Your business has reached a crossroads. With employees collaborating on files shared across a number of computers, you realize consolidating access to the information would greatly improve your organization's operational efficiency and its productivity. You are ready for your First Server solution. Read on to find the right system configuration. 

Microsoft Exchange has become the most deployed messaging environment in the corporate marketplace. One of the first challenges faced by an Exchange administrator is how much storage to allocate and configure. Check out this 2-page white paper to optimize storage for your Exchange 2010 environent. 

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. 

Design teams across the world collaborate to create and develop prod­ucts. Unfortunately, IT organizations face serious challenges when collaborative teams share large files. This white paper will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the four technologies most commonly used to enhance file sharing for distributed teams. 

This paper explores the tools Cisco provides to simplify mass deployments of the VPN Client. The two methods are discussed: the creation of an installation CD-ROM and network-based installations. I will explain how to reduce calls to the Help Desk by locking users out of advanced configuration functions in the user interface. 

File syncing is commonly used for both corporate-created data and employee-created corporate data. Finding one tool that could be used for both would be extremely helpful. In this expert E-Guide from SearchConsumerization.com, discover what you should look for in a file syncing tool. 

In this guide, get step-by-step instructions for how to properly configure vSphere 5.0 for your servers and storage systems. Discover best practices for installing, deploying and configuring vSphere 5.0. 

Watch this webcast to learn key tips on installing, configuring and managing VMware vSphere 5 environments. Review product demonstrations that offer step by step instructions for successfully implementing this technology. 

This whitepaper is a lab testing summary report of Ethernet fabrics. The study is trying to validate the advantages provided to the data center implementations by Shortest Path Bridging Mode (SPB or SPBM) protocol. 

Considering growing data volumes and an increased demand for quicker backup and easy restore, companies continue to look for the “ideal” backup solution. Read this white paper now to learn about the new Quantum DXi6500 family of backup solutions, which offer deduplication, disk-to-disk performance, DR protection, long-term retention, and much more. 

Considering growing data volumes and an increased demand for quicker backup and easy restore, companies continue to look for the “ideal” backup solution. Read this white paper now to learn about the new Quantum DXi6500 family of backup solutions, which offer deduplication, disk-to-disk performance, DR protection, long-term retention, and much more.