Protect Your Business from Disruption
Learn how today's cloud-optimized solutions enable businesses of all sizes to cost-effectively maintain end-user productivity and a resilient business continuity plan. Free your IT staff from routine maintenance functions including desktop and email management, online backup, and software inventory by leveraging SaaS-enabled solutions.
Whitepapers
Forrester Report: Protecting Email With The Cloud
Ensuring that your users can access email and keep business moving in the event of a disaster is critical, but it can be complex and costly. Cloud-based message continuity offerings are a compelling alternative because they offload cost and responsibility to a provider.
Forrest Report: How The Cloud Will Transform Disaster Recovery Services
There has been a direct correlation in DR between speed of recovery and cost — the faster you wanted to recover, the more it would cost you. But new cloud-based recovery services offer a way to achieve the recovery capabilities of advanced DR services at a more affordable, subscription-based price. These solutions break the cost/value correlation, ushering in a new era of affordability to DR.
Why Email Fails: Dell Survey of Email Outages
Dell conducted this survey to understand the frequency and causes of email outages in North American corporations using Microsoft® Exchange Server. This research shows that enterprise email systems are prone to a variety of potential breakdowns including configuration errors, loss of network access, database corruption, SAN (Storage Area Network) failures, and viruses. Data from the survey shows that in any given 12-month time period, there is a 72% likelihood of an unplanned email outage and a 24% likelihood of a planned email outage for any given company. This research report analyzes the leading causes of failure with enterprise email systems and provides preventative guidance to lower the probability of unplanned email outages.
Airport Insecurity: The Case of Lost Laptops
Companies are dependent upon on a mobile workforce with access to information no matter where they travel. However, this mobility is putting companies at risk of having a data breach if a laptop containing sensitive information is lost or stolen. The findings of this study are important in helping companies understand what they should be doing to protect the information on their employees' remote systems.
Ponemon Study: The Business Risk of a Lost Laptop
When an employee loses a computer, the information on it is typically more valuable than the hardware, according to this survey of 3,100 IT security professionals. Learn how employees can unwittingly compromise customer information, financial records and intellectual property, and read the seven steps you can take today to reduce the business risk of lost laptops.
Top 10 Actions a CIO Can Take to Prepare for a Hurricane
Each year hurricane season unleashes erratic, dangerous, and damaging storms on coastlines around the globe. Hurricanes and other natural disasters impose an unwelcome set of challenges for businesses and CIOs. Immediate concerns include the safety and security of employees as well as the prevention of damage to physical facilities. However, CIOs must also prepare to successfully overcome the challenge of maintaining business continuity in the event of a hurricane. This white paper discusses the ten key actions CIOs can take as help achieve communications and business continuity to protect against the unpredictable.
Top 10 Things to Know about Data Protection
Data protection is fast becoming part of the IT arsenal to combat data loss/theft. It can significantly reduce the amount of damage done by the above and their associated costs. Download this white paper to learn the top 10 things you should know about data protection.
Webcasts
Pandemic Preparedness: Emergency Communications and Response Planning
Diane Harris from Southern Company speaks about how to prepare for the threat H1N1 poses to business operations. Diane will discuss their implementation plans and what defense mechanisms they have in place to protect their employees, and ensure the survivability of their services. Troy Winskowicz showcases Dell's cloud-enabled solution for bi-directional, multi-channel communication, and discusses the use of automation for containment and control.
Business Continuity during the Economic Storm
If you can't communicate, you can't compete. In today's challenging economic environment, unreliable communications tools like email and telephony could dramatically damage your financial outlook. Now more than ever, you need uninterrupted communications. This webcast examines how cloud-optimized services enable uninterrupted communications and reduce the overall complexity, cost and risk of the day-to-day management of your most critical communications tools like email and telephony. Presented by Tom Everard, Sr. Solutions Consultant, Dell Services and hosted by Ziff Davis.
Gone in 6.0 Seconds: Protecting Laptops and Data from Theft
With an increasingly mobile workforce travelling with laptops, there has been a troubling increase in unauthorized access to sensitive and confidential information. Careless and naïve business practices are putting customer and enterprise data at risk, and the need for greater security is undeniable. Even a single instance of data loss can result in financial risk, regulatory violations, legal liability, and/or potentially negative publicity for your company. Having secure and reliable loss prevention and recovery strategies help to minimize these risks are precautions that most businesses cannot afford to ignore. Join Dell for an informative discussion on the steps you can take to prevent data loss and maintain control of sensitive data in a mobile workforce -- protect your employees, your customers and your business against the risk of lost laptops.
The Advantage of Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Services
Disaster recovery has traditionally been seen as an expensive insurance policy, reserved for large corporations. However new cloud-enabled technologies offer rapid recovery without the expense of IT infrastructure. How can IT executives leverage these new technologies to improve recovery capabilities and reduce costs? Join Dell for a complimentary webcast featuring Stephanie Balaouras of Forrester Research and Troy Winskowicz of Dell and learn how you can benefit from cloud-based services.
Case Studies
Southern Company
Learn how this leading energy provider, with 4.4 million customers and 28,000 employees, uses Dell Crisis Management & Alerting services to enable enterprise-wide communication to manage through any incident to accelerate recovery.
Defending Against the Storm
Adams and Reese LLP needed a way to communicate with employees and clients in the event of a disaster in order to secure employee safety and conduct business when email and BlackBerry service were down. Learn how Adams and Reese ensures communications with dispersed employees and clients after Hurricane Katrina with help from Dell.
Share our Strength
With Dell Email Management Services, Share Our Strength® effectively eliminates email downtime, protects its IT environment from unwanted spam and viruses, and significantly reduces data stores.