Network Appliances

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses ten common problems encountered by network technicians today and their symptoms, causes, and resolutions.

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009

RESOURCE CENTER: This Networking Solutions Resource Center was developed to bring the latest information on networking technology to today's IT pros. The videos, reports, whitepapers, podcasts and other materials that you'll find here were created to show you how your company's networks can help the people who work there be more efficient and productive every day.

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 | Published: 06 Nov 2009

PRODUCT DEMO: WatchGuard wants to show you why they are the leading provider of network and content security solutions. Eligible organizations can try out the superior capabilities and advanced functions of a WatchGuard XTM or XCS solution in their own network with no obligation to buy.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Take a look at the new XTM (extensible threat management) network security from WatchGuard. See the tangible benefits this new generation of security solutions offers. No hype -- just concrete examples of XTM features and the advantages they deliver for you to evaluate against your current security.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: The proliferation of user-generated content and video sharing sites has made for a constant source of new material. However, the bandwidth demands of such media often congest WAN links. One approach is to just block flash video. This technical brief presents an alternate approach that can allow video and business critical applications to co-exist.

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 | Published: 22 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: With two data centers serving 24 offices in the U.S., Europe and India, Hitachi Consulting required a solution that could provide visibility into the applications running on the network while selectively accelerating business critical ones. Read on to learn about the solution they found.

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 | Published: 22 Oct 2009

PRODUCT LITERATURE: The Cisco® EnergyWise initiative focuses on reducing the energy consumption of all devices connected to a Cisco network ranging from Power over Ethernet (PoE) devices to IP-enabled building and lighting controllers. It gives you a powerful, network-based framework to manage the energy needs for your business.

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how the Fortinet solution has successfully aided the Laguna Development Corporation in consolidating network security functionalities.

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Monitoring and configuring a variety of complex devices (network, systems, storage, security) from multiple vendors is a daily battle that challenges even the most experienced administrators. Today's virtual and physical environments can only be handled with a centralized management solution.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 11 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: A small business network from Cisco helps you increase productivity without increasing your workforce. It's just one more way that Cisco helps small businesses gain and maintain a competitive advantage.

Posted: 16 Aug 2009 | Published: 16 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Even the smallest business can live large with a business communications system from Cisco. Why switch to a small business communications system from Cisco? Because when you combine voice, video, and data in a single network, you can cut costs and get more done.

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Published: 14 Aug 2009

WEBCAST: Check out this webcast, which discusses the problem of flat budgets, rising costs, and competing priorities, and explains how automating core network services has proven to be a helpful solution.

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 07 Aug 2009

TRIAL SOFTWARE: Check out this download to see how the Orion Network Configuration Manager aids in managing network configuration files in multi-vendor network environments, monitoring changes to device configurations and ensuring compliance with federal and corporate policies.

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 | Published: 14 Jul 2009

ANALYST REPORT: WAN optimization controllers seek to improve applications performance and reduce bandwidth requirements by intelligently managing traffic across the WAN. This analyst report presents a snapshot of the current market situation as well the results and explanation of Gartner's study of nine separate WOC vendors. Read the full report to learn more.

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 | Published: 10 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Bandwidth management is a common technique employed by IT organizations to improve quality of service over the WAN by assigning guaranteed levels of bandwidth and prioritizing traffic to improve application performance. To be effective, bandwidth management must be perfectly aligned with business policies and priorities. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

EBOOK: As a leading provider of solutions for Service Providers, Blue Coat appliances give you the visibility, acceleration and security needed for optimizing your network. Read this e-book to learn how Blue Coat gives you the control you need to deliver a whole set of new managed services for your business and consumer customers.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 26 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Data center energy costs continue to take up a significant portion of IT budgets, and it seems that there is no end in sight. This paper addresses, in a unified and systemic way, many of the power consumption issues that IT has been grappling with in piecemeal fashion.

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides a brief introduction to Evolved Packet Core - a new mobile core for LTE. Key concepts and functional elements are outlined, as well as key changes in LTE requirements imposed on the Evolved Packet Core, and the deployment challenges one can expect to encounter.

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009

PRODUCT LITERATURE: If you can't see what's happening, then you can't even begin to attack what's wrong with the network. Here are 5 concrete reasons why you should contact Blue Coat today and start working towards greater visibility of your network.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

DATA SHEET: Check out this data sheet for a categorized listing of 600 common applications for which Blue Coat PacketShaper delivers an accurate picture of network traffic.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Subnetting is a complicated topic that has confused students for a very long time, however, subnetting is an important topic for many different certifications with various vendors, including Cisco.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: When IT professionals make massive investments in the virtualized data center, financial controls to contain sprawl and maintain control are essential. This white paper shows you how to do so by implementing chargeback.

Posted: 27 Feb 2008 | Published: 27 Feb 2008

WHITE PAPER: In virtualized data centers, the fact that all applications and users can impact each other combined with a lack of resource monitoring can cause poor performance and even system downtime. This white paper provides a formula to avoid these problems.

Posted: 26 Feb 2008 | Published: 26 Feb 2008

DATA SHEET: Learn how VKernel's Chargeback Virtual Appliance helps companies gain cost visibility and chargeback on resource utilization; recover costs of ESX Infrastructure; and measure resource consumption by applications, resource pools and clusters.

Posted: 26 Feb 2008 | Published: 26 Feb 2008