Monitoring

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Read this informative whitepaper to learn how, as a Blue Coat customer, you can reap the benefits of Zscaler's comprehensive cloud security solution. Learn how enterprises with legacy proxy appliances-such as Blue Coat ProxySG-will further enhance their security with our unmatched advanced threat protection.

When it's time to expand your network, this guide will help you evaluate the needs of your organization and enable you to provide best performance for mission-critical applications.

Read this white paper to learn about the impact of server virtualization on the data center and understand HP's approach to building simpler networks.

This white paper examines seven core network management requirements and evaluates how one integrated management solution measures up.

IT and security execs share practical advice on what it takes to lead a successful IT implementation and lessons learned from from the trenches.

By enabling services for controlling access to the infrastructure and monitoring for activity, management decisions can be made to improve data center services.

In this on-demand webinar, John Kindervag, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, defines "zero-trust architecture," outlines the 5 steps needed to make this model actionable, and explains how his clients are adopting a "zero-trust architecture."

Join Michael Osterman of Osterman Research and GFI Software who will discuss the current state of the dangers of simple Web surfing and what you can do to address these concerns quickly and easily.

Managing a mixed platform and vendor IT environment presents many challenges. The problems escalate with the number of different tools used to manage the infrastructure. Customers are looking to reduce the number and variety of management tools they must use. One early adopter of IBM's ITCAM for Microsoft Applications shares the lessons learned from that experience and comments on the benefits of the latest version.

If you are responsible for administering the IT infrastructure at a small-to-medium size business (SMB), using network monitoring, mapping and alerting software can help you do your job better by maximizing network uptime and efficiency.Here are the top reasons to implement a network monitoring system.

Small-to-medium size businesses (SMB's) have limited IT staff and budgets, yet they still require a monitoring solution for cost-effective equipment diagnosis to maintain a healthy network. Use the following checklist to evaluate software vendors.

In this brief paper, we'll address some of the best practices we've observed our customers implementing with the Avocent Corporation network infrastructure management technology. You will take away some useful insights on how to best work toward meeting your end goals.

This paper analyzes several of these incidents and makes recommendations for how a basic monitoring system can help reduce the occurrence of these unanticipated events.

This paper explains some the newer approaches to power distribution including modular power distribution and overhead power busway, and shows their advantages when compared to the legacy approach.

See the integrated reporting, analysis and planning capabilities that can help your midsize business to drive greater efficiencies, manage costs and identify growth opportunities.

This paper provides helpful tips for taking your job schedule to a new level, and how Skybot Scheduler can help you get there.

Saint Joseph Abbey and Seminary College in Louisiana was using several separate products to help protect their network, filter content and monitor Internet usage. After installing the Astaro Security Gateway home use version, the solution quickly impressed with its usability and power.

This report provides insights into Best-in-Class practices for assessing vulnerabilities and threats to IT infrastructure, prioritizing fixes based on the business value of resources and acceptable levels of risk, and remediating through the efficient deployment of patches, configuration changes, and other compensating controls.

Take the FireScope Challenge - download a free 28-day trial of FireScope Dash and compare the speed, breadth of monitoring and ease of use against your current monitoring tools.

Operational challenges have long been used as a reason not to introduce a second vendor into the network infrastructure. However, by taking an organized approach and using well-established multivendor network management tools and disciplines, enterprises can reduce operational challenges to a minimum, while reaping the benefits of a lower-cost, better-performing infrastructure.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an evolving set of security requirements designed for entities that store, process, or transmit cardholder data.

The proliferation of new, extended application development in software as a service, as well as new virtualization technologies, have created in most data centers a conflict between today's outdated capabilities versus tomorrow's growing needs.

In this white paper, security and compliance expert Dr. Anton Chuvakin explains how to take advantage of this opportunity.

A number of associations, consultants and vendors have promoted best practices for enhancing data center energy efficiency. These practices cover everything from facility lighting to cooling system design, and have proven useful in helping some companies slow or reverse the trend of rising data center energy consumption. However, most organizations still lack a cohesive, holistic approach for reducing data center energy use.