Infrastructure White Papers

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 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.

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.

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.

By knowing exactly what is on your systems, how they are being used and by whom, organizations can better maintain network health, compliance and security.

From Dealing with Rogue “IT Hobbyists” to Disinterested Bosses, Kaseya Presents Common IT Systems Management Pain Points in the Retail Sector and Our Solutions

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.

This report takes a look at the enterprise threat landscape as it stands in 2013. What areas should you be sitting up and paying attention to? What areas can you afford to pay a little less attention to? We try to cover off all those questions and more. We hope you find the information inside useful as you step up your fight against the bad guys by deploying good technologies and best practice.

SilverSky operates a major hosted infrastructure dedicated to providing world-class enterprise messaging solutions. This whitepaper is an in-depth overview of our Hosted Microsoft Exchange architecture and how we implement best practices across systems management, testing, application deployment, infrastructure and security to provide increased productivity and reduced costs.

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.

Uncover the impact modern business demands are having on corporate networks today and learn what you must do to ensure your network performs the way you need it to for business success.

The pace of innovation in the virtual world continues to accelerate, opening new virtual dimensions and strategies for multi-tier hypervisors.

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.

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 paper shows how the IBM Maximo software solution is the leading asset and service management software in the marketplace, through its highly flexible business components and technology architecture

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.

This paper outlines potential savings on capital and operational expenditures, stemming from various product characteristics.

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