Small Business Networks

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.

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.

Improving your company's efficiency and effectiveness, no matter its size. This white paper from SAP offers guidance on how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your company with business intelligence.

This paper highlights the new architectural features and performance of the AMD OpteronT 6100 Series processor based HP ProLiant G7 Servers. It focuses on the value to the end user when applied to High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions.

Branch offices and remote facilities-be they a manufacturing plant, distribution site or retail store-can be the weakest links in the corporate IT infrastructure. This branch office consolidation strategy guide shows how companies can quickly integrate new stores or manufacturing facilities using infrastructure solutions that help speed deployment, reduce costs and risks, and increase operational efficiency.

Examine the 5 unique requirements that virtualization imposes on hardware, and discover how the next generation of HP's ProLiant server line can deliver virtualized, efficient data centers, rapid ROI and lower operational expenses.

Many businesses struggle to guarantee application and data availability for Windows applications. They may protect the application from one type of outage (like a disk failure) while ignoring other risks. Or they can end up deploying multiple point solutions to handle different aspects of availability, increasing overall cost and complexity.

Just because your business is small, doesn't mean your data isn't just as critical as your Fortune 500 competitors. Like major corporations, small and midsize businesses are increasingly reliant on the critical data stored on their servers.

Register now for this 33-page special report packed with reasons why market-leading organizations use business analytics to their competitive advantage. Filled with expert advice and research on how to base every organizational decision on facts.

Read reviews on the leading five phone system brands in each category and understand why they lead their niche. See the differences between premise and hosted solutions, and help decide the best phone system for your company.

Register to view a recording of our July 13th to learn how TANDBERG can help give your business a competitive edge, without the hassle of getting on an airplane.

Siemon, a global leader in network cabling solutions and data center physical layer infrastructure, offers this new 66-page E-Book focused on guiding data center professionals and service providers through key infrastructure challenges.

Create a step-by-step approach to IT security that will work for your business.

Extending social capabilities across your company can improve both individual and team productivity. With online communities, information is made transparent and corporate knowledge is bubbled up to where it can be used - no longer buried in email inboxes, hard drives or isolated in silos.

Deploying a VMware environment on HP ProLiant BL490c G6 Servers with HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology and HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions, Gradwell maximizes uptime and minimizes costs to bring their customers an advantage in Internet telephony.

Learn how to control your rising business costs by choosing a midmarket ERP solution. Download your Research Briefing now.

The HP StorageWorks X510 Data Vault series (HP Data Vault) is designed for small businesses with up to 10 PC clients and Macs that need a simple way to protect valuable business data, share files with co-workers and connect remotely. The HP Data Vault provides a comprehensive storage, data protection and file sharing solution for small businesses with limited IT resources and budgets.

Over the years, the tools to implement SOA have become more and more capable, sometimes at the price of complexity. In this new release of SOA Suite (11g), Oracle continues to emphasize on simplification of the development, management and monitoring of service-oriented architectures, while delivering the extreme performance & scalability required for mission-critical environments.

The goal of this Essentials Series has been to illustrate why effective monitoring and management is necessary for a healthy network. That need is the case irrespective of the size of your network.

Reaching tight alignment with these objectives is not an easy task. Yet, we believe when a communication services provider integrates these customer-centric objectives into the design of its converged solution, its business customers will no longer ask if the solution will meet their objectives. Rather, the question becomes one of execution: how and when to move to a converged communication solution. converged solution. From these attributes, a framework to measure and compare providers' converged solutions emerges. We will conclude with a review of Sprint's approach to offering true convergence to business and government customers.

In January of 2008, a random sample of online technical newsletter subscribers at midsize companies (100-5,000 employees) received an email invitation to participate in a survey about data protection solutions use at their organizations. The goal of the survey was to identify sources of and/or reasons for information security breaches, and to better understand how businesses are planning to protect themselves against data leaks. The following report presents top line results of the study.

Today's small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and the remote branch offices of larger organizations face increasing Internet-borne security risks. This paper discusses integrated network security appliances that can help these organizations enhance their security easily and affordably.

As companies look for ways to survive during a tough economy, small and medium sized businesses are discovering the benefits of virtual collaboration through video conferencing.

IP address management (IPAM) provides the ability to effectively manage, control, monitor, and assign the IP address space within a company. An IPAM solution reduces operations costs and improves network uptime by minimizing administrative effort and network downtime.

In August 2008, Computerworld invited IT and business leaders to participate in a core network services survey, that included specific questions about their DNS infrastructures and the costs of IP address management. The survey was fielded via targeted broadcasts to Computerworld customers, as well as through an invitation on Computerworld.com. The survey was commissioned by Infoblox, but the data was gathered and tabulated independently by Computerworld Research. The following report represents top-line results of that survey.