Tool

Each organization will have its own priorities for evaluating and selecting enterprise LAN vendors and solutions. Use this tool to generate a customized shortlist of vendors that will best meet business requirements.

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Many organizations are looking to deploy or upgrade their enterprise LANs and need a solution with high performance, availability, and ease of management, all at a reasonable price.

Solution Set

The enterprise LAN market is nearly commoditized, but advanced features, management, and price can differentiate vendors. Whether creating a network from scratch or upgrading an existing one, use this vendor landscape to help select the vendor...

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The growth of modern data centers came in the late 1990s during the dot.com era from organizations requiring continuous operation and fast Internet connectivity. Now server and desktop virtualization are creating the need for faster core...

Vendor Research

This report is designed to help vendors and solution providers understand adoption trends and end-customer requirements for enterprise access networks.

Solution Set

WAN optimization has hit the mainstream. Vendors have developed mobile clients, virtual appliances, and are building for cloud-enabled environments to cover all use cases of accelerating traffic.

Tool

Info-Tech conducted a market evaluation of eight leading data center networking vendors. Use this tool to narrow the vendors to a shortlist of solutions that best satisfy your enterprise's requirements, before contacting channel partners and...

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The Wireless LAN (WLAN) market continues to grow, along with the value enterprises get out of them. Use Info-Tech's research to choose, with confidence, the WLAN most suited to your needs.

Solution Set

This solution set will help you understand the key issues to focus on through your WLAN vendor selection process, identify the primary strengths and challenges of the leading players, and reach the right vendor decision.

Tool

Use this tool to generate a customized shortlist of Wireless LAN vendors based on the importance your organization places on product features and vendor attributes.

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Now that 10G Ethernet is available at lower prices, data center technical staff is pushing it for day-to-day infrastructure. As with all new technologies, there is an optimal time for upgrading. Use this solution set to understand what needs to...

Solution Set

To support key consolidation, performance, and reliability objectives, enterprises must plan to evolve from disparate networks for compute and storage traffic to a converged data center networking infrastructure. This shift represents a major...

(23-Apr-10) VoIP is everywhere in the business world, as the promise of cost savings and greater productivity is too great to ignore. That doesn’t mean it’s problem-free: As with all major tech deployments, VoIP can run into trouble. But there...

(9-Apr-10) Ethernet is to the world of data networking what low-frequency AC is to electric power distribution: the foundational universal standard for the world’s infrastructure. Yet Ethernet’s original conception and implementation targeted...

(25-Nov-09) With the 802.11n wireless networking standard ratified this fall, channel partners have an opportunity to increase their sales by helping customers refresh their wireless networking equipment, says an Info-Tech Research Group...

On November 11th, HP acquired 3Com for $2.7 billion USD effectively drawing a line in the sand. HP had long been one of Cisco’s biggest resellers until Cisco moved into HP’s data center server space earlier this year when it introduced the...

(IT World Canada) - Implementing a remote desktop control solution for your IT help desk could save you bundles, but only if it's actually capable of reaching your staff. Read about what essential features you'll need before making a...

Tool

This tool is designed to help organizations determine top tactics for cost reduction within the network and telephony service area. After the questions have been completed, the tool will generate guidance on which cost-saving actions to take,...

Note

Enterprises looking to reduce costs in the network and telephony services area can make significant headway in reducing expenses without reducing quality of service. First, determine which areas have potential for cost savings, then assess how...

Under its new Open Network Ecosystem alliance, HP ProCurve is partnering with a number of leading data center application vendors to deliver single chassis-integrated solutions. IT leaders exploring network equipment vendors and products should...

Network security is woefully inadequate in many hotels. Shore up wireless and wired networks before guests' data is compromised.

On Feb. 27, 2008, the Bank of New York Mellon shipped a tape containing the personal information of more than 4.5 million clients to an Archive America offsite storage facility. That tape never arrived. The information contained on the tape...

Businesses continue to benefit by offering shared access data centers to partners, suppliers, and clients. The issue in this method of organization is ensuring that each category of user has access only to appropriate and authorized data. Create...

Ethernet technology continues to evolve, supporting higher speeds, reduced latency, and distances ranging from blade server mid-plane connections through world-wide WAN connectivity. 10G Ethernet is the current iteration. The migration to 10G...

Implementing video conferencing over an IP network requires network planning and design changes. Ensure that video-based services perform as advertised by implementing a LAN and WAN infrastructure that supports their bandwidth and real-time...

An IP Telephony deployment imposes wide-ranging security risks. Enterprises must understand and implement appropriate LAN security measures to mitigate these risks.

Aligning current needs with strategic objectives will help enterprises make appropriate decisions when evaluating network options for a new remote office. Ensure that network plans support enterprise requirements for remote office services,...

In-Depth Report

When making network infrastructure plans for a new remote office, enterprises are faced with a variety of technology options. Carefully evaluating enterprise requirements against the available LAN, WAN, and telephony options will help the...

Job Description

The Network Analyst's role is to design, build, and implement network systems across the enterprise. This includes planning, developing, installing, configuring, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing all local and wide area network...

Job Description

The Network Engineer's role is to ensure the stability and integrity of in-house voice, data, video, and wireless network services. This is achieved by planning, designing, and developing local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs)...