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The Benefits of a Converged LAN/SANinfrastructure sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: In today’s Enterprise and Data Center environments, Ethernet is clearly the dominant interconnection medium of choice. This in-depth guide outlines the rise in 10GbE connections and their importance to IT professionals. Posted: 19 Nov 2013 \| Published: 31 Aug 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Ethernet Networks \| LAN \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance

Benefits of Infrastructure and Network Convergence with FCoE sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Access this game-changing resource to discover how your organization can benefit from adopting converged networks. Posted: 03 Mar 2014 \| Published: 31 Jan 2014 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Ethernet Networks \| Ethernet Switches \| LAN \| LAN Hardware \| Network Convergence

REMOTE CONTROL: How to Reduce the Cost, Complexity and Risk of Managing Your Distributed IT Infrastructure sponsored by Uplogix WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the requirements of managing a highly distributed IT environment and examines how new secure remote management solutions can drastically reduce the cost, complexity and risk of managing remote locations. Posted: 18 Apr 2008 \| Published: 01 Apr 2008 TOPICS: IT Infrastructure \| LAN \| Remote Management \| Security \| Systems Management \| WAN

IPSEC VS. VPN: Transition Criteria and Methodology sponsored by SonicWALL WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the differences between the VPN technologies and provides criteria for deciding whether you should replace your IPSec VPN with SSL VPN. It also presents a step-by-step, practical approach to implementing your replacement. Posted: 15 Nov 2007 \| Published: 01 Nov 2007 TOPICS: Endpoint Security \| Interoperability \| IP Networks \| IP VPN \| IPSec \| IPSec VPN \| LAN \| Network Security \| SSL \| SSL VPN \| VPN Appliances \| VPN Service Providers \| VPN Services \| VPN Software \| WAN

VMware View™ on NetApp Storage sponsored by VMware, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Learn how VMware View 4 and virtual desktop storage options from NetApp deliver flexible, cost effective, secure virtual desktops. Enterprises can now deploy cost effective virtual desktop environments (over LAN or WAN) that meet the needs of a wide range of end users. Posted: 06 May 2010 \| Published: 01 Dec 2009 TOPICS: Data Storage \| Desktop Management \| Desktop Virtualization \| Desktop Virtualization Software \| Enterprise Computing \| LAN \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure \| VMware \| WAN

Netsocket Virtual Network for Distributed Enterprises sponsored by Netsocket WHITE PAPER: This exclusive paper examines a virtual network solution that offers a low-cost, efficient, and centrally-managed virtual network specifically designed for the enterprise LAN and WAN edge network deployment. Posted: 11 Oct 2013 \| Published: 11 Oct 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| LAN \| Network Best Practices \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Monitoring \| WAN

Unified Visibility Fabric Architecture – A New Approach to Visibility sponsored by Gigamon WHITE PAPER: In this informative white paper, uncover a unified visibility fabric architecture that centralizes network monitoring and management tools for improved and simplified performance and security analysis. Posted: 24 Sep 2013 \| Published: 30 Aug 2013 TOPICS: Application Monitoring \| Application Performance Management \| Bandwidth Management \| Cloud Computing \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| LAN \| Network Architectures \| Network Capacity \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Management Services \| Network Managers \| Network Monitoring \| Network Performance \| Network Processing \| Network Processors \| Network Security \| Network Traffic Analysis \| Network Traffic Management \| SAN \| Security Management

Brocade FCoE Solutions for I/O Convergence sponsored by Brocade WHITE PAPER: Fibre Channel over Ethernet is extending the reliability benefits and service of Fibre Channels to LANs and other Ethernet networks. Learn how this approach enables flexible, scalable, and simplified data center fabrics that support increasingly powerful applications and growing amounts of data. Posted: 11 Jun 2010 \| Published: 11 Jun 2010 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Networking \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| LAN

Optimization is for the Clouds sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper begins with an outline of the characteristics of computing from a distance, describes how WAN optimization of cloud resources improves the user experience, explains how Riverbed’s Cloud Steelhead achieves this, and concludes with several deployment examples. Posted: 06 Sep 2011 \| Published: 06 Sep 2011 TOPICS: Amazon Web Services \| Application Programming Interfaces \| Cloud Computing \| High Performance Computing \| LAN \| Private Cloud \| Software as a Service \| Storage Optimization \| WAN

Voice and Unified Communication-Enabled Networks: Three Critical Considerations sponsored by Brocade WHITE PAPER: The multi-service, mission-critical, business-enabling campus LAN needs consistent features and service reliability from edge to core. Talk to Brocade and find out how to deploy an extraordinary network for the entire enterprise-converged campus to consolidated data center. Posted: 09 Feb 2010 \| Published: 09 Feb 2010 TOPICS: LAN \| LAN Telephony \| Networking \| Voice Communications Hardware \| Voice Communications Software \| Voice Networking \| Voice Quality \| VoIP