Networking White Papers

Finding the right cloud solutions for your organization

If you manage technology today, you know the story: everything is mobile, connected, interactive, immediate, and fluid. Expectations are high. On any given day, it's all about service delivery. You need to provide technology-enabled services to your people whenever and wherever they need them-and you need to do it cost-effectively, securely, and quickly. This is one of the driving forces behind the rise in cloud computing. Cloud computing can provide new levels of collaboration, agility, speed, and cost savings for enterprises of any size and type.

HP is driving the evolution of what we call the Instant-On Enterprise. It is an enterprise that embeds technology into everything it does to better serve citizens, partners, employees, and clients. We believe that today's Instant-On Enterprises need to think differently about how they source and deliver services that are enabled by technology. They need to take advantage of a hybrid delivery model-one that truly optimizes the mix between traditional IT, private cloud, and public cloud.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Converged Infrastructure for Dummies

As you know, everything is mobile, connected, interactive, and immediate. This is exactly why organizations need a highly agile IT infrastructure in order to keep pace with extreme fluctuations in business demand. This book will help you understand why infrastructure convergence has been widely accepted as the optimal approach for simplifying and accelerating your IT to deliver services at the speed of business while also shifting significantly more IT resources from operations to innovation.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Seven Priorities for Integrated Network Management - How HP Intelligent Management Center Delivers an Enterprise-class Solution

This white paper describes the major requirements for network management solutions to help the organizations become more profitable, efficient and reliable.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Building Cloud-Optimized Data Center Networks white paper

Enterprises are turning to the Cloud to improve business agility, reduce expenses and accelerate business innovation. Cloud computing redefines the way IT assets are deployed and consumed and dramatically affects the way data center networks are architected and managed. Conventional hierarchical data center networks built to support traditional IT architectures can't meet the security, agility and price/performance requirements of virtualized cloud computing environments. This white paper reviews the impact of cloud computing on data center networks and describes HP's approach to building simpler, more secure and automated networks that fully meet the stringent performance, security, reliability and agility demands of the new data center in the Cloud.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Gartner on the Network Infrastructure Market

The network infrastructure market has evolved rapidly, from one in which most organizations adhered to a single-vendor architecture to a more business-driven network architecture that increasingly uses a multivendor, best-of-breed approach. Gartner research found there is no operational advantage to maintaining a single-vendor approach; therefore, analyzing the functional and financial differences between vendors is key for building a network that best fits business requirements. This white paper reviews the enterprise networking market dynamics and reveals Gartner's recommendations on how to proceed.

Sponsor: HP

Ready Your Enterprise for the Next Generation of Client Computing

Data is now accessed via physical and virtual desktops, laptops and mobile devices. IT organizations struggle to control and manage the widening pool of devices and operating systems. A recent IDG Research Quick Poll found that most organizations will try to get a handle on this changing landscape this year. To ensure this to-do list can be completed without requiring additional staff or jeopardizing security and compliance, organizations must deploy automated client management.

Sponsor: FrontRange Solutions

Collaborate with Your Business Network in the Cloud

In this article, we will look at SAP's business network framework and solutions that can help you more effectively manage collaboration with your partner network and gain insights to reduce risk and improve performance.

Sponsor: SAP

Five Considerations to Enable a More Agile Infrastructure

Conflicting trends in IT affect your ability to deliver a consistent high performance infrastructure for workers everywhere. Adding or rationing bandwidth, redeploying local resources, and tiering service levels don't fix your underlying problems. With WAN optimization solutions from Riverbed, the network can be transformed from a barrier to an enabler of your initiatives. Read this white paper to learn more.

Sponsor: Riverbed

ESG - Practical Advice for Streamlining Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Solutions

To succeed and thrive, today's organizations must create network environments that enable them to continue operations or recover in the shortest possible time. This paper provides practical advice for maintaining a functional DR strategy, and for streamlining business continuity solutions.

Sponsor: Riverbed

Managing Volatility Through Smart Inventory Planning

This paper will consider the latest developments in inventory optimization technology, including a look at how leading CP companies are using this generation of inventory management tools to help minimize working capital, improve inventory positioning and management, redesign network stocking nodes, and improve customer service and overall profitability.

Sponsor: IBM

NSS Labs Next-Generation Firewall Security Value Map

A whole new breed of Next-Generation Firewalls is here - designed to deliver powerful security, robust intrusion prevention and granular application control in the new Web 2.0 environment. But do all Next-Generation Firewalls deliver on this promise?
NSS Labs, a global leader of independent security product testing and certification, just released the results of an in-depth assessment involving seven Next-Generation Firewall products. Solutions from SonicWALL®, Check Point®, Palo Alto Networks®, Juniper Networks®, Fortinet®, Stonesoft® and Barracuda Networks® were rigorously tested.
The result?
SonicWALL's SuperMassive™ E10800 is the Highest Overall Protection Next-Gen Firewall to Earn NSS Labs "Recommend" Rating.

Sponsor: SonicWALL

HP Client Virtualization with VMware View for the Financial Services Sector

At a time of unprecedented change for the financial industry, CIOs and IT departments need to find ways to balance multiple objectives: maximize return, mitigate risk, improve performance, and increase agility and availability. In addition, financial institutions like yours are facing increased security concerns brought on in part by the growing number of remote workers accessing data from notebooks and other remote devices. In many cases, this includes offshore workers with access to your firm's critical intellectual property (IP).

Financial firms and institutions are looking for IT solutions that help them solve a wide range of business-critical challenges. The HP portfolio of Client Virtualization solutions with VMware View can help you achieve the objectives that financial firms need today. In addition, it can help you use your IT to add value for your customers.

Sponsor: HP, Intel, VMware

Controlling the Cost of File Transfers

The term total cost of ownership or TCO describes the full investment required to acquire, install, and maintain an application. We often think of TCO when making a large initial investment in a new system. It also applies to situations that involve minimal startup costs but substantial ongoing costs.

Homegrown file transfer solutions are a prime example of the minimal startup, but substantial and ongoing cost scenario. This solution brief explains why something as seemingly simple and straightforward as a file transfer task turns into such a costly operation. It also describes how Attachmate FileXpress alleviates those costs and continues to meet enterprise needs long beyond the lifespan of resource-demanding homegrown solutions.

Sponsor: Attachmate

Web Acceleration: The Rules Have Changed

Optimizing your web page loading time is essential for retaining your website visitors. Download Web Acceleration: The Rules Have Changed to learn how front-end optimization can improve Time to Action for your web and mobile content, and how it can be done in front of your existing CDN with minimal integration required.

Sponsor: Limelight

How To Select And Evaluate Mobile Collaboration Vendors

Mobile collaboration means putting collaboration workloads onto all-important smartphones and tablets, then delivering a great user experience anywhere, anytime, on any device. This is a high bar to clear, but we found 13 vendors able to clear it. In Forrester's 15-criteria evaluation of mobile collaboration vendors, we found that Adobe, Box, Cisco, IBM, salesforce.com, SugarSync, Skype, and Yammer led the pack because of their commitment to tablets and smartphone platforms as well as a strategy aligned with the needs of the mobile workforce: low latency, cloud reach, and platform support. We also found many Strong Performers - AT&T, Citrix, Dropbox, Evernote, and Google. In this handpicked group of mobile collaboration vendors, no vendor slipped into the Contender or Risky Bet categories at least as it relates to mobile support.

Sponsor: Box

Akamai's Application Acceleration Services: Transform the Internet into a Business-ready Application Delivery Platform

Learn how the Internet can impact the performance of web-enabled application response times to end users and how Akamai's Internet overlay network can address the quality uncertainties of the Internet.

Sponsor: Akamai Technologies

Content Sharing 2.0: The Road Ahead

A growing number of companies are taking advantage of the natural synergies that exist between cloud-based IT services and content access and sharing. Legacy content management and collaboration systems simply weren't designed to meet the evolving requirements of today's IT and business managers, as well as the needs of content users. Box provides cloudbased content storage, access and collaboration services that require virtually no user training and supports file access and delivery on almost all popular PC and mobile devices. The services of Box let companies rapidly implement a cost-effective and secure content storage and sharing system that can easily expand to accommodate any size and number of files.

Sponsor: Box

The Cloud: Reinventing Enterprise Collaboration

It is no surprIse to anyone working in virtually any business anywhere in the world today, that knowledge is power. having access to the most accurate, up-to-date corporate information, and the ability to easily collaborate on that information gives organizations the means to make decisions that drive the most positive business outcome.

According to a new study by IDG research, which surveyed more than 260 large-enterprise IT managers, the vast majority of knowledge workers (86 percent) placed a very high level of importance on collaborating with internal coworkers and external stakeholders, and having access to the most up-to-date corporate information.

Sponsor: Box

Duane Morris Case Study

Duane Morris, one of the fastest growing law firms in the U.S., tells their story of improved network utilization and more precise identification of application performance problems since the deployment of AppResponse Xpert.

Sponsor: Opnet Technologies

Deliver Optimal Service Quality

Telecommunications operators compete in a market defined by change and continually advancing technology. Up-to-the-minute technologies such as IP virtual private network, IPTV, and Voice over IP are must-have offerings that can make the difference between keeping a large corporate account and losing out to a competitor. New services mean new challenges for monitoring and reporting on the delivered service quality. This is possible through the process of mapping the new service to your current service quality management (SQM) infrastructure.

Sponsor: IBM