Networking

This paper provides an overview of the challenges businesses face today and how IT addresses the explicit need to manage network costs, provide choice and flexibility and reduce complexity.

Advances in technology allow businesses to spur growth, cut costs and stay ahead of competitors.

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.

Businesses are struggling to increase revenue and retain customer loyalty due to constant competitive pressure to innovate quickly and deliver greater value to their customers. Businesses look to technology to help spur growth, cut costs, and stay ahead of the competition. In response to these challenges, HP networking enables businesses to do more with less. Through a broad portfolio of secure unified networking products and solutions, HP helps businesses to reduce complexity, enhance business agility, and manage costs.

Networking advancements are transforming infrastructure utilization and changing the way organizations provision communications and information technology (IT) for the enterprise. In order to keep up, companies need a secure, mobile, multi-service network. This paper will explore the changing networking environment and how this new design approach helps organizations improve business and technology performance while minimizing investment risk.

Stop unscrupulous insiders. A clever criminal can lull the boss into believing nothing is amiss. Systems designed to monitor the network for patterns of criminal or destructive behavior are much harder to fool. Learn how to put the right countermeasures in place and vastly reduce the threat posed by insiders.

This is the third part of a three-part white paper series. Part 3 describes how to move on from the basic controls and how each organization should decide which, of all the extra security controls available, are right to be brought in next.

Most organizations are still buying storage based on outmoded ways of thinking. Find out why it's time to modernize your approach and the key criteria you need to consider before making your next IT investment.

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.

Stronger Measures Have Become Essential To Defend Against Growing Attacks. Database security is the last line of defense, so it deserves greater focus on the protection of private data from both internal and external attacks than IT pros have traditionally given it.

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Companies realize the benefits of moving to virtualization, however, most virtualized environments today are being deployed in an insecure manner. Download this HP White Paper to learn how to protect your high value virtual assets with a combination of purpose-built IPS platforms and enterprise-class management solutions.

Our latest Fall 2010 edition of the chart also compares PBX and Business VoIP systems side by side so you can make an educated comparison of your options. This analysis is prepared in an easy to view Excel spreadsheet.

Cloud computing is driving a fundamental shift in the way organizations build, deploy and use applications, and it's raising expectations on how quickly and cost-effectively new IT functionality can be made available to the business.

This paper examines how an integrated information technology solution can help you take advantage of economies of scale to boost manufacturing utilization, enhance service levels, and improve the efficiency of your sales and administrative activities.

This makes it crucial to thoroughly understand your needs before you buy. Here are seven steps to help in that process.

Comparing IP Based Business Phone Solutions. This report analyses the three leading options, which go by the names of premise, hosted and hybrid-hosted.

Maximize Efficiency and Availability with Hyper-V R2 and NetApp. View this on-demand Webcast to learn how you can increase resource utilization, streamline management, and maximize uptime in your Microsoft environment.

You'll learn about the best storage configurations for Hyper-V, NetApp's virtualization "sweet spot," and Avanade's firsthand experience with two much-anticipated R2 features: Cluster Shared Volumes and Live Migration.

Say goodbye to pesky Excel spreadsheets and manage your IP address space automatically with Orion IP Address Manager.

Select from over 100 pre-defined views to create your own unique real-time views and dashboards that enable you to visually track network performance at a glance.

Quickly identify what servers and applications are consuming bandwidth on your physical network and virtual switches and get in front of performance issues before they occur with Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer.

Prevent user complaints and increase business productivity with monitoring that includes application performance on your physical and virtualized servers with component and user-experience monitoring.