The Register Primer on MPLS Virtual Private Networks

– A primer for medium sized business

Are MPLS VPNs right for you? Want to know where best to start if you are considering upgrading or replacing? Download this jargon free guide today.

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• Kingston communications
• Vpn
• Mpls
• Networks
• Data Networking

Standardization and Modularity in Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure

– The wide-ranging benefits in NCPI

Standardization and its close relative, modularity, create wide-ranging benefits in Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure

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• Modularity
• Standardization
• Network Critical Physical Infrastructure
• NCPI
• Data Networking
• Hardware

Fundamental Principles of Generators for Information Technology

– An introduction to standby generators and subsystems

This paper is an introduction to standby generators and subsystems that power a facility’s critical electrical loads when the utility cannot.

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• Power outages
• Subsystems
• Standby
• Generators
• Servers
• Data Networking
• Hardware

Comparison of Static and Rotary UPS

– Which type of Uninterruptible Power Supplies to deploy in your data center

This paper defines static and rotary UPS architectures, points out similarities and differences, and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages.

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• Data center
• Uninterruptible Power Supplies
• Rotary
• Static
• UPS
• Servers
• Data Networking
• Hardware

Fundamental Principles of Air Conditioners for Information Technology

– Understand the function of air conditioning in the data center or network room

The concepts presented here are a foundation for allowing IT professionals to successfully specify, install, and operate critical facilities.

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• HPC
• Air Conditioning
• Server Room
• Data Center
• Servers
• Data Networking
• Hardware

Can you track what is connected to your network?

– Effective mechanisms for managing your infrastructure

Network managers are expected to do more with less, but the rate of change is dramatically increasing. There is a lot to keep track of.

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• Networks
• Networking
• Data networking
• Port tracker
• Security
• Data Networking
• Security

More Functionality, Less infrastructure: Managed IT with Double-Take Flex

– Fast provisioning

Building and maintaining computer systems is no easy task and information technology managers are constantly looking for better tools to reduce the total cost of managing their data centres and infrastructure.

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• Infrastructure management
• Double Take
• Storage area network
• SAN
• Data centre
• Data center
• Servers
• Storage
• Data Networking

Accelerating virtualised environments

– Lowered costs. Improved resources. Better security. Simple

Discover how wide-area data services help deliver the benefits of virtualisation and IT consolidation while addressing the challenges of performance and availability.

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• Riverbed
• Virtualization
• Virtualisation
• Security
• Consolidation
• Wide Area
• WAN
• WDS
• Networking
• Systems management
• Data Networking
• Software

Cutting costs with wide-area data services

– Extreme savings

Discover how businesses of all sizes have used wide-area data services to make significant savings across bandwidth reduction and IT consolidation.

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• Riverbed
• Virtualization
• Virtualisation
• Consolidation
• Wide area
• Systems management
• Data Networking
• Software

Five steps to successful IT consolidation and virtualization

– Experience the full benefits of IT consolidation

Ensure your company experiences the full benefits of IT consolidation.

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• Riverbed
• Virtualization
• Virtualisation
• Consolidation
• WAN
• WDS
• Wide area
• Data Networking
• Software

It's not about bandwidth

– Wide-area data services

Riverbed overcomes latency and improves application performance over the WAN

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• Riverbed
• Bandwidth
• Virtualization
• Virtualisation
• Wide Area
• WDS
• WAN
• Data Networking
• Software

Business benefits of automating business services

– An in-depth customer survey

In-depth interviews with HP customers using Business Service Automation products conducted by independent research firm.

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• HP
• HP Software
• CIO
• Data centre
• Data center
• Datacenter
• Datacentre
• Servers
• Storage
• Data Networking
• Enterprise
• Management

The reference guide to data centre automation

– Hardware, software, and process working together to streamline operations

This exhaustive guide explores data centre automation - methods through which hardware, software, and processes can work together to streamline IT operations.

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• HP
• Agile
• ITIL
• Datacenter
• Datacentre
• Data center
• Data centre
• Automation
• Servers
• Data Networking
• Enterprise
• Hardware

Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits

– Realise substantial benefit by optimizing the physical infrastructure supporting Virtualization

Data centers are routinely and unknowingly missing a great portion of their entitlement from virtualization. Beyond virtualization’s undisputed IT benefits – from reduced rack …

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• Cooling
• Power
• Rack
• Virtualization
• Data
• Centers
• Data Networking
• Hardware

Hot Aisle vs Cold Aisle Containment

– Relative merits for data center cooling systems

This paper examines Hot vs Cold Aisle containment methodologies

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• Hot
• Cold
• Aisle
• Containment
• Cooling
• Data
• Center
• Data Networking
• Hardware

Ensuring the Internet doesn't grind to a halt

– The problem of increasing online streamed content

Increasing global internet usage may mean online streaming use will effectively take us back to the dial-up era. How can we avoid this slow down?

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• YouTube
• VoIP
• Streaming
• UKFast
• Hosting
• Comms
• Networks
• Voip
• Networks
• Data Networking

Virtualized Network Security with VPN-1 Power VSX

– A Check Point Whitepaper

Network complexity is growing rapidly, often resulting in a higher cost structure combined with lower network and service availability. Virtualized network security can help …

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• Virtualization
• Virtualisation
• Network Security
• Power VSX
• Check Point
• Enterprise Security
• Data Networking
• Software
• Security
• Management

Accelerating Enterprise Data Governance

– Foundations

Most companies would agree that today, data is the very lifeblood of their business. It is created, maintained and exchanged through the organisation from one end to the other …

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• Governance
• Data
• Dataflux
• Data Networking
• Software

The Register guide to unified communications

– A primer on the implications of unified communications for enterprise IT

A no-nonsense grounding on Unified Communications, making you better armed to read the vendor literature and think about how to deal with that comms mess.

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• Freeform Dynamics
• Avaya
• Register Guide
• UC
• Unified Communications
• Hyperconnectivity
• Comms
• Unified Comms
• Networks
• Data Networking

Simplify your network Infrastructure with Metro Ethernet

– Achieving Hyperconnectivity

Hyperconnectivity, a predicted phenomenon that will see each of us possess ten different network connection devices by 2010, represents both a challenge as well as an …

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• Nortel
• Ethernet
• Hyperconnectivity
• LAN
• WAN
• Data Networking

Optimizing the data center for cost and efficiency

Control costs and add value to the business

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• PowerEdge
• Intel
• Dell
• Servers

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit

Assess your current IT infrastructure and determine the right Microsoft technologies for your IT needs

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• Microsoft
• System Center
• Virtualization
• MAP Toolkit
• Software
• Security

Threat Management Services Assessment eBook

Think your network is secure? Think again

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• Threat Management Services
• Malware
• Trend Micro
• Security

Out-think the threat

How data-stealing malware thwarts enterprise security

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• Trend Micro
• Threat
• Hacker
• Malware
• Security

Email archiving and UK law

Regulations and implications for business

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• Archiving
• Email
• MessageLabs
• Security