Dell White Papers

Cloud Training in a Box: Inexpensive and Reproducible Training Environments for Cloud Solutions

This Dell Technical White Paper provides a virtual environment for demonstrating, testing and training on the use of Dell’s deployment procedures for an OpenStack cloud.

Creating a Social Learning Platform

This paper aims to help to guide the reader through the many challenges and pitfalls associated with a Social Learning Platform.

Understanding Battery Life in Portable Computers

21 Jul 2011

Learn about the variables that affect battery life in a typical portable computer system, battery-life benchmarks used by the industry, and ways to maximize battery life.

Data Center Operating Temperature: What Does Dell Recommend?

There is lots of hype these days about operating your data center at higher temperatures. You may be asking several questions regarding this topic: How much does it save and do the savings outweigh the risks? What temperature should I target? This paper addresses the theory that although an increase in IT inlet temperatures enables energy savings in the cooling process, it might be that the increased fan power associated with higher IT inlet temperatures might negate the facility efficiency advantages. What we found confirmed the hypothesis: there is a “sweet spot” operating temperature when you are using mechanical means to cool your data center.

Rack Infrastructure Effects on Thermal Performance of a Server

Focus: Quantify and analyze impact of Cable Management Arm and doors of IT equipment rack on airflow through a 1U server. Results: Rack doors and CMA were each in the three percent range and did not have a concerning impact on the performance of the server.

Universal Application and Benefits of Air Containment

18 Dec 2009

Implement containment to operate more efficiently and at higher densities with the ability to predictably deploy IT hardware with less thermal risk.

IT Equipment Response to External Pressure

18 Dec 2009

The integration of IT equipment and facility cooling solutions can produce both unexpected and undesirable results. Containment solutions are highly recommended.

Addressing System Memory Challenges: Load-Reduced DIMMs

27 Oct 2009

The next evolution of the memory interface — load-reduced dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs) — could provide better platform scalability for servers and workstations through the life of the Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) and DDR4 native interfaces.

Business Client PCs: Solid-State Drives Moving Into the Mainstream

21 Oct 2009

Solid-state drives (SSDs) offer inherent reliability and performance advantages, and now increasing capacities and falling costs. This provides advantages over traditional hard-disk drives (HDD) in enterprise environments.