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Patch Management: A Practical Guide to Building an Effective Patch Management Process sponsored by Dell India
 | White Paper: | Posted: 17 Mar 2010
| | Published: | 17 Mar 2010 | |
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This guide will assist individuals who have been assigned the task or have identified the need to establish a patch management strategy. It details methods and approaches to effectively implement a sound patch management process.
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Green Networking in the Data Center sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
 | White Paper: | Posted: 04 Mar 2010
| | Published: | 01 Jun 2009 | |
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This paper provides an overview of the challenges faced in today’s data centers; addressing the issues surrounding data center power, cooling and efficiency, with an emphasis on how specific networking tools and strategies can help address these issues.
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Virtualize Network Connections and Capacity—From the Edge to the Core sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
 | White Paper: | Posted: 04 Mar 2010
| | Published: | 01 Oct 2009 | |
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Learn how HP is combining the best new standards-based technologies with a modular architecture that fully optimizes virtualized resources, while meeting business requirements for low total cost of ownership, faster time-to-service, and critical requirements for reliability, IT governance, and compliance.
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Force10 Networks Dynamic Cloud Infrastructure Building the Cloud – Dynamic Optimization of the Virtualized Data Center sponsored by Force10 Networks
 | White Paper: | Posted: 01 Mar 2010
| | Published: | 28 Feb 2010 | |
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The data center has been, and continues to be, one of the key resources of innovation helping businesses become more agile and efficient while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). This application note explores the means by which existing data center assets can be repurposed to increase utilization, and improved application agility.
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Sun Microsystems & Force10 Networks Collaborate to Bring Network Automation to the Masses sponsored by Force10 Networks
 | White Paper: | Posted: 01 Mar 2010
| | Published: | 01 Mar 2010 | |
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Download this white paper to see how Sun's Crossbow, coupled with Force10's FTOS, provides an end-to-end standards-based approach to virtualization and automation.
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Integrating CUCM 6.X and Active Directory (AD) sponsored by Global Knowledge
 | White Paper: | Posted: 24 Feb 2010
| | Published: | 24 Feb 2010 | |
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Although Active Directory (AD) and Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) are very diverse systems owned by two completely separate companies, the use of AD for management of users in a CUCM system is a common consideration. Read this whitepaper to learn more.
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Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) sponsored by Global Knowledge
 | White Paper: | Posted: 24 Feb 2010
| | Published: | 24 Feb 2010 | |
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Every routing protocol has some pros and cons and its own metric considerations. In this white paper, we will discuss Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), a Cisco-proprietary routing protocol.
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eGuide: Cloud Computing - Expert Tips for Management, Networking and More sponsored by BMC Software, Inc.
 | Editorial Resource Guide: | Posted: 18 Feb 2010
| | Published: | 15 Feb 2010 | |
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Cloud infrastructure services are expected to grow significantly in the coming year, making it critical for IT pros to understand how to effectively implement and maintain cloud technology. In this expert E-Guide, you will learn how to leverage and manage cloud services, while delivering effective networking for your cloud infrastructure.
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Securing Layer 2 sponsored by Global Knowledge
 | White Paper: | Posted: 12 Feb 2010
| | Published: | 12 Feb 2010 | |
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For many years network administrators have expected security breaches to come from outside an organization or at the upper layers of the OSI model. This paper will focus on securing layer 2 switching at the access layer through port security and preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks at layer 2.
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Wireless Networking 101 sponsored by Global Knowledge
 | White Paper: | Posted: 11 Feb 2010
| | Published: | 11 Feb 2010 | |
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Why would a person or organization be interested in deploying wireless communication in their home or business? This being said, there are some things to think about before jumping into the wireless world. As is usually the case in the wonderful world of networking, whenever one thing becomes simpler, it almost always complicates something else.
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Opportunities and Challenges with the Convergence of Data Center Networks sponsored by Juniper Networks, Inc.
 | White Paper: | Posted: 10 Feb 2010
| | Published: | 10 Oct 2009 | |
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This white paper presents an approach to data center convergence that rethinks the network from the ground up to provide a long-term, future-proof strategy and develop a converged data center fabric with the flexibility to scale to super data centers while driving down the cost and complexity of managing the data center information infrastructure.
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Distributed Enterprise Solutions for the Branch: Offering a consistent, secure, high-performance foundation that enables services without boundaries for the high-performance enterprise sponsored by Juniper Networks, Inc.
 | White Paper: | Posted: 10 Feb 2010
| | Published: | 10 Aug 2009 | |
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As enterprises embrace the distributed concept, the network can significantly limit the ability to capitalize on opportunities. By adopting a solution-based distributed enterprise approach, you can enable the network and its applications to support and accelerate business with a location-agnostic and cost-effective approach.
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Advancing the Economics of Networking: Ethernet Switching Solutions Reduce Capital and Operational IT Expenses sponsored by Juniper Networks, Inc.
 | White Paper: | Posted: 10 Feb 2010
| | Published: | 10 Oct 2009 | |
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Aging network systems and old habits have dictated how businesses spend their IT budgets. As a result, too many IT dollars are being spent on just barely remaining competitive with emerging companies and their newer IT infrastructures. Read this white paper to learn more about a new family of solutions that reduce IT expenses and free up budgets.
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Securing the New Network Architecture sponsored by Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
 | eGuide: | Posted: 10 Feb 2010
| | Published: | 08 Feb 2010 | |
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Server virtualization presents challenges for network security, particularly NAC and compliance issues. This pocket e-guide provides tips you can use to obtain compliance in virtualized environments as well as how UTM, SSL VPNs, endpoint security, NAC and network security monitoring are being used to secure todays dynamic network architecture.
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CDW Security Assessment Tool sponsored by CDW Corporation
 | Assessment Tool: | Posted: 09 Feb 2010
| | Published: | 09 Feb 2010 | |
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Network security is critical to organizations of all sizes and across all industries. The CDW Security Assessment can help you measure your network security against that of your peers, understand how various security threats can affect your organization, and more. Start your assessment now.
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