 2012 - (Free Research) The problem with becoming too comfortable with built-in SQL Server monitoring tools is that they're often used after problems have already arisen. Read this paper to discover how event notifications and extended events can help you drill down into SQL Server and proactively monitor your databases.
April 2012 - (Free Research) This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security.
September 2011 - (Free Research) SQL Server performance management requires serious time, energy and patience! In this new white paper by Kevin Kline, discover detailed guidance on the issues you can relate to—from cache trashing to bad T-SQL that can return to haunt your applications.See how to maximize database scalability and efficiency with ease. Read the white paper today.
December 2010 - (Free Research) Active Administrator™ is a comprehensive and proactive Active Directory management solution. Active Administrator provides four powerful integrated AD management features within one console, including centralized event auditing and reporting, back-up and recovery, Group Policy offline editing and rollback, and simplified delegation of AD rights.
January 2012 - (Free Research) In this paper, learn why the database layer is so important to the software selection of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Also compare Oracle database to SQL Server databases.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Watch this illuminating video to learn more about data deduplication as well as how the Quantum DXi-Series disk backup and replication solutions leverage data deduplication technology to dramatically shrink your disk requirements and enable remote replication replication as a disaster recovery technique.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Read this customer case study to see how Canadian mutual fund company AIC Ltd. leveraged Quantum's DXi™5500 disk backup solution featuring data deduplication and replication technology in order to drastically reduce backup time as well as cut storage costs and management.
March 2009 - (Free Research) When it was time to refresh the headquarters' IT infrastructure, the Earth Rangers IT group knew that any new computer systems had to meet their own high environmental standards. In this case study, you'll learn why they decided to create a virtualized server infrastructure using solutions from Dell and VMware and the benefits achieved.
March 2011 - (Free Research) Access this webcast to learn how mission critical applications, such as Microsoft Exchange and SQL databases, run and perform in a virtualized environment and the benefits made available by making this transition.
May 2011 - (Free Research) This SearchSQLServer.com E-Guide offers expert insight about what organizations can do to improve the performance of their BI system and new ways to improve BI performance and scalability. In addition, you'll learn how to meet BI performance challenges.
February 2011 - (Free Research) This white paper highlights the new Master Data Services feature. This enhancement allows an organization to create a Master Data Hub that provides a “single source of truth” for the enterprise’s numerous data entities and hierarchies.
March 2009 - (Free Research) Read this case study to learn how the Citizant IT group worked with Dell to design a virtualized IT infrastructure that includes VMware virtualization software to accommodate business growth, enhance IT flexibility, and improve worker productivity by creating a virtualized infrastructure in-house.
January 2008 - (Free Research) Enterprises of all sizes are building flexible storage infrastructures using iSCSI and advanced virtualization technologies to achieve a flexible and dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to manage and scale. Read this white paper to learn more.
May 2012 - (Free Research) Virtual servers have brought many benefits to the enterprise, but they've also created many challenges for traditional backup systems. This video features a modern data protection solution for today's IT climate.
April 2012 - (Free Research) This presentation covers the trends, challenges, and impact of virtualization on SMBs today, and also discusses how to implement effective backup and recovery for virtualized environments.