Wireless

Ebook covering best practices and utilization of network monitoring and troubleshooting.

Read this white paper to learn 3 critical legacy application evaluation activities to ensure cloud migration success. Activity #1: Determine if there is a cost justification Activity #2: Conduct a cloud readiness study to better understand the business and technical factors Activity #3: Conduct a pre- and post-migration study to understand how the app will behave in the cloud

Read this white paper to learn how to: • Architect an integrated WAN to support evolving application deployment models using the Internet in concert with MPLS. • Create a WAN solution that can optimize traffic flows between the Internet and the MPLS for all applications and between both internal and external users. • Deploy a solution across all independent network services that can monitor, report, control and optimize end-to-end path forwarding for all endpoints.

This brief focuses on performance gains when using SteelHead SaaS with Office 365 for multi-tenant cloud services.

To better serve business demands for information everywhere, enterprises must develop new strategies for optimizing multiple kinds of networks. Read this white paper to learn more about accelerating delivery of data, increasing employee productivity, and creating optimal user experiences by powering the hybrid enterprise.

Wi-Fi in major sports stadiums is still not the norm, but a growing number of teams are following the Cardinals playbook. Those leading the way in IT upgrades — the Atlanta Falcons, Washington Redskins and Kansas City Chiefs — are realizing great success.

To get a handle on what was possible, and all that would be involved, Bob Stirton, director of information technology for the Kansas City Chiefs football organization, sent Network Engineer Scott Fletcher on a scouting mission to the 2012 Super Bowl at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Fletcher watched first-hand the inner workings of a recently installed Cisco Systems wireless network in full-on, gameday action.

Today’s increasingly mobile workforce demands ubiquitous, fast wireless access to meet the changing needs of the modern organization. The Wi-Fi networks that used to support this access often grew organically and were not engineered to support the widespread, high bandwidth needs of users.

Today’s consumers expect instant access to communications services whether they’re in the office, at home, or on the road. With data speeds increasing and international roaming costs decreasing, data usage is rapidly growing. Telecommunications Service Providers (TSPs) are under pressure to deliver more services to more people and approach 100% uptime all while lowering prices to consumers. Traditional relational databases can’t meet the requirements for massive scalability, availability, and fault tolerance that the rapid growth in data usage and rise of big data demands. Read this solution brief to learn how Riak excels at these. Riak is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for big data. Riak meets many of the challenges you may be facing with your own service operations systems.

This survey examines the costs incurred by organizations after experiencing genuine data loss incidents.

Adopt cloud confidently with the IBM Dynamic Cloud Security Portfolio. A comprehensive set of capabilities that provide access management, data and application protection, and deep visibility.

Learn how to implement a unified solution for mobile device, app, and data security and see what this means for security and risk professionals embracing and securing mobility in their enterprise.

Learn how to achieve a better bring your own device policy for your organization and properly implement an integrated VPN, access control, and mobile device management solutions to deliver network security and BYOD productivity.

Learn how to properly empower your organization for mobile productivity and see how you can deploy and provision for this device-based access with improved security and management policies.

Learn how to enable fast and secure network, cloud, and application access in order to maximize productivity for those employees who work remotely or are constantly travelling.

A wireless network is a platform for enabling enterprise-wide access to an organization's applications and data. Wireless infrastructure allows users to take the office with them wherever they go. The wireless network provides employees and guest workers with untethered access to voice, video, data and applications regardless of their physical location. With the influx of mobile devices and increase in Wi-Fi connections, organizations are already starting to see a paradigm shift to "wireless by default" and "wired by exception." Watch this video to see how our solution architects upgraded the Shawnee Mission School District's aging network infrastructure.

The stadium has long been a communal gathering place. The excitement of a live event bonds fans and teams together, and technology can enhance that visceral connection as well as expand the in-stadium experience to the outside world. Download this infographic to see how the right technology - deployed effectively - can make a major difference.

As mobile computing becomes an increasingly important technology, the need for robust, reliable wireless networks is growing. In addition to enterprise-issued devices, users are bringing their own tablets and smartphones and demanding access to IT resources. Organizations need a wireless infrastructure that can support these demands. Our research shows that in addition to mobile demands, aging hardware is driving many organizations' wireless upgrade plans. Download this white paper to read more about the research.

A new Cisco Systems infrastructure provides Spencer-East Brookfield Regional School District with a robust, scalable foundation for future technology initiatives. Read this case study to find out how the district could effectively demonstrate the value that a smart IT investment could provide to its educational mission.

IT departments must contend with an array of devices, operating systems and cellular carriers as well as new security threats. Even if IT departments can get a handle on the complex mobility landscape, the technology is so fluid that the picture is constantly changing. That means the IT staff has to devote time to learning about, procuring, deploying and supporting an array of devices. Busy IT departments now have another option for addressing these challenges: a monthly subscription package that provides a customizable web-based portal to automate mobile device procurement, expense management and support.

Smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices have become embedded in enterprise processes, thanks to the consumerization of IT and a new generation of workers raised on mobile technologies. Consumer devices and bring-yourown-device (BYOD) programs are driving a new wave of business process innovation, changing the way customers, employees and partners interact with organizations and with each other. In fact, mobile devices and applications are catching up with — and in many cases surpassing — PCs in the quality and functionality of their applications.

Many organizations are seeing clear and quantifiable benefits from the deployment of mobile technologies that provide access to data and applications any time, anywhere. These benefits often include increased profits, a more efficient and productive workforce, and enhanced customer service.

Many, if not most, organizations today are grappling with the challenge of a growing mobile technology environment. Mobility can deliver many key benefits: improved collaboration among workers, enhanced customer service, easier access to corporate information from many locations and increased productivity—to name a few. But the proliferation of mobile devices and applications also comes with its share of challenges, perhaps none more important than ensuring the security of the devices themselves as well as the data they contain and the enterprise networks they access.

Mobile devices are ubiquitous. The wide variety of functions they provide on the go — everything from making phone calls to checking email to literally millions of applications — has created widespread demand around the globe for this technology. With the right tools, an organization can extend the workplace far beyond its own physical walls. And employees can be active at any time within the 24-hour cycle; whenever inspiration strikes, a smartphone or tablet can quickly harness their productivity.

Endpoint security is at a critical juncture. Increasingly, employees at organizations of all sizes are using a wider variety than ever of desktop and mobile devices, including smartphones, tablets and laptops, as they work from broadly dispersed locations, including home offices. Often, organizations are permitting and even encouraging employees to use their own devices under BYOD (bring your own device) policies. With these devices, employees are accessing not only corporate data and applications, but also social media, banking and shopping sites. Download this white paper to learn more about endpoint security.