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IPv6 Checkup Time

Wed, August 29, 2007 - Despite the hype, U.S. enterprises seem to be in no hurry to adopt the next-generation Internet protocol. Here’s why.

The Case for Outsourcing E-Mail Management

Wed, July 11, 2007 - How can you stop enterprise e-mail management from gobbling large amounts of IT time and money? Outsource it, say a growing number of CIOs.

How One CIO Escaped E-Mail Attachment Hell

Mon, July 02, 2007 - The CIO at an insurance company found a network appliance to help sift through chunky attachments before they reach end-users.

Three Basic Approaches to Cutting Telecom Costs

Fri, May 18, 2007 - Among the more than 120 telecom expense management vendors, only about 30 cover the whole gamut of needs.

Tue, May 15, 2007 - It's a huge issue, yet 65 percent of companies don't have a handle on their telecom expenses or inventory. And almost half have no way to automate the management of telecom assets. To corral this telecom chaos, enterprises have been shifting responsibility for telecom to the CIO. Here's what you need to know as telecom wrangling becomes your business.

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Delivering a Greener Data Center

This paper covers power utilization, intelligent power management and industry best practices for energy efficiency. Extreme Networks® takes a lifecycle approach to power efficiency, management and recycling, offering savings to our customers and promoting a greener world.

Cloud-Scale Networks Using Open Fabric Architectures

Virtualization and cloud are driving new requirements for data center network performance, VM support, automation and simplified orchestration. This paper outlines Extreme Networks® open fabric approach to high speed, low latency networks for modern data centers.

Mobility in the Network: A Phased Technology Approach

The evolution of the network to provide the intelligence needed to address user, device and application mobility is underway. In this white paper, Extreme Networks® outlines the five phases required to bring mobility into the network.

Virtual Patching with Network Security

The McAfee virtual patching solution provides a layered approach to security risk management, while adding the ability to apply a virtual patching strategy to your existing change-management process.

Gartner Next Generation Network IPS Research Note

Learn more about Gartner's evaluation of network IPS that places McAfee in the leaders' quadrant. Deep inspection network-based intrusion prevention continues to be a due-diligence security control.

Free Your Time! How Automated IPAM saves time with your company's virtualization, mobility and IPv6 challenges

IP networks are growing at an exponential rate thanks to virtualization, mobile devices and IP v6. But IT departments are under budget constraints and skilled staff is becoming scarce. The solution..

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Optimizing Networks for the Cloud

Join guest speaker, Rohit Mehra, IDC Director of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, to explore current trends, discuss best practices for optimizing Data Center and enterprise campus network infrastructures for the Cloud, and identify ways to better allocate network resources, reduce operating costs and improve application performance.

Gartner Next Generation Network IPS Webcast

Learn how Gartner's criteria for next generation IPS helps organizations achieve effective threat prevention despite changes in network communications, new applications, and changes in the threat landscape.

How Automation Can Take the Pressure Off Your Network

Today's networks are under attack. To build a better network, you've got to understand the stresses that today's networks are under due to mobility, virtualization and cloud computing.

Virtualization Success is a Team Effort

As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.

Customer Spotlight: How IPC The Hospitalist Company Implemented Oracle on VMware

Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn about VMware customer, Navicure, and their experiences testing and evaluating the recovery manager, their progress in implementing it in their environment and their advice other customers considering using vCenter.

Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View - Webcast

Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users.

This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. IDC will also provide an analysis of the View Composer and ThinApp™ features of VMware View, including the business value of these solutions and an overview of how they work.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
- Challenges and barriers that might impede the adoption of desktop virtualization
- Navigating roadblocks to facilitate a strategic implementation
- Optimizing qualitative and quantitative benefits to IT and your business

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