WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper will provide an overview of the benefits of Storage Resource Management as a "front end" to data deduplication. We will demonstrate how an SRM tool such as Northern Storage Suite can work in concert with data de-duplication technologies to efficiently streamline data and assure optimal performance of an organization's storage inf...
Posted: August 3, 2009 | Published: January 5, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Management | IT Best Practices | NAS | Network Performance | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management Software | Storage Resource Management

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

WHITE PAPER - With the momentum of IP convergence and the movement toward an all digital world, professional communication systems combining telephony over IP, e-mail, instant messaging and audio/video conferencing services are sparking serious interest due to the benefits they offer. Read on to learn more.
Posted: July 20, 2009 | Published: July 20, 2009


Topics:  IP | IP Networks | IP Routers | Network Management | Network Performance | Networking

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Traditional framework solutions are expensive and tough to implement; are difficult to use, maintain and customize; and often impractical for network engineers in mid- to large-sized organizations. Network engineers need affordable, scalable network management solutions that provide immediate visibility into performance of the entire network.
Posted: July 14, 2009 | Published: July 14, 2009


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | Network Event Correlation | Network Forensics | Network Management | Network Management Software | Network Monitoring Software | Network Performance | Network Performance Management Software | Network Traffic Analysis | Performance Testing

ANALYST REPORT - WAN optimization controllers seek to improve applications performance and reduce bandwidth requirements by intelligently managing traffic across the WAN. This analyst report presents a snapshot of the current market situation as well the results and explanation of Gartner's study of nine separate WOC vendors. Read the full report to learn more.
Posted: July 10, 2009 | Published: June 30, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Server Hardware | Applications Management | Network Appliances | Network Performance | Network Traffic Management | Networking Hardware | WAN | WAN Hardware

WEBCAST - Watch this webcast to learn about the challenges and successes of Chris Bress, Director of Learning Through Technology for a public school system in Florida, which serves 17,000 students.
Posted: July 9, 2009 | Premiered: July 9, 2009


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | LAN | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | Network Performance Management Software | Network Security | Network Traffic Management | Video Services | Video-on-Demand | WAN

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

WEBCAST - This webcast discusses the top five challenges in enterprise networks, data and server consolidation challenges, performance issues and solutions, best practices for network architecture management, and Blue Coat's vision for addressing these issues.
Posted: July 9, 2009 | Premiered: July 9, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Enterprise Applications Software | Enterprise Resource Management | Network Architectures | Network Performance | Network Performance Management Software | Server Consolidation | WAN

WEBCAST - Check out this webcast to learn more about web and SSL applications and how you can delivering applications more cost-effectively for your organization and more efficiently for users.
Posted: July 9, 2009 | Premiered: July 9, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Data Center Management | Network Management | Network Performance | Network Performance Management Software | Server Consolidation | SSL | SSL Accelerators | WAN

CASE STUDY - Read this case study to see how a diversified company with a large, nationwide network discovered the GigaVUE Data Access Switch from Gigamon and gained several benefits.
Posted: July 6, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Data Replication | Network Management | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | Network Security | Network Traffic Management | Switches

CASE STUDY - Check out this brief paper to learn how a customer benefited from a Gigamon deployment of TAPs directly into several 10G ports; they also aggregated the traffic, eliminating the need to connect very expensive tools on each connection in question.
Posted: July 6, 2009 | Published: January 5, 2009


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Connectors | Data Management | Internet Access | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | Network Traffic Analysis | ROI

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Increasing network availability, measuring network QoS, optimizing bandwidth utilization, documenting network infrastructure, improved application availability and keeping employees productive, customers happy and the business running.
Posted: July 6, 2009 | Published: July 6, 2009


Topics:  Application Monitoring | Bandwidth Management | IT Managers | Network Applications Software | Network Management | Network Monitoring | Network Monitoring Software | Network Performance | QOS | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | Reporting Software

WHITE PAPER - Bandwidth management is a common technique employed by IT organizations to improve quality of service over the WAN by assigning guaranteed levels of bandwidth and prioritizing traffic to improve application performance. To be effective, bandwidth management must be perfectly aligned with business policies and priorities. Read on to learn more.
Posted: July 1, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2007


Topics:  Applications Management | Bandwidth Management | Network Appliances | Network Applications Software | Network Management | Network Performance | Network Traffic Management | WAN

WHITE PAPER - This article presents an overview of the various Ethernet 10/100/1000 physical layer technologies for the copper medium. It discusses the pros and cons of active versus passive tapping and why active tapping is preferred for Gigabit Ethernet running over the copper medium. The switch-over behavior of active relay-based tapping is also presented.
Posted: July 1, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Ethernet Networks | Gigabit Ethernet | Network Management | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | Network Processing | Network Traffic Analysis

PRODUCT LITERATURE - This white paper outlines the basic obstacles enterprise business' face having remote employees. More specifically, it provides a problem - solution approach to WAN latency and bandwith hungry application issues that disrupt profitability.
Posted: July 1, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2006


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | LAN | Network Performance | WAN | WAN Hardware | WAN Switching