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
Cisco strives to update and enhance SBA guides on a regular basis. As we develop a series of SBA guides, we test them together, as a complete system. To ensure the mutual compatibility of designs in Cisco SBA guides, you should use guides that belong to the same series. The Release Notes for a series provides a summary...
Published: Aug 21, 2014
"The explosion of mobile devices within the enterprise has introduced a new dynamic into the enterprise WLAN market." Rohit Mehra, director, Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, IDC.
This report from IDC examines wireless LAN vendors according to an assessment model called the IDC MarketScape. Aruba...
Published: Nov 15, 2013
Improving the customer experience to strengthen loyalty is a top goal for global brands. And because contact centers are typically a once-in-a-decade investment, the stakes are high. Make the wrong choice, and you risk losing customers and brand equity. This white paper from Cisco outlines what to do (and not do) when...
Published: Jun 24, 2014
Desktop and application virtualization are increasingly popular approaches that organizations use to reduce desktop IT costs, improve efficiency, increase control, and expand connectivity. With virtual desktops, users can access their desktops hosted on data center servers through thin clients, smartphones, and other devices....
Published: Jan 24, 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
In the last few years, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have evolved from relatively simple flooding attacks to sophisticated and complex events.
The disruption caused by a DDoS attack can have enormous impact, regardless of the size of the company or institution that has been breached.
Published: Sep 10, 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
“Do more with less. Increase utilization levels. Improve staff efficiency. Reduce your space, power, and cooling needs.” Every vendor makes the same promises. Cisco delivers.
Although virtualization technology has made server consolidation possible, it has also created many challenges. Infrastructure is...
Published: Jan 23, 2014
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
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
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
This paper discusses the lack of visibility in the context of monitoring and troubleshooting end-to-end application performance.
Published: Sep 05, 2014
As part of a five-year strategic plan, the university’s “Open Kingdom” project aims to create a consistent user experience across the Uxbridge campus, including the provision of wireless network access.
This last issue became critical in the summer of 2012, when the Students Union body insisted on...
Published: Oct 18, 2013