Business Intelligence Network - The Vision for BI and Beyond

WEBCAST - This webcast takes a look at the bandwidth issues that inevitably come up with the use of voice and video conferencing over IP. It covers issues like voice quality metrics, tips and tricks for improving voice quality, and the similarities between managing video and voice content. Read on to learn more.
Posted: October 22, 2009 | Premiered: October 22, 2009


Topics:  Network Management | Network Performance | Network Traffic Management | Packet Shaping | Videoconferences | Videoconferencing Standards | Voice Networking | VoIP | WAN

WHITE PAPER - This paper takes a look at some of the advantages of video conferencing in terms of both cost savings and time savings, explains some of the problems and challenges in making video conferencing work, and gives advice for making the network ready to accommodate video conferences.
Posted: October 22, 2009 | Published: October 22, 2009


Topics:  Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Performance | Network Traffic Management | Videoconferences | WAN | Web Conferences

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

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

PODCAST - Join Tim Scannell, editor of SearchEnterpriseWAN.com, and Bojan Simic, expert in application performance management, WAN optimization, network management, and application delivery, as they discuss how to effectively manage and balance WAN performance with security safeguards on local and wide area networks.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Premiered: September 18, 2009


Topics:  Enterprise | Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Systems | Network Management | Network Performance | Network Security | WAN

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

WEBCAST - Watch this webcast to learn about the challenges and successes of Chris Bress, Director of Learning Through Technology for a public school system in Florida, which serves 17,000 students.
Posted: July 9, 2009 | Premiered: July 9, 2009


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | LAN | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | Network Performance Management Software | Network Security | Network Traffic Management | Video Services | Video-on-Demand | WAN

WEBCAST - Check out this webcast to learn more about web and SSL applications and how you can delivering applications more cost-effectively for your organization and more efficiently for users.
Posted: July 9, 2009 | Premiered: July 9, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Data Center Management | Network Management | Network Performance | Network Performance Management Software | Server Consolidation | SSL | SSL Accelerators | WAN

WEBCAST - This webcast discusses the top five challenges in enterprise networks, data and server consolidation challenges, performance issues and solutions, best practices for network architecture management, and Blue Coat's vision for addressing these issues.
Posted: July 9, 2009 | Premiered: July 9, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Enterprise Applications Software | Enterprise Resource Management | Network Architectures | Network Performance | Network Performance Management Software | Server Consolidation | WAN

WEBCAST - This webcast discusses how WAN optimization technology is still relevant and produces cost savings for organizations despite an evolving IT environment.
Posted: July 9, 2009 | Premiered: July 9, 2009


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Performance Management | Application Security | Applications Management | Bandwidth Management | Malware | Network Capacity | Network Performance | WAN

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

PRODUCT LITERATURE - This white paper outlines the basic obstacles enterprise business' face having remote employees. More specifically, it provides a problem - solution approach to WAN latency and bandwith hungry application issues that disrupt profitability.
Posted: July 1, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2006


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | LAN | Network Performance | WAN | WAN Hardware | WAN Switching

ANALYST REPORT - Businesses are turning to IT to drive down operating expenses as well as ratchet up productivity and efficiency to drive a more effective, leaner business in 2009 and beyond. IT needs to help save the business while remaining responsive, reliable, and agile, all using less investment than was previously available. Read on to learn more.
Posted: June 29, 2009 | Published: June 29, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Security | IT Asset Management | IT Best Practices | IT Spending | Network Applications Software | Network Management | Network Performance | ROI

BOOK - Most WANs see so much traffic these days that it's not just a matter of speeding things up. You also need comprehensive applications and user control before you can contain costs, enhance business productivity, and respond quickly to changing business requirements. Read this booklet to learn more about WAN optimization.
Posted: June 29, 2009 | Published: June 29, 2009


Topics:  Application Integration | Application Performance Management | Application Security | Network Applications Software | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Performance | Network Security | WAN

ANALYST REPORT - Check out this brief analyst report to learn how a comprehensive up-the-stack approach supports today's mission-critical enterprise networks and provides reliable, rapid response times for network-centric business practices and applications on a 24/7 basis.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: April 29, 2009


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Performance Management | Content Delivery | Enterprise Systems | Network Management | Network Performance | WAN