PRODUCT LITERATURE - If you can't see what's happening, then you can't even begin to attack what's wrong with the network. Here are 5 concrete reasons why you should contact Blue Coat today and start working towards greater visibility of your network.
Posted: April 20, 2009 | Published: April 20, 2009


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Integration | Bandwidth Management | Network Appliances | Network Management | Network Monitoring | Network Performance Management Software | Social Networking | WAN

DATA SHEET - Check out this data sheet for a categorized listing of 600 common applications for which Blue Coat PacketShaper delivers an accurate picture of network traffic.
Posted: April 20, 2009 | Published: April 20, 2009


Topics:  Application Integration | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Monitoring | Application Performance Management | Network Appliances | Network Applications Software | Network Capacity | Network Management | Network Monitoring | Network Performance

WHITE PAPER - Data center energy costs continue to take up a significant portion of IT budgets, and it seems that there is no end in sight. This paper addresses, in a unified and systemic way, many of the power consumption issues that IT has been grappling with in piecemeal fashion.
Posted: June 17, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Construction | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Green Data Center | IT Service Management | IT Spending | Network Appliances | Network Management Services | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation

CASE STUDY - Read this case study to learn how the Fortinet solution has successfully aided the Laguna Development Corporation in consolidating network security functionalities.
Posted: September 16, 2009 | Published: April 27, 2009


Topics:  Network Appliances | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Monitoring | Network Security | Network Security Appliances | VLAN

EBOOK - As a leading provider of solutions for Service Providers, Blue Coat appliances give you the visibility, acceleration and security needed for optimizing your network. Read this e-book to learn how Blue Coat gives you the control you need to deliver a whole set of new managed services for your business and consumer customers.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: December 22, 2008


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Applications Management | Network Appliances | Network Management | Web 2.0 | Web Application Security | Web Applications Management

TECHNICAL ARTICLE - The proliferation of user-generated content and video sharing sites has made for a constant source of new material. However, the bandwidth demands of such media often congest WAN links. One approach is to just block flash video. This technical brief presents an alternate approach that can allow video and business critical applications to co-exist.
Posted: October 22, 2009 | Published: October 22, 2009


Topics:  Caching | Content Delivery | Network Appliances | Network Management | Network Performance | Network Traffic Management | Video-on-Demand | WAN | WAN Switching

WHITE PAPER - Even the smallest business can live large with a business communications system from Cisco. Why switch to a small business communications system from Cisco? Because when you combine voice, video, and data in a single network, you can cut costs and get more done.
Posted: August 14, 2009 | Published: August 14, 2009


Topics:  IP Telephony | Network Appliances | Network Architectures | Network Design | Network Infrastructure | Networking | Networking Hardware | SMBs | VoIP

PRODUCT LITERATURE - The Cisco® EnergyWise initiative focuses on reducing the energy consumption of all devices connected to a Cisco network ranging from Power over Ethernet (PoE) devices to IP-enabled building and lighting controllers. It gives you a powerful, network-based framework to manage the energy needs for your business.
Posted: October 20, 2009 | Published: October 20, 2009


Topics:  Device Control Software | Green Storage | Network Appliances | Network Management | Network Management Software | Network Monitoring Software | Power Consumption Monitoring

CASE STUDY - With two data centers serving 24 offices in the U.S., Europe and India, Hitachi Consulting required a solution that could provide visibility into the applications running on the network while selectively accelerating business critical ones. Read on to learn about the solution they found.
Posted: October 22, 2009 | Published: October 22, 2009


Topics:  Communications Networks | Data Center Networking | Network Appliances | Network Design | Network Infrastructure | Network Performance | Network Traffic Management | WAN | WAN Switching

WHITE PAPER - When IT professionals make massive investments in the virtualized data center, financial controls to contain sprawl and maintain control are essential. This white paper shows you how to do so by implementing chargeback.
Posted: February 27, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Asset Management (Finance) | Capacity Planning | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Center Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Network Appliances | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - In virtualized data centers, the fact that all applications and users can impact each other combined with a lack of resource monitoring can cause poor performance and even system downtime. This white paper provides a formula to avoid these problems.
Posted: February 26, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Downtime | Network Appliances | Network Monitoring | Server Virtualization | VMware

WEBCAST - Check out this webcast, which discusses the problem of flat budgets, rising costs, and competing priorities, and explains how automating core network services has proven to be a helpful solution.
Posted: August 7, 2009 | Premiered: April 6, 2009


Topics:  DHCP | Domain Name Systems | IP Address Management | IP Address Management Software | IP Networks | Network Appliances | Network Infrastructure | Network Management

ANALYST REPORT - WAN optimization controllers seek to improve applications performance and reduce bandwidth requirements by intelligently managing traffic across the WAN. This analyst report presents a snapshot of the current market situation as well the results and explanation of Gartner's study of nine separate WOC vendors. Read the full report to learn more.
Posted: July 10, 2009 | Published: June 30, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Server Hardware | Applications Management | Network Appliances | Network Performance | Network Traffic Management | Networking Hardware | WAN | WAN Hardware

WHITE PAPER - Bandwidth management is a common technique employed by IT organizations to improve quality of service over the WAN by assigning guaranteed levels of bandwidth and prioritizing traffic to improve application performance. To be effective, bandwidth management must be perfectly aligned with business policies and priorities. Read on to learn more.
Posted: July 1, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2007


Topics:  Applications Management | Bandwidth Management | Network Appliances | Network Applications Software | Network Management | Network Performance | Network Traffic Management | WAN

RESOURCE CENTER - This Networking Solutions Resource Center was developed to bring the latest information on networking technology to today's IT pros. The videos, reports, whitepapers, podcasts and other materials that you'll find here were created to show you how your company's networks can help the people who work there be more efficient and productive every day.
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Published: November 6, 2009


Topics:  Collaboration | IP Telephony | Network Appliances | Network Architectures | Network Best Practices | Network Configuration Management | Network Design | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Managers | Network Testing | Networking | Networking Hardware | Productivity | Unified Messaging | Unified Messaging Systems