You've requested...

Cloud Surround: Networking in Hybrid IT Environments

If a new window did not open, click here to view this asset.

Download this next:

IT in Europe: Adopting an Application-Centric Architecture

Enterprise networking has shifted from focusing on infrastructure - mainly boxes and wires - to concentrating on the delivery of the applications that help users do their jobs. Technologies and products exist today specifically for managing applications on the network, securing applications on the network, accelerating applications on the network, providing access to mobile users on the network and more. In this issue, uncover how networking professionals view applications and how their jobs have changed as a result of a network-centric view. Hear from users about ways they have found to best manage applications and integrate an application-aware mentality in their environments.

These are also closely related to: "Cloud Surround: Networking in Hybrid IT Environments"

  • The development of wired and wireless LANs in a hybrid work model

    Many companies have found that as they have begun to manage the return to offices for the first time since the first lockdown were introduced, the office environment and its demands are very different to a year ago. These different demands are seen in the development of wired and wireless local area networks (LANs). Download our exclusive e-Guide and read more about:

    • Network virtualization benefits in the LAN, WAN and data center
    • Do you need to manage QoS when deploying VoIP over LAN?
    • Australia’s Macquarie Telecom debuts SD-LAN service
    • Considering the differences in LAN vs. WAN security

  • A Computer Weekly buyer's guide to networks

    Network departments face change and challenge on every conceivable front. The enthusiasm of users for software-centric IT and of businesses for cloud computing, outsourcing and virtualisation remains as high as it has ever been, while network service providers are marching under the banner of a network functions virtualisation movement that intends to replace proprietary hardware controls with virtualised software equivalents. In this 10-page buyer’s guide, Computer Weekly looks at an increasingly complex networking environment that could leave the unwary and the unprepared tied up in knots.

Find more content like what you just read:

  • IT automation: Key FAQs, how to set goals, and scaling best practices

    In this automation architect’s guiding e-book, discover a walkthrough map of the steps required to lead your organization beyond task-centric automation toward an enterprise-wide strategy.

    Download

  • 4 IT Automation Myths Dispelled

    Read this e-book to learn how to overcome practical barriers to holistic automation adoption within your organization. Coverage includes automation goal setting, common myths, how to unite teams and training, and scaling automation across the business.

    Download

  • Software-Defined Networks and the New Network Hypervisor

    This issue of the Network Evolution E-Zine focuses on various SDN solutions, if it's the answer to the bottleneck problem, and potential pitfalls. Read this issue now to see what experts have to say about the possible SDN revolution.

    Download

  • Network Evolution: Software defined networks and the new network hyper-visor

    This expert resource puts SDN under the microscope, examining the impact that the technology can have on your environment, along with how your peers are utilizing it. Read on to find out whether SDN is really worth the hype that is building around it.

    Download

  • Essential Guide to Software Defined Networks

    Software defined networking (SDN) allows network engineers to support a switching fabric across multi-vendor hardware and application-specific integrated circuits. A network administrator can shape traffic from a centralised control console without having to touch individual switches.

    Download

  • MicroScope – June 2019: Sourcing IT among the clouds

    Outsourcing is changing as the anything-as-a-service model takes off.

    Download

  • A Computer Weekly e-guide on Network Visibility, Performance and Monitoring

    Traditional discourse around networks is centred around the basic premise of if you build it they will come. And if they come, they will be able to use the network to its fullest extent and everyone will be happy.

    Download

  • Understanding the pros and cons of network virtualization

    This expert E-Guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com explains the benefits of virtualizing the network. Find out how to utilize this technology to combine multiple networks into a single logical network. Plus, get answers to common questions about network virtualization technology to ensure a smooth transition.

    Download

  • MicroScope January 2014: A special issue looking at software defined networking

    The first issue of 2014 provides some insight in managed services, software defined networking, security and data centres

    Download

  • IT in Europe: Next-Generation Network Management Techniques

    This issue examines how network managers can simplify their management tools gather from the network through the use of protocols like NetFlow and IPFIX and hardware like matrix switches. Learn how network managers are adopting new tools that give them better control over virtualized infrastructure, cloud environment and multi-vendor networks.

    Download

  • Network virtualization FAQ

    Access this e-guide to find answers to the most frequently asked questions about network virtualization. Learn how your organization can see benefits like cost savings, rapid provisioning and scalability.

    Download

  • Best Practices for Cloud Compliance, Secure Backup, and Successful Information Management

    This E-Guide explores the keys to maintaining control over increasingly large data sets from a compliance, backup and information management perspective.

    Download

  • E-Guide: Virtualization implementation and management: A network perspective

    Virtualization has become a reality in the networking world. It is vital for professionals to understand how server virtualization and networks affect each other.

    Download

  • Why Physical Networks Don't Cut It for the Private Cloud

    This expert guide discusses why physical networks don’t cut it for the cloud, addressing multi-tenancy in the private cloud and the cloud VLAN challenge.

    Download

  • Enforcing Endpoint Security: Creating a Network Security Policy

    As more and more users utilize non-company-owned devices to gain access to corporate data, organizations must take new steps to prevent the risks and damages of hostile, malware-infested and non-compliant endpoints. Access this e-guide to explore how to create a network endpoint security policy as well as best practices for enforcing them.

    Download

  • How cloud & SD-WAN are revolutionizing retail

    Access this e-book to learn how the increased flexibility of Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), Unified-Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) and SD-WAN can all help retailers achieve maximum customer satisfaction.

    Download

  • Security as a service for MSP peace of mind

    Download this portfolio to learn more about WatchGuard's managed security service solutions, which give MSPs peace of mind through better endpoint management and comprehensive protection across your entire service ecosystem.

    Download

  • 7 types of networks and their use cases

    A computer network is an interconnected system of devices, represented as network nodes, that share information, data and resources among each other. Not all networks are the same. In this e-guide, learn about the seven most common types of networks, their benefits and use cases.

    Download

  • How cloud communications improve customer service

    Donatos, a pizza company with more than 200 locations, struggled with legacy infrastructure that delivered fragmented mobile experiences and poor in-store Wi-Fi. To solve these challenges, they looked to build a next-generation IT platform. See this full case study to learn how CBTS cloud and SD-WAN solutions helped Donatos achieve this goal.

    Download

  • Software Defined Networking Goes Well Beyond the Data Center

    Software-defined networking (SDN) applications are quickly moving beyond the data center network. In this expert e-guide from SearchSDN.com, learn what SDN applications mean for network administration, how they're impacting network security, and more.

    Download

  • Top 10 network stories of 2018

    2018 was the year when software-defined networking, and more specifically software-defined WANs, took centre stage. We look back at a transformative year for the world of the network manager. Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 networking stories of 2018.

    Download

  • CW ASEAN April 2018

    This year, more enterprises will adopt a "cloud-first" SD-WAN architecture designed to efficiently support their increasingly cloud-based application mix. In this issue of CW ASEAN, we take a closer look at how ASEAN enterprises gearing up for this eventuality.

    Download

  • The New Network: Software-Defined Networking Gets Real

    Take a look at what lies behind the software-defined data center network to uncover if data center convergence will truly become a reality and if we will finally achieve the total orchestration and automation in a virtualized environment we've been waiting for.

    Download

  • The 5 key dimensions of digital-led sustainability

    In this exclusive e-book, discover the 5 key dimensions of digital-led sustainability, and why, for many organizations, sustainable transformation is already underway.

    Download

  • Next Generation Network Management Techniques

    The February edition of the Network Evolution E-zine explore the latest advances in DevOps and uncover what you need to know for working within the movement. Also read several other featured articles!

    Download

  • Thorough network assessments: An example

    In this e-book, discover an example of a thorough network assessment by Net Reply that examines a company’s data center, cloud connectivity and more.

    Download

  • Palo Alto Networks 2nd Special Edition

    Most network and network security products on the market today weren’t designed to handle today’s security concerns. To address these challenges, Gartner came up with secure access service edge (SASE). Read this e-boo for an in-depth look at SASE and learn how you can secure your organization against today’s threats.

    Download

  • SASE: Solving 7 Major IT Challenges

    Browse this case study to track a manufacturing organization’s journey from legacy SD-WAN to a SASE solution that addressed the company’s seven major IT obstacles.

    Download

  • Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery

    With the mushrooming of disaster recovery technology in the past few years, your excuses for not having a DR plan are falling away. Use this Essential Guide to learn how to take advantage of new technologies that make the disaster recovery provision and planning process easier than it’s ever been.

    Download

  • 64-page e-book: Ultimate guide to software firewalls

    Between expanding attack surfaces and proliferating, sophisticated threats, organizations in every industry face complex obstacles on the path to stronger cloud application security. To learn how leveraging a software firewall can help you protect your business’s cloud apps, dig into this comprehensive guide.

    Download

  • CW ANZ: Trend Watch - communications infrastructure

    In this handbook, Computer Weekly looks at how Australia's bushfires impacted its telecoms networks and the increase in SD-WAN adoption in Asia-Pacific

    Download

  • Essential Guide: Securing hybrid IT infrastructure

    In this essential guide, we examine the key security considerations for infrastructure, networks, data and hybrid cloud.

    Download

  • E-Guide: Navigating the road to flatter converged data center networks

    This expert E-Guide highlights options for flat networks, integrated storage and networking for the private cloud.

    Download

  • What Is an AI-driven Enterprise?

    Inside this e-book, “What Is an AI-driven Enterprise?” you’ll learn about the evolution of AI, what constitutes an AI-driven business, and the building blocks that can enable your organization to attain that status.

    Download

  • The cloud operating model: Analysts explain

    “What is the cloud operating model, and how is it evolving to meet IT operations management requirements across the entire digital infrastructure?” This is the first of 5 FAQs that IDC analysts answer in this paper. For an insightful introduction to the cloud operating model, read on.

    Download

  • Application Delivery Network Buyers' Guide

    The more systems become remote, the less secure they are. On face value a huge cliché – or truism - but sadly actually true. And sadly, for those running networks, something that is going to be truer – or more clichéd – as remote working continues to proliferate in the new normal of the hybrid mode of working.

    Download

  • 19 machine learning interview questions and answers

    Aspiring machine learning job candidates should be fluent in varied aspects of machine learning, from statistical theory and programming concepts to general industry knowledge. Read our list of commonly asked machine learning questions and accompanying answers to help you prepare for your interview.

    Download

  • A Computer Weekly buyer's guide to multicloud

    Enterprise's shift towards multicloud is ever-increasing. Computer Weekly looks at the importance of software-defined wide area networks in successful migration, the complications that come with juggling clouds and Microsoft's journey into multicloud support.

    Download

  • Why is Bristol Britain's smartest city?

    In this week's Computer Weekly, we visit Bristol, ranked as the UK's top smart city, to find out what it's learned and future plans. Our latest buyer's guide examines software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN). And we trace the evolution of open source as more organisations contribute code to the community. Read the issue now.

    Download

  • How SASE and SD-WAN are making on-premises firewalls redundant

    According to Gartner, by 2024 at least 40% of enterprises will have explicit strategies to adopt SASE, up from less than 1% at year-end 2018. Access this resource to learn how SASE and SD-WAN can make on-premises firewalls redundant.

    Download

  • 5 FAQs about network platforms: An analyst’s answers

    For a comprehensive introduction to network platforms, download this IDC report and review an analyst’s answers to 5 FAQs about the platforms.

    Download

  • Cloud networking and CDN: How to get the best for your business

    In this e-guide we will be looking at how to bring innovative new software-defined tools to bear on multicloud environments, uncover some of the potential pitfalls of cloud networks and (hopefully) how to avoid them, and take a swing through the related world of content delivery networks (CDNs).

    Download

  • Generating business value from Big Data

    For high-end, challenging applications integrating business intelligence (BI) data with other information such as Internet clickstream and social networking data, the trend is shifting toward build in the buy vs. build data warehousing debate. Access this expert resource today to learn the drivers that are creating this new trend.

    Download

  • Network Evolution: Software-defined networking in action

    To fully take hold of your business intelligence it is important to deploy a set of network monitoring tools. This expert e-guide focuses on specific network monitoring tools and the benefits they will bring to your organizations.

    Download

  • Top end-to-end network management challenges you need to know

    To better understand how leading organizations are addressing end-to-end network visibility and management as well as adopting new technologies to drive greater operational efficiencies, download this exclusive ESG e-book.

    Download

  • How SASE can protect your digital assets

    Between skyrocketing amounts of data and the IT skills shortage, organizations encounter significant obstacles on their path toward securing their digital assets. Along with digging into those challenges, this white paper explores how businesses can surmount them with SASE. Keep reading to unlock these insights.

    Download

  • MicroScope: Grasp the social networking opportunity

    An issue looking at the issues around social media, the growth in unclouding and some security industry predictions for the year ahead.

    Download