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Building a Small Office Network: Getting Started by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Building a small office network means starting with a foundation of switches and routers. The following guide will help you understand the difference between switches and routers and develop a clear vision for what your network foundation needs. Building a small office network means starting with a foundation of switches and routers. The...
Perspective Network Management System 2.5 by PacketTrap Networks
users with a real-time view of the entire network, with remediation tools attached for immediate network problem resolution. Used by over 45,000 IT professionals worldwide, download a free 21-day trial of our Perspective network monitoring and alerting solution or try the pt360 Tool Suite, our collection of desktop network diagnostic tools.

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Orion Network Performance Monitor by SolarWinds, Inc.
SolarWinds Orion is a web-based network performance monitoring solution trusted by thousands of network engineers worldwide. Product Type: Network Performance Management

Target User: Network Engineer or Manager

IT Problem: Network engineers need affordable, scalable network management solutions that provide immediate visibility into...
eGuide: Network Management Fundamentals by CA
Network management is a complex topic and in today's diverse networking infrastructure, the network has to handle more instances of unified communications, video, and virtualization. Network management is a complex topic. In today's diverse networking infrastructure, the network has to handle more...
SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset by SolarWinds, Inc.
need to diagnose, troubleshoot, and manage your network - all in one easy-to-use package. Product Type: Network Management, Monitoring and Troubleshooting.

Target User: Network Engineer, IT Manager

IT Problem: Performing extensive network diagnostics, troubleshooting and analysis from your desktop.

IT Download Description: With 49 powerful desktop tools, SolarWinds...
Vendor Influence Curves and How You Can Get the Best Value out of Your Network by Accela Communications
the trends in Networking and how to have the best Network with the best value. Mark Fabbi is "Mr Networking". He is the author of the Gartner Magic Quad for Networking. Viewing this webcast is an excellent chance to understand what are the trends in Networking and how to have the best Network with the best value. Gartner estimates that companies in the past year alone...
Packet-Optical: Transitioning to an Ethernet-centric Future by Ciena
Converged Ethernet transport networks are enabled by packet optical networking platforms, a solution that combines fully–featured Ethernet aggregation, switching, and transport with OTN/DWDM. As service providers seek innovative ways to evolve networks toward packet optimization, converged Ethernet transport has emerged as an...
Convergence in Network and Service Management by Comarch
The Comarch OSS Suite includes the Network Inventory Management solution, which allows for dividing the network into domains with different user groups and roles assigned. The Comarch OSS Suite includes the Network Inventory Management solution, which allows for dividing the network into domains with different user groups and roles assigned...
Managing Modern IP Networks: The Business Is the Network by NetScout Systems, Inc.
to meet the demands of managing a modern IP network while enabling them to reach their business goals. Today's modern IP network is mobile, consolidating, latency intolerant and bandwidth hungry. The increased complexity of applications and services demand in-depth visibility for network performance management. Additionally, IT departments...
Implementation Guide: Using a High Performance Network Backbone to Meet the Requirements of the Modern Enterprise Data Center by Juniper Networks, Inc.
44; secure, scalable and flexible data center network. Data center managers are challenged with designing data centers that centralize servers and applications while keeping them accessible from a variety of locations. This white paper shows you how to create a best-in-class virtualized network environment that uses open standards-based and industry-accepted...
Government Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
used to create a best-in-class virtualized network environment that uses open standards-based and industry-accepted interfaces and can be replicated across the enterprise.

You will learn about network virtualization and the various technologies that provide data, control, and management plane virtualization. This paper outlines networking best...
How to Leverage the Network for Better Application Performance by Citrix
performance management and its impact on the network. It's no secret that the network has become the foundational platform for managing applications performance, troubleshooting, access control and more. A recent SearchNetworking.com survey of over 1,200 companies shows just how focused networking managers are on application optimization. Additional...
Network Management - From Reactive to Proactive Mode Using Centralized Management Tools by Stonesoft Inc.
In many corporations, network management practices are out of date. New tools and approaches are needed. In this white paper IT departments are advise to change from reactive to proactive and become more vigorous in the process of network management. In many corporations, network management practices are out of date. New tools and approaches...
EdgePlatform for Application Acceleration and Delivery by Akamai Technologies
is a purpose built Application Delivery Network that accelerates delivery of applications and content over the Internet, which can lead to increased usage, adoption and improved productivity. The Akamai EdgePlatform is a purpose built Application Delivery Network that accelerates delivery of applications and content over the Internet, which can lead to...
Secure Network Gateway by Momentum Systems
Secure Network Gateway provides managed file transfer software that automates the exchange of files between an organization's business processes and its customers. It establishes an easily scalable automated file transmission gateway, automating file flow for organizations in a variety of industries, including...
The Invisible Threat: IPv6 on Your Network by Fluke Networks
paper will explain why you may have IPv6 on your network and why having the right tool can enable network professionals to quickly identify those devices and ensure the integrity of your network. With an increasing number of operating systems, both for servers and hosts, now being supplied with dual IPv4 and IPv6 stacks, you need to be aware of the fact that you...
The Virtual Office Checklist by Cisco Systems, Inc.
remote access is called a "virtual private network," or "VPN," and it establishes a private, secure network connection over a public network, such as the Internet. The technology behind remote access is called a "virtual private network," or "VPN," and it establishes a private, secure network connection over a public network, such as the...
Best Practices for Planning, Deploying and Managing Enterprise VoIP by CA
of voice traffic to an enterprise IP data network poses a number of organizational and technical challenges. The key to meeting these challenges and successfully deploying VoIP is to follow a well-planned management process that has been proven successful by early adopters of VoIP and in the more general context of optimization of the performance of...
Adaptive Network Architecture by Hewlett-Packard Company
a new adaptive networking approach. Adaptive Network Architecture embodies the design principles of:

1 - Simplification - The traditional network model is a legacy of the pre-Internet world: the approach of patching the legacy system increases complexity (and risk) at an exponential rate.

2 - Modularity - Monolithic enterprise structures preclude rapid...
ipMonitor by SolarWinds, Inc.
ideal for environments with less than 500 network devices. Product Type: Network, Server and Application Monitoring

Target User: Networking Professionals in Small Businesses

IT Problem: Managing network infrastructures and minimizing server and application downtime with limited budgets and staff. Proactive issue notification is critical so IT staff can...
Second Generation Application Delivery by NetQoS, Inc.
In this webcast, network technology expert Jim Metzler quantifies the factors that impact application performance and management and identifies the emerging set of issues that networking pros will need to respond to. Today it's accepted that networking professionals are responsible, at least in part, for the performance of the...
NETWORK TESTING LABS REVIEW: Network Monitoring and Management with Netcordia's Network Appliance by Netcordia
Netcordia's Network Analysis Appliance emerged with flying colors in our network monitoring evaluation. It quickly identified outages and network slowdowns, gave timely and relevant data about the problems, was easy to use and scaled extremely well. Does your network monitoring appliance accurately discover network devices...
Deploying F5 Networks BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with WebAccelerator for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by F5 Networks
resource costs (server CPU, memory, network, etc.) than SharePoint 2003. Many organizations who are moving to the new version are also taking the opportunity to consolidate their distributed deployments and SharePoint farms into fewer centralized data centers. This approach has many proven cost benefits, but requires these new data centers be able...
The Need for Service-Driven Networks by Ciena
some of the benefits of the service-driven network in action. The winning network operators will be those able to successfully embrace today's data/IP growth applications. This paper outlines some the benefits of the service-driven network in action. Although the transition is still in its infancy, we do see some early examples of the promise of the service-driven...
Meeting Today's Security Challenges with End-to-end Access Control by Juniper Networks, Inc.
EX-series switches delivers a comprehensive network access control (NAC) solution. Network access control (NAC) has become essential for enterprise networks. Changing business practices, regulatory demands and an explosive growth in vulnerabilities are driving enterprises to control who may be admitted to the corporate network and what resources, servers...
Related Tips
IPMI Tutorial: Are you using it? Do you know how? by Ben Rockwood, Contributor
fact, some systems, such as Dell, allow the BMC to share a network interface with the system, allowing network IPMI capability without an SP.

The most common tool for interacting with IPMI is the open source IPMItool. While most users' experiences with it have been constrained to power cycling hung servers, remotely it's capable of much more. Let's review... More...

Automating server management and IT processes by Audrey Rasmussen, Contributor
a systems engineer at IBM, and co-authored the Network World Fusion Network and Systems Management newsletter for several years. Audrey is currently an analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associate. Server automation can free up data center resources to focus on higher value activities. This tip provides some suggestions for getting started by... More...
How to authenticate users accessing CICS legacy transactions? by Robert Harris
probably worried about evesdroping over an external network and so want to protect -- at least -- some part of your flows. The only way you are going to get a TN3270 session protected over a potentially insecure network is by using SSL connections from the client to the host. This comes in two parts depending on whether you only need encryption (so securing... More...
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With IBM blades and VMware, firm shrinks data center footprint, cost by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
upgrade. Prudential used Sun Microsystems Inc. storage, but "Sun's SAN [storage area network] was a generation or two old and to gain access to shared drive we had to map it. We wanted to put financial software on the SAN for employees to access without having to map them through a server," Friemann said.

He switched to NetApp SAN to avoid the mapping issues. And... More...

Sun OpenSolaris available on the IBM System z mainframe by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
one of the interesting things about HP-UX and Superdome, it really needs a low latency network and the zSeries provides that. It just opens up a lot of other stuff.

Let us know what you think about the story; email Mark Fontecchio, News Writer. And check out our Mainframe blog.

Thanks to work by Sine Nomine Associates, Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris can now be ported... More...
Data center efficiency tools, services litter the landscape by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
properly, and we do remote monitoring over a secure VPN [virtual private network] line to monitor the heat on a daily basis."

According to Phelps, most customers see energy efficiency as an added benefit but not the main driver to adopt these tools. "Most people come to us with a problem that needs solving. It isn't so much that they want to save energy... More...