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
No matter what industry you serve – education, healthcare, hospitality, government or manufacturing – Extreme Networks Purview has the power to improve business performance with network-powered application analytics.
Purview provides more context and insight into what, when, where, and how to ensure the...
Published: Sep 26, 2014
Data center networks rely on Ethernet. Over the decades, Ethernet has evolved as new types of application architectures emerged. Today, data center networks carry traffic for a diverse set of applications including client/server, Web services, unified communications, virtual machines, and storage—each with different...
Published: Sep 26, 2013
The AWS Activate Program, designed by Amazon Web Services specifically for startups, provides companies with the resources needed to get started on AWS, including support, training, a startup forum and special offers.
Published: Sep 03, 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
Recent studies have demonstrated a positive relationship between the implementation of advanced technology in contact centers and increased caller satisfaction.
For example, advanced call handling techniques reduce average queue time by anywhere from 12 to 43 percent. Calls per hour per agent improved 6 to 18 percent....
Published: Feb 06, 2014
Historically network monitoring and analysis has been an afterthought in the design of networks and networking equipment. In today’s data economy, this is a growing issue as organizations race to ever-faster network speeds, security threats are on the rise, and regulatory compliance requirements have become more...
Published: Apr 17, 2014
Today’s threat landscape is nothing like that of just 10 years ago. Simple attacks that caused containable damage have given way to modern cybercrime operations that are sophisticated, well-funded, and capable of causing major disruptions to organizations and the national infrastructure. Not only are these advanced...
Published: Sep 12, 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
“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
Software-Defined Networking is new approach to networking that unbundles the traditional device-bound, vertically integrated network stack to give you greater network automation, architectural flexibility, and programmability for policy-driven control and self-service innovation.
In this paper you will learn about...
Published: Sep 26, 2013
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
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
That's why organizations need to deploy a Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) as an integral part of their overall security strategies. A NGFW can bolster your protection against the constantly evolving threat environment.
Published: Aug 27, 2014