Learn why NAC at the endpoint is the most effective way to manage who and what connects to your organization’s network.
Protecting IT networks used to be a straightforward case of encircling computers and servers with a firewall and ensuring that all traffic passed through just one gateway. However, the increase in mobile workers, numbers and type of device and the amount of non-employees requiring network access, has led to a dissolving of that network perimeter. Access requests can come from anyone and anywhere, which is why organizations are turning to Network Access Control (NAC) technologies. This paper discusses why NAC is important and how it should be implemented on the endpoint for maximum protection.
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Is the first European-based magazine to cover fiber optic technology exclusively for the telecommunications industry.
Lightwave Europe is the first European-based magazine to cover fiber optic technology exclusively for the telecommunications industry. It offers in-depth technical articles so that European post and telecom companies, carriers, Internet data centers and Internet service providers have a clearer understanding of the best fiber optical products to purchase and the best fiber technologies to invest in.
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Read about the essential requirements for building a foundation of sustainable reliability.
Appliances are the dominant approach for implementing network security services, but not all network security appliances are created equal. This is primarily because appliances provide greater ease of use and lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) benefits compared to software solutions deployed on standard Intel-based application servers. Common, baseline features that support these benefits include a pre-hardened Operating System (OS) and the ability to receive consolidated software upgrades.
However, not all network security appliances are created equal. A true appliance is more than a modified operating system running on a server. Compelling TCO benefits are only achieved from solutions that incorporate a foundation of sustainable reliability.
The essential requirements for such a foundation include an appliance architecture that combines:
- Best-of-breed application software.
- Proven networking services.
- Network-centric configuration, administration, and management.
- Network-specific, purpose-built hardware.
This architecture must be supported by the comprehensive quality assurance and technical support programs that only rigorously controlled hardware and software configurations can enable.
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Is issued every month to provide you with practical solutions to all manner of issues facing the data center designer, manager, owner and operator.
This includes rising energy cost, increasing heat loads, emergency backup solutions, security, cable management, virtualization and disaster recovery.
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Learn about a VoIP service in order to create a simplified communications structure that combines voice, data and messaging over a single IP connection.
The ability for businesses to respond quickly with a mobile workforce in a variety of locations is not a luxury anymore – it’s a requirement. Supporting employees’ ability to work wherever and whenever, used to mean a patchwork of separate voice, data and messaging networks that were not integrated and had limited functionality. More importantly, it meant employees did not always have access to phone, email or messages.
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services from Sprint creates more flexibility for today’s business environment.
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Learn how maximizing your business with Unified Communications converged network applications can directly enhance your company’s market advantage.
As businesses worldwide convert their traditional voice and data communications infrastructures to IP networks, they are eager to leverage the unique capabilities of this technology to improve their operational performance and market differentiation. This executive brief first discusses the hallmarks and business benefits of Unified Communications, then ends with a set of recommended approaches to help companies ensure smooth and successful UC deployments that optimize application performance according to each business’s unique needs.
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How do you make virtualization a reality for your enterprise without your users taking a performance hit?
Start by downloading this white paper from Riverbed. Wide-area Data Services (WDS) is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to deal with the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN.
In this paper, see how WDS is now having tremendous success in enabling server virtualization and remote site consolidation.
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Transform Your Business with Intelligent Communications
How can you improve the efficiency of your business processes? What is the strategic approach that will deliver a competitive advantage today? Discover answers here in the Essential Managers Guide for Intelligent Communications. Embedding communications into the fabric of your business processes enables you to optimize the connections among your people, customers, and processes. Explore the benefits you can achieve with computer enabled business processes–protect investments, increase productivity, and differentiate your business by offering a unique and competitive level of customer service, responsiveness to market situations, and new service offerings.
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Learn how Expedia deployed Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in order to help employees become more productive and collaborate more effectively across a long distance.
Expedia is the world’s leading online travel company, providing business and leisure travelers with tools and information to easily research, plan, book, and experience travel. As the company’s early rapid growth stabilized, its IT department sought ways to help employees become more productive and efficient. To meet this goal, the department deployed Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. The communication and collaboration server’s integration with Microsoft Windows® SharePoint® Services enables remote users to easily access documents on the company’s network, and mobile devices powered by Windows Mobile® 5.0 give employees a flexible messaging solution while they’re on the road.
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Offers the most unique information and technical guidance you can find — specialized for the networking channel marketplace.
Search Networking Channel offers the most unique information and technical guidance you can find — specialized for the networking channel marketplace. Covering topics including network design, routing and switching, VoIP and wireless networking. Search Networking Channel is your premium resource for IT networking technical inquiries, project tutorials, technology tips and trends and breaking market news.
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