WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 29 Dec 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2009
This document describes how users of IBM z/OS Global Mirror can reduce costs and improve performance with a tightly integrated Cisco® MDS 9000 Family solution.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 17 Feb 2010 | Published: 17 Feb 2010
In this paper we compare the major differences between three software deployment models: hardware appliances, virtual machine (VM) appliances and multitenant software‐as‐a‐service (Saas) – against a traditional software delivery model. The goal is to help independent software vendors (ISVs) make informed decisions about these deployment models.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 27 Jan 2010 | Published: 27 Jan 2010
Enterprise Management Associates believes that sophisticated, integrated, heterogeneous, virtual systems management is a critical business differentiator for enterprises as they deploy and expand their virtualization infrastructure. Read this paper for more information.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009
Data center energy costs continue to take up a significant portion of IT budgets, and it seems that there is no end in sight. This paper addresses, in a unified and systemic way, many of the power consumption issues that IT has been grappling with in piecemeal fashion.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 29 Dec 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2009
Today's data centers are faced with many challenges such as consolidation, resources optimization, power, cooling, cost reduction and more. Cisco foresaw these requirements and developed Virtual Storage Area Networks (VSANs) in 2002 to address these issues in the data center.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 08 Jan 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2007
This white paper discusses key issues surrounding configuration management and compliance, such as the IT department's need to lower costs, increase management flexibility and control, and increase responsiveness to business needs and requirements.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 04 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Aug 2009
New generations of network equipment continue to be more reliable than previous generations. Meanwhile, the applications running across the network have become more ubiquitous and more demanding. Underlying this cycle, the network has become much more important to businesses of all sizes — including midmarket firms — and in all industries.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2007
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.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 18 Aug 2008 | Published: 18 Aug 2008
The ability to access and update Lotus Domino applications can be a simple and effective way to improve efficiency. Read this paper and learn how easy it can be to create BlackBerry applications that integrate with your Lotus Domino applications.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 30 Dec 2008
File sharing and social network activity can dramatically hinder your network performance. This white paper details how Blue Coat helps you manage recreational applications today.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Oct 2008
Subnetting is a complicated topic that has confused students for a very long time, however, subnetting is an important topic for many different certifications with various vendors, including Cisco.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2006
This paper explains each of the seven layers of OSI model, including their functions and their relationships, also it provide with an overview of the network process, which can act as a framework for understanding the details of computer networking.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 22 Feb 2010 | Published: 22 Feb 2010
Read this paper to learn how IT personnel costs have risen faster than hardware and software investments. IT services have not improved process-wise and still require as much manpower, if not more, to operate now as they did in the past.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 Dec 2009 | Published: 10 Dec 2009
Even though some network servers look very much like the standalone computers that fill your office, they play a very different role in your business than desktop PCs do, and therefore their design is very different under the hood. Take a tour of the components that give a server the power it needs to handle your tough workload.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Oct 2008
This paper explains an approach to virtualization software that relies on the host operating system to provide the service to talk directly to the underlying hardware.
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