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Learn How Unified Communications powerful set of converged network applications can directly enhance your company's market advantage. Wednesday, 2nd July 2008 The Path to Intelligent Communications: Service Oriented Communications and SIP in the Contact Cente Learn how service oriented communications applies a SOA methodology to converge communications, business applications, and processes over a common IT infrastructure. Wednesday, 2nd July 2008 RFID Journal Is the world's largest and most respected source of news and information about radio frequency identification (RFID) and its many business and consumer applications. Tuesday, 1st July 2008 Gartner MarketScope for Network Access Control, 2008 This compelling Gartner Report features seventeen vendors that offer NAC as part of a broad portfolio of products. Wednesday, 18th June 2008 NAC at the Endpoint: Control your Network Through Device Compliance Learn why NAC at the endpoint is the most effective way to manage who and what connects to your organizations network. Wednesday, 18th June 2008 Why Now is the Time to Integrate VoIP in SMB Networks Learn how VoIP can boost employee collaboration and strengthen connections to customers. Wednesday, 4th June 2008 Adaptive Private Networking: Achieving Low Cost, High Bandwidth and Highly Reliable WANs Doing for Enterprise WANs what RAID did for Storage. Tuesday, 6th May 2008 Essential Managers Guide for Intelligent Communications Transform Your Business with Intelligent Communications Wednesday, 23rd April 2008 Essential Managers Guide: Communications Tools for the Effective Worker What do today's information workers want and need? It's all about managing multiple means of communications, seamlessly. Wednesday, 23rd April 2008 Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2007 Riverbed positioned in Leaders Quadrant of 2007 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers. Tuesday, 22nd April 2008 Bringing 'Communications' Products to Life: An Innovative Marketing Strategy Isn't it time your network and telecommunications Monday, 21st April 2008 Faxing in an IP Environment By enabling users to send faxes over any IP-based network, Fax over IP is positioned to leverage infrastructure investments and reduce costs. Wednesday, 16th April 2008 Five Strategies for Improving Fax Communications Network administrators and IT teams deal with complex, time-consuming challenges every day. Faxing shouldn't be one of them. Wednesday, 16th April 2008 Lightwave Covers all fiber-optic communications technologies worldwide from long-distance transmission through metro applications to enterprise and premises networks. Thursday, 10th April 2008 From OpenView to Open Source Learn the drivers for considering open source and the IT situations where open source makes sense. Monday, 31st March 2008 Optimizing Application Monitoring Discover practical techniques for application monitoring and a method for value engineering the overall design. Monday, 31st March 2008 Compare Hosted PBX Systems For Small and Medium Businesses Discover the critical features and services that your small or medium business needs in a new hosted phone system. Tuesday, 26th February 2008 Enterprise IP PBX Buyer's Guide: Features and Services That Matter This Buyer's Guide covers the main features, services and requirements for enterprise class PBX systems and how to understand the differences between them. Tuesday, 26th February 2008 8 Considerations for a Complete Application Performance Solution Explore the top 8 considerations that require attention when evaluating products and strategies to establish a complete application performance solution. Thursday, 14th February 2008 How Operating Systems Create Network Efficiency Learn more about the efficiencies of your operating system and how JUNOS software can help your IT organization. Thursday, 14th February 2008 The Need for Vulnerability Management This guide describes the need for vulnerability management. Thursday, 24th January 2008 Remote Server Management for Small and Mid-sized Server Rooms and Data Centers KVM devices best address your network needs? Tuesday, 22nd January 2008 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers 2007 Discover who is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers. Monday, 14th January 2008 Leveraging WAN Application Delivery Solutions to Accelerate and Secure Your Software-as-a-Service Ca Accelerate and Secure Your Software-as-a-Service Solution. Monday, 14th January 2008 Discover What's Behind Network Downtime? Learn about the major causes and effects of network downtime, and how enterprises are finally addressing the complexity that leads to human errors. Monday, 7th January 2008 Seven Guidelines for Your SMB Network Learn the seven guidelines you need to know when working with a network VAR. Thursday, 3rd January 2008 SMB Best Practices Guide to Making a Network Connection Read about solutions that will meet your network needs today and tomorrow, at a price you can afford. Thursday, 3rd January 2008 WAN, LAN & Wireless LAN Performance & Feature Evaluation by the Tolly Group Get the facts on how ADTRAN's NetVanta 1335 integrates network functions into a single platform. Thursday, 3rd January 2008 Diagnosing the cause of poor application performance Learn why having the right diagnostic tool can enable network professionals to quickly identify and resolve a problem. Thursday, 20th December 2007 Best Practices for Selecting WAN Optimization Solutions: Benchmarking Performance ROI Review the best practices for defining requirements and comparing alternative solutions that IT organizations can use to select a WAN optimization solution that delivers the greatest business value. Wednesday, 12th December 2007 Testing Secure Enterprise SOA Applications Across Wide Area Networks without Leaving the Lab Learn how SAP used the Shunra VE solution, and other testing tools, to perform hands-on testing of a WAN distributed enterprise SOA application landscape. Wednesday, 12th December 2007 Community Collaboration from IBM Lotus Software: Empowering People and Building Effective Teams IBM Lotus software empowers people and organizations to build effective teams and dynamic communities and to foster business agility. Tuesday, 11th December 2007 IBM UC2 and Lotus Sametime Webcast Featuring the IBM CIO Office Learn how IBM's Unified Communications and Collaboration strategy is paying big dividends--reducing travel, telephony and other costs while allowing globally dispersed employees to feel part of a collaborative community. Tuesday, 11th December 2007 UC2 and Lotus Sametime with Colgate Palmolive Join this webcast to learn about IBM's Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC2) strategy and the power it can bring to your organization. Tuesday, 11th December 2007 Unified Communications: An Industry Perspective Please join this complementary IBM hosted webcast to learn more about unified communications and how these solutions make it easier for people to collaborate anytime, anywhere. Tuesday, 11th December 2007 Collaboration on the Edges - How IBM Lotus Connections Is Helping the Network Centric Operations Ind Learn how IBM Lotus Connections is providing new ways to enable productive relationships in a business context. Tuesday, 11th December 2007 Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing, 2007 Learn how web conferencing continues its transition from a specialized technology to a generally available collaboration tool. Tuesday, 4th December 2007 Load Balancing Basics Learn how you can help your network go from sluggish to superior with 1 product. Monday, 26th November 2007 Fluke Networks On-Demand Webcast: Throughput Testing - How To Make Sure Your Network Is Operating At Even though you may have a Category 5e/6 cabling system, and your switches may support Gig, that doesn't mean you're going to get Gigabit speed throughout your network. Monday, 29th October 2007 Cisco Unified Communications Interactive Overview (Flash) Are your business communications proving more of a challenge than an asset? Thursday, 25th October 2007 Keys to Accelerating Web Application Delivery Slowdowns, scalability issues and security gaps: Use ONE solution to treat each of these application issues at the same time. Thursday, 11th October 2007 Microsoft SharePoint and Citrix Application Optimization Deployment Best Practices and Performance V What if your SharePoint Server ran 200X faster? It can with Citrix. Thursday, 11th October 2007 AnalyzeAir Wi-Fi Spectrum Analyzer It can be difficult to analyze, manage and monitor all of the RF sources and wireless devices on your Wi-Fi network. This tool will allow you to do so with ease. Tuesday, 25th September 2007 Best Practices for Managing and Validating Changes to Your Infrastructure Learn how to optimize network performance, minimize user downtime and reduce problems after implementation. Tuesday, 25th September 2007 Free 802.11 a/b/g Wireless Poster Get your free wireless technical wall poster now for free! Tuesday, 25th September 2007 The Pervasive Network Access Voyage Learn how to increase productivity and security of your enterprise through pervasive network access Tuesday, 11th September 2007 Secure Access SSL VPN Demo Secure remote access made easy with market-leading, award-winning technology. Tuesday, 4th September 2007 Monitoring Edge Devices: Managing IP and Network Proliferation Learn how the proliferation of IP-ready devices is driving major changes in the network monitoring marketplace, and why an automated NMS approach is critical to managing this diverse range of networked devices. Tuesday, 21st August 2007 Using a Network Monitoring System (NMS) To Reduce Costs and Generate Revenue Learn how the visibility afforded by NMS software encourages proactive decision making to reduce wasted spend and protect revenue streams. Tuesday, 21st August 2007 Tiered Information Infrastructure: A practical approach to translating strategy into implementation Learn how how a tiered information infrastructure will synergize with related strategic needs. Monday, 13th August 2007 What If...A New Application Is Deployed Without the Networking Team's Knowledge? Read about the impact on the net ops team in this common scenario. Wednesday, 8th August 2007 Streamline File Management: Introducing File Area Networks Learn how FANs can simplify file consolidation and migration. Friday, 20th July 2007 Video Communications a Requirement? Now More than Ever Break through the hype and get the facts. Learn how industries and individuals around the globe are gaining significant business and personal value from video communications. Friday, 20th July 2007 TCO Leader for Business Wireless LAN Deployment - a Yankee Group Report Examines total cost of WLAN deployment based on several controller models from Aruba Networks, Cisco Systems and Trapeze Networks, using list and discounted prices for comparison; for small, mid-sized and large enterprise deployments. Monday, 4th June 2007 The Forrester Wave™: WLAN Infrastructure, Q2 2007 Forrester report evaluates ten WLAN infrastructure vendors across 54 weighted criteria, and lists technologies that will play a major role in making the WLAN a primary network element. Monday, 4th June 2007 Monitoring and Managing Distributed Retail Locations Managing the IT systems and networks that connect the multiple offices and stores found in retail, financial services and education isn't easy. Learn what an effective systems and network monitoring solution needs to offer to support distributed environments and why you need one. Friday, 20th April 2007 SearchNetworkingChannel Offers the most unique information and technical guidance you can find -- specialized for the networking channel marketplace. Monday, 16th April 2007 Solving Network Problems: On-Demand Webcast from Fluke Networks Learn how to quickly identify networks, devices and problems using the OptiView Integrated Network Analyzer. Friday, 13th April 2007 Webcast: Secure Networks From Internal Threats Learn how to identify security threats and keep networks and users safe. Friday, 13th April 2007 Real-Time Statistics and Network Availability from any Web Browser Provide affordable monitor management for almost any size corporate network. Wednesday, 11th April 2007 SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset: 30-Day Trial This desktop application offers access to 47 bundled tools, including: NPM, Switch Port Mapper, Advanced CPU Load, MIB Browser, Syslog Server and much more. Wednesday, 11th April 2007 Debunking the Top Ten Myths About Network Monitoring Systems Learn the truth, critical mistakes, and best practices in choosing the best fit and system functionality for your business. Friday, 6th April 2007 Network Management on a Budget - Doing More With Less Valuable tips and guidelines to adopt the right network management solutions for mid -market environments. Wednesday, 4th April 2007 The Shortcut Guide to Network Management Tackles network administration from small-to-mid size businesses' point of view, using tools and technologies more ideal for midsize company budgets and staff. Wednesday, 4th April 2007 Lightwave Europe Is the first European-based magazine to cover fiber optic technology exclusively for the telecommunications industry. Tuesday, 3rd April 2007 Troubleshoot Network Performance Issues 7-10x Faster Network performance problem? Learn how to troubleshoot and resolve it quickly. Tuesday, 27th March 2007 Next-Generation WLAN Architecture for High Performance Networks Identifies requirements for next-generation WLANs, examines the limitations of existing approaches, and describes a solution that overcomes those limitations. Thursday, 15th March 2007 Who Leads in WLAN Security? Comparative evaluation of vendor offerings and positioning in the WLAN security market, including security issue discussion and vendor rankings. Thursday, 15th March 2007 Best Practices for Monitoring a Data Center and NOC Outlines best practices for deploying and operating a network and systems monitoring solution. Friday, 9th March 2007 Cisco on Cisco News Has exclusive articles on how Cisco IT uses its own products and solutions to enable the business. Thursday, 8th March 2007 Diagnosing the Cause of Poor Application Performance Outlines causes and explains why having the right diagnostic tool enables network professionals to quickly identify and resolve problems. Thursday, 1st March 2007 Five Keys to Successful Fax Technology Consolidation Learn how fax server software can help you eliminate manual paper processes, reducing cost and complexity. Friday, 12th January 2007 How Your Company can Benefit from Fax Servers and Electronic Document Delivery Determine your document delivery needs and learn about electronic fax technology and countless benefits for your organization. Friday, 12th January 2007 Improve Efficiency and Reduce Costs with Automated Document Delivery Learn how to automate document delivery from back-office applications to reach your business performance goals. Friday, 12th January 2007 Network Performance Edge Journal — Case studies, tools and tips for managing network performanc A Journal of best practices, case studies and industry perspectives for network professionals responsible for networking, voice, data, and video communications technologies. Wednesday, 20th December 2006 3 Scenarios for ROI - Reduce Total Cost of Ownership with MPLS 3 Scenarios for ROI: Reduce Total Cost of Ownership with MPLS Multi-Protocol Label Switching is described in detail along with the advantages it offers over traditional networking services. Monday, 11th December 2006 ADTRAN Outperforms Cisco in Tolly Group Tests Tolly Group Test Proves ADTRAN Multiservice Access Router Outperforms. View this competitive performance evaluation from the Tolly Group and see why ADTRAN outperformed Cisco. Monday, 11th December 2006 Facts on Multiservice Access Router Performance - ADTRAN Outperforms Nortel in Tolly Group Tests Competitive Comparison: ADTRAN's Multiservice Access Router Performance View this competitive performance evaluation from the Tolly Group and see why ADTRAN outperformed Nortel. Monday, 11th December 2006 Reduce Network TCO with Value-Driven Integrated Networks Learn how a multi-function network with value-driven solutions can cause a dramatic shift in your Total Cost of Ownership. Monday, 11th December 2006 Are You Ready for the All-Wireless Enterprise? With the cost and productivity benefits of wireless technology, businesses are now deploying it more and more for business-critical applications. But is your enterprise ready for a pervasive wireless infrastructure? Tuesday, 28th November 2006 Connected Care: Communication, Collaboration, Compassion—Wirelessly Enabled Learn why healthcare organizations with older wireless systems can incur escalating costs, uncertainty, even non-compliance—and how new wireless technology can eliminate these issues, plus offer substantially increased reliability. Tuesday, 28th November 2006 Evaluating Interference in Wireless LANs: Recommended Practice An assessment of the impact potential interferers can have, the characteristics of interfering signals, and the techniques that any enterprise can use to better understand, evaluate and manage interference. Monday, 27th November 2006 The Invisible Threat: Interference and Wireless LANs Discusses the threat that interference represents, and how spectrum assurance tools can provide a response yielding a significant improvement in reliability for network managers in enterprises of all sizes. Monday, 27th November 2006 Twenty Myths of WiFi Interference If you think there is nothing you can do about interference on your WiFi network, then you are wrong. Learn the truth behind this common myth and nineteen others to help you gain control of WiFi interference issues you may currently be facing. Monday, 27th November 2006 Drive Sustainable and Efficient Compliance and Governance Today's IT groups face increased focus on compliance. Many companies achieve compliance, but are finding critical gaps in their efforts. Learn how Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) Systems can help. Monday, 23rd October 2006 What You Can't See Can Hurt You: Ensuring Application Availability through Enterprise-Wide Visibilit How can you ensure application availability without visibility into what you have and how it's used? Learn how Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) systems provide real-time visibility into the behavior of systems, users, and applications inside the network. Monday, 23rd October 2006 White Paper: A Strategic Look at Network Change and Configuration Management by Enterprise Manageme Learn how to automate and enforce software provisioning of the entire IT stack, from operating systems to patches to applications. Tuesday, 10th October 2006 HP OpenView On Demand Web Demo See how you can increase operational efficiency by 85% with HP OpenView Network Configuration Manager which designs, changes and enforces compliance. Tuesday, 10th October 2006 Voice Over IP (VoIP) Implementation Guide for Network Performance Management Get the White Paper: Voice Over IP (VoIP) Implementation Guide for Network Performance Management Wednesday, 20th September 2006 Cutting Through the Complexity of Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Performance Get the White Paper: Cutting Through the Complexity of Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Performance Wednesday, 20th September 2006 Application and Network Performance Management Buyer's Guide Download now: Application and Network Performance Management Buyer's Guide. Wednesday, 20th September 2006 Putting "Layer 8" to Work: Application Performance Management on a Real-World Budget Take control of your top 10 application performance problems in under 10 days... Monday, 18th September 2006 It's Not the Network: Defending Yourself Against "The Network is Slow" What is causing poor application performance? Is it the network? The server? The application? A rogue application or user hogging all the bandwidth? How can I quickly tell the difference? Can I prove that it's not the network to other management teams? How do I defend against "the network is slow" claims? This white paper shows you how, illustrated by customer case studies. Monday, 18th September 2006 Evaluating Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems by The Tolly Group This head-to-head inspection of products from AirTight Networks, AirMagnet and Aruba Networks reveals the robust capabilities of the AirTight SpectraGuard Enterprise product. Tuesday, 5th September 2006 Reduce Risk and Achieve PCI/CISP Compliance through Network Change and Configuration Management In this Webinar, companies will learn how IT Automation offers a proactive approach to security management and PCI/CISP compliance. IDC's Stephen Elliot will discuss the critical role of network configuration and compliance management in reducing the PCI/CISP compliance burden, and why IT Automation is the key to standardizing change management, achieving operational best practices and compliance. Thursday, 10th August 2006 A New Look for Network Support A Single Point of Contact (SPOC) Network Support Solution can deliver significant financial and operational benefits. Wednesday, 9th August 2006 Optimizing Your CDMA Network with Spatial Performance Visualization (SPV) A new, more effective way to analyze and fix radio performance issues. Wednesday, 9th August 2006 MarketScope for Wireless LAN Intrusion Prevention Systems The market for Wireless LAN Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPSs) will double in size in 2006 as more organizations look to tighten the security of their wireless networks. To help organizations address their WLAN IPS needs, Gartner has assessed seven vendors that offer overlay WLAN IPSs or have integrated WLAN IPSs into their WLAN infrastructure components. Monday, 7th August 2006 Best Practices for Operating Voice on your Wireless Network Looks at the issues surrounding voice over Wi-Fi in the enterprise and how to leverage spectrum tools to make sure your voice-over-Wi-Fi network meets the high-availability enterprise requirements necessary for success. Wednesday, 12th July 2006 Gain a Competitive Edge with Automated Network Configuration Management (NCM): A Wireless Network Se Find out how the Opsware Network Automation System is enabling a leading Internet service provider to achieve dramatic cost and productivity improvements at a time when the size of its network is actually doubling each year. Wednesday, 14th June 2006 Integrating Voice, Data and Video How service providers can offer their customers IP video as part of triple play services. Friday, 2nd June 2006 Next Generation Communications Networks IP Multimedia Aubsystems (IMS) - the open industry standard supporting the next generation of converged network services. Friday, 19th May 2006 Are You Getting the True Picture? Facts about KVM over IP, Bandwidth and Video How to get high-resolution video without the need for increased bandwidth. Thursday, 20th April 2006 See, Manage, and Secure Your WiFi Spectrum Learn how Paul Vallesteros of SkyPilot networks, is able to deploy and troubleshoot WiFi networks quickly and easily. Monday, 27th March 2006 Learn the top ten myths of WiFi interference How well do you see your wireless network? Get new insights into common beliefs about interference and the realities of building and maintaining secure WiFi networks. Monday, 5th December 2005 Manage Wireless Interference How do you manage wireless interference in a high traffic area? Wireless LANS used by multiple service providers in airports and large commercial venues require a lot of attention, particularly when it comes to managing the spectrum. Monday, 5th December 2005 |