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
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
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
Application delivery controllers are essential to network uptime and performance. This whitepaper explores how to reduce TCO and improve efficiency by deploying ADCs in active-active clusters, and what appliances are best to support this activity.
Published: Oct 01, 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
As a security provider, we understand that convincing executives to make changes to their stack can be difficult. It’s important to clearly demonstrate return on investment (ROI) for any security build out, so that your team becomes more effective with every dollar committed.
It’s important that...
Published: Aug 02, 2019
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
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
Now, tens of thousands of enterprises and SMBs deploy WAN optimization solutions. The use cases span branch offices, mobile workers, data centers, and private and public clouds. And solutions are available as a stand-alone product or as a managed offering from system integrators, service providers, and value-added resellers. ...
Published: Aug 22, 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 way in which applications are consumed has undergone rapid and significant change in recent years—both in the growing list of user device types to support, each with its own unique requirements, and in how those devices are connected, with variations in network characteristics between fixed, mobile, and remote...
Published: Aug 13, 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
Some familiarity with basic networking concepts like IP (Internet Protocol) and Internet security are presumed, but the guide is generally intended for non-technical audiences and delivers a fundamental understanding of the role of Session Border Controllers in general and the characteristics of the Sonus SBC 5200 in particular....
Published: Apr 18, 2014
The background of IPv6 is well known. Given how long OS vendors and Cisco have been ready for the change, you would think upgrading VoIP systems would be an easy thing.
Published: Oct 11, 2013