Business Intelligence Network - The Vision for BI and Beyond

WEBCAST - Traffic on your network will only increase, driven largely by the insatiable demands of video and other bandwidth-intensive, latency-sensitive applications. What can you do now to prepare your network for this inevitable growth without investing in new hardware or more bandwidth? This webcast discusses best practices to future proof your network.
Posted: February 22, 2010 | Premiered: February 22, 2010


Topics:  802.11n | IPv6 | Network Management | Network Monitoring | Network Performance Management Software | Network Protocols | Wireless Networks

WEBCAST - Unified communications tools enable your employees to communicate and collaborate with each other faster and more easily than ever before. Unfortunately, their use has been restricted to members of your enterprise—until now. View this webcast now to learn about a new solution that allows borderless collaboration.
Posted: February 22, 2010 | Premiered: February 22, 2010


Topics:  Collaboration | Globalization | IP Networks | Telephony Services | Unified Messaging | Unified Messaging Systems | Videoconferencing Services | VoIP

WEBCAST - Watch this webcast to learn how unified fabric can be utilized to improve data center management. Discover the benefits of unified fabric, and learn how your organization can migrate to this data transport technology incrementally to preserve your existing data center investments.
Posted: February 22, 2010 | Premiered: February 22, 2010


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Center Networking | Data Centers | Data Management | Power Supplies | Server Virtualization | Switches | Systems Management

CASE STUDY - University of Arizona used the Cisco Nexus family to converge its data and storage networks, reducing projected infrastructure costs by 50 percent.
Posted: December 30, 2009 | Published: December 30, 2009


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | SAN | Switches

CASE STUDY - NetApp met business and technical needs by using Cisco® Nexus switches in the new East Coast data center to build a cloud-computing environment; Application virtualization contributed to 40 percent savings on infrastructure.
Posted: December 30, 2009 | Published: December 30, 2009


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Applications Management | Cloud Computing | Data Center Design | Network Management | Networking Hardware | Switched Ethernet | Switches

CASE STUDY - The University opened a brand-new data center facility to accommodate massive growth in scientific and administrative computing with Cisco Nexus 7000 Switch.
Posted: December 30, 2009 | Published: December 30, 2009


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Data Center Design | Data Centers | Data Storage | Ethernet Switches | Fibre Channel SAN | High Availability | Networking Hardware | Switches

CASE STUDY - The Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, also known as the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), has installed two innovative Nexus 5020 switches from Cisco on its high?performance network. By using the Cisco® Nexus 5000, ZIB has very cost effectively increased the speed at which huge volumes of data are transported to and from its in-house supercomputer.
Posted: December 30, 2009 | Published: December 30, 2009


Topics:  Data Storage | Fibre Channel SAN | Fibre Channel Switches | High Performance Computing | Networking Hardware | SAN | Supercomputers | Switches

WHITE PAPER - Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) emerges as one of the critical areas of focus as these data centers virtualize, unify, centralize, and scale out their storage resources. This document discusses some of the critical challenges related to the BC/DR solutions and how the Cisco MDS 9000 I/O Accelerator (IOA) addresses each of them.
Posted: December 29, 2009 | Published: December 29, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Data Centers | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | SAN | Storage Management | Switches

WHITE PAPER - Today's data centers are faced with many challenges such as consolidation, resources optimization, power, cooling, cost reduction and more. Cisco foresaw these requirements and developed Virtual Storage Area Networks (VSANs) in 2002 to address these issues in the data center.
Posted: December 29, 2009 | Published: December 29, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Networking Hardware | SAN | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Switches | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Reducing power consumption in a data center is one of the top priorities for IT professionals. When trying to design an energy-efficient data center, it is important to take a holistic view of the entire data center, comparing the solutions for total power consumption and weighing the costs and benefits.
Posted: December 29, 2009 | Published: December 29, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Power Consumption Monitoring | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | Switches

WHITE PAPER - This document describes how users of IBM z/OS Global Mirror can reduce costs and improve performance with a tightly integrated Cisco® MDS 9000 Family solution.
Posted: December 29, 2009 | Published: December 29, 2009


Topics:  Data Encryption | High Availability | Mainframe Server Hardware | Networking Hardware | SAN | Storage Management | Switches

WHITE PAPER - This document describes some of the components and concepts involved in designing a highly available deployment of VMware vSphere on a SAN, in conjunction with the Cisco MDS 9000 and Emulex HBAs.
Posted: December 29, 2009 | Published: December 29, 2009


Topics:  High Availability | SAN | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine | VMware | VMware ESX

VIDEO - Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) enables consolidation of your branch office server, storage, application, and data protection infrastructure into the data center, allowing for a multitude of business benefits. Watch this informative video to learn more.
Posted: December 18, 2009 | Premiered: December 18, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | IT Management | Network Performance | Remote Network Management | Server Consolidation | WAN

WEBCAST - Delivering solid application performance to branch and satellite offices is a clear business priority but costly and challenging to maintain for IT. How can you ensure the business gets what it needs while lowering IT costs and fueling greater consolidation and efficiency? Hear how leading enterprises are conquering this challenge and you can too.
Posted: December 18, 2009 | Premiered: December 18, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Bandwidth Management | Network Management | Network Performance | Remote Network Management | Server Consolidation | Server Management | WAN

VIDEO - Watch this Flash Demonstration of Virtual Machine and Blade Servers optimized SAN features. Learn about VMware optimized SANs utilizing Cisco MDS NX-OS software and switching modules.
Posted: December 18, 2009 | Premiered: December 18, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Fibre Channel SAN | Fibre Channel Switches | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Networking | Server Management | Server Virtualization