Sun GlassFish ESB has been designed to catalyze a lightweight business integration deployment project. It offers a "fit-to-purpose" mix of features, functionality, extensibility, and support at the best cost possible, with minimal overheads for development</p> 

Over the course of 2010 and 2011, Forrester Research spoke to hundreds of customers about their enterprise service bus (ESB) activities, and conducted briefings and demonstration reviews as well as over twenty customer interviews to evaluate five commercial and four open source ESB product vendors. Access this paper to examine Forrester's findings. 

This paper outlines the things you must consider when thinking about the feasibility of replacing a WAN provider’s provider (P) and provider edge (PE) devices with routers. This paper examines these considerations in greater detail, to see where any potential problems might arise. 

The enterprise service bus (ESB) and what it does are still points of confusion and contention. Read this expert e-guide to find out why an ESB is indispensable to any application integration project. Also, find out how open source ESB options are changing the market and why this will matter to buyers. 

Enterprise service bus (ESB) and business process management (BPM) solutions solve different problems and have complementary strengths if utilized correctly. Learn more about where each is appropriate, best practices for designing your solution, and tips on how to select a BPM solution to complement your ESB foundation. 

Forrester Research's 2011 Q2 Wave Report named FuseSource's enterprise service bus (ESB) offering Active MQ as its highest ranked open source ESB solution and placed it in the "Leader" category along with large, established vendors. 

Access this white paper to learn how segmenting the network infrastructure of your data center into smaller pieces provides clarity on networking requirements and discover the ability to make better vendor decisions at each network layer. 

For many years network administrators have expected security breaches to come from outside an organization or at the upper layers of the OSI model. This paper will focus on securing layer 2 switching at the access layer through port security and preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks at layer 2. 

In today’s IP networks, complexity translates quickly into direct cost as well as operational risk. HP has introduced their Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) as an answer to the need to reduce complexity and cost. 

This paper  examines the big picture when it comes to Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), and what happens when a data packet traverses an MPLS cloud. 

<p>Companies must continue to provide basic business services even as they transition to a cloud environment. This white paper highlights a unified computing strategy that can address issues associated with assembling infrastructure components, multiple switching layers, and more.</p> 

<p>McAfee Application Control provides a new, timely, practical layer of systems security by blocking unauthorized applications. While it has some of the advantages of whitelisting, it avoids the operational and security limitations that have held back enterprise adoption of whitelisting technology.</p> 

Overlay transport virtualization (OTV) can help solve many of the challenges in today's increasingly virtualized and geographically dispersed data centers. Access this paper for a high-level overview of this technology and how it differs from the alternatives.