Networking White Papers

This report helps you to understand some of the benefits and practicalities of Windows Server 2012 and the latest incarnation of the System Center management environment. Beyond the early experiences reported here, it’s important to understand that with these latest server and tool releases, Microsoft is enabling its customers to put a strategic foundation in place for the future.

Flexible work is good for business and employees, which is why Citrix is dedicated to creating tools that help you getwork done from anywhere with anyone. Online meetings, social work platforms,and webinars are just some of the tools Citrix provides to help companies keep their employees, partners, and customers connected as if they were in the same room. To learn more, visit www.citrix.com.

Organizations expect their network security to be able to keep pace with network demands and detect threats in real time. And when it comes to security incident response, every second counts. The McAfee solution combines leading technologies in intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and security information and event management (SIEM) for a risk-based, highly contextual security program—all with the fastest available performance to ensure real-time action.

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.

This white paper highlights the importance for CISO's to address the new types of web threats and other targeted attacks and how improving and automating security operations can create an appropriate security strategy to replace the ineffective existing security technologies.

This whitepaper will demonstrate how implementing the McAfee solution to assess vulnerability, provides comprehensive, risk-based vulnerability assessment for your organizatin to help you manage the 400 new vulnerabilites per month with the fewest possible resources.

This whitepaper highlights the need for organizations to demand more from their SIEM solutions, which should aim to reduce complexity and be fast and easy to use in order to address the requirements that legacy SIEMs can no longer fulfil.

This whitepaper provides information on comprehensive security and risk management strategies which in turn will help your organization: Achieve meaningful situational awareness through rich context and analysis Diagnose and respond to incidents in seconds, not hours, to reduce damage, prevent data breaches, and lower remediation costs Experience fewer security and compliance incidents and lower per-incident costs Simplify compliance policy processes and reporting to improve operational ef!ciency Reduce the number of vendor platforms, hardware, and software used for security management Reduce training time and operational cost

McAfee Security Management solutions merge security products, management, and real-time intelligence to make your security effective for your business. It starts with deep integration within the system stack and across the IT environment. We add global, contextual visibility into changing events—within and beyond your organization’s boundaries—and connect all your systems with a cross-product command and control core.

Chief information officers (CIOs) at enterprises worldwide are facing a major struggle today: how to balance competing priorities from business units and IT. They have been mandated to protect the enterprise from every angle and maintain compliance while supporting business momentum and reducing costs.

McAfee® EDB is the only data management system specifically designed from the ground up to satisfy the unique requirements of the SIEM/logging market. It has features and capabilities that contribute to its uniqueness and suitability for the SIEM/logging market. Several of these features and capabilities are described in this document to help you understand why McAfee EDB is the leading data management solution for SIEM/logging.

Security Management 2.0: Time to Replace Your SIEM? takes a brutally candid look at triggers for considering a new security management platform, walking through each aspect of the decision, and presenting a process to migrate – if the benefits outweigh the risks.

Automating security monitoring has proven essential in today’s threat environment, and to succeed, today’s SIEM must have the right database back-end and must offer security intelligence that leverages contextual data.

The service desk of the future will need to keep on top of metrics and be able to provide reports that demonstrate business value and drive service improvements. That’s why this report advocates starting a comprehensive metrics programme now to ensure that you’re ready for the future (it’s never too early to start collecting data). The service desk has always been the customer-facing portal into IT, it’s future role will be to measure the performance of technology services, act as the ‘dashboard’ for assessing the success of the services operation and provide pertinent, timely and useful information to the business to enable them to make informed decisions.

This paper summarizes and evaluates the prevalence and efficacy of data center virtualization deployments, as well as the hardware that supports them. The conclusions drawn from this report are based on analysis of both quantitative market research and two qualitative interviews with a CIO and CTO in healthcare and finance, respectively. Each customer, referred to ESG by Hewlett-Packard (HP), had extensive experience deploying both server and desktop virtualization. The goal of the study was to determine the IT and business drivers to adoption of virtual technologies, the expected and realized benefits, ensuing infrastructure decisions,future outlook of the data center, and best practices for deployment.

Cloud-based business resilience can provide an attractive alternative to traditional disaster recovery, offering both the shorter recovery time associated with a dedicated infrastructure and the reduced costs that are consistent with a shared recovery model. With pay-as-you-go pricing and the ability to scale up as conditions change, cloud computing can help organizations meet the expectations of today’s frenetic, fast paced environment where IT demands continue to increase but budgets do not.

Global organizations are increasingly emphasizing business resilience, that is, the ability to adapt rapidly to a continuously changing business environment. This movement has led to important changes in the roles of IT professionals as they become progressively more engaged in managing all types of risk confronting the organization.

Data center operational efficiency best practices: Enabling increased new project spending by improving data center efficiency is an IBM study that developed a data center operational efficiency model for assessing the capability levels of today’s data center and describes the ways IT organizations can progress along the path of data center transformation. The report was written by IDC, which also executed the survey and interviews on behalf of IBM.

The explosion in IT demand has intensified pressure on data center resources, making it difficult to respond to business needs, especially while budgets remain flat. As capacity demands become increasingly unpredictable, calculating the future needs of the data center becomes ever more difficult. The challenge is to build a data center that will be functional, highly efficient and cost-effective to operate over its 10-to-20-year lifespan. Facilities that succeed are focusing on optimization, flexibility and planning infusing agility through a modular data center design.

Many organizations have understandably turned to consolidation and virtualization to reduce server complexity, footprint and cost-to-scale. The next step is to optimize performance using analytics, policy-based automation and new technologies like cloud computing. Companies that focus on server optimization are seeing greater flexibility and sustained cost and operational efficiencies, with administrators able to manage 2.5 times more servers and almost twice as many virtual machines per server.

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.

A successful managed services business is reliant on a solid business strategy and service delivery model as well as finding the right technology for your needs.

TechValidate invited over 6,300 IT Professionals to participate in a survey and provide insight about the current Backup and Disaster Recovery landscape.

A holistic, forward-looking and flexible IT security strategy can help organizations avoid common pitfalls and meet security threats head on in a cost and time efficient manner.