Network Architecture White Papers

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

In a recent Gartner survey1 of IT organizations, respondents cited data growth, system performance, and network congestion as their top three barriers to productivity. Because productivity enhances revenue, businesses are investing in technologies that boost it. But if it all relies on a network that is being deluged with data, how can IT professionals side-step these issues to increase productivity and reduce costs? Learn more.

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.

This IDC paper “Business Value of Blade Infrastructures” indicates the considerable cost savings and the improved agility of the IT infrastructure by migrating to an HP BladeSystem environment. In fact, HP BladeSystem cut data costs by 68%. Customers participating in this study were able to pay back their initial investment in just over 7 months, a significant factor given the financial constraints most IT organizations are facing.

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.

Learn more how HP Converged Cloud can allow you to implement cloud in the way that’s right for your enterprise, to support the need to speed innovation, enhance agility, and improve financial management, so you can gain access to the right IT services, from the right places, at the right time, at the right cost.

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.

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.