Network Performance

Want to achieve faster ROI with WAN optimization? Read the latest IDC report and discover how you can cut IT costs without compromising performance, gain greater efficiency, and improve productivity and overall satisfaction.

A convergence of potentially conflicting trends is creating a perfect storm for IT professionals tasked with providing secure, reliable access to applications and other critical corporate information. So how can IT avoid the strain on corporate networks as more users attempt to access desktop infrastructures - including applications and services- from remote offices or through mobile devices? Learn how boosting application delivery and response time across a global network can improve collaboration and productivity among an increasingly global and mobile workforce.

Hyperconvergence is defined as the state of a network that follows the adoption of modern computing initiatives. Now organizations can embrace each and every modern computing initiative with confidence, and build a hyperconverged enterprise network into strategic corporate asset by implementing WAN optimization best practices. Download this webcast and learn how.

HP Cloud Solution for Microsoft is designed to provide a scalable, high-performance integrated infrastructure optimized for virtual environments built on Microsoft Hyper-V. Designed and built according to the Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track reference architecture, HP Virtual System for Microsoft comes standard with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (which includes Hyper-V) and is designed to deliver top performance for a wide range of virtualized applications, including Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint. This paper will focus on ESG’s analysis of the costs and benefits—and ultimate economic value—associated with deploying and managing HP Cloud Solution for Microsoft, versus a comparable conventional data center infrastructure comprised of discreet, non-integrated compute, storage, network, and management components.

This paper examines how seven enterprise and midsize companies spanning the equipment rental, healthcare, retail, research, and telecommunications (service provider) industries were able to reduce their annual IT cost to deliver compute services by 58% by migrating to a blade platform.

This paper discusses the Metro Ethernet attributes that provide more flexible, scalable connectivity between your business locations and your data centers than SONET TDM private lines or IP VPNs. Unlike other WAN technologies, Metro Ethernet has some unique capabilities to allow you to more cost effectively connect multiple locations to your data centers.

Selecting the optimal wide area networking service to meet your diverse needs has been challenging given the many choices. However, over the past several years, business Ethernet services have emerged as the optimal choice to best address many applications.

Organizations increasingly utilize the Internet as a critical business tool and Ethernet-based DIA services provide many benefits over T1-based DIA services. The most obvious benefit is higher bandwidth. In addition, Ethernet DIA services enable organizations to more quickly and cost-effectively add Internet access bandwidth to balance their business needs. This elastic bandwidth capability of Ethernet DIA services enables organizations to optimally manage their IT costs while they grow their business. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

Read this white paper to separate the technology and business potential from the marketing fluff. Get answers to your most pressing cloud questions and better understand when and where the cloud makes the most sense for your organization.

This strategy lets you leverage your existing virtualization investments in order to quickly and cost-effectively reap the full benefits of the cloud.

In this paper, we explore these concepts and highlight the critical features necessary to move beyond server virtualization by leveraging key integration capabilities between IT components.

If you find yourself in need of a WAN optimization solution you’ll want to download this report to understand what’s new in the WAN optimization market, what vendors are the key players, and which products are most appropriate for your needs.

The IBM Data Center Study found that only 21% of data centers are highly efficient. The study evaluated efficiency in servers, storage, networking, facility and data center operations to determine the best practices of the most efficient data centers.

This informative webinar focuses on the impact that mobile brings to your enterprise- to your enterprise architecture, changes in development, and how you can use mobile as a driver for change moving forward. Continue for an analysis of the challenges surrounding enterprise mobility.

Cloud services create a compelling case to move application processing and storage out of the data center and onto the network.

Find out what IDC and Boston College have to say about enhancing user productivity, reducing application downtime by 67%, and a 6 months ROI. Using Riverbed Cascade to manage exponentially growing application complexity while increasing network uptime.

Organizations have achieved significant benefit from virtualizing servers and storage environments, and now face the daunting task of deploying new network architectures to keep pace. Riverbed Technology and VMware have joined forces to help address these problems and make it easy to deploy and manage VXLAN overlay networks in highly virtualized data centers. Register to read the full report from The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).

Minimizing application and service disruptions while maximizing end-user experiences are paramount goals for any organization. Businesses of all sizes are challenged with ensuring their applications perform, yet, performance management solutions that understand the full performance picture, (applications, networks, virtualization, cloud, etc.) traditionally have been focused on the needs of very large enterprises.

As a network manager, application manager or security manager, you need systems that can collect data across your WAN, continuously analyze the data to discover problems, and troubleshoot issues as soon as they occur. Riverbed Cascade has fundamentally changed the economics of network performance management. Learn more.

Enterprises are rapidly adopting virtualization for dynamic service delivery and service management agility. IT challenges already exist in virtual environments and will only be exacerbated with the higher adoption of virtualization. The ability to proactively monitor traffic within these environments is critical for enabling predictable and reliable delivery of applications and for troubleshooting diverse IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn more.

This guide includes a demonstration on how you can accelerate troubleshooting, gain end-to-end visibility, and solve intermittent performance problems without having to recreate them; a detailed case study that shows how a large-scale federal government and defense consultant solved a months-long problem in just 15 minutes; and an on-demand webinar that introduces you to Cascade Shark and Cascade Pilot.

Increase ROI and improve productivity. See how the Cisco Unified Data Center can help you achieve these two goals by simplifying, standardizing, and automating IT processes, so you can turn your data center into an innovation center.

According to a 2012 CSO survey, 68% of enterprises are wary of data security in the cloud. Learn how moving to a Cisco private cloud can make you more agile, help mitigate data security risks, and reduce enterprise costs up to 40%.

Private clouds create IT challenges that can limit increases in production, even hinder agility. Find out why enabling self-service and automated end-to-end provisioning with Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud may be the solution.

The rise of cloud models brings with it new infrastructure, applications, access policies, and traffic patterns. Learn how networks must adapt to keep up with the demands of the cloud, and find out how Cisco is leading the charge.