As a small to midsized business (SMB), you enjoy advantages over larger competitors— being “lean and mean” compared to companies with big budgets and staff. When it comes to technology, networking can cause SMB owners to scratch their heads or it can be an opportunity to leapfrog the competition by establishing...
Published: Aug 26, 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
FACT: With data dispersed across the enterprise, IT organizations struggle to manage, analyze, and secure their networks. A Visibility Fabric can provide pervasive visibility across the network.
Published: Oct 11, 2013
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
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 global economy has entered a period of high volatility and uncertainty that has challenged and changed operations and processes throughout the entire manufacturing value chain.
Increasingly, best-in-class manufacturers are responding to these challenges by using open standards– based Internet Protocol (IP)...
Published: Apr 18, 2013
The data center is the heart of the network, delivering business agility and promoting IT transformation. As your business evolves and you look toward new technologies and applications to grow the business, the data center switching architecture that underpins the delivery of enterprise-wide applications and services must...
Published: Aug 02, 2013
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
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 evolution of enterprise IT toward a fully mobile environment, driven by the proliferation of mobile devices used for business-critical tasks, has set the stage for a dramatic increase in enterprise mobile application deployments and associated wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure.
While once a simple adjunct to...
Published: Nov 15, 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
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
A lot of enterprises are talking about SIP trunking today, but in order to be a part of the conversation you need to know: A) How is a SIP trunk different than your current PRI trunks?, B) What are the benefi ts of SIP trunking?, and C) What equipment do you need to get started?
To help you answer A, B and C, we’ve...
Published: Apr 18, 2014
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