WHITE PAPER - This white paper presents an approach to data center convergence that rethinks the network from the ground up to provide a long-term, future-proof strategy and develop a converged data center fabric with the flexibility to scale to super data centers while driving down the cost and complexity of managing the data center information infrastructure.
Posted: 10 Feb 2010 | Published: 10 Oct 2009

ANALYST BRIEF - Teleworking in the cloud is enjoying a bump in visibility because of hype about cloud computing and the appearance of new software as a service (SaaS) players. Use Gartner's cloud security-planning guidelines to mitigate risks of data loss and exposure when users rely on third-party-hosted applications.
Posted: 10 Feb 2010 | Published: 15 May 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 - This paper examines ways in which dynamic application awareness and intrusion prevention system (IPS) software solutions enable service providers to increase revenue while expanding service flexibility, richness, and reach. The paper then describes the technologies behind these advanced solutions. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 10 Feb 2010 | Published: 10 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER - As enterprises embrace the distributed concept, the network can significantly limit the ability to capitalize on opportunities. By adopting a solution-based distributed enterprise approach, you can enable the network and its applications to support and accelerate business with a location-agnostic and cost-effective approach.
Posted: 10 Feb 2010 | Published: 10 Aug 2009

ANALYST REPORT - Enterprises are aggressively moving to service-oriented IT delivery. By investing in internal and public cloud computing, enterprises claim decreased total cost of ownership by 30% to 40% as well as improved IT agility in responding to fluctuating business demands. Forrester Consulting conducted a study to better understand how companies succeed.
Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 26 Oct 2009

ANALYST REPORT - Established LAN design practices were created for an environment of limited switch performance. Today's high-capacity switches allow new design approaches, thus reducing cost and complexity in campus and data center LANs. Read this Gartner report to learn about maximizing LAN performance by minimizing LAN switch Tiers.
Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER - Hype or no hype, cloud computing is a reality. Read this whitepaper to learn what you need to do to get your network and IT infrastructure ready.
Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010