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BI and ETL - Process Management Pain Points
WHITE PAPER: Sound business intelligence (BI) reporting can be invaluable in helping your business peers make the best decisions for your company. Ensuring error-free, end-to-end integration of data between processes distributed throughout your organization, however, can be challenging. Learn how scheduling and process automation technologies can help.
Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012


Mobile applications - Making anywhere access a reality
EGUIDE: Uncover how you can make anytime, anywhere access a reality for your mobile workforce. Also analyze costs of mobilizing applications and how to get those applications to your mobile devices.
Posted: 13 Feb 2012 | Published: 13 Feb 2012


Is Your Network Ready for Cloud Computing - Presentation Transcript
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript will look at areas to cover with the cloud provider, including possible adjustments to firewalls and other perimeter defenses such as IPS, and how to ensure the changes don’t violate security policy.
Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012


Extending Borderless Mobility to the Cloud Network
WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to learn how advanced technology architectures provide maximum flexibility and scalability, enabling the network to support changing business requirements and new services, while minimizing total cost of ownership.
Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 06 Feb 2012


Cisco Connected World Technology Report
VIDEOCAST: Access this videocast for a panel discussion investigating the findings of the 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report, which provides insight into the mindset, expectations, and behavior of the world’s next generation of workers.
Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Premiered: Feb 6, 2012


The Economics of Networking White Paper
WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn about a next-generation network architecture that paves the way for true business innovation with architectural benefits that empower IT to say “yes” to new business opportunities and the ever-changing work environment.
Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 06 Feb 2012


Address Management Challenges with Prime for Enterprise
PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Managing your network is never without problems. Discover a solution that can simplify it.
Posted: 26 Jan 2012 | Published: 26 Jan 2012


Simplified Management of Video Collaboration Services
PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Access this product overview to learn more about Cisco Prime Collaboration Manager which can help optimize the delivery efficiency, reduce operational costs of video collaboration services and provide an optimal end-user experience.
Posted: 26 Jan 2012 | Published: 26 Jan 2012


Simplify Management of Cisco TelePresence with Cisco Prime Collaboration Manager
PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Uncover the ins and outs of a video collaboration services solution for optimal video usage in your enterprise.
Posted: 26 Jan 2012 | Published: 26 Jan 2012


Business intelligence and the case for meaningful use
EGUIDE: In order to address and comply with meaningful use requirements, learn how many healthcare organizations are turning to data warehousing (DW) and business intelligence (BI) as tools for reporting and identifying key strengths and weaknesses within the business.
Posted: 25 Jan 2012 | Published: 25 Jan 2012


Leading Interactive Games Designer Accelerates Business Intelligence Program
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, Rajesh K. Gupta, Electronic Arts' senior manager of applications for business intelligence (BI) and data services, explains how EA avoids many costly problems due to timely data access. Read this now to gain insight into how EA deployed job scheduling software and what benefits it reaped by doing so.
Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2012


The Journey to Unified Computing
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how data center needs have changed over the last five years and discusses the reasons why management of virtualized compute, network, and storage access should be integrated. Discover the vision behind a private cloud and learn how to avoid making common mistakes as you prepare for this new IT model.
Posted: 14 Jan 2012 | Published: 01 Apr 2010


Data Center Management: The Key Ingredient for Reducing Server Power While Increasing Data Center Capacity
WHITE PAPER: The pressure to improve data center efficiency is nothing new. In fact, this demand has been growing for over a decade. This resource describes the key elements of effective IT management and compares the offerings of two key players in the market.
Posted: 14 Jan 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 2010


Cisco Virtual Networking: Extend Advanced Networking for Microsoft Hyper-V Environments
PRODUCT OVERVIEW: This solution overview explores four key issues that often accompany virtualization and describes two options for addressing them. Learn how to leverage Hyper-V to reduce operational complexity and extend security across your virtual environment.
Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012


Cisco Unified Computing System: Meet the Challenges of Virtualization with Microsoft Hyper-V
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes a recommended approach to help you optimize your virtual infrastructure and position your business to take advantage of public and private cloud services.
Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012


Cisco Unified Computing System: Meet the Challenges of Today’s Microsoft Exchange Server Workloads
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the challenges of upgrading Microsoft Exchange and explains why it is essential that you successfully coordinate between server, storage, and network stacks to ensure stable business operations. Read this white paper to learn how a unified computing system can help you achieve this goal.
Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012


FlexPod for SAP Applications—Elevating the SAP Landscape to the Cloud
PRODUCT OVERVIEW: This solution brief explores the driving forces behind the decision to implement these technologies and reveals the key benefits you can expect once you have done so. Learn about a cloud reference architecture designed to provide secure isolation of tenants and systems, seamless provisioning and deprovisioning, and more.
Posted: 06 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012


Cisco WAN Optimization for Citrix XenDesktop
WHITE PAPER: Access this whitepaper to learn about an optimized solution that mitigates the effects of the WAN and ensures customers can realize their business objectives.
Posted: 22 Dec 2011 | Published: 22 Dec 2011


The Cloud-Ready Data Center
VIDEO: This video cites the critical role of the data center in enabling growth, through virtualization and the cloud. Discover why a unified architecture is recommended to help you integrate your IT infrastructure and achieve maximum agility and efficiency.
Posted: 13 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 05 Dec 2011


The Results of the Right Network
WHITE PAPER: Discover how a medical clinic slashed its phone service costs, improved security and service, and added four satellite offices without adding any more IT support.
Posted: 13 Dec 2011 | Published: 13 Dec 2011


How a Techie Built a Network That Cuts Costs by 50%
WHITE PAPER: Discover how a technical supervisor used network technology to help his company slash phone service costs, improve security and service, and add four satellite offices without adding more IT support.
Posted: 13 Dec 2011 | Published: 13 Dec 2011


Can Your WLAN Keep Up With The Tablet Explosion?
EZINE: The Network Evolution predicted 2011 would be a breakout year for networking. See how far users have come in implementing innovative technology or in making traditional methods work well for them.
Posted: 06 Dec 2011 | Published: 06 Dec 2011


SAP Enterprise Applications on Cisco UCS
RESOURCE CENTER: The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) server platform has been designed with the performance and reliability to power memory-intensive, mission-critical applications, as well as virtualized workloads. Check out this solution center to learn more about SAP enterprise applications that are optimized on the UCS server platform.
Posted: 29 Nov 2011 | Published: 29 Nov 2011


Cisco Application Networking for SAP Design Guide [Data Center Designs: Application Networking]
WHITE PAPER: This document provides guidelines on how to deploy a SAP application solution with optimal application networking solutions. It is intended to reduce the time to implement a SAP application deployment and increase the likelihood of success by demonstrating techniques that were found to be successful.
Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 23 Nov 2011


Virtualized SAP Solution Using Cisco Unified Computing System and EMC CLARiiON Storage
WHITE PAPER: This study details the performance scalability of the Cisco unified computing system (UCS) platform coupled with Intel Xeon 5600 series processors and EMC CLARiiON storage, and demonstrates why it's a great fit for virtualized SAP solutions.
Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2010