March 17, 2010 - (Free Research) Choosing a cloud computing solution can seem like a daunting task. Where do you start? What questions do you ask? What do you specifically need to look out for? This paper answers these questions and more. Continue reading to learn the best practices for choosing a cloud computing solution.
March 12, 2010 - (Free Research) Consider how procurement outsourcers have helped customers improve strategic sourcing, contract negotiations and operational procurement. Yet they need to connect these areas with integrated, sourcing-to-settlement procurement processes by providing customers with standard processes and platforms.
March 09, 2010 - (Free Research) The malicious behavior that we have seen in other media already plagues Internet voice calls. This report examines vulnerability trends as well as protocol- and application-layer attacks. Read this white paper to gain both a general and technical overview to the threats against VoIP and learn how to protect and remediate against them.
December 18, 2009 - (Free Research) EMC’s storage expertise, innovative products, and service capabilities have allowed it to become the market leader in IP storage. According to the IDC research, EMC, along with its wide network of Velocity Partners, is the revenue leader in IP-based storage solutions. Read this paper to find out why.
September 2008 - (Free Research) Outsourcing is the quest to offload either commodity or very specialized activities, so that staff can focus on work that truly adds value to the business.
April 2009 - (Free Research) Check out this webcast, which discusses the problem of flat budgets, rising costs, and competing priorities, and explains how automating core network services has proven to be a helpful solution.
December 2009 - (Free Research) Delivering solid application performance to branch and satellite offices is a clear business priority but costly and challenging to maintain for IT. How can you ensure the business gets what it needs while lowering IT costs and fueling greater consolidation and efficiency? Hear how leading enterprises are conquering this challenge and you can too.
September 2009 - (Free Research) In this white paper, IDC provides an overview of information security and its impact on enterprises, discusses IT operation challenges, and describes CA's answer to helping enterprise IT organizations attain increased visibility into and protection of their private and confidential data.
February 2010 - (Free Research) The SANS/CWE list of the Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors is already becoming the "standard" for developing secure applications in many large enterprises. In this webcast, review the prevalence of attacks that use vulnerabilities listed in the Top 25 and learn how to safeguard your code to avoid the most dangerous programming errors.
January 2010 - (Free Research) Email archiving is rapidly becoming a critical best practice for organizations of all sizes and across all industries. This white paper compares Sunbelt Exchange Archiver (SEA) with a cross-section of other email archiving offerings, to help decision makers in the evaluation process.
September 2009 - (Free Research) No longer a thing of the future, IP Convergence is now the cost of doing business. Unified Communications (UC) is the target destination for many enterprises. And while the concept is no longer new, IP convergence remains the first major step on that path.
January 2010 - (Free Research) On the cusp of this century's second decade, the data center finds itself balancing efficiency and availability while computing demand and energy costs are increasing and IT budgets are contracting. This paper will review 4 trends that will drive companies to improve availability while implementing cost cutting and energy efficient technologies.
March 2009 - (Free Research) Check out this white paper for a discussion on network changes; IP address management; Core Network Services solutions; and the benefits of integrated, automated IP.
March 2009 - (Free Research) This paper explains the importance of IP address management, discusses the criteria for an ideal IP address management solution, and explains the features and advantages of the Infoblox IP address management solution.
February 2009 - (Free Research) Many networking managers cite lack of visibility into network issues and performance as a common problem. They need the ability to identify which users and applications are consuming the most network bandwidth and which IP addresses are top talkers. Check out this download to learn how the Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer provides this information.
May 2009 - (Free Research) This paper presumes that your enterprise already has a data network security policy in place. It examines the many different settings that are available to help secure the Cisco IP Phones from potential hacker attacks, and it looks at a selection of Cisco secure infrastructure technologies that are especially useful for protecting voice systems.
October 2009 - (Free Research) Many organizations are hesitant to make the transition from their traditional private branch exchange (PBX) to IP telephony due to the complexity of the process. Watch this webcast to receive a complete customer-tested migration roadmap that takes the complexity out of making this switch.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This paper summarizes in question and answer format the many critical factors pertaining to VoIP's viability, regardless of which vendor's IP-PBX system is deployed across the distributed enterprise.
January 2010 - (Free Research) Like all IP traffic, VoIP can be prone to security threats from internal and external attacks and application vulnerabilities. However, potential latency, jitter, packet loss and echo due to an underperforming firewall could significantly degrade communications. The ideal solution would provide comprehensive security that introduces no latency.
August 2009 - (Free Research) In this white paper, we are going to discuss the application of QoS to networks with media flows installed within them, such as voice and video. We'll see that it is very unnatural for voice to even exist on a data network, because it was never designed to do so.
January 2009 - (Free Research) MPLS is a foundational technology that allows service providers and enterprise architects to offer state-of-the art networking to their customers.
January 2010 - (Free Research) Media resources are software- or hardware-based components that perform processing on two or more connected media streams. Media Resource design is an important component of overall IP Telephony implementations and care must be taken to ensure that resources are available at the right locations for maximum link efficiency.
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