Validating application and service delivery is key to the ongoing success of most organizations. The right network performance management and diagnostics (NPMD) solution can help enterprises avoid the negative financial and customer service implications of anomalous events, while maintaining optimal performance of IT resources....
Published: Aug 23, 2017
The Tenth Annual State of the Network Global Study focuses a lens on the network team's role in security investigations. Results indicate that 88 percent of network teams are now spending time on security issues. In fact, out of 1,035 respondents, nearly 3 out of 4 spend up to 10 hours per week working exclusively...
Published: Aug 23, 2017
As businesses make the move to AWS, there are key considerations to be mindful of in order to take full advantage of the power of the AWS platform.
In this paper, we will discuss three three commonly overlooked best practices for architectural design on AWS and why adhering to these best practices is a smart business...
Published: Oct 02, 2017
IT and business leaders are starting to realize that organizations don’t have to build and operate everything internally, so they are turning to a new way of delivering technology — Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) — for a variety of business applications. These days...
Published: Nov 22, 2016
Historically network monitoring and analysis has been an afterthought in the design of networks and networking equipment. In today’s data economy, this is a growing issue as organizations race to ever-faster network speeds, security threats are on the rise, and regulatory compliance requirements have become more...
Published: Apr 17, 2014
Serving as the foundation for cloud computing and virtualization, datacenter networks will need to evolve more quickly and become better aligned with other IT resources if they are to support virtualized application workloads and the larger objective of IT-driven business transformation.
A more agile network is clearly...
Published: Oct 08, 2013
Enterprises need the flexibility of a Hybrid Cloud while still being able to manage their infrastructures. Learn about what's necessary for enterprises to manage the Hybrid Cloud and how to reap the benefits of cost and performance.
Topics discussed in this whitepaper include:
The journey to...
Published: Feb 10, 2016
The time you save with the Cisco UCS solution's automated process can quickly add up when you are implementing a large-scale blade server deployment.
By choosing the Cisco Blade Servers, your IT staff can save days or weeks - time much better spent on other projects. Less time spent on routine tasks...
Published: Apr 08, 2014
Cisco® Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) is a smart Wi-Fi solution that uses the Cisco wireless infrastructure to detect and locate smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. With it, your organization can directly serve personalized content to users.
Published: Aug 22, 2014
This is the second in a series of two white papers. The first paper was entitled Why Network Engineering Needs to Change. That paper acknowledged the usual dynamic nature of change in IT and it addressed some changes underway that have significant impact on network engineering.
This paper will also describe the key...
Published: Jan 20, 2016
From collaboration to communication to data access, the web is a mission-critical business tool. Enterprises rely heavily on the web not only to innovate and compete, but also to conduct daily business. But the web also poses significant security risks to the enterprise that are easily encountered by users, yet not so...
Published: Jun 16, 2014
Support for Windows XP ends on 8 April 2014. Those still using XP have three options; do nothing, purchase custom support, or migrate to Windows 7 or 8. Here we consider the three options and their implications.
Published: Aug 13, 2013
Advanced evasion techniques (AETs) are here to stay, and you need to know how to stop them.
In this e-book, Forcepoint security expert Klaus Majewski explains how AETs defeat traditional security measures and how you can beat them, with special attention to the risks posed to industrial control systems.
Published: Apr 04, 2017
Cloud computing provides the tools to automate resource deployment, which frees IT organizations from the manual processes that take up so much time today. The automated spin up of virtual servers and storage is a well-established process in cloud computing platforms. Automation of the network on the other hand has been...
Published: Jun 15, 2016