Enterprise Communications Market Overview
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October 2010-
It was just one year ago that Avaya secured the purchase of Nortel Enterprise Solutions by winning a bankruptcy auction with a bid of almost $1 billion. With that acquisition behind it, has Avaya managed to keep the large installed base of Nortel customers on its side—or are the poachers prevailing? That’s just one of the many issues that will determine how the enterprise communications market shakes out over the coming year.
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Cisco: The Impact Of IT Virtualization On Applications And Networks
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May 2009-
Today’s IT organization is faced with a series of conundrums, not the least of which is the need for distributed IT by a scattered workforce but desire to control costs by centralizing IT facilities and resources. Distributed workers need access to high-performance applications and services, such as videoconferencing, but these kind of apps perform poorly over the WAN, which keeps equipment deployed in branch offices. Cisco’s Liad Ofek walks you through the various ...
The Network: Enabling And Enriching Composite Applications
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May 2009-
In terms of delivery enterprise applications, the network is already the platform and therefore network performance has a direct impact on the bottom line. Cisco’s Paul Liesenberg discusses how virtualization, SaaS, SOA, and mash-ups all depend on the network for application performance and success. By using SONA, applications become as reliable as the underlying network architecture, which endures predictable and configurable network resource utilization and application mapping and leads to both innovation and increased ...
Juniper: How Networks Can Assist Application Delivery
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May 2009-
Approaches to application delivery vary according to the venue and intended recipient, according to Tim Richards of Juniper Networks. Application delivery on a campus or within a building is handled differently than for a branch office or when delivering apps to remote users, but virtualization and server consolidation can make the process much simpler, while providing higher levels of service. Richards also discusses the idea of a creating a single data center fabric as a ...
How Networks Can Assist Application Delivery
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
Virtualization technology is being implemented in both hardware and software, and is being touted as the solution to many of the ills plaguing IT organizations today. Gary Hemminger, director of product management at Brocade Communications, takes a realistic look at the pros and cons of virtualization, and how networks can assist application delivery. With a pair of ADCs being deployed for each new application, virtualization can turn one underused ADC into multiple ADCs that can ...
The Impact Of IT Virtualization On Applications And Networks
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
In this presentation, F5 Networks’ Ken Salchow takes a look at how IT virtualization affects both networks and the delivery of applications to the end user. The modern IT organization, using a traditional infrastructure model, faces the challenge of delivering business-critical applications and services through a variety of channels to employees that may be in-house, mobile, or working remotely. Salchow contends that unified applications and data delivery using context-aware networking allows IT organizations to fulfill ...
Tuning, Tweaking, And Troubleshooting Your Virtual Infrastructure
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
Virtualization is great, but the business application is king. Getting your virtual infrastructure to perform optimally is essential to meeting application service levels. This requires performance monitoring and management; capacity management and chargeback; and troubleshooting tools that successfully navigate the complexities of the entire virtual infrastructure, including servers, storage, and networking. This panel discussion, moderated by Barb Goldworm, introduces some of the ways IT can address application performance and capacity management across virtual infrastructure.
FCoE And CEE: New Data Center Technologies
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May 2009-
Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) are new protocols that enable consolidation of server I/O in the data center. Brocade’s Martin Skagen will teach you about this “new” type of Ethernet and why, when, and how to deploy it effectively to reduce cabling, switching components, and energy costs.
Can You Get There From Here? Desktop And Application Virtualization Workshop
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May 2009-
Many companies have already implemented server consolidation projects utilizing virtualization technologies. These projects have brought significant cost reductions to both capital and operational expenditures. Companies are now looking to leverage server, desktop, and application virtualization technologies to bring order to the long-standing chaos of enterprise desktop management. But what are desktop and application virtualization, and where do they apply in your environment? How can your IT organization leverage these technologies to deal with the unrelenting ...
Best Practices on Securing Your Virtual Infrastructure
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May 2009-
Security is an issue that is pervading because it involves almost everything within your network. The object of security is to protect information. Determining the value of the information you need to protect will help you determine which level of security you need to apply to it. Protecting virtual infrastructures presents challenges that you may never have faced. First, you need to understand the types of challenges that will arise in the resource pool, the ...