Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) provide the framework for systems design based on common use cases or current engineering system priorities. They incorporate a broad set of technologies, features, and applications to address customer needs. Cisco engineers have comprehensively tested and documented each CVD in order to...
Published: Aug 18, 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
The truest form of cloud computing can be found in public cloud offerings. Like a hotel where rooms are rented for a period of time, public cloud services offer the four basic tenets of cloud-based application delivery: shared computing resources, virtualization, the ability to quickly ramp up or down and a “pay-for-what-you-use”...
Published: Jul 19, 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
IT Departments are rarely short of headaches, but few projects instil quite the same level of pain, disruption and cost as operating system upgrades. Tempted by the perceived benefits of newer technology – greater productivity, better security, more effective management among them – IT professionals soon discover...
Published: Aug 13, 2013
Microsoft will cease to support Windows XP after April 8, 2014. This reality leaves few options for Federal Government IT organizations: migrate or not. For those considering End Of Life custom support agreements for Windows XP, they will find those agreements insufficient to meet evolving security threats and mission...
Published: Aug 13, 2013
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
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
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
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has developed a Converged Infrastructure including storage, compute and networking.
The data storage element is located in both traditional SAN (Storage Area Network) and Flash media.
This document details the results from a performance benchmark undertaken by Computacenter...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
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
Customers now communicate across multiple emerging channels and devices. This isn’t a vision of the future – it’s happening right now.
The research shows that customers have and are in love with the technology. What’s more, their preferences are becoming well established, so if you are...
Published: Jun 24, 2014
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
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