Designing Your Data Center

  • This is Not Your Father's Server Room

    Aging server rooms can cause serious breakdowns in computing capacity, but the damage to relationships and revenue can be especially great for a small to medium-sized business. Take a look at this comprehensive resource to learn the key considerations for updating your server room, specifically tailored for the small to medium-sized business.

  • Simplifying the SMB IT Experience - Dell Expands Data Center Options

    Dell has a full line of the latest sever and storage hardware and software to enable you to consolidate and virtualize your environment, control your costs, and satisfy all of your IT needs. To learn more about the newest line of single- and dual-socket servers and storage in the Dell lineup, please read on.

Reduce Costs

  • 6 Ways to Reduce IT Expenditures in the Next 3 Years

    This paper considers six ways SMBs can trim IT costs: private clouds, storage virtualization, disaster recovery, business intelligence, backup and data protection, and Windows 7 migration via virtualization.

  • Reducing Power and Energy Costs in the Data Center, with Windows Server 2008 R2

    Managing power consumption in the data center is a huge concern for IT organizations today. In this videocast, learn about the cost benefits of using Windows Server 2008 R2 for power and energy savings in the data center. The speaker will discuss the trends in this area and offer steps to improve power consumption and costs.

  • Whiteboarding Jam Session – The New Server Room for the SMB

    Watch this videocast for a virtual whiteboarding session with Zeus Kerravala, VP of Research for the Yankee Group, as he discusses with the things an SMB needs to think about when building a data center, also commonly known as a server room. Learn the 3 primary considerations for SMBs as the build their data centers.

Data Center Solutions from Intel

  • Intel IT Data Center Solutions: Strategies to Improve Efficiency

    Intel’s new data center strategies shift the emphasis away from reducing the number of physical data center facilities to, instead, focusing on approaches that leverage the full potential of their data centers worldwide, enabling a nominal cost savings of about USD 1 billion by 2014.

  • Intel Turbo Boost Technology

    Access this video overview to learn about Intel's Turbo Boost Technology and its ability to monitor and boost IT performance in the enterprise.

Poll

Dell and Intel Poll

1. From where do you normally purchase your servers?

Direct / Manufacturer
VAR
Catalog
Other

2. What is your top buying consideration when considering a server?

Price
Processor
Performance
Service/support
Vendor reputation
Energy Efficiency
All of the above
None of the above

3. What is the average length of time server refreshes are conducted within your organization?

Under 2 years
Every 2-4 years
Every 3-5 years
Every 5+ years

4. Who is your preferred vendor when it comes to a making a decision about processor technology?

Intel
AMD
Other
No Preference

5. When was the last time you visited Dell.com to find out more information about their hardware?

In the past 30 days
In the past 30-60 days
In the past 60-90 days
More than 90 days ago
I have never visited Dell.com for this reason

6. When was the last time you visited Intel.com to understand more about their processor solutions?

In the past 30 days
In the past 30-60 days
In the past 60-90 days
More than 90 days ago
I have never been to Dell.com for this reason

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