Leveraging deduplication in backup environments yields significant advantages. The cost savings in reducing disk capacity requirements change the economics of disk-based backup. For some organizations, it allows disk-based backup—and, importantly, recovery—to be extended to additional workloads in the environment. For others, deduplication makes it possible to introduce disk-based backup where it may not have been feasible before.   Together, HP […]

Cisco® Hosted Collaborations Services (HCS) is an example of widely accepted cloud services that enterprise customers are adopting. The Survivable Remote Site Telephone (SRST) for Cisco HCS is a software and hardware solution that allows customers to maintain business connectivity during a time of loss connectivity between their premise and the cloud service. Customers are adopting Cisco HCS since it […]

Through a series of case studies, Inc. and Carbonite explore the all-too-common small business ‘nightmare’, data loss – and, examine the consequences suffered as a result of being ill-prepared. Experts Pete Lamson, senior vice president for small business at Carbonite, and Philip Jan Rothstein, president of Rothstein Associates Inc., weigh-in on the importance of making data protection a business priority. […]

IT decision-makers report greatest interest in using IaaS in a hybrid cloud approach to complement on premises capacity, rather than replace it, and are planning for the impact that will have on network operations and spending. This profile highlights cloud adoption trends as well as the key benefits and challenges that US and European enterprises see when considering and adopting […]

A study conducted by Forrester Consulting finds that university IT leaders need to focus their efforts on strengthening ties to academic departments, transitioning the internal infrastructure to a private cloud and learning to embrace a hybrid cloud future. Read more.  

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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 […]