On today's converged networks -- where data traffic competes with latency-sensitive applications such as VoIP, video conferencing, and virtual machines -- only the greediest survive and thrive. Watch this webinar to learn about bandwidth issues, network resource allocation, and real-time applications management. 

Organizations must now implement a secure user authentication system, which includes two-factor authentication, as a means to secure these remote connections to sensitive network resources and applications. 

Blue Coat Systems CEO Brian NeSmith discusses how the ADN brings together Application Performance Monitoring, WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway technologies to deliver the visibility, acceleration, and security that enables enterprises to align network resources with business goals. 

As the number of people working outside primary office locations increases, the challenges surrounding security and optimization are becoming more prevalent. This E-Guide details how to maximize the potential of the Wide Area Network while keeping out security threats at all locations. 

This white paper discusses risk management as a key process in designing security architectures, including a better way for security managers to approach the security ROI issue. 

IT pros often lack an understanding of the importance of energy efficiency in the data center. This videocast explores how operational efficiency can enable your organization to reduce infrastructure costs and improve resource utilization. 

When the U.S. Air force needed a more powerful storage infrastructure, they turned to HP for a system that allowed them to meet business demands more flexibly, manage data more simply and efficiently and mitigate the risk of lost data with a storage area network (SAN) that pools, shares and centrally manages storage resources. 

If you are looking to improve the efficiency of your storage infrastructure, consider the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). It allows you to provision virtual volumes to meet the requirements of your standard and virtual servers. It delivers improved storage resource utilization along with comprehensive data protection. 

Learn how service-based solutions can bring flexibility and lower costs to your IT infrastructure. Find out how to maximize your organization's resources and quickly scale your infrastructure to meet the demands of expanding global online audiences. 

Xiotech has released its Virtual View solution that automates the provisioning, reporting, and management of storage for VMware environments. This solution takes the pressure off server administrators when they need to align server and storage resources in the increasingly virtualized world. Kudos to Xiotech for taking the initiative. 

Get a firsthand look at the next-gen routers that will enable you to create a truly borderless network, while giving you the convenient, powerful network management features you crave in today’s resource-challenged IT environment. 

This comprehensive, 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. This guide covers the fundamentals of how applications work, how applications flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems. 

Best practices, people, processes, and procedures combine with technology tools, hardware, software, networks, services, and facilities to enable a virtual data center. The importance of this chapter is to understand how all these elements coupled with existing and emerging technologies can be applied to improve IT service delivery.