This e-guide focuses on the impact of infrastructure on database performance. 

Brought to you by SearchNetworking.com, this expert E-Guide unveils how you can increase your visibility with a layered security strategy. 

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. 

Read this white paper and trace the steps to a successful converged network infrastructure. By identifying today's most important IT trend - virtualization - you'll be on your way to implementing HP supported technologies to enhance your virtualized computer networks. 

Due to an increased need for productivity in an ever-changing environment, more and more solution providers have turned to PSA tools to streamline operations and integrate third-party systems. In this expert e-Guide, sponsored by Autotask, you will be introduced to the advantages, concerns and available opportunities of key PSA functions. 

This white paper introduces an end-to-end, unified virtual solution designed to lay the foundation for a successful cloud environment and quickly adapt to changing business needs. This technology can help your organization start saving time and operational costs across server, network and storage infrastructure layers. Read on to learn more. 

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. 

This paper outlines the common CCNA-level commands that you should be familiar with when troubleshooting. 

Data abstraction overcomes data structure incompatibility by transforming data from its native structure and syntax into reusable views and data services. But some data abstraction approaches work better than others. Composite data virtualization is an optimal way to implement an abstraction layer at enterprise scale. 

This resource explores a vendor neutral enterprise archive solution that addresses the size and scale of a small or medium hospital’s enterprise storage requirements. 

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. 

VMware leads the industry in virtualization technologies that can make up the flexible, virtual IT infrastructures of tomorrow. Attend this webcast to hear from VMware on what virtualization is and the benefits of deploying virtualization technology. 

This e-guide gives a comprehensive review of vSphere as it looks at some of the features in vSphere that are most important to data storage managers as well as best practices for vSphere. It also offers a list of the most common and affordable shared storage options for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from different vendors.