Performance Management of Virtualized and Cloud Based Infrastructures
Dynamic and virtualized data centers, private clouds, and public clouds are radically different environments than their static and physical predecessors. These new environments have radically different...
View ArticlePerformance Management of Virtualized and Cloud Based Applications
The demand for business functionality implemented in software is infinite. This creates an infinitely long applications development backlog. These factors combine to drive innovation in application...
View ArticleSimplifying and Scaling Virtualization by Removing I/O Bottlenecks
Over the past 10 years, x86 virtualization has matured and customers are maximizing their virtualized environments, but I/O has become the bottleneck that keeps customers from continuing to scale. By...
View ArticleAdoption of Cloud Computing: How Far Have We Come?
Your company has already decided that adopting cloud computing in some form is a smart business decision – enabling IT departments to reduce costs and enable efficiency will ultimately pave the way to...
View ArticleWhy Monitoring Sucks: The 7 Stages of IT Monitoring Grief
For far too long, hardware manufacturers, independent software vendors, and even internal IT organizations have treated IT monitoring as an afterthought. While virtualization, provisioning and...
View ArticleEverything You Ever Learned About Monitoring is Wrong (in the Cloud)
If Cloud and Virtualization monitoring seem straightforward and not that big a change from what was done a few years ago, think again. These technologies add complexity that requires more than simple...
View ArticlePriorities 2013: Moving from Buzz to Business
In 2013, the big buzzwords that have been casually thrown around will evolve into serious business opportunities for both vendors and end-users. Many significant decisions will be made by CIO's that...
View ArticleThe New Network – Flatter, Faster, More Manageable
Networks have become more complex as organisations have grown the use of technology within their organisation. However, vendors are attempting to address the problems by pushing “fabric networks”; a...
View ArticleIPv6 on Your Network
This webinar takes a look at the drivers for deploying IPv6 and how if will affect your network. We then go on to examine the security considerations of the fact that IPv6 support is now ubiquitous on...
View ArticlePrime Targets in Network Infrastructure: An Ethical Hacker's View
Over the past fifteen years, Peter Wood and his team have conducted numerous penetration tests for some of the largest organisations in the world. Learn about the most common problems and mistakes that...
View ArticleNetwork and Applications - Understanding the Infrastructure Dependencies
As networks, servers and applications all increase in complexity, how do you make it simpler and less costly to manage changes and improve performance? We’ll cover practical steps needed to develop the...
View ArticleA Smarter Solution to Reducing Data Center Complexity
Discover new ways to reduce the complexity of your data center. Significantly reduce your operating expenses and your capital expenditures while giving yourself more flexibility and higher quality of...
View Articlez/OS Vulnerability Scanning and Proactive Security Management
Everyone is aware that non-mainframe platforms have vulnerability issues. There are a multitude of ways to compromise these platforms as well as the data residing on these platforms. Corporations...
View ArticleHigh Performance Wireless for BYOD: The Task in Hand
BYOD is no longer a consideration, it’s a reality. Every day over 2 million new wireless devices are being activated and these devices will show up on you network. And while most wireless vendors are...
View ArticleModular Security For Today’s Cyber Threats and Cloud-Based Data Centers
Network security is not just about eliminating bad traffic, it is also about making sure applications and critical data are always available to the right audience at the right time. The right network...
View ArticleSoftware-defined Networking and Network Virtualization: What’s the Difference?
Software Defined Networking (SDN) has captured the attention of network vendors, and customers alike. The promise of SDN is a hot topic today, but the definition(s) of SDN can vary dramatically. Very...
View ArticleONF, SDN and OpenFlow: Driving the Transition to Next Generation Networking
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is revolutionizing the networking industry through its capability to facilitate direct, real-time programming of network functionality. With the Open Networking...
View ArticleManaging Virtual Networks - Challenges and Solutions
Virtual-networks built with VMware's vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) and VXLAN technology are the proof points of the benefits that software defined approach brings to the network design. The...
View ArticleVMware Virtual Networking Design: A Disruptive Shift
Virtual networking architecture is a rapidly changing space that is ever evolving. With today's push towards software defined networking and workloads in the cloud, understanding the techniques for...
View ArticleTrends in Converged Infrastructure Management
A recent CA Technologies commissioned survey of senior infrastructure, systems and operations decision-makers, uncovered some interesting – and a few surprising - trends in both the priorities for IT...
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