Networking White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Cisco Services presents a series of four white papers to provide a framework for discovering compelling business cases and identifying the necessary services needed to deliver the desired experience. The second white paper in the series covers critical knowledge areas in the successful planning and design of a medianet or media-optimized network.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 02 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Evolve to Thrive: From Operational to Management Excellence, successful companies are connecting disparate management strategies to align performance networks, not just transactional activities. Read how Oracle's Strategy-to-Success framework can guide you on your evolutionary journey to Management Excellence.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: Your business depends on one thing: getting the right information to the right people at the right time. To gain a competitive advantage, improve customer service and access more business intelligence, you have to ensure fast and responsive application delivery to users wherever they are.

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 | Published: 14 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: The responsibilities of network administrators and security managers at mid-size companies today can seem like a "no-win" situation. However, throwing up your hands in frustration and doing nothing is not an option because the internal network security risks is simply too great. Read on to learn more about how to improve your network security!

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 | Published: 02 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: While many companies understand the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing, they struggle to prepare their data center for such a transition. Discover how to avoid a “rip-and-replace” approach by utilizing a phased network architecture upgrade that helps control risk and costs.

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 | Published: 11 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: To succeed in tough economic times, a business must be able to make strategic plans for growth while running a lean operation. The following paper presents seven primary areas where businesses can maximize IT opportunities and describes how Cisco can help build a sustainable network infrastructure to help you realize your strategic vision.

Posted: 26 May 2010 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization is now beginning to deliver functional and economic benefits to nearly all classes of enterprises willing to take the virtualization plunge, down to and including organizations with just a few hundred seats.

Posted: 07 May 2010 | Published: 07 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: 802.11n has provided the final step in the evolution of wireless LANs from convenience technology into core technology for network connectivity. This white paper discusses key questions organizations must ask themselves before migrating to 802.11n. Access this paper now to learn more.

Posted: 03 May 2010 | Published: 03 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how to help reduce risk and successfully manage your security infrastructure through conducting vulnerability assessments, using discovery tools, adopting centralized policy setting and event correlation, and taking a cohesive approach to updating network equipment.

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 | Published: 05 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Building on recommendations in the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) SMART 2020 report, this paper explains how companies can replace high environmental impact activities with low carbon alternatives through the network. The result? Efficiencies in workplaces, data centers, transportation and logistics, power grids and buildings.

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 | Published: 05 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Adoption of SSL VPNs is growing rapidly. A sample of areas in which SSL VPNs can help include serving more communities, supporting more access environments, providing access without application and network changes, enforcing compliance, protecting the network, quickly modifying access policies, and ensuring business continuity.

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 | Published: 26 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Borderless Networks, a Cisco® next-generation architecture for agile delivery of services and applications, delivers a new workspace experience, connecting anyone, anywhere, using any device, to any resource: securely, reliably, and seamlessly. Read this paper to learn more about the Cisco Borderless Networks architecture.

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 | Published: 23 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how HP is combining the best new standards-based technologies with a modular architecture that fully optimizes virtualized resources, while meeting business requirements for low total cost of ownership, faster time-to-service, and critical requirements for reliability, IT governance, and compliance.

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Juniper Networks was founded on the vision of connecting everything and empowering everyone. Establishing a relationship with a network partner like Juniper can help IT organizations reap the benefits of cloud computing and increase network effectiveness to meet current and future technological and business requirements.

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 | Published: 11 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Aging network systems and old habits have dictated how businesses spend their IT budgets. As a result, too many IT dollars are being spent on just barely remaining competitive with emerging companies and their newer IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn more about a new family of solutions that reduce IT expenses and free up budgets.

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 | Published: 10 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: The multi-service, mission-critical, business-enabling campus LAN needs consistent features and service reliability from edge to core. Talk to Brocade and find out how to deploy an extraordinary network for the entire enterprise-converged campus to consolidated data center.

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 | Published: 09 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: By understanding the unique management challenges of virtualized environments and leveraging innovative solutions to meet those challenges, you will be able to help your organization reap the wide range of business benefits that virtualization can deliver.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 28 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how any small business can benefit from the advantages of a server-based network. Putting a fast and well-equipped server to work increases your productivity, enables smart backup and archiving, and vastly improves the security of your data.

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 | Published: 10 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper provides an overview of the networking architecture for VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge blade servers. It provides best practices for deploying and configuring your network in the VMware environment.

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Enterprises today are seeking new communication technologies, such as wikis, blogs, and forums, to improve communication and collaboration and increase employee productivity.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 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: Read this paper to learn what is Small Business Communication VoIP and what it can do for your business.

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Published: 14 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Like their larger counterparts, small businesses are turning to innovative, network-based communication tools to work more efficiently for less. Cisco offers a number of unified communications solutions tailored specifically to small businesses.

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Published: 14 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

WHITE PAPER: For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), networks can do more than simply connect machines. They also deliver voice (telephone) and video, and connect functions such as sales and bookkeeping to make business more efficient, collaborative, and profitable. Read this paper learn about core network components and benefits.

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Published: 14 Aug 2009