WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 17 Mar 2010
This guide will assist individuals who have been assigned the task or have identified the need to establish a patch management strategy. It details methods and approaches to effectively implement a sound patch management process.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 04 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Jun 2009
This paper provides an overview of the challenges faced in today’s data centers; addressing the issues surrounding data center power, cooling and efficiency, with an emphasis on how specific networking tools and strategies can help address these issues.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 04 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2009
Learn how HP is combining the best new standards-based technologies with a modular architecture that fully optimizes virtualized resources, while meeting business requirements for low total cost of ownership, faster time-to-service, and critical requirements for reliability, IT governance, and compliance.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 01 Mar 2010 | Published: 28 Feb 2010
The data center has been, and continues to be, one of the key resources of innovation helping businesses become more agile and efficient while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). This application note explores the means by which existing data center assets can be repurposed to increase utilization, and improved application agility.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 01 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Mar 2010
Download this white paper to see how Sun's Crossbow, coupled with Force10's FTOS, provides an end-to-end standards-based approach to virtualization and automation.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 24 Feb 2010 | Published: 24 Feb 2010
Although Active Directory (AD) and Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) are very diverse systems owned by two completely separate companies, the use of AD for management of users in a CUCM system is a common consideration. Read this whitepaper to learn more.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 24 Feb 2010 | Published: 24 Feb 2010
Every routing protocol has some pros and cons and its own metric considerations. In this white paper, we will discuss Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), a Cisco-proprietary routing protocol.
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EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE:   Posted: 18 Feb 2010 | Published: 15 Feb 2010
Cloud infrastructure services are expected to grow significantly in the coming year, making it critical for IT pros to understand how to effectively implement and maintain cloud technology. In this expert E-Guide, you will learn how to leverage and manage cloud services, while delivering effective networking for your cloud infrastructure.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 12 Feb 2010 | Published: 12 Feb 2010
For many years network administrators have expected security breaches to come from outside an organization or at the upper layers of the OSI model. This paper will focus on securing layer 2 switching at the access layer through port security and preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks at layer 2.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 11 Feb 2010 | Published: 11 Feb 2010
Why would a person or organization be interested in deploying wireless communication in their home or business? This being said, there are some things to think about before jumping into the wireless world. As is usually the case in the wonderful world of networking, whenever one thing becomes simpler, it almost always complicates something else.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 Feb 2010 | Published: 10 Oct 2009
This white paper presents an approach to data center convergence that rethinks the network from the ground up to provide a long-term, future-proof strategy and develop a converged data center fabric with the flexibility to scale to super data centers while driving down the cost and complexity of managing the data center information infrastructure.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 Feb 2010 | Published: 10 Aug 2009
As enterprises embrace the distributed concept, the network can significantly limit the ability to capitalize on opportunities. By adopting a solution-based distributed enterprise approach, you can enable the network and its applications to support and accelerate business with a location-agnostic and cost-effective approach.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 Feb 2010 | Published: 10 Oct 2009
Aging network systems and old habits have dictated how businesses spend their IT budgets. As a result, too many IT dollars are being spent on just barely remaining competitive with emerging companies and their newer IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn more about a new family of solutions that reduce IT expenses and free up budgets.
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EGUIDE:   Posted: 10 Feb 2010 | Published: 08 Feb 2010
Server virtualization presents challenges for network security, particularly NAC and compliance issues. This pocket e-guide provides tips you can use to obtain compliance in virtualized environments as well as how UTM, SSL VPNs, endpoint security, NAC and network security monitoring are being used to secure today’s dynamic network architecture.
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ASSESSMENT TOOL:   Posted: 09 Feb 2010 | Published: 09 Feb 2010
Network security is critical to organizations of all sizes and across all industries. The CDW Security Assessment can help you measure your network security against that of your peers, understand how various security threats can affect your organization, and more. Start your assessment now.
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