Layer 4 Switches

WHITE PAPER: This white paper addresses twelve common issues that network administrators should examine when troubleshooting network problems.

Posted: 12 Dec 2008 | Published: 12 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Nearly half of office employees access Facebook during work.  Nucleus found companies effectively lose an average of 1.5 percent of total office productivity when employees can access Facebook during the work day.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | Published: 25 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Web 2.0 and new media technologies, such as blogs, wikis, and social networks, are spreading rapidly through companies, often without IT's direct involvement. This report from Booz&Co argues that CIOs and their IT departments must take the lead in these emerging technologies.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses a Grid reference configuration based on Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers and Dell EqualLogic™ iSCSI storage. This Grid implementation is comprised of the physical Grid based on physical servers and the virtual Grid based upon Oracle virtual machines.

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 | Published: 24 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will provide an overview of some of Cisco’s data center platforms and their virtualization aware features; specifically the Nexus product line of switches (1000V, 2000, 5000, 7000) and the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS).

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 | Published: 21 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper contains some tips and shortcuts showing you how the addition of parameters to these Cisco IOS commands will make your life easier.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This report provides an overview of the inherent risks when operating an insecure print environment and discusses the current market landscape while recommending some best practices for adopting an integrated information and print security strategy.

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 | Published: 07 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: IT pros know that storage efficiency is vital to successfully deploy a virtual desktop infrastructure. This white paper reviews how Dell EqualLogic PS6000XVS series arrays with VMware View software can help you achieve significant opportunities for virtual desktop performance and capacity optimization. Learn more here.

Posted: 25 May 2011 | Published: 25 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Deduplication has been one of the hottest technologies in the storage industry for almost three years and has grown into a mainstream technology from the large enterprise down to the small business and remote office. Read this white paper to learn the important questions for SMB managers to ask.

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 | Published: 10 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides step-by step instructions to help organizations set up highly available virtualized infrastructures. Find out why your configuration should be comprised of three servers, two switches, and one storage array.

Posted: 16 May 2011 | Published: 16 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the key components of a highly available architecture. Find out how one specific configuration performed and discover the essential steps required to implement it.

Posted: 16 May 2011 | Published: 16 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Take the “green” trend to the next level. Incorporate it into your network today by cutting energy consumption and using newer, energy-efficient technologies.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Every routing protocol has some pros and cons and its own metric considerations. In this white paper, we will discuss Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), a Cisco-proprietary routing protocol.

Posted: 24 Feb 2010 | Published: 24 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: In Quocirca’s evaluation of major providers of Managed Print Services (MPS) in Europe, Quocirca found that Xerox and HP  lead the pack, due to their  global scale and broad service capabilities. The analysis also showed that Ricoh and Lexmark  have gained considerable ground, demonstrating effective maturity and service delivery excellence.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights how Snohomish School District 201 extended its refresh cycle for client hardware by 160%-200% using top vendor technologies. Learn more on the benefits this school district encountered.

Posted: 25 May 2011 | Published: 25 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: The growth in enterprise telepresence, projected to reach nearly 25,000 units globally by 2013, has been largely fueled by sponsorship from executives and the use of the telepresence by senior business leaders.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The way a switch learns Ethernet (MAC) addresses is by inspecting the Ethernet frame and recording the source MAC address in a dynamic table. The switch will also associate a learned MAC address with a port. It can then make intelligent forwarding decisions based on the destination MAC address. This white paper illustrates the process.

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: IT organizations have the ability to simplify data center connectivity and reduce costs if they consolidate LAN, NAS, iSCI SAN, and Fibre Channel SAN traffic onto a single 10 Gigabit Ethernet wire.

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 | Published: 29 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Desktop virtualization and cloud computing are two initiatives that are gaining popularity among the IT industry. This white paper highlights ways you can build a more stable, secure, and efficient computing environment around a virtual desktop infrastructure. Plus, learn how cloud and VDI work together to help you become an efficient business.

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 | Published: 17 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization has affected all facets of the data center – from servers to storage to the network. While the promise is a reduced capital investment, higher agility and lower operational expenses, the success of server virtualization depends on the integration of both the physical and the virtual network. This has its own set of challenges.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a very complex routing protocol where the administrator can influence the route choice in more ways than with an interior gateway protocol. This white paper will provide you with a high level overview of interdomain routing with BGP.

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 | Published: 12 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document details the four available networking configurations for running Hyper-V on Dell™ PowerEdge™ systems. It also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each networking configuration with an emphasis on typical Dell system configurations.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper is a lab testing summary report of the plug and play features and easy of configuration for the ERS 4548GT-PWR Edge switch.

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: The reference architecture illustrated in this article shows how enterprises may make the transition to 10GbE for storage using Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series arrays and Dell PowerConnect™ switches.

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 | Published: 23 Feb 2010