The way a switch learns Ethernet (MAC) addresses is by inspecting the Ethernet frame and recording the source MAC address in a dynamic table. The switch will also associate a learned MAC address with a port. It can then make intelligent forwarding decisions based on the destination MAC address. This white paper illustrates the process. 

Mono Tools for Visual Studio helps development shops, ISVs, and enterprise development teams reduce development costs, increase productivity, and utilize existing .NET developers for Linux, Solaris, and Mac development projects. 

Watch this demo to find out how enterprise organizations use VMware desktop virtualization products and solutions to manage and support the flexible needs of their extended, global workforce while strengthening security and control over corporate resources and sensitive information. 

Check out this data sheet for a categorized listing of 600 common applications for which Blue Coat PacketShaper delivers an accurate picture of network traffic. 

To curb server proliferation and rising electrical costs, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center moved its virtualization infrastructure to the Windows Server 2008 operating system with Hyper-V technology, using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to manage its server landscape. 

When outdated equipment and disparate systems were hampering in-house communications, customer service, and workflow, Indiana University Medical Group turned to CDW for a three-part Cisco solution. This case study gives details on the benefits they gained. 

Please watch this presentation featuring Brad Blake, Director, IT at Boston Medical Center. The presentation will illuminate topics such as Boston Medical Center’s decision process and successful implementation of Data Domain deduplication storage - as well as the economic benefits received by going tapeless for backup and disaster recovery. 

In this white paper, we'll take a look at access control lists, often referred to as access lists or ACLs (sometimes pronounced "ackels"). 

In a typical healthcare organization, hundreds to thousands of medical and support staff need to access patient data to do their job. How do you effectively enforce access controls to hospital information systems without hampering medical care efficiency and effectiveness? Read this paper and learn how. 

Grey Healthcare Group is one of the world's top five healthcare communications companies. Read this case study to learn how Grey Healthcare Group leveraged FalconStor VTL with deduplication to improve backup and recovery performance, optimize storage assets, and strengthen data security. 

FACTS ADMIN is a fully automated, real-time policy administration system - with support for membership enrollment and eligibility management, premium administration, accounts payable, and administration of broker commissions. 

Healthcare organizations face a host of HIPAA Security Rule compliance challenges with the move to put patient medical records online. Lumension helps organizations address these compliance challenges by providing the proactive IT risk management and the required audit readiness to meet many aspects of the HIPAA Security Rule. 

In this question and answer session, learn how Dr. John D. Halamka. MD, of the Harvard Medical School, depends on a BlackBerry Solution to keep his patient and student records secure.