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• Power and Cooling Capacity Management for Data Centers

  Installation and unmanaged proliferation of IT equipment can lead to unexpected problems with your power and cooling infrastructure. Measurement at the rack level can help optimize and ensure predictable performance. Learn more here.

• If It’s Broke Fix It … If Not, Get Managed Services

  Learn how Preferred Communications Services has moved its break-fix model into managed services. Read this free report – no registration required.

• Calling for "Backup"

  Learn how Nashville Computer has thrived as a managed service provider. Read this free report – no registration required.

• Become a Microsoft Registered Partner and deliver beyond your clients’ expectations.

  As a Registered Microsoft Partner you'll receive free training, sales and marketing materials, and exclusive support to help increase visibility to your solutions and grow your business. Microsoft is here to help you exceed your customers’ needs.

• The Case for Managed Security: How to Achieve Breakthrough Growth for Your Managed Services Business

  What MSPs urgently need is a less costly and less complex value proposition that enables them to demonstrate immediate value to SMBs while moving them towards a true managed services relationship. A new approach to delivering managed anti virus and endpoint security protection is the breakthrough opportunity they need. Learn more.

• Use The Big Easy Offer 3.0 to Drive Bigger Sales!

  The Big Easy Offer 3.0 ends January 2, 2010; take advantage of this offer covering most of the core Microsoft products and solutions for customers before it’s too late. Learn more.

• Iron Mountain’s Cloud-Based Protection for Servers

  Solutions providers working with smaller businesses can help them better protect their data with two cloud-based solutions from Iron Mountain. Learn how LiveVault can enhance Microsoft’s Data Protection Manager with cloud storage, and bring your customers peace of mind. Learn more.

• Best Practices for Deploying SSDs in a Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 OLTP Environment with Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series Arrays

  This white paper discusses the performance improvement on using Dell EqualLogic™ SSD arrays to deploy Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 database and discusses some of the best practices for deploying SSDs in an OLTP environment. Read it today.

• Best Practices for running Microsoft® SQL Server® and Microsoft® Hyper-V on Dell™ PowerEdge™ Servers and Storage

  This white paper discusses the key points to consider when designing a virtualization strategy. It also provides an overview of best practices as reference architecture for virtualized database OLTP workloads. Download now.

• Using Dell EqualLogic™ Auto Replication to Synchronize Remote Offices and Headquarters

  The paper talks about different methods of synchronizing the headquarter database with the branch office database, using the tools available from Dell EqualLogic. Read it today.

• Dell Hardware and Microsoft Customer Lab Partnership Push the Database Envelope

  Find out how Dell and the Microsoft SQL Server Customer Lab provide a powerful test environment where database customers can bring in to test and fine-tune their enterprise applications running on Dell hardware. Read this case study.

• Faster Business Intelligence

  Find out how Acosta boosted productivity by 50% in loading data, business intelligence analysis, and processing data loads with Dell PowerEdge servers in this case study. Read it today.

• Staying on the Fast Track

  How does the nation’s largest career site stay ahead? CareerBuilder opts to keep growth strong by leveraging business intelligence to deliver thousands of reports up to 30 percent faster with solutions from Dell and Microsoft. Get the details. Learn more.

• Microsoft SharePoint and KnowledgeLake Capture and Imaging

  Learn how a local union achieved a ROI in about 4 months with Microsoft SharePoint and KnowledgeLake Capture and Imaging. Competitive vendors claimed that MOEITS wouldn’t be able to get all their documents into SharePoint. KnowledgeLake addressed these concerns and showed the union how they could have a complete ECM solution with SharePoint including workflow. Learn more.

• MSP Partners Membership Overview

  MSP Partners provides research and education to help solution providers stay ahead of the curve in Managed Services. Visit www.msppartners.com for more information. Read more.

• Migrate to SQL Server 2008 to Achieve Top-Level Performance

  To achieve top level performance with SQL Server 2008, you need to do two things. First, you must run the 64-bit version of SQL Server because it breaks traditional memory barriers. Second, you must move your databases to new 64-bit engine. This guide outlines the SQL Server 2008 migration process with the purpose of obtaining higher performance.

• Benefits Administration Firm Boosts Data Access and Safety with Document Management Solution

  This customer case study shows how BeneSys implemented a KnowledgeLake Document Management solution that helped them save space and money, and delivered more efficiency for employees when they need to access important data. Learn more.

• The Advantages of Row and Rack-Oriented Cooling Architecture for Data Centers

  Get a comparison of room, row and rack architectures, and learn why row-oriented cooling will emerge as the preferred solution for most next generation data centers. Get the paper.

• Deploying High-Density Zones in a Low-Density Data Center

  Learn about new breakthroughs in power and cooling technology that allows for a simple and rapid deployment of self-contained high density zones within an existing or new low density data center. Get the paper.

• Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits

  Row-based cooling, correctly sized power and cooling and real-time capacity management are essential elements in realizing virtualization’s full potential in cost reduction, efficiency and reliability. This paper shows you how.

• Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers

  This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption. Read it today

• An Improved Architecture for High-Efficiency, High-Density Data Centers

  Don't waste another watt. Learn about commercially available data center architecture that can be implemented today to dramatically improve the electrical efficiency of data centers. Read on.

• IRONCLAD Business Continuity Solutions from Zenith Infotech

  Learn about quick standby server using Instant Virtualization Technology; Flexible recovery options including exchange e-mail boxes and messages; bare-metal restore; Low-cost, full off-site storage; and turn-key managed appliance. Raad now.

• Backup and Data Recovery Offer Resellers an Avenue for Expanding Business -- Even as the Economy Contracts

  IT is the most effective approach to improving business performance. This paper shows resellers how Zenith solutions can help expand their business. Get it now from the Tech Library.

• Zenith Infotech Brings Cloud Computing to You!

  See how Zenith Infotech enables technology solution providers to offer world-class application hosting as well as hardware and appliances to their customers at a very affordable monthly fee. Download now.

• Increased Revenue, Reduced Workload with Zenith Infotech

  Watch this on-demand video and learn how SL Powers enjoys significantly increased revenue and the equivalent of "half an employee" freed for billable work -- thanks to Zenith Infotech. View now!

• Backup Disaster Recovery: A Critical Element of SMB Success

  This white paper examines how Backup and Disaster Recovery options limits data loss and aids in recovery. It also shows the value to SMBs and how VARs can select the proper solution for their clients. Read on.

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