Midmarket

Get started quickly on the road to virtualization, simplifying your sprawling IT infrastructure and reducing your costs while still maintaining flexibility for future growth. Examine how end-to-end infrastructure virtualization delivers better management of physical and virtual server environments; reduced operational costs; and increased agility and responsiveness.

Get started quickly on the road to virtualization, simplifying your sprawling IT infrastructure and reducing your costs while still maintaining flexibility for future growth. Examine how end-to-end infrastructure virtualization delivers better management of physical and virtual server environments; reduced operational costs; and increased agility and responsiveness

HP ProCurve networking products include a broad line of LAN core switches, LAN edge switches, and wireless LAN and network security solutions that are all brought together under a unified management suite. To determine the return on investment (ROI) associated with implementation of an HP ProCurve network solution, IDC conducted a study of medium-sized to large organizations with an HP ProCurve implementation up and running in their production environment. IDC estimates that these businesses were able to achieve a 473% ROI; a three-year (discounted) benefit of $38,466 per 100 users; and payback on their initial investment within 5.7 months.

As networks become more reliable, it is important for IT managers to put into place networking equipment that not only meets their current needs but also provides the scalability to meet bandwidth and functionality demands down the line. In a study of midmarket organizations that have implemented HP ProCurve in a production environment, IDC found that HP ProCurve provides more than sufficient functionality for their current needs and the scalability to grow into the future. IDC estimated that these organizations were able to achieve a ROI of 473% and a payback period of 5.7 months

Midmarket firms must incorporate new levels of bandwidth and intelligence into their network to handle technologies such as VoIP and videoconferencing. IDC interviewed several organizations to determine their future networking strategies. Learn how they built a foundation to meet network switch demands with an average 5.7 month payback and zero annual maintenance fees.

As networks become more reliable, it is important for IT managers to put into place networking equipment that not only meets their current needs but also provides the scalability to meet bandwidth and functionality demands down the line. In a study of midmarket organizations that have implemented HP ProCurve in a production environment, IDC found that HP ProCurve provides more than sufficient functionality for their current needs and the scalability to grow into the future. IDC estimated that these organizations were able to achieve a ROI of 473% and a payback period of 5.7 months.

Cloud computing is ushering in a new era of analytic data management for business intelligence (BI) by enabling organizations to analyze terabytes of data faster and more economically than ever before. The key change: cloud database software is provisioned within minutes, without data center overhead, and it's licensed on an on-demand basis.

Mid-Market CEO Study - The rate and scope of change in the business environment is unprecedented. Organizations that approach this climate as an opportunity are the ones experiencing greater financial returns. Explore the study, The Enterprise Of The Future: Implications For Midsize Organizations, to learn about the core traits shared by these successful midsize organizations.

Facing tough IT decisions? Get insight from midsize businesses like yours.

In the ForwardView article, you'll learn how Business Intelligence (BI) solutions provide greater visibility across the entire business to help you spot trends in real time.

Listen to the recording, "CDPS Analyst Interview with John Webster of Illuminata," to see how the IBM Comprehensive Data Protection Express solution addresses the needs of midmarket companies that don't have adequate backup and recovery capabilities for their critical data.

Learn more about the role of today's midmarket CIO and what they are doing to achieve three primary goals -- make innovation real, raise the ROI of IT and expand business impact.

Blades are one of the fastest-growing segments in the IT industry. This white paper examines the requirements for servers, storage, and blade systems in the midmarket; describes the features and capabilities of the HP c3000; and outlines some of the challenges and opportunities HP will face as it seeks to extend its innovative HP BladeSystem c-Class product line to serve the needs of the midmarket.

This guide is written specifically for you, the harried network administrator, in an attempt to show you some of the wisest tools and techniques to administer, troubleshoot, and automate your network infrastructure.

Secure in 15-Security practices you can use each day. Start with this "15 Minutes Month-at-a-Glance" calendar today. Each month, we'll send you additional tools and tricks to stay protected around the clock.

Total Protection for Secure Business. Secure your business across systems, email, web, and data-all with one affordable solution created for the midsize organization.

Management-Command and control from one location. Just enough may not be enough when it comes to security. But how much is enough? Find out how McAfee can help you stay protected without turning security into a full-time job.

Data-Protect critical information anywhere it goes. Implementing data protection products and processes can be daunting. Make the right decisions by exploring what is available and what makes sense for your organization. Use this simple guide to evaluate different vendor offerings.

Medium organizations around the globe are increasingly concerned about cyberthreats, and the rising number of incidents shared publicly certainly justifies their worries. In the first half of 2009, for example, McAfee Labs saw almost as much new malware as it did in all of 2008. At the same time, most organizations have frozen or cut their IT security budgets. Threats up, budgets down. This is what we call the "security paradox."

Network-Stop threats before they happen. This June 2009 study examines the financial impact and potential return on investment (ROI) for McAfee Network Security Platform intrusion prevention system (formerly McAfee IntruShield), using Adena Health System as a case study.

Whether you stick with the defaults or set up a dedicated display, McAfee equips you to control your security, your way. Weigh the hidden costs of day to day maintenance of point solutions, such as learning curve, system costs, configuration overhead, maintenance, risk monitoring, incident response, and reporting. Get tangible examples of how McAfee centralized management options make you more efficient while giving you greater visibility and control in just 15 minutes a day or less. Read more.

If you're in IT, you understand all too well the challenge of competing priorities. Security is important-but so are all of your other jobs. That's why McAfee offers a practical approach to managing security and lays out an approach for managing security in just 15 minutes a day. Read more.

The decision to use Security-as-a-service or manage it all in house largely depends on your budget, available staff, level of in-house security expertise, and regulatory requirements. Should you manage your security hands-on, or go hands-off and use a service? Both are proven options, and a little thought can go a long way to helping you make the right choice. This brief looks at the benefits of each approach, and your McAfee on-premise and managed options, to help you get better security in less time.

Data is a company's most precious asset-and maintaining secure access for a mobile workforce is vital for midsize organizations. This brief explains the key benefits of implementing a data security solution with McAfee. Read more.

McAfee Total Protection(ToPS) solutions provide complete system security protection with simplified, centralized management through McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO). During the current economic downturn, some security organizations are finding themselves pressured to use "free" or "budget" solutions.