This whitepaper addresses how government agencies can overcome the three principal barriers to consolidation: constrained WAN bandwidth, TCP throughput drop-off with latency, and the effect of latency on application chattiness.

This white paper investigates how a hosted VoIP solution can be an affordable approach that delivers value and a big-company image for micro-enterprises.

Find out how 'micro'-businesses - those with fewer than 20 employees - can leverage the power of Voice over IP (VoIP) in this white paper.

Find out how small to midsize businesses can now leverage the same professional, hosted PBX phone solutions that were once the exclusive domain of enterprises.

The ongoing global economic recession has left no business, budget, or IT organization unscathed. Corporations, forced to do more with fewer resources, are demanding greater economies of scale. That sets expectations that IT organizations will remain lean yet deliver high-quality services and support. This requires IT organizations to develop more process-oriented, efficient, and effective mechanisms to manage and maintain their environments.

IT needs to deliver a high quality user experience in order to accelerate business success. But how many organisations closely monitor that experience, analyse it and have systems in place to deal with any problems? In Autumn 2010, we commissioned an independent Study to find out. It involved interviewing over 400 business and IT leaders in different industry sectors across 14 countries to assess their position.

Over the last two decades, IT organizations have spent billions of dollars implementing fault management tools and processes to maximize network availability. While availability management is critical, infrastructure reliability has improved to the point at which 99.9 percent availability is commonplace. Given these improvements in infrastructure availability, companies are focusing more attention on performance management. By measuring how networked applications and services perform under normal circumstances, understanding how infrastructure and application changes impact performance, and isolating the sources of above-normal latency, IT organizations can ensure problems are resolved quickly, mitigate risk from planned and unplanned changes, and take measured steps to optimize application performance. In this paper, you will learn why this shift is taking place and how a new management model, what CA Technologies calls Performance First, can empower you to advance to the next level in managing your network for application performance.

Business applications today have become the primary interface between a company and its customers. And, there has simultaneously been tremendous innovation in the area of business intelligence, which can unlock a personalized experience for each an every user - and help support key corporate objectives to increase revenue, strengthen customer loyalty and establish and maintain a high-quality brand in the marketplace. For technology managers, then, this is an exciting time to demonstrate the value of IT to the business. But, the situation also exposes the intense risk we place on our IT applications because they now carry enormous organizational responsibility and significance.

As IT organizations are increasingly measured by their relationship to revenue, employee productivity, and business success, the more they need to visualize, analyze, and manage how the components in their IT environment impact business services. Dynamic change in the business climate, constant pressures to curb IT expenses, and implementation of new IT paradigms, including virtualization and cloud computing, pose significant challenges to IT-business alignment.

Helping customers take advantage of the latest technologiesLogicalis is a $1 billion turnover global provider of IT & Communications Technology (ICT) solutions and services focusing on communications and collaboration; datacentre; professional and managed services. Logicalis provides integrated ICT solutions and services to more than 5,000 corporate and public sector customers. The company helps organisations reduce costs by designing, specifying, deploying and managing end user, network and datacentre environments using the latest technologies.

Ensure service delivery. Period. Your business depends on its IT ecosystem, and you are responsible for making sure IT delivery is flawless.

Find out how Unified Communications combines voice and data on a single network to improve the way you do business.

This paper will examine current methods used to eliminate waived errors at the chip level and describe a new automatable method for identifying and removing waived errors from DRC results.

The goal of this Essentials Series has been to illustrate why effective monitoring and management is necessary for a healthy network. That need is the case irrespective of the size of your network.

This White Paper examines these considerations in greater detail and defines best practices when evaluating and deploying a Smart Card Authentication solution.

IP address management (IPAM) provides the ability to effectively manage, control, monitor, and assign the IP address space within a company. An IPAM solution reduces operations costs and improves network uptime by minimizing administrative effort and network downtime.

Today’s networks support more applications, traffic, users, and devices than ever before – a trend that only increases on a daily basis. At the heart of all IP networks live core network services, like DNS, DHCP, and  RADIUS that are crucial for keeping traffic flowing, users connected, and applications available.

Hundreds of organizations around the world use Microsoft® SharePoint® with  over 80 million implementations, allowing them to develop intelligent portals that seamlessly connect users, teams, and knowledge. With the release of Microsoft Offi ce SharePoint Server 2007, F5 has specifi cally developed and tested a comprehensive Application Ready infrastructure that enhances the security, availability and performance of SharePoint deployments, whether it’s over the LAN or across a global WAN.

A number of factors are fueling the demand for a new, intelligent approach to IP Address Management (IPAM). This document describes these factors while highlighting deficiencies in the legacy IPAM solutions and manual management techniques commonly used today. It also introduces the 'Five Pillars of IPAM Intelligence', BlueCat's framework for articulating its revolutionary, holistic approach to IPAM, and the foundation for the design of Proteus, BlueCat's next generation, intelligent IPAM platform.

This paper briefly traces some of the challenges involved with IP address distribution over the past two decades, to the current adoption of DHCP as the dynamic protocol of choice for pain-free management of network resources. Integral to the theme of secure yet reliable network administration is the integration of DNS and DHCP into a single network device called the Adonis DNS/DHCP Appliance which ensures that traditional barriers to secure and effective resource allocations are overcome with an efficient yet easy-to-use solution that enhances enterprise information security.

Are you looking for a comprehensive solution that addresses insufficient or congested bandwidth, impaired application performance, slow remote backup and replication or obstacles to IT consolidation? This paper will explain how Riverbed, whose product line, the Steelhead family of appliances, enables users to enjoy LAN-like access to important data and applications regardless of their location.

Discover how satellite IP communications can extend broadband communications anywhere, and meet today's demand for constant connectivity.

It's clear something is wrong. Business interruptions, outages, and other negative consequences happen far too often.

A Guide to Secure, Consolidated Remote Server Management.

Examines IPv6 issues specific to file transfer applications, then tests 14 applications for readiness.