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Enterprises with remote or branch offices and small to midsized businesses face very specific infrastructure challenges. Dell PowerEdge VRTX addresses these by providing scalable servers, storage, and networking in a compact, converged, easy-to-manage platform. Here’s how it brings simplicity, versatility and efficiency to ROBO or SMB environments.

Infrastructure that’s too expensive, inflexible, and difficult to manage has a stranglehold on enterprise IT. A new architecture from Dell is tackling these challenges by offering more choice, less complexity, and impressive scalability.

While the EDW plays an all-important role in the effort to leverage big data to drive business value, it is not without its challenges. In particular, the typical EDW is being pushed to its limits by the volume, velocity and variety of data. Download this whitepaper and see how the Dell™ | Cloudera™ | Syncsort™ Data Warehouse Optimization – ETL Offload Reference Architecture can help.

Join us to learn how to radically reduce complexity, increase agility, and better prepare your business to meet tomorrow’s challenges with Dell converged, future-ready solution technology. Stay agile and move faster than the competition with Dell Datacenter solutions.

Today’s global business model presents both opportunities for business agility and challenges for IT management. To do business effectively, organizations require an IT infrastructure at remote locations that delivers applications and data with high performance and high reliability. Download this paper and learn how you can enjoy the benefits of having remote offices without the need for an entire IT staff to support it.

In this article, learn how Dell working with Intel® helps IT leaders overcome the challenges of IT and business alignment, resource constraints and siloed environments through a comprehensive big data portfolio based on choice and flexibility, redefined economics and connected intelligence.

"Remote access is important and growing, but how secure is it? IDC Research surveyed more than 300 IT professionals to gain insight into the specific threats and challenges faced by providing access to employees and third parties. Read this report to learn about: -How secure remote access really is -The complexity faced in implementing remote access -What happens when companies don’t have an access security solution -Why businesses must pivot from the common security mantra of “trust but verify” to “verify and never trust” in the new threat landscape

"Traditional remote access technologies—like VPNs, proxies, and remote desktops—provide access in much the same way they did 20 years ago. However, new and growing business realities—like a growing mobile and distributed workforce—are forcing enterprises to take a different approach to address the complexity and security challenges that traditional access technologies present. Read 5 Reasons Enterprises Need a New Access Model to learn about the fundamental changes enterprises need to make when providing access to their private applications."

On-demand Webinar The current trend in manufacturing is towards tailor-made products in smaller lots with shorter delivery times. This change may lead to frequent production modifications resulting in increased machine downtime, higher production cost, product waste—and the need to rework faulty products. Watch this webinar to learn how TIBCO’s Smart Manufacturing solutions can help you overcome these challenges. You will also see a demonstration of TIBCO technology in action around improving yield and optimizing processes while also saving costs. What You Will Learn: Applying advanced analytics & machine learning / AI techniques to optimize complex manufacturing processes How multi-variate statistical process control can help to detect deviations from a baseline How to monitor in real time the OEE and produce a 360 view of your factory The webinar also highlights customer case studies from our clients who have already successfully implemented process optimization models. Speakers:

This paper by CA outlines the challenges experienced on a daily basis in the IT department

This info-graph explains the challenges and potential problems caused by the monitoring of multiple tools and devices and provides a complete unified visualization to help provide you with a single view in one architecture.

The cloud, virtualization, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) help make IT's life easier — and the whole organization more agile — but each of these features also presents serious security challenges. Although there is no one-size-fits-all solution to managing security in the enterprise 2.0 world, the enhanced security features and user-centric offerings in Microsoft Windows Server 2012 make security a much more comfortable proposition for IT. Read this technology brief to learn how Windows Server 2012 helps to mitigate risks and streamline compliance, as well.

The use of social media has exploded in the last several years.

Read about three companies and their challenges that drove them to outsource.

The use of social media has exploded in the last several years.

Download this white paper for insights on specific techniques startups and growing businesses can use to leverage the benefits and avoid the pitfalls of social media.

Enabling business value through the Mobile Web requires new thinking as well as a shift in technology. Putting “mobile first” and implementing services-based architectures are among the critical steps. The options are limited only to the imaginations of the designers but must be driven by the user’s context.

According to a McKinsey study, half of all outsourced projects failed to meet their expected goals – while an Information Week Survey showed that 40% of outsourced projects did not save money! Factors that contribute to these problems include issues with quality, time zone challenges, and added travel expenses, among others.

Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC), have broad potential to provide huge business value, while simultaneously presenting potentially overwhelming challenges. The rapid technology changes supporting SMAC and the overall complexity involved demand a systematic approach to building out your SMAC capability.

Commercial launch is a critical and complex period in the Life Sciences product life cycle. The transition from clinical development to commercial operations can seem overwhelming as companies face considerable challenges in transforming from an R&D-driven organization to one focused on achieving in-market business and commercial excellence. Core to successful launches is preparing the company for a whole new raft of capabilities, processes, and relationships, and in doing so there are a number of factors included in this checklist that companies should consider and questions they should answer.

Protect against hackers by upgrading to new desktops featuring Intel’s hardware-enhanced security and supporting software. Innovative hardware enhancements, built into Intel®-powered desktops since mid-2013, “harden” key information and commands normally executed in software, giving your business maximum protection. Read this paper to learn what your organization can do to overcome security challenges.

Discover how private clouds are enabling businesses to quickly respond to changing requirements, optimize efficiency, and keep costs in check, while enabling productive and satisfied users.

The rapid rate of mobile adoption provides today’s users with nearly unlimited access to data and information anytime, anywhere. While “always on” users represent a tremendous opportunity for businesses to increase engagement, revenue, and customer loyalty, they also create unprecedented mobile delivery challenges. In this e-book, we will delve into these challenges and learn how to master them by optimizing for fast APIs, mobile apps, and mobile sites. But before we do that, let’s start our mobile story with some perspective: Approximately half of you reading this e-book will do so on mobile. That fact alone should be a compelling enough reason to keep reading, but in case it’s not, the following data illustrates the impact mobile growth has had on our technological landscape.

Digital experiences on mobile connections suffer from performance issues, and impatient users compound the challenges that slower, intermittent mobile connections raise. Firms need to build a new discrete delivery tier to improve users’ perception of mobile performance and drive conversion and engagement. By dynamically adjusting to context, this new delivery tier can adaptively send the right assets, optimize the sequence, and modulate streaming rich media. this report outlines the delivery tier technology options that application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals must embrace. this is an update of a previously published report; Forrester reviews and updates it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy.

More than 23 million servers in the world are still running on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system, making it the most popular engine for serving information and applications globally for over a decade. But, starting in July 2015, Microsoft will no longer provide basic support for it.