August 16, 2010 - (Free Research) To determine the return on investment (ROI) associated with implementation of an HP ProCurve network solution, IDC conducted a study of medium-sized to large organizations with an HP ProCurve implementation up and running in their production environment.
August 31, 2010 - (Free Research) The reason for the rise of 10GbE iSCSI is simple ‐ it offers the lowest cost of ownership and the highest performance among all SAN fabric alternatives. Read this white paper to learn more about these exciting developments.
September 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper shows how enterprises may make the transition to 10GbE for storage using Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series arrays and Dell PowerConnect™ switches.
August 25, 2010 - (Free Research) In October 2009, Juniper Networks commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying EX4200 Ethernet switches. Read this case study to find out so much more.
August 04, 2010 - (Free Research) As the demand for inter-site bandwidth increases, organizations are using high-speed Ethernet technologies deployed within their building to communicate between their buildings. Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) are extremely effective at meeting customers' growing bandwidth requirements.
June 11, 2010 - (Free Research) Fibre Channel over Ethernet is extending the reliability benefits and service of Fibre Channels to LANs and other Ethernet networks. Learn how this approach enables flexible, scalable, and simplified data center fabrics that support increasingly powerful applications and growing amounts of data.
October 2008 - (Free Research) This white paper examines the TCO of this blade solution at acquisition and at 1, 3, and 5 years. TCO includes hardware, support, management software, IO virtualization, power, cooling, network ports, and data center space.
August 2010 - (Free Research) This booklet reviews best practices for test and troubleshooting methods as well as the test tools to ensure that installed optical fiber cabling provides the transmission capability to reliably support LAN or enterprise network applications.
April 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper details how and where organizations are currently and successfully using virtual desktops. Delivered as a series of generalized case studies, this article will explain how a few organizations have turned virtual desktops into a competitive advantage.
July 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper will provide an overview of some of Cisco’s data center platforms and their virtualization aware features; specifically the Nexus product line of switches (1000V, 2000, 5000, 7000) and the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS).
July 2010 - (Free Research) The Dell/EMC NS family of unified storage enables organizations to easily and cost-effectively consolidate both unstructured file-system data and structured application data into a single shared storage system - helping organizations control costs, streamline management, and enhance storage availability and performance.
December 2008 - (Free Research) In this whitepaper you will learn about the evolution of Ethernet, the reasons VLANs were introduced, and the ways that VLANs can be used.
February 2010 - (Free Research) For many years network administrators have expected security breaches to come from outside an organization or at the upper layers of the OSI model. This paper will focus on securing layer 2 switching at the access layer through port security and preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks at layer 2.
February 2010 - (Free Research) Feature articles this month cover bringing data loss prevention coverage to mobile endpoints, readers’ security priorities and top investments for 2010, and new compliance mandates in Massachusetts and Nevada that signal a new generation of data protection laws. Read on for these great articles and more.
August 2010 - (Free Research) ECI's 1Net wireless backhaul solution provides you with a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for backhaul optimization, and options for multi-stage migration from TDM to packet at your preferred pace. Read this paper to find more.
February 2010 - (Free Research) Altor is the leading provider of security for virtual data centers and clouds. This link provides you with full access to Altor security software running within a VMware environment hosted on our site.
October 2008 - (Free Research) This paper helps students understand the types of information required to pass the new 640-802 CCNA composite exam by providing a convenient review of the exam's critical concepts.
June 2008 - (Free Research) This document highlights what you need to know about power consumption, server virtualization and outfitting data centers to make the most of the new technologies.
October 2009 - (Free Research) 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.
January 2010 - (Free Research) There have been many changes recently in computing architecture, from dedicated servers in the data center to virtualization and cloud computing, and this has new implications for data protection. Read this paper to find out how to address these security challenges.
September 2010 - (Free Research) Chelsio's 320E 10GbE Storage Accelerator is a dualport 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter with PCI Express host bus interface optimized for storage applications. The third-generation technology from Chelsio provides the highest 10GbE performance available and dramatically lowers host-system CPU communications overhead. Read this white paper to learn more.
September 2010 - (Free Research) This paper compares Postgres Plus Standard Server and Postgres Plus Advanced Server 8.4 against MySQL 5.5. The comparison is broken down into a number of sections with a short commentary following each section. Read on to learn how the Postgres Plus 8.4 stacks up against MySQL 5.5 on all the above topics and learn which one comes out on top.
