This paper will explore a number of enterprise trends that we have observed over the previous twelve months. After a brief UCaaS market overview and review of the value propositions of today’s cloud providers, the paper will explore the key trends within the enterprise that are proving successful for realizing actual...
Published: Jan 20, 2014
This whitepaper explains that USB drives have been used to transport viruses and malware, both on purpose and accidentally.
The paper explains that no manually handling of files, such as with USB drives, is unnecessary when you set up a secure network architecture using five zones of protection. You can transfer files...
Published: Mar 27, 2014
The Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) provides the predictable performance needed for enterprises to meet a wide range of Microsoft SQL Server workload demands while also reducing risk and offering scalability options...
Published: Apr 08, 2013
As part of a five-year strategic plan, the university’s “Open Kingdom” project aims to create a consistent user experience across the Uxbridge campus, including the provision of wireless network access.
This last issue became critical in the summer of 2012, when the Students Union body insisted on...
Published: Oct 18, 2013
IT Departments are rarely short of headaches, but few projects instil quite the same level of pain, disruption and cost as operating system upgrades. Tempted by the perceived benefits of newer technology – greater productivity, better security, more effective management among them – IT professionals soon discover...
Published: Aug 13, 2013
We should state, right up front, that products based on the upcoming IEEE 802.11ac wireless-LAN (WLAN) standard are indeed going to dominate the enterprise wireless local-area network landscape.
But as is often the case with new technologies, the hype surrounding the initial availability of .11ac products is...
Published: May 21, 2013
Serving as the foundation for cloud computing and virtualization, datacenter networks will need to evolve more quickly and become better aligned with other IT resources if they are to support virtualized application workloads and the larger objective of IT-driven business transformation.
A more agile network is clearly...
Published: Oct 08, 2013
Asset owners and operators face two primary issues in exploration and production: asset productivity and operating efficiency.
Operators typically do not have visibility to sense the current state of the oil field and respond with actions to reduce well downtime or to increase the oil flow. Traditionally, these sense-and-respond...
Published: Apr 01, 2013
We’ve built a calculator that lets you quickly quantify the savings your company can expect from a SMARTnet contract.
Just plug in your numbers and find out how the benefits you can expect from SMARTnet service—fewer escalated incidents, reduced staff costs, less downtime—translate into actual cost...
Published: Dec 10, 2013
Disk-based backup with deduplication has emerged as a way for enterprise customers to deal with explosive data growth. Using it, they can accelerate backup and recovery processes and reduce total capacity requirements. The HP StoreOnce deduplication technology, announced in 2010, helps IT organizations provide data deduplication...
Published: Apr 11, 2013
The data center is central to IT strategy and houses the computational power, storage resources, and applications necessary to support an enterprise business.
A flexible data center infrastructure than can support and quickly deploy new applications can result in significant competitive advantage, but designing such...
Published: Aug 20, 2014
This case study provides insight on how a mid-size company utilized Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) to help its employees collaborate across its different divisions, located in different geographical boundaries. With HCS, the company was not only able to better connect its employees, but also optimized its global performance,...
Published: Jan 16, 2014
The next evolution in IT is happening now, and Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) is ready to power your data center in the Internet of Everything. Cisco UCS is a groundbreaking approach to computing, designed for IT innovation and business acceleration. For more than 30,000 UCS customers, the future is already...
Published: Jan 24, 2014
Software-Defined Networking is new approach to networking that unbundles the traditional device-bound, vertically integrated network stack to give you greater network automation, architectural flexibility, and programmability for policy-driven control and self-service innovation.
In this paper you will learn about...
Published: Sep 26, 2013