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  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Dell Integrated Data Protection: DR4100 with NetVault

    IT teams are faced with swelling data volumes and expanding virtualization, both of which complicate your backup and recovery strategies. The DR4100 appliance, combined with NetVault, protects both physical and virtual servers, increases backup speed and provides recovery assurance for data and applications. Learn more in this ESG Lab review.

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Accelerating Incident Response: How Integrated Services Reduce Risk and the Impact of a Security Breach

    Information security best practices are all about mitigating risks. There is no 100 percent fail-safe security program, device or system. It takes an orchestrated effort between managed security services, threat intelligence and incident response to provide the strongest defense. This paper presents the advantages of a single-outsourced solution for managed...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    10 Tips to Minimize the Impact of a Security Breach

    The Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit research team has developed a set of 10 recommended best practices to help minimize the duration and impact of a security breach. This white paper also includes 18 additional recommendations regarding technical issues, configuration and processes.

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Security Testing and Assessment Services Guide

    This document provides you with an understanding of common cyber security tests and assessments organizations can use to evaluate their security posture and the distinctions between them. It will help you more accurately determine which assessment may be appropriate for your organization’s needs.

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Why the Growth is moving from In-House to Managed Services

    Small and medium businesses are moving away from managing their network security in-house in favor of outsourcing it to managed security services providers. In fact, Aberdeen's 1Q2013 study of nearly 200 organizations found that more than half of all respondents have outsourced at least one of their IT Security solutions,...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Justifying a Computer Incident Response Plan

    Having a strong Computer Incident Response Plan (CIRP) in place before a security breach occurs can minimize the duration, disruption and cost of a breach. This white paper by TechTarget provides relevant guidance on how to justify a CIRP and reports that having an effective response capability can save an...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • Webcasts // Sep 2013

    Backup Best Practices for VMware Virtual Machines

    Are you a brand new vSphere administrator? Virtualization has come a long way in a short time, so keeping up with the latest best practices is critical. In this on-demand webcast, Greg Shields of Concentrated Technology discusses the history of virtual backups, how to address VMware and VM backups and...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • Downloads // Aug 2013

    Download a Free AppAssure 5 Trial

    Designed for virtual, physical and cloud environments, Dell AppAssure 5 provides continual data and application backups and flexible recovery options for unparalleled data protection.

    Download a Free Trial!

    Sponsored By Dell

  • Downloads // Aug 2013

    Download a Free vRanger 6.0 Trial

    With Dell vRanger, you gain comprehensive protection for both virtual and physical environments from one intuitive interface. No wonder more than 40,000 customers rely on vRanger’s speed, simplicity and scalability to protect their critical data every day.

    Download a Free Trial!

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Fabricating an Agile, Efficient IT Infrastructure

    Haggar Clothing Company was running virtual servers and desktops on storage networks that were approaching end of life. They chose to consolidate data onto a Dell™ Compellent™ array and replaced their data-protection with a Dell DR4000 backup. The result? $12,000 annual savings on disk purchases, as well as 40+ hours/month...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    ESG Lab Validation Report: Dell PowerVaultDL4000 Appliance

    Data protection continues to be one of IT’s most persistent challenges. In addition to the typical challenges of cost and backup/recovery times, IT organizations are faced with the ongoing growth of data volumes and expanding virtualization which complicate the protection landscape and challenge IT staffs in organizations of all sizes...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Protecting Exchange: Best practices and Practical Tips

    While disaster recovery and business continuity plans are necessary, they do not constitute a comprehensive and effective email data protection strategy. A good data-protection strategy must prevent the loss or corruption of mission-critical data. But the best data protection is really about minimizing downtime. According to a 2011 Forrester survey,...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Data Protection: Evaluating Business Requirements and Classifying Your Data

    Protecting your company’s data and applications means much more than just running a simple backup routine. It is about protecting your business assets throughout their lifecycle – in terms of preservation, recoverability and availability. A complete data-protection approach can help your company adapt to rapidly changing opportunities and environments, including:

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Demystifying Deduplication for Backup with the Dell DR4000

    Data deduplication, or dedupe for short, can yield enormous savings, making disk-to-disk backup more feasible. However, not all deduplication technologies are equal. Tape backup is no longer an effective solution for all data-protection scenarios. Many organizations are turning to disk-based backup solutions to augment or, in some cases, replace their...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • Videos // Aug 2013

    Dell AppAssure End to End Video

    Dell AppAssure is the backup, replication and recovery solution that works across your virtual, physical and cloud environments. In this informative white board video, learn more about AppAssure’s power and ease of use, and how end-to-end data protection ensures all your critical data is safe. Watch it now.

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    The 12 Essential Tasks of Active Directory Domain Services

    Did you know there are 12 major tasks in Active Directory (AD) Domain Services management? Delegation of these tasks is key to keeping your AD environment performing a peak levels. But which ones require more time and effort? Which increase workload to the breaking point? And is there a better...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    The Active Directory Management and Security You’ve Always Dreamed Of

    Windows native security did the job when Windows NT was released in 1993. However, the growing complexity of IT infrastructures, an ever-changing and diverse workforce, IT administrators forced to do every menial Active Directory task – and much more! – means you need a strong, centralized and automated Active Directory...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    The Keys to the Kingdom: Limiting Active Directory Administrators

    Securing your Active Directory (AD) forest is a critical step for your enterprise. However, allowing a data center server operator to act as a domain administrator is the most potentially damaging security risk in your AD infrastructure.

    In this Windows IT Pro white paper, discover the differences between the...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Discover 10 Steps to Securing Active Directory

    Active Directory user accounts are crucial to security because they are the basis for authentication and initial access to the network, systems, and applications. And maintaining AD in a clean, organized, and secure state is a challenge for organizations. But what if you could reduce costs while improving AD security...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Access Control Is Easy, Use Active Directory Groups and Manage Them Well

    Good access control? It’s not about assigning permissions to Active Directory (AD). It really comes down to avoiding the use of local groups (whether on Windows file servers, in Microsoft SQL Server, in SharePoint, etc). In this new white paper, see why AD groups are at the center of the...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Vendor Landscape: Virtual Backup Software

    Your data center is constantly becoming more complicated. Today, the proliferation of virtualization — both for virtual servers as well as virtual desktop projects — has added an all-new layer of complexity to the picture. Server virtualization is now handling production workloads, and traditional backup vendors are adding features to...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Discover Five Amazing Things You Can Do with NetVault Backup

    NetVault Backup is cross-platform backup and recovery software that safeguards your data and applications in both physical and virtual environments – from one intuitive console. This scalable enterprise solution supports dozens of server and application platforms. NetVault Backup plug-ins give you consistent, reliable, point-and-click restore for your messaging and database...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    O’Reilly School of Technology Proves that NetVault Backup Pays Off

    O’Reilly School of Technology’s internal policies call for it to copy each set of weekly or monthly array-based snapshots to another storage media (disk or tape) for long term data retention and offsite protection. The Lead System Administrator, Trent Johnson, noticed his backups were taking an entire weekend to complete,...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Seven Key Attributes Needed to Automate VM Data Protection

    Virtualization has become the de facto method to deploy the majority of applications. Forrester Research recently reported that, by the end of 2013, 77 percent of companies would be using virtualization, with 6 out of 10 running their application workloads on virtual machines. But to keep those virtualized environments functioning...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    University Prevents Data Loss with Robust Data Protection Solution

    The University of Miami (UM) is a private research university with more than 15,000 students. It’s also the sixth-largest employer in Miami-Dade County, with a total economic impact to the community of $4.5 billion. In transitioning to a VMware® environment, UM needed a single, scalable solution for protecting 213TB of...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // May 2013

    Evaluating Deduplication Solutions

    Do you know what deduplication is, and how it can benefit your company? Deduplication is one of the hottest technologies on the market today because it reduces your data storage costs across the board while increasing IT productivity.

    Learn more about deduplication – and how it makes your life...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // May 2013

    Dell Data Protection Point of View

    By applying business intelligence and analytics to your business’s data, you can improve the customer experience, increase efficiency and reduce risks. On the other hand, when a system fails, IT is on the hook to restore data and applications immediately, even though it takes an average of 18.5 hours to...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Jan 2013

    Protecting Applications and Data in a Virtual World with Dell AppAssure

    Dell AppAssure provides holistic protection both for physical and virtual environments, dramatically improving recovery time and recovery point objectives. AppAssure delivers:

    • Management of virtual and hybrid environments from a single console
    • Automatic testing of every backup on a nightly basis
    • Smart agent architecture to instantly recover...

      Sponsored By Dell

    • White Papers // Sep 2012

      Bank Cuts Replication Time More than Half with vReplicator and vRanger

      For sixteen years, Tennessee’s Cornerstone Community Bank has focused on delivering friendly, personal service to its customers, of which 85 percent are businesses. With about 130 employees (including two full-time IT staffers), the bank recognized that it needed an efficient, reliable replication and backup/recovery tool designed for its 27 virtual...

      Sponsored By Dell

    • White Papers // Sep 2012

      RUAG Reduces Backup Admin Time by 93 Percent with NetVault Backup

      The RUAG Group is an international aerospace and defense technology company with production sites in Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Hungary and the United States. Following a merging of IT departments, RUAG wanted to consolidate its local backup processes with minimal impact to users. After testing, the company successfully migrated its...

      Sponsored By Dell

    • White Papers // Sep 2012

      Monster Tool Spends Fewer than Five Minutes a Day on Backup Tasks

      Monster Tool is a leading manufacturer of solid carbide cutting tools, including drills, endmills, reamers and burrs. The company has about 100 employees, and its distribution centers across the U.S. ship all over North America. Monster Tool’s IT environment included Windows, Mac, Linux and VMware. Yet only a fraction of...

      Sponsored By Dell

    • White Papers // Jul 2012

      How to Avoid the Coming Backup Crunch

      Tolerances for data loss are approaching zero, and traditional backup has become a resource drain that threatens to cripple IT with “business as usual.” Dell’s critically acclaimed AppAssure enables IT to capture continuous backup snapshots, automate recoverability testing and offload data deduplication/compression. As a result, businesses can successfully fulfill rapidly...

      Sponsored By Dell

    • White Papers // Jan 2012

      Building Higher IT Business Continuity in the Face of Disaster

      In the past, one- or two-day outages were trouble. Today, a few hours downtime can cripple your organization. It’s not just employees who are affected; partners and customers also link to your IT through email and database applications. Losing your data or critical systems can mean:

      • Revenue loss...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Jan 2012

        Unifying Virtualized Backup Replication and Recovery with Dell AppAssure 5

        Data protection is a holistic practice; you are only as protected as your weakest link. When backing up virtual machines compromises on protection are often made. Dell? AppAssure 5 instead builds on an impressive legacy of high-performance backup and recovery solutions, eliminating the need for vendor-specific hardware, giving IT administrators...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Jan 2012

        Unified Backup: Virtual & Physical

        In independent testing, researchers found that Dell AppAssure offered advantages in ease-of-use and backup/recovery time. AppAssure’s image-level backup technology essentially eliminates the potential for data loss by creating closely spaced recovery points for critical applications, such as Exchange, SQL and SharePoint. For IT operations, the new OO architecture of AppAssure...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Jan 2012

        The Buyers’ Guide to Virtual + Physical Data Protection

        Your data center is constantly becoming more complicated. Today, the proliferation of virtualization — both for virtual servers as well as virtual desktop projects — has added an all-new layer of complexity to the picture. In this new white paper, identify business goals, technical approaches and recovery scenarios for virtual...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Jan 2012

        The Complete Solution: Quest vRanger Version 6.0 Product Analysis

        Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst George Crump details how with vRanger 6.0, Dell has taken this highly regarded product beyond being one of the top VMware backup utilities. vRanger 6.0 now serves as a full-scale backup solution: comprehensive protection both for virtual and physical environments that you can manage from one...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Jan 2012

        Alter Ego Turns to NetVault Backup for a Practical Solution

        Alter Ego leads the way in video production and visual effects in the high-end Canadian marketplace, combining decades of collective experience with the latest in nonlinear digital technology. By switching to Dell’s NetVault Backup, Alter Ego found a solution that did more than meet its technical backup requirements. NetVault gave...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Oct 2013

        That Dreaded Day: Active Directory Disasters & Solutions for Preventing Them

        While Active Directory’s built-in features will keep it running after some failures, there are others from which it cannot bounce back. This paper presents five AD disaster case studies and how they might have been prevented or repaired faster with proper planning and tools. Read the White Paper >>

        Provided By Dell

      • White Papers // Sep 2013

        Transaction-Centric vs. Infra Centric¬_APM

        Should your organization take a transaction-centric or infrastructure-centric approach to application performance management? Download this report from TRAC Research to examine the major differences between the two approaches, the pros and cons of both in difference use cases, and finally which technology better fits your organization.

        Provided By Dell

  • Webcasts // Sep 2013

    Backup Best Practices for VMware Virtual Machines

    Are you a brand new vSphere administrator? Virtualization has come a long way in a short time, so keeping up with the latest best practices is critical. In this on-demand webcast, Greg Shields of Concentrated Technology discusses the history of virtual backups, how to address VMware and VM backups and...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    10 Tips to Minimize the Impact of a Security Breach

    The Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit research team has developed a set of 10 recommended best practices to help minimize the duration and impact of a security breach. This white paper also includes 18 additional recommendations regarding technical issues, configuration and processes.

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Why the Growth is moving from In-House to Managed Services

    Small and medium businesses are moving away from managing their network security in-house in favor of outsourcing it to managed security services providers. In fact, Aberdeen's 1Q2013 study of nearly 200 organizations found that more than half of all respondents have outsourced at least one of their IT Security solutions,...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Justifying a Computer Incident Response Plan

    Having a strong Computer Incident Response Plan (CIRP) in place before a security breach occurs can minimize the duration, disruption and cost of a breach. This white paper by TechTarget provides relevant guidance on how to justify a CIRP and reports that having an effective response capability can save an...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Security Testing and Assessment Services Guide

    This document provides you with an understanding of common cyber security tests and assessments organizations can use to evaluate their security posture and the distinctions between them. It will help you more accurately determine which assessment may be appropriate for your organization’s needs.

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Jan 2012

    Unified Backup: Virtual & Physical

    In independent testing, researchers found that Dell AppAssure offered advantages in ease-of-use and backup/recovery time. AppAssure’s image-level backup technology essentially eliminates the potential for data loss by creating closely spaced recovery points for critical applications, such as Exchange, SQL and SharePoint. For IT operations, the new OO architecture of AppAssure...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Jan 2012

    Building Higher IT Business Continuity in the Face of Disaster

    In the past, one- or two-day outages were trouble. Today, a few hours downtime can cripple your organization. It’s not just employees who are affected; partners and customers also link to your IT through email and database applications. Losing your data or critical systems can mean:

    • Revenue loss...

      Sponsored By Dell

    • White Papers // Jan 2012

      Unifying Virtualized Backup Replication and Recovery with Dell AppAssure 5

      Data protection is a holistic practice; you are only as protected as your weakest link. When backing up virtual machines compromises on protection are often made. Dell? AppAssure 5 instead builds on an impressive legacy of high-performance backup and recovery solutions, eliminating the need for vendor-specific hardware, giving IT administrators...

      Sponsored By Dell

    • White Papers // Aug 2013

      Vendor Landscape: Virtual Backup Software

      Your data center is constantly becoming more complicated. Today, the proliferation of virtualization — both for virtual servers as well as virtual desktop projects — has added an all-new layer of complexity to the picture. Server virtualization is now handling production workloads, and traditional backup vendors are adding features to...

      Sponsored By Dell

    • White Papers // Jul 2012

      How to Avoid the Coming Backup Crunch

      Tolerances for data loss are approaching zero, and traditional backup has become a resource drain that threatens to cripple IT with “business as usual.” Dell’s critically acclaimed AppAssure enables IT to capture continuous backup snapshots, automate recoverability testing and offload data deduplication/compression. As a result, businesses can successfully fulfill rapidly...

      Sponsored By Dell

    • White Papers // Jan 2013

      Protecting Applications and Data in a Virtual World with Dell AppAssure

      Dell AppAssure provides holistic protection both for physical and virtual environments, dramatically improving recovery time and recovery point objectives. AppAssure delivers:

      • Management of virtual and hybrid environments from a single console
      • Automatic testing of every backup on a nightly basis
      • Smart agent architecture to instantly recover...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Jan 2012

        The Buyers’ Guide to Virtual + Physical Data Protection

        Your data center is constantly becoming more complicated. Today, the proliferation of virtualization — both for virtual servers as well as virtual desktop projects — has added an all-new layer of complexity to the picture. In this new white paper, identify business goals, technical approaches and recovery scenarios for virtual...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // May 2013

        Dell Data Protection Point of View

        By applying business intelligence and analytics to your business’s data, you can improve the customer experience, increase efficiency and reduce risks. On the other hand, when a system fails, IT is on the hook to restore data and applications immediately, even though it takes an average of 18.5 hours to...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Jan 2012

        The Complete Solution: Quest vRanger Version 6.0 Product Analysis

        Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst George Crump details how with vRanger 6.0, Dell has taken this highly regarded product beyond being one of the top VMware backup utilities. vRanger 6.0 now serves as a full-scale backup solution: comprehensive protection both for virtual and physical environments that you can manage from one...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Sep 2012

        Bank Cuts Replication Time More than Half with vReplicator and vRanger

        For sixteen years, Tennessee’s Cornerstone Community Bank has focused on delivering friendly, personal service to its customers, of which 85 percent are businesses. With about 130 employees (including two full-time IT staffers), the bank recognized that it needed an efficient, reliable replication and backup/recovery tool designed for its 27 virtual...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Jan 2012

        Alter Ego Turns to NetVault Backup for a Practical Solution

        Alter Ego leads the way in video production and visual effects in the high-end Canadian marketplace, combining decades of collective experience with the latest in nonlinear digital technology. By switching to Dell’s NetVault Backup, Alter Ego found a solution that did more than meet its technical backup requirements. NetVault gave...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Sep 2012

        RUAG Reduces Backup Admin Time by 93 Percent with NetVault Backup

        The RUAG Group is an international aerospace and defense technology company with production sites in Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Hungary and the United States. Following a merging of IT departments, RUAG wanted to consolidate its local backup processes with minimal impact to users. After testing, the company successfully migrated its...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Sep 2012

        Monster Tool Spends Fewer than Five Minutes a Day on Backup Tasks

        Monster Tool is a leading manufacturer of solid carbide cutting tools, including drills, endmills, reamers and burrs. The company has about 100 employees, and its distribution centers across the U.S. ship all over North America. Monster Tool’s IT environment included Windows, Mac, Linux and VMware. Yet only a fraction of...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Aug 2013

        Discover Five Amazing Things You Can Do with NetVault Backup

        NetVault Backup is cross-platform backup and recovery software that safeguards your data and applications in both physical and virtual environments – from one intuitive console. This scalable enterprise solution supports dozens of server and application platforms. NetVault Backup plug-ins give you consistent, reliable, point-and-click restore for your messaging and database...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Aug 2013

        O’Reilly School of Technology Proves that NetVault Backup Pays Off

        O’Reilly School of Technology’s internal policies call for it to copy each set of weekly or monthly array-based snapshots to another storage media (disk or tape) for long term data retention and offsite protection. The Lead System Administrator, Trent Johnson, noticed his backups were taking an entire weekend to complete,...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Aug 2013

        Fabricating an Agile, Efficient IT Infrastructure

        Haggar Clothing Company was running virtual servers and desktops on storage networks that were approaching end of life. They chose to consolidate data onto a Dell™ Compellent™ array and replaced their data-protection with a Dell DR4000 backup. The result? $12,000 annual savings on disk purchases, as well as 40+ hours/month...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Aug 2013

        ESG Lab Validation Report: Dell PowerVaultDL4000 Appliance

        Data protection continues to be one of IT’s most persistent challenges. In addition to the typical challenges of cost and backup/recovery times, IT organizations are faced with the ongoing growth of data volumes and expanding virtualization which complicate the protection landscape and challenge IT staffs in organizations of all sizes...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • Downloads // Aug 2013

        Download a Free AppAssure 5 Trial

        Designed for virtual, physical and cloud environments, Dell AppAssure 5 provides continual data and application backups and flexible recovery options for unparalleled data protection.

        Download a Free Trial!

        Sponsored By Dell

      • Downloads // Aug 2013

        Download a Free vRanger 6.0 Trial

        With Dell vRanger, you gain comprehensive protection for both virtual and physical environments from one intuitive interface. No wonder more than 40,000 customers rely on vRanger’s speed, simplicity and scalability to protect their critical data every day.

        Download a Free Trial!

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Aug 2013

        Seven Key Attributes Needed to Automate VM Data Protection

        Virtualization has become the de facto method to deploy the majority of applications. Forrester Research recently reported that, by the end of 2013, 77 percent of companies would be using virtualization, with 6 out of 10 running their application workloads on virtual machines. But to keep those virtualized environments functioning...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Aug 2013

        University Prevents Data Loss with Robust Data Protection Solution

        The University of Miami (UM) is a private research university with more than 15,000 students. It’s also the sixth-largest employer in Miami-Dade County, with a total economic impact to the community of $4.5 billion. In transitioning to a VMware® environment, UM needed a single, scalable solution for protecting 213TB of...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // May 2013

        Evaluating Deduplication Solutions

        Do you know what deduplication is, and how it can benefit your company? Deduplication is one of the hottest technologies on the market today because it reduces your data storage costs across the board while increasing IT productivity.

        Learn more about deduplication – and how it makes your life...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • Videos // Aug 2013

        Dell AppAssure End to End Video

        Dell AppAssure is the backup, replication and recovery solution that works across your virtual, physical and cloud environments. In this informative white board video, learn more about AppAssure’s power and ease of use, and how end-to-end data protection ensures all your critical data is safe. Watch it now.

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Aug 2013

        The 12 Essential Tasks of Active Directory Domain Services

        Did you know there are 12 major tasks in Active Directory (AD) Domain Services management? Delegation of these tasks is key to keeping your AD environment performing a peak levels. But which ones require more time and effort? Which increase workload to the breaking point? And is there a better...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Aug 2013

        The Active Directory Management and Security You’ve Always Dreamed Of

        Windows native security did the job when Windows NT was released in 1993. However, the growing complexity of IT infrastructures, an ever-changing and diverse workforce, IT administrators forced to do every menial Active Directory task – and much more! – means you need a strong, centralized and automated Active Directory...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Aug 2013

        The Keys to the Kingdom: Limiting Active Directory Administrators

        Securing your Active Directory (AD) forest is a critical step for your enterprise. However, allowing a data center server operator to act as a domain administrator is the most potentially damaging security risk in your AD infrastructure.

        In this Windows IT Pro white paper, discover the differences between the...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Aug 2013

        Discover 10 Steps to Securing Active Directory

        Active Directory user accounts are crucial to security because they are the basis for authentication and initial access to the network, systems, and applications. And maintaining AD in a clean, organized, and secure state is a challenge for organizations. But what if you could reduce costs while improving AD security...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Aug 2013

        Access Control Is Easy, Use Active Directory Groups and Manage Them Well

        Good access control? It’s not about assigning permissions to Active Directory (AD). It really comes down to avoiding the use of local groups (whether on Windows file servers, in Microsoft SQL Server, in SharePoint, etc). In this new white paper, see why AD groups are at the center of the...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Aug 2013

        Protecting Exchange: Best practices and Practical Tips

        While disaster recovery and business continuity plans are necessary, they do not constitute a comprehensive and effective email data protection strategy. A good data-protection strategy must prevent the loss or corruption of mission-critical data. But the best data protection is really about minimizing downtime. According to a 2011 Forrester survey,...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Aug 2013

        Data Protection: Evaluating Business Requirements and Classifying Your Data

        Protecting your company’s data and applications means much more than just running a simple backup routine. It is about protecting your business assets throughout their lifecycle – in terms of preservation, recoverability and availability. A complete data-protection approach can help your company adapt to rapidly changing opportunities and environments, including:

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Aug 2013

        Demystifying Deduplication for Backup with the Dell DR4000

        Data deduplication, or dedupe for short, can yield enormous savings, making disk-to-disk backup more feasible. However, not all deduplication technologies are equal. Tape backup is no longer an effective solution for all data-protection scenarios. Many organizations are turning to disk-based backup solutions to augment or, in some cases, replace their...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Sep 2013

        Accelerating Incident Response: How Integrated Services Reduce Risk and the Impact of a Security Breach

        Information security best practices are all about mitigating risks. There is no 100 percent fail-safe security program, device or system. It takes an orchestrated effort between managed security services, threat intelligence and incident response to provide the strongest defense. This paper presents the advantages of a single-outsourced solution for managed...

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Oct 2013

        Dell Integrated Data Protection: DR4100 with NetVault

        IT teams are faced with swelling data volumes and expanding virtualization, both of which complicate your backup and recovery strategies. The DR4100 appliance, combined with NetVault, protects both physical and virtual servers, increases backup speed and provides recovery assurance for data and applications. Learn more in this ESG Lab review.

        Sponsored By Dell

      • White Papers // Feb 2013

        Fine Tuning IT Infrastructure Through Rapid System Assessment

        IT organizations constantly strive to optimize IT infrastructure to meet enterprise needs efficiently and cost-effectively. For example, they may extend the life of an existing infrastructure by incorporating technologies such as virtualized workloads or storage area networks (SANs). Before planning and sizing workloads for a new infrastructure design, IT organizations...

        Provided By Dell

      • White Papers // Feb 2013

        Introducing DPACK

        In an effort to help guide our customers through mission critical IT decisions, Dell’s team of solution experts have developed an innovative new tool - the Dell Performance Analysis Collection Kit or DPACK. Through a simply-run program, DPACK produces an output that gives you the confidence and knowledge you need...

        Provided By Dell