IP Networks White Papers

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.

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.

This paper dives into topics like asking to address future needs of your company, asking for any quick start packages, ensuring that your new phone bill costs will actually cost less than what you pay today and lots more insights to ensure a problem free phone system buying experience and installation.

This white paper highlights specific situations that a business should evaluate before purchasing a new phone system, how the new system can save money, increase efficiency and decrease downtime.

This whitepaper gets advise from phone system managers who were forefront in remedying phone system disasters.

Our latest Summer 2012 edition of the chart also compares PBX and Business VoIP systems side by side so you can make an educated comparison of your options. This analysis is prepared in an easy to view Excel spreadsheet.

DMG Consulting LLC identifies five top misperceptions, and dispels them with findings from their recent customer satisfaction study for hosted contact center services.

To successfully choose and implement an IP system, the best place to start is with a roadmap - current offerings, justification factors, upcoming solutions, and suggested planning guidelines. Without one, your new system might never move forward. Read more.

Read why the CaaS offering from Interactive Intelligence delivers a positive ROI from the start.

A Farpoint Group Technical Note: 802.11ac: What’s New and Important

Smartphone, tablet computer and ultrabook purchases number in the hundreds of millions per year. This onslaught of devices underscores the move to mobility in many organizations. Read on to learn how CDW helps in building end to end mobile strategy.

Enabling real-time collaboration to connect global employees and virtual teams is a growing trend among organizations seeking a competitive advantage.

This document provides a high level overview of how to build a high performance, highly available IP SAN with deduplicated disk protection and long-term tape archive. This document will also put that solution into context with the rest of a typical IT environment.

Following the sale of a company division housing its corporate data center, Source Interlink had to relocate core IT operations. Teaming with CDW, they were able to not only relocate, but lower capital and operating costs, reduce their carbon footprint, and increase efficiency.

In today's competitive business landscape, users' needs are continuously changing. Employees want access to their data and applications anytime, anywhere, from any device. The journey to seamlessly integrate data and applications across all devices begins with desktop modernization.

Download this white paper from Osterman Research and Proofpoint to learn how the protection of corporate data from sophisticated malware and phishing attacks is at top of mind of IT decision makers.

This document provides step-by-step instructions on how to use your PC set up your HP Scanjet to scan to the cloud.

In this white paper learn how to manage permissions across hundreds of servers. Learn more and read on.

This reference guide provides an overview on the public and private cloud implementation (e.g. HMS Public/Private Cloud Choice).

Get the visibility you need to achieve your IT objectives. Download this whitepaper today.

Read this IDC Executive Brief to see how MPLS facilitates cost-effective and converged wide area networking with a high level of security and flexibility

There are more people on earth than total IPv4 addresses, and they're expected to run out by the end of 2011. Preparing for the transition now can help you maintain business continuity during the changeover while taking advantage of immediate business benefits.

Read this whitepaper to learn the 3 key factors that IT managers need to consider when designing a scalable network for today's mobile workforce.

This paper looks at cloud architecture in which the servers and networks in the data center can rapidly respond to changing demands.