COVER FOCUS
Cloud Computing
What do you need to know about cloud computing,
including the applications currently ready, security, and future trends? We talked
with product manufacturers and others to find out.
Cloud’s Key Considerations
Cloud Applications: What’s Ready?
Security In The Cloud
Cloud Computing Of The Future
Expert Advice In Four Key Areas
We polled industry insiders to come up with some
of the best tips, strategies, and advice in four key areas.
FEATURE PACKAGE
Virtualization Recommendations
As the transition to virtualized architecture
continues to accelerate, companies are learning that its benefits don’t come
without pitfalls.
Expert Upkeep Advice
Creating solid maintenance tactics for
an SME’s physical building, equipment, and network resources can prolong the
life of a data center’s assets and stretch budget dollars even further.
Energy Savings In The Data Center
Data centers use a tremendous amount of
energy, so no matter what side of the argument over global warming one chooses,
the bottom line is that data center energy savings can deliver significant monetary
savings.
Simplifying Unified Communications
Perhaps the most puzzling thing about unified
communications, or UC for short, is that there seems to be a lack of consensus over
what it means.
PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Future Facilities’ goal with its innovative
6SigmaDC software suite is to help you build a Virtual Facility, or an
interactive 3D model of your server rooms
Product Spotlight: Specialty Racks & Cabinets
NETWORKING & VPN
Edgewater Networks has been specializing
in making VoIP-based communications easy to set up since 2002
Being able to pinpoint the causes of Internet
connectivity problems and restore connectivity quickly can mean the difference
between a momentary glitch in operations and a disaster from which an Internet-based
enterprise may not be able to recover
Monitoring multiservice networks
is becoming more difficult, especially when the IT department is charged with ensuring
high performance, reliability, tight security, and a trouble-free environment for
business segments
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STORAGE
Product Spotlight: Tape Backup
Data centers need solid disaster recovery
plans in place, but they also need to be up to par. But how can data centers
determine if they’re keeping up?
SECURITY
As businesses increasingly use social
networking sites for marketing and customer support purposes and employees visit
these sites, their potential to spread malware and facilitate cyber attacks is increasing
Product Spotlight: Antivirus Appliances
Managing and complying with regulatory
issues is a daunting task that, when handled manually, is time consuming and
risky. That’s why Abiomed turned to SymSoft ControlPanelGRC
The American Portwell Technology CAD-0205 is a compact and
versatile security appliance with an Intel Atom processor
Black Box Veri-NAC helps you automatically discover your
common vulnerabilities and exposures and provides remediation instructions
MESSAGING & TELEPHONY
Proofpoint makes software and hardware
and offers SaaS and cloud options for keeping customers safe from the deluge of
viruses, spam, malware, and hacker attacks
If it’s time to upgrade your Exchange
server, there are some things to consider as you prepare for the migration
It seems inevitable that smartphones should
become the next IP telephony platform. Yet beyond the cool factor and the
sheer geeky satisfaction of making VoIP calls from a smartphone, is there any substantive
advantage to using it as a mobile IM and VoIP client?
DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT
One of the toughest tricks IT managers at
SMEs face is balancing costs with quality. When it comes to budgeting, personnel
jumps off the ledger sheet as a major cost center
Are you thinking about expanding your
present data center or building a new one? Consider forging ahead with these
plans and take advantage of the lower equipment, labor, and construction costs
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