In this podcast, an industry expert discusses how the recession has affected branch office growth; what’s driving change in branch offices, and how to over cover the never-ending challenge of branch office security. 

In August 2008, Qualcomm commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the benefits that North American businesses have experienced as a result of providing notebook users with mobile broadband connectivity. In this paper you'll hear what IT and telecom/network decision-makers had to say. 

As Unified Communications (UC) moves increasingly from promise to implementation, questions arise about the best ways to establish UC solutions. This paper describes effective approaches to unifying communications, the importance of optimizing your network infrastructure and how embracing converged communications can increase business productivity. 

On today's converged networks -- where data traffic competes with latency-sensitive applications such as VoIP, video conferencing, and virtual machines -- only the greediest survive and thrive. Watch this webinar to learn about bandwidth issues, network resource allocation, and real-time applications management. 

The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the requirements for a basic NetBackup™ architecture to help customers understand which components are required in a data protection solution. 

As the number of people working outside primary office locations increases, the challenges surrounding security and optimization are becoming more prevalent. This E-Guide details how to maximize the potential of the Wide Area Network while keeping out security threats at all locations. 

There are many products that can be used to send files from one location to another. These products range from free FTP solutions, all the way up to highly sophisticated (and very expensive) industry specific solutions for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Download this whitepaper to learn more about what you should look for in an FTP solution. 

This paper takes a look at some of the advantages of video conferencing in terms of both cost savings and time savings, explains some of the problems and challenges in making video conferencing work, and gives advice for making the network ready to accommodate video conferences. 

With two data centers serving 24 offices in the U.S., Europe and India, Hitachi Consulting required a solution that could provide visibility into the applications running on the network while selectively accelerating business critical ones. Read on to learn about the solution they found. 

Storage networks provide the link between the servers that need data and the storage systems that store that data. Too often, however, storage networks are just considered the connective tissue in the storage environment and are often overlooked when greater performance, scalability or new services are needed. 

Critical applications need to move at the speed of business. Blue Coat PacketShaper provides WAN Optimization functionality through a series of modules-- monitoring, shaping and compression. Check out this data sheet for more details. 

To deliver high-demand content to a widely dispersed pool of internet users, a cache-based Content Delivery Network is the way to go. This type of CDN stores duplicates content near user access points, reducing distance-imposed latency and improving video and audio quality. This paper weighs the pros and cons of using a network-based CDN provider. 

This paper presents 4 customer success stories of how a change to NetSuite improved efficentcy as well as the bottomline.