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The newest versions of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 have a great deal to offer users and IT managers. Join Dell, Microsoft and Ziff Davis Enterprise for an eSeminar to learn about the key benefits of this simultaneous migration and the key methods of achieving it.

There are many benefits of migrating to Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 together. A joint migration can save you time and money; find out how Dell can help you have a successful migration.

Windows Vista incorporates a number of new and enhanced security features that address spyware, security vulnerabilities and end user naiveté.

Dell has improved PC deployment activities through patent-pending automation technology and offers an array of services from planning a Windows Vista migration to post-deployment management.

Corporate customers are deploying Windows Vista now, and Dell Services wants to help you understand the features of the new OS and how to plan your Windows Vista deployment.

Managing applications is a big busi¬ness challenge today. When applications must be updated, installed or migrated, companies must ensure disruptions are minimized to keep users productive throughout the pro-cess. Dell provides ser¬vices that can help every step of the way.

Dell can help corporations to properly dispose of old PCs in a secure and cost-effective manner that is also environmentally friendly.

Windows Vista includes deployment tools that help you manage your migration. Dell Services extends the reach of those tools with time-saving automated deployments based on best practices.

This paper offers IDC's quantitative and qualitative research and perspective for examining the challenges and costs of PC deployment, as well as the benefits of automating deployment processes. The paper also looks at the Dell Deployment Optimization model and the role of the DAD solution in this important market.

Email has become today's most mission-critical communication channel. Each and every day, 800 million business users worldwide use email during the course of their work day and about 80 percent of a company's intellectual property passes though its email server. Email is a vital component of both internal communication between employees and external communication with customers and business partners. It has become such an integral part of normal day-to-day business operations that most companies simply cannot function without it: when email stops, your ability to conduct business also stops.

Datacenters experience constant change under pressure from technology and business drivers. IT systems are becoming more, not less complex as new technologies are introduced, and IT staffs are not growing to keep pace with the growth in size and complexity of the typical datacenter. Windows administrators need to radically simplify both complex and routine tasks if they are going to effectively respond to the constant pressure to deliver increasing value with limited resources. The most effective thing Windows administrators can do to address this issue is to minimize duties associated with maintaining the existing infrastructure.

The problem of providing remote access to the files is nothing new, but the implementation of the solution quite often also determines reliability, safety and productivity. In this article we will look at accessing a remote computer (Unix, Linux or Windows) over non-trusted network.

An official provider of Microsoft Online Learning, C.B.Learning offers cost-effective, managed training which your team can complete without leaving the office. Their Learning Management System (LMS) is a secure online service that offers you a direct way to monitor progress and helps you extend your training budget. Try a free Microsoft course today.

The HP StorageWorks EVA4400 & Microsoft applications have been tested together for real performance & reliability gains & Dynamic Capacity Manager takes advantage of more Windows features.

Windows’ newest technology, the User Account Control, found in the Vista operating system has been erroneously called an additional level of security by many computer security professionals. Instead, in the hope to reduce the incidence of malware, unauthorized software installation, and unintentional system changes the User Account Control separates standard user tasks from requiring administrator level password access.

In order to protect important data, we use a large variety of methods and technologies, especially when the data in question is confidential and essential for day-to-day operations of a business and for making important management decisions. "If you have the information, you own the world" has become the basic tenet of our times, where control over data is of the utmost significance. The loss of access to important data can have a very negative impact on the company’s business.

For mission-critical IT, service outages and data loss pose serious consequences.  This white paper examines how availability management, disaster recovery and business continuity support one another and offers insight to find success at all of them.

Learn how to meet regulatory requirements for system change and user activity monitoring with NetIQ Change Guardian for Windows, without the need for performance-hindering native auditing.

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and the Ultimus BPM Suite compliment each other. WF can be used to extend the capabilities of Ultimus by performing specialized services. The Ultimus BPM Suite can be invoked by WF activities to perform workflows that are not simple and require extensive and robust human-centric capabilities.

Virtualization and workload management are essential technologies for maximizing scalability, availability and value on high-end computing systems, and Itanium(r) 2-based servers offer many options. One is SWsoft Virtuozzo, a proven, software-based virtualization solution for consolidating Linux and Windows applications. 

This white paper provides an overview of how to use GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) and Microsoft Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) to keep your network automatically updated with the latest security patches.

In today's environment of bigger disks storing not only larger files but more files than ever before, the effects of fragmentation worsen markedly with each day's use. To keep up with same-day performance degradation, disks must be defragmented in real-time.

Sooner or later, disasters happen to every computer user. They delete important files, on purpose or accidentally. Or they update a document and save it, overwriting the original version. Download this paper to learn how to protect against accidental file erasure.

While there is little dispute among IT professionals regarding the impact of disk fragmentation on system performance, no independent guidelines exist to recommend the frequency of defragmentation across an infrastructure. This white paper will outline the results of testing, draw conclusions, and make recommendations regarding managing fragmentation across your infrastructure.

If your company uses a contact management or customer relationship management (CRM system), you need to ask one additional key question. Does your CRM or contact management system tie your consultative sales, ROI analysis and proposal production process together?