Microsoft and the Cloud: Five Essential Things To Know
sponsored by Global Knowledge
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This white paper addresses Microsoft’s current stake in cloud computing and examines the most recent range of cloud-based product offerings as an indication of where Microsoft may be heading.
Posted: 10 Jan 2011 | Published: 10 Jan 2011
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Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Overview
sponsored by Global Knowledge
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MPLS stands for Multiprotocol Label Switching and is defined as “a mechanism in high-performance telecommunications networks that direct and carried data from one network node to the next, making it easy to create ‘virtual links’ between distant nodes.” Read on for a thorough overview of MPLS and learn how MPLS can benefit your organization.
Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010
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Measuring the TCO of Tape Storage Solutions
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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This tutorial presents a framework and financial methodology for deciding whether an enterprise should replace its current "status quo" tape storage solution with a new "proposed" solution, and the economics related to that decision.
Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Mar 2010
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Sharepoint WAN Optimization And WAFS
sponsored by Peer Software
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Design teams across the world collaborate to create and develop products. Unfortunately, IT organizations face serious challenges when collaborative teams share large files. This white paper will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the four technologies most commonly used to enhance file sharing for distributed teams.
Posted: 17 Feb 2011 | Published: 17 Feb 2011
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BEYOND MPLS: DELIVERING CLOUD-READY NETWORKS
sponsored by IPANEMA TECHNOLOGIES
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Most analysts agree that cloud computing will forever change how enterprises sell, purchase and use business applications and IT infrastructure.
Posted: 15 Feb 2011 | Published: 15 Feb 2011
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WAN Optimization for Today and Tomorrow: Enterprise Applications
sponsored by BlueCoat
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Over 80% of applications are accessed over the Web. SAP, Business Objects and Salesforce.com, along with collaboration applications like Sharepoint, are all dependent on the same bandwidth. How do you optimize bandwidth to ensure these applications are performing within acceptable SLAs?
Posted: 14 Feb 2011 | Premiered: Feb 14, 2011
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Cloud-ready networks - WAN Governance for cloud computing
sponsored by IPANEMA TECHNOLOGIES
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Cloud computing simplifies enterprise application delivery with resource flexibility, investment-less OPEX models, and no need for specialized in-house support resources.
Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011
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WAN Optimization for Today and Tomorrow
sponsored by BlueCoat
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This whitepaper provides key insight for IT professionals interested in accelerating user performance by two to three hundred times, reducing bandwidth for files, storage and email by 50 to 95 percent, and making consolidation and centralization possible.
Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011
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Solution Brief: Accelerating File Services Across the WAN
sponsored by BlueCoat
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Trends towards server consolidation and decentralized employees can seriously impact WAN bandwidth. A typical CIFS file often requires hundreds of round trips between the file server and the user to complete a simple file request.
Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011
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Eliminating End User and Application Downtime: Protecting Mission-Critical Multi-Tier Business Applications with Neverfail and Virtualization
sponsored by Neverfail
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This white paper outlines many of the common deployment scenarios that such organizations face and describes how Neverfail Continuous Availability and virtualization can be used to deliver a more complete, consistent and cost effective availability solution for mission-critical, business applications.
Posted: 17 Jan 2011 | Published: 17 Jan 2011
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The Proven Financial Benefits of SIP Trunk Consolidation
sponsored by Siemens Enterprise Communications
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Siemens Enterprise Communications continues to lead the evolution of real-time unified communications by delivering innovative and customer-centric solutions with measurable financial benefits, and has proven both the technology and the savings for customers.
Posted: 03 Jan 2011 | Published: 03 Jan 2011
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Channel Strategies E-Zine - December 2010/ No.4
sponsored by SearchITChannel.com
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Read how the rise of cloud computing and virtualization is creating new opportunities for the channel in WAN optimization, and find out what skill sets VARs need to target business people who rely on smart phones or iPads on the road.
Posted: 10 Dec 2010 | Published: 10 Dec 2010
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How to Cut Communications Costs By Replacing Leased Lines and VPNs with MPLS
sponsored by Star
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Replacement of remaining legacy internet connections with more flexible and secure solutions such as Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), which offer guaranteed security and quality of service, can save organisations substantial amounts of money. Read on to learn more about MPLS.
Posted: 10 Dec 2010 | Published: 10 Dec 2010
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E911 VoIP Essentials for Enterprise Deployments
sponsored by XO Communications
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Deploying VoIP across multiple business locations is a great way to simplify and streamline your distributed network and reduce costs, but how does a business provide E911 effectively across the enterprise and what are the legal requirements?
Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010
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Presentation Transcript: Making Time for Endpoint Security
sponsored by BigFix
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This presentation transcript discusses the importance of performance considerations when buying endpoint security suites. You’ll gain insight on how to improve the performance of security and configurations in order to keep downtime to an absolute minimum.
Posted: 29 Nov 2010 | Published: 29 Nov 2010
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Presentation Transcript: VDI in Branch Offices
sponsored by Virtual Bridges
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This transcript of the video "Using VDI at a Branch Office" , featuring desktop virtualization experts Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth, provides guidelines for extending central management to remote locations.
Posted: 19 Nov 2010 | Published: 19 Nov 2010
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2010 Application Delivery Networking Challenge: Accelerating, Securing, Optimizing & Monitoring Applications
sponsored by BlueCoat
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Application delivery is one of the few technologies that both improves the end-user experience and lowers the cost of enterprise networks. It improves response time, reduces bandwidth, optimizes server performance, provides enhanced security and gives visibility into what is happening at the application layer. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: 18 Nov 2010 | Published: 18 Nov 2010
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Diagnosing the Cause of Poor Application Performance
sponsored by Fluke Networks
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When troubleshooting application performance issues, there are two steps you can take. First, understand the common causes and, second, use the right tool to diagnose them. Read about these common causes and learn about using the right diagnostic tool to quickly identify and resolve a problem.
Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 20 Oct 2010
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The Definitive Guide to Application Performance Management (APM)
sponsored by Compuware Corporation
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This book’s definitive approach to explaining APM strategy and tactics gives you the information you need to make smart purchasing decisions. Once decided, its chapters then help guide you towards the best ways to lay it into place. Continue reading to learn how APM benefits everyone. You just have to show everyone how, and with this book you can.
Posted: 13 Oct 2010 | Published: 13 Oct 2010
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Incorporating Wireless into the Business Continuity Plan
sponsored by AT&T Corp
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Increasingly WAN-centric enterprises make mobile equipment and services more important for business continuity. To determine the role wireless should play in an organization’s business continuity plan, IT should consider a mix of factors including type of business, physical locations and applications.
Posted: 13 Oct 2010 | Published: 13 Oct 2010
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Optimizing Video Performance Across the Distributed Enterprise
sponsored by BlueCoat
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Do more with less: that’s the message echoing through corporate cultures today. One clear target is to contain costs, especially travel-related costs, which can be large enough to have a serious impact on bottom lines. Read this paper to find out more.
Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Oct 2010
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Application Visibility and Monitoring: An integrated approach to application delivery
sponsored by BlueCoat
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This white paper looks at the specific issues behind application performance problems and how to resolve them within an ADN environment. It explores how to deliver superior application performance by using application-level insight to manage bandwidth demand, protect against malware and so much more.
Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Oct 2010
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Is Your Network Ready for VoIP?
sponsored by BlueCoat
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This paper summarizes in question and answer format the many critical factors pertaining to VoIP’s viability, regardless of which vendor’s IP-PBX system is deployed across the distributed enterprise.
Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Oct 2010
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Linktropy WAN Emulators
sponsored by Apposite Technologies
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Apposite's Linktropy WAN emulators simulate bandwidth, latency, jitter, loss, congestion, and other important link impairments to test applications in the lab and under a spectrum of real-world conditions. Through an intuitive, browser-based graphical interface, you can still install the Linktropy WAN emulator and begin testing within minutes.
Posted: 09 Sep 2010 | Published: 09 Sep 2010
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Testing the Performance of Applications Over Wide Area Networks
sponsored by Apposite Technologies
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IT managers and network administrators therefore need to be able to troubleshoot how applications perform over the wide-area network. However, because application performance can be highly sensitive to bandwidth, latency, loss, and other WAN impairments, testing on the local network generally fails.
Posted: 09 Sep 2010 | Published: 09 Sep 2010
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