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Infrastructures for Innovation
"Nearly nine out of ten senior IT and business executives say that data, voice and network services can be leveraged to drive innovation, facilitating remote access to critical applications and speeding up customer service. They can generate immediate cost savings by eliminating the cost of maintaining separate voice lines."
73 days ago by Qwest CommunicationsDynamic Virtual Client: What's in store for client technology going forward?
Dynamic Virtual Client, thin client advantages with rich client user experience and mobility.
77 days ago by IntelEnsuring Successful WAN Application Delivery With Adelpho
Off late enterprise IT teams are faced with many challenges in their endeavor to ensure WAN application performance. Failure of achieving this often results in wasted time/money and impeded business growth. So it is critical to make it right the first time. This paper analyzes the challenges, presents a best practice process, and explores how enterprises can use Adelpho solutions to successfully implement application delivery over WAN and quickly gain Return on Investment (ROI).
93 days ago by Adelpho SystemsDeliver LAN-Like Performance for VMware View to Branch Offices and Mobile Users
Desktop virtualization dramatically simplifies IT infrastructure, provides greater enterprise data security and enables cost effective IT utilization and management. While some desktop virtualization products attempt to use communication protocols designed for Wide Area Networks (WANs), even these products run into two fundamental challenges when trying to support users located across the globe: bandwidth constraints often limit the amount of data or the number of users, and latency prevents users applications from delivering LAN-like performance. The presenter will detail how WAN optimization can impact and improve the performance of VMware View and other products such as ThinApp.
142 days ago by VMwareOrange- customer case study
The ability to leverage location intelligence was critical to the successful rollout of our 3G network as it enabled us to identify potential customers and where they would likely use our enhanced third generation services. As our decision making process was much more informed by location-based data, we could build our network in areas that will serve our customers most effectively.
192 days ago by Pitney BowesUsing Cisco NAM Reporting With Cisco WAAS
This paper describe the NAM 4.0 reports that can be leveraged for WAAS deployments. This whitepaper is intended for the use of Cisco NAM and Cisco WAAS field. Readers are assumed to be generally familiar with NAM and WAAS functionality. The following section in this paper will serve as introduction to how NAM presents the information coming from WAAS.
230 days ago by Cisco SystemsOil Services Firm Consolidates Servers, Simplifies IT With Branch Optimization Solution
Expro is a leading provider of oil-and-gas services and products. As the company expanded to 150 offices in 50 countries, its branch servers multiplied. Expro decided to centralize servers but needed to address the challenge of increased traffic on its Wide Area Network (WAN) and the productivity impact on field workers accessing files over the network. Expro decided to replace branch servers with the Windows Server on WAAS (Wide Area Application Services) solution; a Cisco WAN optimization appliance that also runs basic IT services. Expro anticipates consolidating 25 branch servers and streamlining IT operations and costs.
291 days ago by MicrosoftThe Impact of Virtualization on Application Delivery Over the WAN
Although virtualization has received a lot of attention in the trade publications over the last couple of years, it is not a new concept. IT organizations have been implementing virtualized technologies such as Virtual LANs (VLANs) and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) for at least twenty years. Most of the recent interest in virtualization has centered on server and desktop virtualization. In a survey that was completed in August 2008, 205 IT professionals were asked to indicate by the end of 2009 how much deployment their organization will have made of these forms of virtualization. IT organizations have a significant interest in deploying both server and desktop virtualization.
314 days ago by StreamcoreTechNet Webcast: Branch Consolidation With Windows Server and Cisco WAN Optimization (Level 300)
Running Windows Server on the Cisco Wide-Area Appliance Service (WAAS) branch office solution reduces the cost and complexity of providing IT services in branch locations with accelerated access to centralized applications and secure and reliable local Windows Server services. The platform includes Windows Server 2008 Server Core installation on the Cisco WAAS platform, which communicates over a Wide-Area Network (WAN) to a Cisco WAAS appliance in a data center. Windows branch services include Active Directory, Domain Name System (DNS) Server, Microsoft Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server, and Microsoft Print Services.
330 days ago by MicrosoftAscend Safeguards Service Availability for Its Worldwide Client Base With CA XOsoft Replication and CA ARCserve Backup
Ascend provides its customers with online access to business-critical data. The company must meet stringent service level agreements, which include responding to an email or telephone query within four hours. As a result, it needs a highly available email environment. Ascend has deployed CA XOsoft Replication to replicate the 10-plus gigabytes of data that make up its Microsoft Exchange environment. In the event of a problem, the company can failover to its replica email server and provide staff with access to their mailboxes within 10 minutes. Ascend also uses CA ARCserve Backup to safeguard all its company data.
388 days ago by CA (Computer Associates)
