While some larger organizations continue to manage internal data center, many business managers are able to increase service levels, cover more users, and lower response times by outsourcing their out-dated server farms to third-party data centers and cloud computing providers. This white paper will define data centers and explore cloud networking. 

Discover tips for evaluating and preparing a cloud-ready network in this essential resource. Find out how you can meet the key challenges for cloud networking by upgrading your network to reduce latency and gain visibility into your cloud environment. 

To support a new virtual and cloud computing era, you need an end-to-end network that can deliver data, applications and services to users anytime and anywhere without latency or downtime. Access this exclusive resource to discover how you can plan, design and deploy a cloud-optimized network to meet your future needs. 

For organizations that want to leverage the benefits of cloud while ensuring the availability of critical business applications, public cloud may not be the most reliable solution. Discover how organizations can take advantage of mature networking technologies to prepare data centers for virtualization and private cloud with VCS Ethernet fabric. 

Doug Ingraham, Vice President, Product Management and Marketing, Data Center Products Group at Brocade, discusses how hybrid clouds are transforming the industry by allowing data center architects to leverage their own assets, as well as public cloud provider assets, to create more agile and cost effective enterprise IT environments. 

John McHugh, Brocade's CMO discusses how Brocade builds Cloud-Optimized Networks and the integral role networks will play in enabling the transformation of IT to more efficient and flexible models. 

Dell Virtualization Solutions with VMware provide the most efficient virtual infrastructure foundation to power vSphere 4 cloud infrastructures. Read this paper to learn more about the features and business benefits of Dell and VMware solutions for your cloud computing infrastructure. 

<p>In this resource uncover how Vyatta Network OS offers cloud providers and enterprises the unique ability to easily provision, deploy, secure and manage flat networks as well as complex n-tier networks. View now to uncover key benefits, common use scenarios and more.</p> 

The major global telcos have led the competitive march from telecoms into cloud computing, and are now widely seen as credible players in cloud computing services including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). 

This paper explains how cloud computing is now also evolving in a private variant whereby enterprises set up cloud-like, centralized shared infrastructure with automated capacity adjustment that internal departmental “customers” utilize in a self-service manner. Realization of efficiency, performance, and agility benefits is reinforcing this trend. 

Over the past 18 months we have seen the irresistible rise of a new phenomenon, cloud computing. This term is given by the IT industry to a new business model for computing, one where capacity for computer, storage and networking can be dynamically acquired, on demand,and paid for according to usage. 

<p>Despite the benefits blade servers and virtualization offer, there are still some pressing issues in the data center. This resource reviews several of these pain points and recommends a unified computing system designed to address them.</p>