Announcing: Foglight for OpenStack and KVM monitoring
The excitement around OpenStack is palpable. The conferences dedicated to the software are easily oversubscribed. Lots of analysts and bloggers alike are writing about the software, its adoption and...
View ArticleUsing Windows PowerShell to update the BIOS on Dell PowerEdge servers
Dell iDRAC along with LC, provide a great set of server management and monitoring abilities. In the this whitepaper CIM Cmdlets with Dell iDRAC for remote management along with several previous blog...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge R730xd – Easily scalable, high-density building block for...
Generational improvements in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and Dell PowerEdge servers provide more ways for IT organizations to save money and time while meeting growing email capacity and performance...
View ArticleSolving Hard Drive Pain Points with Leading-Edge Solid State Drives
Hard Drive PainsAs you already know, computers require more performance than ever. There are three things that boost computer performance: the processor(s), the memory, and the storage. Processors and...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Solid State Drives for the Enterprise
Now that you have made the decision to adopt Solid State Drives (SSDs) in your data center, choices abound. As with any evolving data center technology, there are options to suit your unique compute...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge Bests HP in SAP HANA Performance using the SAP BW Enhanced...
With the publication of two additional world record results, Dell's PowerEdge R730 and R920 servers are once again showing their industry leading performance when running SAP benchmarks. This time, the...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 performance on Dell PowerEdge R220
This blog post is originally written by Tilak Sidduram from Dell Windows Engineering Team.With less than a year left before Microsoft ends extended support for Windows Server 2003, including R2, most...
View ArticleDell 13th generation PowerEdge serves up both higher performance and lower...
Dell's 13th generation PowerEdge R630 1U rack server, based upon the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family, proves capable of producing 9.5% more work and 19% better overall energy efficiency...
View ArticleDispelling the myths: Uncovering the truth of SSDs
Thanks to incredible performance, reliability, and decreasing price points, solid state drives (SSDs) are becoming increasingly common in today’s desktops and notebooks. But since SSDs aren’t the most...
View ArticleThe SSD Advantage: Breaking through the Performance Bottleneck
As virtual environments become more widespread and applications require greater performance, you may find that traditional hard drives are becoming a bottleneck. Shifts toward private clouds, in-memory...
View ArticleSolid State Drives: An Objective Comparison to HDDs
Author: Tien Shiah, Samsung Product Marketing Manager – SSDTien brings more than 15 years of product marketing experience from the semiconductor and storage industries. He has an MBA from McGill...
View ArticleSSD in the Array? Today
Author: Tien Shiah, Samsung Product Marketing Manager – SSDTien brings more than 15 years of product marketing experience from the semiconductor and storage industries. He has an MBA from McGill...
View ArticleConsistent Server Virtual Disk Configuration for Exchange Databases using...
In an earlier post, we looked at the building block architecture for Microsoft Exchange 2013 deployments using PowerEdge R730xd. In the Pod architecture, each server in the deployment has a standard...
View ArticleAdvantages of the DDR4 memory technology in 13th generation PowerEdge servers
The 13th generation PowerEdge server family, based on the Intel E5-2600 v3 family CPU, implements the new DDR4 system memory standard which offers advantages over 12G's DDR3 including faster speeds,...
View ArticleMaking the Best SSD Purchasing Decision
Author: Tien Shiah, Samsung Product Marketing Manager – SSDTien brings more than 15 years of product marketing experience from the semiconductor and storage industries. He has an MBA from McGill...
View ArticleNVMe and You
Author: Tien Shiah, Samsung Product Marketing Manager – SSDTien brings more than 15 years of product marketing experience from the semiconductor and storage industries. He has an MBA from McGill...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge 13G Servers now support UEFI Secure Boot
A guide to enabling and deploying on Windows 2012, CentOS/RHEL 7, and SLES 12.Authors: Thomas Cantwell, Charles Rose, Aditi Satam, Michael Schroeder
View ArticleDell OpenManage Plug-in Version 1.0 for Nagios Core is now available
Author: Vishwanath S Patil The new Dell OpenManage Plug-in version 1.0 for Nagios Core version 3.5.0 and later provides a relatively easy way for current or prospective Dell customers who use Nagios...
View ArticleAnnouncing the release of biosdevname 0.6.1
(Posted on behalf of Jordan Hargrave.)Biosdevname is a utility used to help map Linux Ethernet devices to their physical location in a system. Traditionally in Linux, ethernet devices have been named...
View ArticleInstalling Debian 8 on a Dell XPS 13
This is a step-by-step installation guide written by Eric Mill (@konklone) and Paul Tagliamonte (@paultag) showing how to install Debian 8 on a Dell XPS 13 notebook:You will need:A USB drive** with at...
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