Brocade VCS Fabric technology provides today’s data centers with unmatched automation, efficiency, and agility. Simple, centralized management with zero-touch provisioning helps create highly scalable, flexible, and resilient environments. VCS fabrics deliver a software-driven infrastructure to enhance IT agility...
Published: Sep 26, 2013
Huge data center, check. Multiple 10G Ethernet pipes, check. Load balancer, check. Firewall? Really? Do network architects need to buy yet another box, and likely take a performance hit?
Not according to F5 Networks, which says its BIG-IP 10200v with Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) can handle traffic at 80-Gbps rates...
Published: Jan 03, 2014
The information technology industry is undergoing one of the most significant periods of transformation in the last 20 years. This period of change is directed by a series of trends such as the explosive growth of powerful smartphones, the consumerization of technology purchasing, and the move toward cloud-based software...
Published: Aug 02, 2013
The first wave of virtualization has delivered dramatic benefits to organizations through consolidation, improved utilization, reduced total cost of ownership, efficient energy consumption and more effective use of physical space.
But organizations have only scratched the surface of virtualization’s potential....
Published: Oct 08, 2013
Just Right IT solutions, based on HP servers, storage, networking, and services, simplify business technology, giving you more time to focus on your business. Whether you’re just getting started with virtualization and file sharing, or supporting expansion with solutions for server consolidation, data backup, and...
Published: May 06, 2014
Virtualization has made compute infrastructure and storage infrastructure an order of magnitude more flexible, yielding huge gains in IT efficiency. However, the network has not achieved the same efficiency gains. Unlike the advancements in compute and storage virtualization, networking has not kept pace, and has become...
Published: Oct 16, 2013
Next-generation firewalls have revolutionized network security. Traditional firewalls that focus on stateful packet inspection and access control rules are ineffective. Learn how to protect your organization from ever-evolving threats with a firewall that delivers a deeper level of network security.
Published: Aug 27, 2014
Cisco surveyed 1300 IT professionals across 13 countries to understand IT's role as a business enabler. The survey assesses how well network investments align with business demands, and looks into IT's ability to adopt technologies that can increase IT business impact.
Business growth is creating demand for...
Published: Apr 04, 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
KelCor has been compensated by Sonus Networks to prepare this position document, but the thoughts and opinions are those of the author alone, and KelCor has maintained full editorial control throughout.
Sonus specifically sought KelCor’s unbiased views on key challenges organizations face when using video and...
Published: Apr 18, 2014
Trends such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), virtualization and cloud are rendering application deployment and delivery more challenging than ever for IT departments. Applications have moved further away from the employees who rely on them, introducing the potential for latency, security and availability issues. Still,...
Published: Oct 24, 2013
Today’s threat landscape is nothing like that of just 10 years ago. Simple attacks that caused containable damage have given way to modern cybercrime operations that are sophisticated, well-funded, and capable of causing major disruptions to organizations and the national infrastructure. Not only are these advanced...
Published: Sep 12, 2014
The next-generation workplace is all about mobility. With more Internet-connected mobile devices than people in the world in 2013, it has become more apparent that IT must provide seamless connectivity to every class of user - employees, contractors, guests and even customers - appropriate to their role and type of device....
Published: May 21, 2013
That's why organizations need to deploy a Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) as an integral part of their overall security strategies. A NGFW can bolster your protection against the constantly evolving threat environment.
Published: Aug 27, 2014