STORAGE FAMILY OVERVIEW: If you are like many organizations, you need to manage storage costs while meeting spiraling data growth requirements. Dell™ storage is designed to maximize the availability of your data while protecting your storage infrastructure investment as your needs change. The Dell | EMC CX4 storage arrays build on the CX reputation of flexibility, ease-of-use, and innovation, and are designed to greatly improve levels of performance and expandability. Join Dell for a 1 hour live presentation on the latest generation (less)

This white paper examines the performance considerations of placing Oracle Databases on enterprise flash drives versus conventional hard disk drives, as well as discusses the best practices for placing partial database containers on flash drives. (less)

Next generation Dell/EMC CX4 storage arrays bring new levels of performance, flexibility, and resource utilization to enterprise-class storage. Features such as virtual provisioning, enterprise flash drives, and customizable network interconnects make this latest generation of CX arrays well suited to meeting data growth and performance requirements while keeping costs under control. (less)

Dell/EMC CX series storage arrays have built a reputation for performance, ease of use, scalabil-ity, flexibility, reliability, and investment protection since their initial launch in 2002. Now in their fourth generation, the new CX4 arrays build on that reputation and are designed to greatly in-crease performance and capacity from the previous generation. The CX4 series provides impres-sive flexibility and investment protection with the introduction of new UltraFlexTM technology. (less)

Take seven easy steps towards identifying the right Dell server solution for your Oracle 11g installation. (less)

James Madison University needed to ensure high availability for its Oracle(r) database and PeopleSoft(r) enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, as well as provide reliable desktops and notebooks for students and staff. (less)

The University of Idaho sees higher processing and storage capacity, with 100% ROI within months, with the help of a powerful, flexible IT platform based on Dell(tm) PowerEdge(tm) servers and Dell/EMC storage. The university needed more computing power to support online class registration-but didn't want to pay for processing cycles it needed only twice a year. It also wanted to avoid expensive database upgrades and reduce the risk of losing key business data. (less)

In January 2004, Dell's order management system "GO" was struggling to cope with an ever-increasing number of orders. Because it was always running at full capacity, "GO" was taking too long to process orders and a lack of built-in fault tolerance meant that the system often had to be taken offline for manual maintenance. Dell decided to replace its existing platform with a clustered grid of Dell/Oracle/Linux servers. (less)