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: January 25, 2010 | Published: November 17, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Networking | LAN | LAN Switches | LAN Switching | Networking Hardware | Switch Fabric | Switches | Switching

CASE STUDY - NetApp met business and technical needs by using Cisco® Nexus switches in the new East Coast data center to build a cloud-computing environment; Application virtualization contributed to 40 percent savings on infrastructure.
Posted: December 30, 2009 | Published: December 30, 2009


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Applications Management | Cloud Computing | Data Center Design | Network Management | Networking Hardware | Switched Ethernet | Switches

CASE STUDY - The University opened a brand-new data center facility to accommodate massive growth in scientific and administrative computing with Cisco Nexus 7000 Switch.
Posted: December 30, 2009 | Published: December 30, 2009


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Data Center Design | Data Centers | Data Storage | Ethernet Switches | Fibre Channel SAN | High Availability | Networking Hardware | Switches

CASE STUDY - The Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, also known as the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), has installed two innovative Nexus 5020 switches from Cisco on its high?performance network. By using the Cisco® Nexus 5000, ZIB has very cost effectively increased the speed at which huge volumes of data are transported to and from its in-house supercomputer.
Posted: December 30, 2009 | Published: December 30, 2009


Topics:  Data Storage | Fibre Channel SAN | Fibre Channel Switches | High Performance Computing | Networking Hardware | SAN | Supercomputers | Switches

WHITE PAPER - Today's data centers are faced with many challenges such as consolidation, resources optimization, power, cooling, cost reduction and more. Cisco foresaw these requirements and developed Virtual Storage Area Networks (VSANs) in 2002 to address these issues in the data center.
Posted: December 29, 2009 | Published: December 29, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Networking Hardware | SAN | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Switches | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This document describes how users of IBM z/OS Global Mirror can reduce costs and improve performance with a tightly integrated Cisco® MDS 9000 Family solution.
Posted: December 29, 2009 | Published: December 29, 2009


Topics:  Data Encryption | High Availability | Mainframe Server Hardware | Networking Hardware | SAN | Storage Management | Switches

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: November 6, 2009 | Published: November 6, 2009


Topics:  Collaboration | IP Telephony | Network Appliances | Network Architectures | Network Best Practices | Network Configuration Management | Network Design | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Managers | Network Testing | Networking | Networking Hardware | Productivity | Unified Messaging | Unified Messaging Systems

INFORMATION CENTER - From core to edge, Cisco network switches provide the performance, high availability, comprehensive security, delivery optimization, and enhanced manageability you need to optimize your network infrastructure. Learn about switching as well as the products that make up a Cisco switching solution.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Network Appliances | Network Architectures | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Managers | Networking | Networking Hardware | Switched Ethernet | Switches | Switching

EGUIDE - The Cisco® Smart Business Architecture for Midsize Networks is a comprehensive network design for medium-sized companies with 250-1000 users. The architecture incorporates campus, WAN, wireless, security, WAN optimization, and unified communication technologies tested together as a solution.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Network Architectures | Network Configuration Management | Network Infrastructure | Network Security | Network Testing | Networking Hardware | SMBs | WAN | Wireless Hardware

EGUIDE - This is a deployment guide for Cisco partners and Cisco Systems®, Inc. Engineers whose customer base has 250-1000 connected users. It is meant for the Systems Engineers who will be deploying Cisco solutions at customer locations. It provides engineers step-by-step instructions to deploy these solutions.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Intrusion Prevention | Intrusion Prevention Systems | LAN | Network Architectures | Network Security | Network Security Hardware | Networking Hardware | VLAN | WAN

WEBCAST - We're adding new dimensions to the globe today as we discover switching secrets for multimedia. This episode of Cisco TechWiseTV looks at Cisco's StackWise technology, the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Virtual Switch System (VSS), overlooked security technologies, and how to build out your network to support high-end, full services video.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Premiered: October 28, 2009


Topics:  Network Appliances | Network Management | Network Performance | Network Security | Networking Hardware | Streaming Media Services | Switches | Switching

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: July 10, 2009 | Published: June 30, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Server Hardware | Applications Management | Network Appliances | Network Performance | Network Traffic Management | Networking Hardware | WAN | WAN Hardware

WHITE PAPER - File sharing and social network activity can dramatically hinder your network performance. This white paper details how Blue Coat helps you manage recreational applications today.
Posted: April 20, 2009 | Published: December 30, 2008


Topics:  Application Monitoring | Application Performance Management | Network Management | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | Network Performance Management Software | Network Traffic Analysis | Networking Hardware | Performance Testing

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains each of the seven layers of OSI model, including their functions and their relationships, also it provide with an overview of the network process, which can act as a framework for understanding the details of computer networking.
Posted: December 10, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2006


Topics:  Data Link Protocols | Data Transmission Standards | Network Applications Software | Network Architectures | Networking Hardware | Open Systems Standards | OSI Protocols | TCP/IP

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains an approach to virtualization software that relies on the host operating system to provide the service to talk directly to the underlying hardware.
Posted: December 10, 2008 | Published: October 11, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Hardware | IT Infrastructure | IT Managers | Networking Hardware | Operating Systems | Server Consolidation | Software | TCO | VMware