Increasingly enterprises are adopting cloud services, with more than 50 percent of all workloads being processed in the cloud by 2014 according to the 2011 Cisco® Global Cloud Index. However, cloud services place new demands and requirements on the enterprise network, especially the enterprise WAN in delivering these services to remote and branch-office users. In order to meet these new […]

Extending the enterprise network to remote branch offices has long been one of the more difficult challenges of the IT organization. The Cisco® Regional WAN (RWAN) Solution architecture provides a set of pretested deployment recommendations for addressing some of the challenges with remote branch-office environments. The RWAN includes the network services for the remote branch office as well as the […]

Corporate tablet use is rising fast – but most tablets are designed for consumer use, not created to meet the increasingly complex security and productivity needs of enterprise employees. In this Yankee Group whitepaper, find out why creating an enterprise-class tablet environment should be at the top of the list for every security-conscious organization.  

Cisco UCS also helps enhance network and application performance. “Our new infrastructure is delivering five times more speed, and it allows my team to work faster,” says Blaisdell. “The server provisioning and physical rollouts that used to take us seven weeks to accomplish, now only take a few hours in a virtual environment.” Read more.  

The IDC Business Value of Blade white paper examines how midsize companies spanning the education, healthcare, media, retail, research, and telecommunications (service provider) industries were able to reduce their annual IT infrastructure cost per user by almost 25 percent by migrating to a blade platform. IDC estimates that over a three-year period, the companies in the study saw their implementation […]

Bringing Data Center Class Virtualization Ready Blade Servers to the Branch Office What Are Cisco UCS E-Series Servers? Cisco UCS® E-Series Servers bring data center–class virtualization-ready blade servers to the branch office. Cisco UCS E-Series Servers are virtualization-ready, high-density, single-socket blade servers designed to balance simplicity, performance, and application density while operating in a energy-efficient environment. These powerful, small form […]

Rigorous management of the PC life cycle is essential for diverse, distributed workforces. Dell offers a comprehensive mix of configuration, installation, ongoing support, and IT asset disposition services for efficiently managing end-user systems. Dell ProSupport helps organizations enhance productivity cost-effectively while avoiding potential IT difficulties later on. Download this technical report offering a study of real-world organizations that benefit from […]

Blade servers significantly ease the management burden, via unified system management controls for groups of servers, storage and networking. According to IDC, companies that moved to HP BladeSystem spent 50 percent less money on hardware, and found that it reduced set-up and configuration time by 46 percent.   Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel […]