WHITE PAPER - Many organizations are looking into virtualization as a means of decreasing capital expenses and launching energy conservation initiatives. This paper explains why one must consider how business processes, administrative rights, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and security strategies will need to change before jumping into a deployment.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: October 28, 2009


Topics:  Network Capacity | Network Management | Network Performance | Network Security | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - PlateSpin® Recon from Novell is a sophisticated workload analysis, planning and management solution that provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center.
Posted: October 1, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Network Capacity | Network Monitoring | Reporting Software | ROI | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Systems Maintenance | Systems Management | Virtual Machine

WEBCAST - Watch this webcast to learn about a new unique workload profiling tool that takes the guess work out of identifying underutilized physical servers and virtual hosts. Learn how to leverage this tool for improved use and longer life of your current hardware.
Posted: August 28, 2009 | Premiered: August 28, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | IT Management | Network Capacity | Network Performance | ROI | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | VM

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper, we are going to discuss the application of QoS to networks with media flows installed within them, such as voice and video. We'll see that it is very unnatural for voice to even exist on a data network, because it was never designed to do so.
Posted: August 27, 2009 | Published: August 27, 2009


Topics:  Converged Networks | IP Routing | IP Telephony | IP Videoconferences | Network Capacity | Network Configuration Management | QOS | Unified Messaging | Voice Networking

WHITE PAPER - An understanding of the effect of factors such as resolution, frames per second, video codec, packets per second, and bit rate on bandwidth requirements will enable network operators to correctly design communications infrastructure networks that will support video applications. Read on to learn more.
Posted: August 21, 2009 | Published: August 21, 2009


Topics:  Frame Relay Protocols | Network Architectures | Network Best Practices | Network Capacity | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Provisioning | Network Traffic Analysis | Network Traffic Management | Video Display Standards | Video-on-Demand | Video-over-DSL | Videoconferencing Standards

WHITE PAPER - This EMA paper (prepared for VKernel) discusses the challenges in achieving virtualization goals in the enterprise and how capacity management can help optimize resource utilization while maintaining performance.
Posted: July 24, 2009 | Published: July 24, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Enterprise Resource Management | IT Service Management | Network Capacity | Network Performance | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization

WEBCAST - This webcast discusses how WAN optimization technology is still relevant and produces cost savings for organizations despite an evolving IT environment.
Posted: July 9, 2009 | Premiered: July 9, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Application Security | Applications Management | Bandwidth Management | Malware | Network Capacity | Network Performance | WAN

ANALYST REPORT - This research brief provides an overview of the current LTE market and addresses the technical and business challenges that operators will face as they migrate to all-IP networks. It provides insight into operators' common questions and helps address planning and implementation concerns including migrating away from existing legacy systems.
Posted: June 9, 2009 | Published: June 9, 2009


Topics:  IP | IP Networks | Mobile Device Management | Mobile IP | Network Architectures | Network Capacity | Network Infrastructure | Network Performance

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Email archiving, management and compliance solution for Exchange server that is easy to install and requires minimal administrative effort. Store all corporate email in an easily accessible central location.
Posted: May 28, 2009 | Published: May 28, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Electronic Discovery | Email Archiving | Email Archiving Software | Email Management Software | Network Capacity | Network Performance Management Software | Regulatory Compliance | Server Accelerators | SMBs

DATA SHEET - Critical applications need to move at the speed of business. Blue Coat PacketShaper provides WAN Optimization functionality through a series of modules-- monitoring, shaping and compression. Check out this data sheet for more details.
Posted: April 20, 2009 | Published: April 17, 2009


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Monitoring | Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Network Capacity | Network Management | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | QOS | WAN | WAN Hardware

DATA SHEET - Check out this data sheet for a categorized listing of 600 common applications for which Blue Coat PacketShaper delivers an accurate picture of network traffic.
Posted: April 20, 2009 | Published: April 20, 2009


Topics:  Application Integration | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Monitoring | Application Performance Management | Network Appliances | Network Applications Software | Network Capacity | Network Management | Network Monitoring | Network Performance