Traditional VPN technologies have been pushed beyond the scope of their original design, forcing IT organizations to accept the high cost and complexity of add-ons, extenders, multiple consoles, and thick client software administration. This white paper provides an analysis of existing IPSec and SSL VPN, followed by an overview of Blue Coat RA. 

Blue Coat's SSL proxy functionality enables organizations to extend the power of the intelligent and secure proxy appliances to all SSL traffic. Read about how a proxy gives visibility and control of SSL communications. 

Currently over 600 Orange Business Services customers use their VPNs to transport voice and data. Some use a do-it-yourself model; others use a fully managed model. If you're looking for value, the fully managed approach is the less costly and higher quality alternative. Read this paper to find more details about pros and cons of each choice. 

This IDC white paper considers the concept of desktop virtualization, specifically as made available by VMware’s VDI and ACE. The document also considers the benefits and limitations of these technologies as well as the best use cases for each, exemplified through user case studies. 

With the Sophos Application Discovery Tool, you can quickly perform a scan and find the applications installed on your network, both legitimate and unwanted. The tool can be run without uninstalling or deactivating your current anti-virus software. 

The Adaptive Security Appliance is the latest firewall appliance in the Cisco security arsenal and provides a number of services to protect your "trusted" network users from "untrusted" users. 

ECI's 1Net architecture helps service providers converge core Ethernet and DWDM networks for increased service flexibility while lowering operating and capital expenses. ECI's converged network not only addresses the needs of operators, but also sets a new standard for network efficiency and service quality. Read this whitepaper to find out more. 

In this podcast, an industry expert discusses how the recession has affected branch office growth; what’s driving change in branch offices, and how to over cover the never-ending challenge of branch office security. 

This data sheet gives a brief overview of the Postgres Plus training classes for developers by EnterpriseDB. Read this data sheet to learn how these training classes can improve your Postgres knowledge and enhance your professional growth. 

This data sheet highlights the features and benefits of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server, a storage product highly optimized for use with Oracle Database. 

This white paper will explore 10 of the "worst practices" that are common to customer support operations. We will discuss how these worst practices can creep in to your contact center and ways to deal with them. We will also touch on how to eliminate well‐intentioned management blunders and discuss good and bad uses of support technology. 

In this podcast, Agatha Poon of Yankee Analyst Group answers questions about upcoming trends and changes in WAN services. She answers questions about the important trends right now in global enterprise WAN, how the WAN landscape is changing, and how new tools are playing into the market. Listen to this podcast and find out what she has to say. 

Read this quick case study to see how Tiens Group - a Chinese enterprise that does business internationally - was able to build a single network that handles all of their communications needs all over the globe and allows them greater growth potential while simultaneously reducing overheads.