Companies today are taking more steps to enable an ever more intimate degree of collaboration among internal groups. Moreover, when profiled by “Leaders vs. Laggards” adoption, the “Leaders” among these are experiencing a competitive advantage and collaborating beyond enterprise borders, seeking...
Published: Jan 20, 2014
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
What have savvy brand marketers and social media strategists learned recently? Here’s a quick wrap-up of significant network trends, consumer behaviors, and brand results.
Published: Mar 04, 2014
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
Smartphones have joined laptops as de facto network endpoints in corporations, academic institutions and government entities. In managing security for these mobile devices, IT must be aware of the differences, as well as similarities, between laptop and smartphone platforms. With these distinctions in mind, IT can apply...
Published: Aug 04, 2014
Information technology organizations are in the midst of a major transition. As they move from being cost centers to integrated, strategic parts of the business, IT administrators, managers, and executives are keenly aware of the challenges they face.
As IT organizations shift to providing services through an elastic,...
Published: Apr 08, 2013
This paper explores the capabilites of unified communications and provides examples of how exploration and production companies use convergence in communications to best advantage to allow data, voice, and video collaboration between experts and explore the value that it brings. It includes various case examples of where...
Published: Apr 24, 2013
Migrating employees to Windows 7 could be a risky and expensive proposition, especially if it affects the employee's working environment. AppSense's user virtualization technology manages all the user-specific elements of the Windows 7 migration process as well as providing an alternative approach to managing the...
Published: Aug 13, 2013
With cloud computing's paradigm of shared infrastructure, DDoS attacks on a specific target can quickly affect many or all tenants. In this Arbor Insight, we explain why availability should be the top priority for cloud operators, and outlines best current practices for preventing and mitigating attacks.
Published: Mar 13, 2014
Mobile communications have fundamentally changed the way business works. Once the exclusive domain of senior executives, mobile devices are now indispensable to most employees for conducting both their business and personal lives. Smartphones, tablets, and new hybrid devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Note and Apple iPad...
Published: Apr 07, 2014
Cisco® Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) is a smart Wi-Fi solution that uses the Cisco wireless infrastructure to detect and locate smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. With it, your organization can directly serve personalized content to users.
Published: Aug 22, 2014
According to Gartner, "Microsoft Office 365 has excited many executives and application leaders with promises of more flexible collaboration and new ways to work. But behind the scenes, many owners of Office 365 are just trying to survive the difficult transition." Download the Gartner report, “Survival...
Published: Mar 21, 2019
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
Cybersecurity is an unavoidable part of daily business operations for organizations of all sizes and industries. As reliance on information technology expands, so does an organization’s exposure to malicious actors. Hackers with sufficient capability and motivation can exploit vulnerabilities to breach the confidentiality...
Published: Aug 02, 2019