Unleashing Cloud Performance
[ Source: Riverbed ]
April 2012-
Want to eliminate spiraling cost and complexity of your IT infrastructure? Riverbed can help by delivering cloud services with LAN-like performance across your organization. In this whitepaper, we explore how WAN optimization from Riverbed can deliver on the promise of accelerated cloud performance for widely distributed enterprises.
IT Management for 21st Century Government
[ Source: Solarwinds ]
September 2011-
SolarWinds IT management products are used by virtually every civilian agency, state government, and branch of the military.
Discover why SolarWinds provides powerful and affordable IT management software to federal, state, local and education customers - from enterprise deployments to tactical networks supporting warfighters. Built by IT pros for IT pros, our products are downloadable, easy-to-use and maintain, and provide the power, scale, and flexibility required to manage today's complex, multi-vendor IT environments. <...
Key Attributes Backup Software Needs to Simplify VM Data Protection
[ Source: Quest Software ]
September 2012-
As a federal IT professional, you see the rapid rate at which applications servers are being virtualized. So how can you keep up with the demand and still ensure that the critical data your agency stores in those virtual machines can be easily recovered in the event of a disaster? The answer: A comprehensive backup software that meets five critical requirements.
See what they are in this white paper, 5 Key Attributes Backup Software ...
Cyberwar Threats: New Security Strategies for Governments
[ Source: Tripwire ]
August 2011-
Cyberwar fundamentally changes how government must handle security. Faced with increasingly sophisticated attacks from gangs of cyber criminals and foreign governments probing systems for sensitive data, threats frequently go undetected for days, weeks, and even months. And it's not just financial data being stolen. Terrorists and rogue governments may steal confidential data, including intelligence information, that exposes a country and its citizens to potential harm. Unfortunately, the traditional fortress approach no longer suffices.
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Network Access Control and 802.1X -- Advantages, Constraints, and Capabilities
[ Source: ForeScout ]
May 2011-
This whitepaper by Spire Security explains the advantages, disadvantages and limitations of 802.1x as it relates to network access control (NAC). In practice, 802.1x has proven to be costly and cumbersome to roll-out, particularly for large organizations. Furthermore, 802.1x does not include or address many important features of a full-blown NAC system. This whitepaper includes a case study of a large U.S. defense agency that tried rolling out 802.1x and then, after discovering significant ...
Special Report: Your Roadmap to Success with the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI)
[ Source: Merlin ]
March 2011-
Agency CIOs will be challenged to find the resources and budget to invest in FDCCI and will need to show a return on investment (ROI). This is a clear situation where proper planning and execution, coupled with the introduction of new technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing,
can provide significant long-term value to agencies.
Preempt IT Security Threats
[ Source: ForeScout ]
May 2011-
This whitepaper by the Ogren Group examines issues related to endpoint security compliance management. A new generation of network-based compliance management tools is available which can help enterprises obtain real-time compliance information, automate the remediation of security deficiencies, improve security, and save money. Ogren Group evaluates the capabilities of ForeScout CounterACT to meet enterprise needs. This whitepaper includes two case studies of organizations using ForeScout CounterACT and describes the results that these organizations have obtained.