The average person uses 36 cloud-based services every single day. Now it’s up to IT operations teams, along with their SaaS vendors, to ensure these applications perform flawlessly.
Read the new eBook Best-in-Class SaaS Performance to uncover:
Three reasons for the pain behind the gain
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Published: Oct 31, 2019
MacArthur Corporation is a distributor of roofing, siding, HVAC, and other building materials for residential and commercial construction.
With a basic hub-and-spoke architecture, MacArthur’s network connects the remote sites to the company’s data center in St. Paul for access to all enterprise resource...
Published: Jun 16, 2014
There are a lot of game-changing trends in IT today including mobility, cloud, and big data analytics. As a result, IT architectures, data centers, and data processing are all becoming more complex – increasingly dynamic, heterogeneous, and distributed. For all IT organizations, achieving great success today depends...
Published: Aug 08, 2014
Microsoft will cease to support Windows XP after April 8, 2014. This reality leaves few options for Federal Government IT organizations: migrate or not. For those considering End Of Life custom support agreements for Windows XP, they will find those agreements insufficient to meet evolving security threats and mission...
Published: Aug 13, 2013
J.R. Simmons is President and Principal Consultant of COMgroup, Inc., and an executive board member of the Society of Telecommunications Consultants. With 37 years of experience, including 28 years as an independent consultant, he provides a broad range of in-depth telecommunications experience. J.R. is recognized as an...
Published: Jan 16, 2014
The automotive environment can be particularly harsh for electrical equipment such as routers and mobile devices. Power in automotive systems is not stable and is often subject to fluctuations and noise.
This paper will provide background on the problems and solutions as well as guidance for the installation...
Published: Sep 29, 2014
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
This paper discusses the lack of visibility in the context of monitoring and troubleshooting end-to-end application performance.
Published: Sep 05, 2014
Today’s branch office requires the same level of rich application services as the company headquarters.
Why are these services needed? What impact do they have on the network, IT staff and service provider? What is the best way to boost the branch-office network to optimum levels—both technically and tactfully—if...
Published: Oct 24, 2013
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
Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) provide the framework for systems design based on common use cases or current engineering system priorities. They incorporate a broad set of technologies, features, and applications to address customer needs. Cisco engineers have comprehensively tested and documented each CVD in order to...
Published: Aug 18, 2014
Collaboration is increasingly becoming recognized as a critical investment for organizations looking for new sources of productivity and innovation. Cost cutting and efficiency measures can achieve only so much; the next breakthrough levels of business performance will come from the ability to tap into the collective knowledge...
Published: Jul 15, 2013
Cyberattacks are rapidly evolving. It is more critical than ever that your company be protected by the latest innovations in endpoint security. And if you’re dealing with outdated antivirus solutions, your risk of experiencing damaging attacks is increasing exponentially.
The fact is, legacy antivirus...
Published: May 29, 2019
FlexPod Datacenter improves business agility by providing application and data mobility and by accelerating SAP® lifecycle management. Integrated data protection across the entire stack helps increase the availability of cloud for SAP, and secure multi-tenancy delivers isolated SAP landscapes for various use cases. ...
Published: Apr 14, 2014