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Where the Cloud Touches Down: Simplifying Data Center Infrastructure Management

Thursday, July 25, 2013
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In most data centers, DCIM rests on a shaky foundation of manual record keeping and scattered documentation. OpManager replaces data center documentation with a single repository for data, QRCodes for asset tracking, accurate 3D mapping of asset locations, and a configuration management database (CMDB). In this webcast, sponsored by ManageEngine, you will see how a real-world datacenter mapping stored in racktables gets imported into OpManager, which then provides a 3D visualization of where assets actually are. You'll also see how the QR Code generator helps you make the link between real assets and the monitoring world, and how the layered CMDB provides a single point of view for all your configuration data.

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Thursday, August 8, 2013
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This webinar will help attendees understand the overall concept of SDN and its benefits, describe the different conceptual approaches to SDN, and examine the various technologies, both proprietary and open source, that are emerging. It will also help users decide whether SDN makes sense in their environment, and outline the first steps IT can take for testing SDN technologies.

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Results tagged "Blue Coat"

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Extreme Networks Gets EMC VSPEX Validation

July 26, 2013 01:08 PM
EMC partnership follows reseller deal with Lenovo; IBM releases entry-level mainframe; Solera integrates with BlueCoat; FrontRange adds IT service management features.

Do Liberal IT Policies Get Better Business Results?

June 25, 2013 12:44 PM
A recent survey says companies with more than 10% annual growth allow business units to pick the services, apps, and devices they need. Is it time for IT to loosen up?

BYOD vs. Network Bandwidth: How Blue Coat Tackles Selfish Apps

May 11, 2012 04:43 PM
YouTube and other so-called selfish applications on multiple devices are monopolizing network bandwidth in the enterprise. Learn how Blue Coat's products can apply policies to manage WAN traffic.

WOCs Address Soaring Bandwidth Demand

March 19, 2012 09:00 AM
The wide area network (WAN) optimization market is expected to grow almost 60% over the next five years, with sales predicted to reach $1.65 billion in 2016, from $1.05 billion in 2011. WAN optimization controllers (WOC), as they’re called, not only speed up network traffic and improve the performance of applications, they also help enterprises avoid costly upgrades to bandwidth capacity.

Welcome To The WAN Optimization Shell Game

April 11, 2011 09:30 AM
In the early days of Ethernet switch vendors, IT organizations would routinely hear vendors profess to deliver better line rate performance at 20 percent less than the market leader. The catch, because there was always a catch in this industry, was that performance was only achievable in specific circumstances. Turn on port monitoring or enable encryption and Ethernet switch performance would skid to a halt. A similar story may be brewing in the WAN optimization space. While vendors, such as Blue Coat, Riverbed, and Silverpeak, rush to tell us about how they can achieve incredible performance improvement, turning an OC-3 into an OC-12, other limiting factors may prevent end users from actually seeing those numbers.

Blue Coat PacketShaper 8.6 Controls Web Applications

November 08, 2010 10:30 AM
To better manage the growing number of Web-based applications used by enterprises to conduct their business, Blue Coat Systems introducing a new PacketShaper operating system and a new, faster, appliance for deciding how much bandwidth to allocate to certain Web apps based on their importance. PacketShaper 8.6, along with the PacketShaper 12000 appliance, also make it easier to allow use of social media applications in the workplace if they have a business purpose. Key to the new technology is a system for classifying types of Web apps based on an analysis of their URL and a Web community of people who monitor the apps.

Start-up Aryaka Launches Cloud-Based Application Acceleration And WAN Optimization Service

September 23, 2010 09:16 AM
Coming out of stealth mode this week, Aryaka Networks has launched an application acceleration and WAN optimization solution that runs in the cloud. The Aryaka platform is designed to be an alternative to hardware and software-based network optimization solutions, such as those offered by Akamai, Blue Coat, Citrix, Cisco, Riverbed, Blue Coat and others. The company characterizes their service as "Riverbed meets Akamai."

Network Computing Brings Together 700 IT Professionals to Discuss Next-Generation Networking

November 23, 2009 10:52 AM

FreeBSD Boosts Routing Architecture, With Blue Coat's Help

August 24, 2009 06:06 PM
FreeBSD, the popular open-source server OS, is about to get an update -- to FreeBSD 8.0 -- with some help from Blue Coat Systems senior architect Qing Li. Li and FreeBSD developer Kip Macy have implemented a new routing architecture which improves network performance by parallelizing the routing stacks.

Shiseido China Co., Ltd. Deploys Blue Coat Solution And Reduces Remote Data Backup Windows By 90 Percent

August 10, 2009 04:11 PM
Blue Coat wan optimization solution improves data backup speed from 40 hours to just four and reclaims bandwidth

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