All Research Sponsored By:Cisco Systems, Inc.
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Top Ten Considerations When Evaluating Unified Communications Solutions: Learn the top solution differentiators to look for before deciding.
Businesses of all sizes are taking advantage of the rapid advancements in unified communications. Now you can download a Cisco white paper to help make the best unified communications decisions. The paper breaks down ten areas you should consider when evaluating an upgrade of unified communications solutions.
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Gartner: Fabric Computing Poised as a Preferred Infrastructure for Virtualization and Cloud Computing
This research note presents results from a recent survey on virtualization and cloud computing. Find out why many of your peers are looking into fabric-based infrastructures and get recommendations to help you leverage the full benefits of this technology.
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Social Networking in the Enterprise: Benefits and Inhibitors
This white paper reveals the primary considerations for social networking, such as: business value and strategic relevance, adoption trends and concerns, and strategic considerations for ESS deployment.
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CIO Survival Guide: The Convergence of Collaboration, Cloud, and Clients
Today’s workers demand mobile devices, SaaS and online collaboration tools in order to be more productive. Given that these new consumer-inspired technologies cannot be divorced from the current IT infrastructure, CIOs face difficult questions. Read this paper to learn how CIOs can ensure that they are orchestrating a harmonic convergence.
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Cisco: Leading the Way to Borderless Networks
Cisco's borderless networks promises to connect anyone to anywhere, using any device, to any resource—securely, reliably, transparently. In order to fully deliver on this promise, Cisco is advancing along three critical fronts: workplace transformation, technology leadership, and operational excellence. Read this paper to learn more.
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Cisco Small Business 300 Series Managed Switches: Performance, Power Consumption and Features vs. D-Link, HP Networking and NETGEAR
Cisco Systems commissioned Tolly to evaluate several models of the new Cisco Small Business 300 Series of managed switches along with comparable models from D-Link, HP Networking and NETGEAR. Read this test report to see how the Cisco 300 Series Managed Switches compares in the performance, power consumption and features against competitors.
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The Future of Business: Preparing to Meet its Challenges
Cisco is addressing today's dominant trends and their implications for transforming IT architectures and critical business processes. This paper examines these trends, describes why the network is the logical starting point for transforming business, and offers insight into the most strategic IT investments that businesses should consider today.
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Maximize Your Collaboration Investment by Choosing the Right Services Approach
This IDC Vendor Spotlight reviews Cisco's collaboration services. This paper also reviews IDC research on the overall collaboration market, including unified communications (UC), and looks at the impact and benefits of collaboration services on customers and partners.
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E-Guide: Increase your Revenues and Profits by Offering Managed Voice
Offering hosted unified communications and VoIP services is a strong opportunity for service providers. How do you know which customized plan is right for your specific business needs? Read this E-Guide to learn pros and cons, as well as which questions to ask potential clients to ensure that you are delivering the solution that’s right for them.
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Cisco Unified Computing System Blade Server Chassis Power Modes
The Cisco UCS power configuration approach enables users to meet their redundancy and power density needs. The approach is simple yet flexible enough to adapt to the varying needs for different applications within the data center. Continue reading to learn more.
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E-Book: Improving business intelligence performance - Tips, techniques and strategic advice
Business intelligence (BI) programs face new performance challenges as they scale out to reach more and more end users. Find out in this e-book, featuring expert advice, tips and techniques for improving BI performance. Learn strategies you can employ now – and things to think about as you plan for the future.
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BI and ETL Process Management Pain Points
This paper examines five frequently encountered BI and ETL process management painpoints, which can affect the accuracy and timeliness of vital enterprise data delivery, and how each of these painpoints can be successfully managed using process automation technology.
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Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler and Informatica Data Integration: Deliver Timely, Trusted, and Relevant Data
Combining Informatica’s world-class data integration platform with Cisco® Tidal Enterprise Scheduler helps organizations gain a competitive advantage in today’s global information economy by providing relevant and trustworthy information to support their business decisions. Continue reading to learn more.
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What Enterprises Should Do About IPv6 in 2011
The purpose of this white paper is to provide enterprises with guidance, based on a three- to five-year outlook, on how IPv6 should be included in their network design, planning, and operations starting today. The intended audience is enterprise network administrators.
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Dual Stack Network
In order to ensure business continuity and future growth, all organizations need to carefully plan for coexistence between IPv4 and IPv6. A combination of both native IPv4 and IPv6, better known as dual stack, is the recommended coexistence strategy for enterprise networks. Continue reading to learn more.
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Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler
Cisco® Tidal Enterprise Scheduler is a software solution for cross-application and cross-platform enterprise job scheduling, batch business process automation, and application integration. Continue reading this data sheet to learn more.
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Cisco Tidal Intelligent Automation Solution for SAP System Refresh
By simplifying and making system refresh execution consistent, automation can decrease the potential for errors inherent in standard approaches. Cisco Tidal Intelligent Automation for SAP System Refresh does just this. Continue reading to learn more.
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Tidal™ Enterprise Adapter for SAP®
If your SAP® application requires a enterprise-wide, heterogeneous automation solution, Tidal™ Enterprise Scheduler is your remedy. Continue reading this data sheet to learn about the key benefits and features of Tidal Enterprise Adapter for SAP.
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Cisco Tidal Enterprise Adapter for Cognos
Enterprise Adapter for Cognos is an enhancement to Enterprise Scheduler that allows users to schedule relevant Cognos activities graphically in the context of all other enterprise jobs. It puts stored reports and configuration items automatically into the UI. Continue reading this data sheet to learn more.
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Six Reasons to Get Smarter About Storage
A growing trend in small businesses is to solve storage problems with a simpler, more elegant technology: network-attached storage (NAS). Continue reading to learn about NAS appliances such as Cisco® Small Business NSS 300 Series Smart Storage solution, as well as learn the reasons why it differs from other NAS storage method.
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How to Get More for Your Storage Dollar: Cool Applications
If you've heard of network-attached storage (NAS), you know that this technology can centralize data storage for high availability and security. But now NAS does much more, for about the same price. Continue reading to learn more.
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Service Please: Five Tips for Easy, Affordable Tech Support
A dark secret of investing in technology is the substantial cost of not doing the technical support well. You may increase productivity and profits simply by adopting a new strategy for network maintenance and troubleshooting. Read on to learn how three small businesses get technical support that brings them peace of mind at an affordable price.
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Take Control: How to Keep Traffic Moving, at a Low Cost
Network performance problems bring everyone down. They drain productivity, spirits, and profits. But your IT resources and budget are limited. Really, what can you do? Read this paper to find out how to take control with a managed switch.
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Getting Your Wireless Together to Save Time, Improve Reception
When you “cluster” standalone wireless access points, you can improve reception and roaming, strengthen security, and save many hours of technical labor—all without the expense of a wireless controller. Continue reading to learn more about clustering improvement.
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A Hack Attack: Six Steps to Recovery
It’s startling when malware hits your network, or an intruder enters by password cracking. You’ve been hacked—now what? Don’t panic. Read about the six steps that your business can take to respond and protect itself.