Network Management

Throughout the first decade of the 21st century, countless new technologies, unprecedented business demands, and expanding IT budgets created the modern data center.

The strategic business importance of today's data center requires a more complex and thoughtful approach to environmental control planning than ever before.

How to use Modular Design to Gain a Business Advantage - If you listen closely, you can hear the deafening roar of fundamental change

For organizations looking to be greener, the data center is the most obvious place to start.

If your organization's servers run applications that are critical to your business, chances are that you'd benefit from an application delivery solution. Today's Web applications can be delivered to users anywhere in the world and the devices used to access Web applications have become quite diverse.

HP Networking is a leading provider of converged infrastructure solutions, including networking. With its recently enhanced core and data center portfolio, HP has provided another proof point of its commitment to offering enterprise-class networking solutions. By bringing this new broader networking portfolio to market through HP's direct and indirect sales channels and combining it with HP service offerings, HP Networking has further strengthened its position as a global contender and provider to enterprises and major verticals.

In this paper, we'll explore how to use Coyote Point's Envoy to ensure 24x7 availability and fast connections for web content deployed at more than one geographiclocation.

Application Delivery Controllers understand applications and optimize server performance - offloading compute-intensive tasks that prevent servers from quickly delivering applications. Learn how ADCs have taken over where load balancers left off.

This paper focuses on the challenges of virtualizing Windows environments and the need to consider network storage as a part of the overall solution.

As cyber threats across the globe continue to increase in number and sophistication, security and networking personnel must not only work harder but also smarter to stay ahead of malicious attacks.

This paper offers insight into how airflow can be utilized and manipulated to cool servers in the data center. The analysis uncovers new revelations regarding how tiles perform while framing this performance in financial terms.

In today's connected world, a well managed Web presence is essential for any organization to achieve business success. The internet provides unprecedented opportunities for border-free communication. Many organizations use the internet to reach worldwide audiences. These organizations need to balance centralized messages and branding with localized content and contributions. SDL Tridion's BluePrinting technology allows you to create this balance.

Network teams are faced with a race to build out data center network capacity and to effectively provision connectivity at an increasing speed.

This guide looks at some of the most pressing challenges administrators face in ensuring optimal server performance, and it offers insights into the tools and strategies required to address these demands.

For anyone involved in IT, virtualization has ushered in an entirely new world, one where a lot of traditional rules, strategies, and approaches no longer apply. In the rush to adopt virtualization, many organizations have entered this world ill-equipped to deal with the new realities. This is especially true when it comes to capacity management.

Cloud computing is getting a lot of coverage in the media and a lot of space in the slide decks presented in analyst briefings.

Our analysis shows 25% of internet bandwidth can be lost to employee misuse, streaming media & spam. Understand bandwidth wastage in your business & steps you can take to control it.

Data center cooling continues to be a major challenge for data center operators.This white paper shows how the Alcatel-Lucent Modular Cooling Solution can reduce data center energy consumption while offering a coefficient of performance (COP) much greater than current approaches.

This Cloud Computing Trends Report provided insight into the expectations small, medium and large businesses have of cloud computing, their intended uses, reasons for adopting, and expected time-frames for implementing cloud-based solutions.

Understand bandwidth wastage in your business & simple steps you can take to control it.

Read this valuable IDC report paper sponsored by 3Com to learn how implementing next-generation networking equipment can facilitate the dynamic data center and deliver reliability and security that will simplify the entire data center environment.

Learn how a resilient virtual switching fabric design can help you ensure a future-proof data center network that effectively supports business needs while lowering costs.

Learn how to enable a more efficient virtual network and data center design as well as a secure and resilient virtual network fabric with this white paper on real security for Data Centers.

Keeping today's complex data center running at peak performance is no easy task. With hundreds-even thousands-of devices to manage, how can you be sure your data center is functioning correctly, appropriately size the infrastructure and quickly resolve emergencies? Providing real-time access to key data center metrics, infrastructure monitoring helps you effectively plan and manage capacity, right-size the data center to meet business demands, improve operational efficiency and prevent outages.

Learn how leading Fortune 1000 companies use unified data center management solutions to help them optimize data center operations, deliver better services at lower cost and reduce risk.