Forrester Consulting - Optimizing Users and Applications in a Mobile World

Are your workers going increasingly mobile? Don't wait for their calls to slam Support when they experience poor application performance on the road. Discover in the Forrester report how companies are successfully deploying WAN optimization solutions that are specifically tuned for a mobile environment, delivering the acceleration needed to ensure consistent performance, room for new applications, and the ability to ensure end user productivity at all times.

Faster, Cheaper and Easier to Maintain

This paper will explore the performance characteristics, energy demands and maintenance requirements of today's new, energy-efficient servers, and their potential impact on cost-containment strategies such as refresh-cycle adjustment.

The State of PCI DSS Compliance at Organizations Today

The importance of securing customers' payment card data is clear, but organizations still have significant work to do in order to achieve PCI DSS compliance and to sufficiently protect their sensitive data. In August 2009, Computerworld invited IT and business leaders to participate in a survey on data security solutions. Download this Market Vibe to learn more about the level of PCI DSS compliance at organizations today, as well as the challenges in this area.

IDC Research Report: The Business Value of Consolidating on Energy-Efficient Servers

Most organizations faced with budget challenges put off capital expenditures (capex) and seek alternatives, such as extending server life cycles and extending software licenses. This paper demonstrates that such a buy and hold strategy actually adds costs to the datacenter. In fact, refreshing server infrastructure on pace with newer technology (e.g., every two years) can reduce six-year server costs by 33% compared with buying and holding servers for those six years. Continue to read the full report from IDC.....

HP Technology Guide for Scalable Business Solutions

Welcome to the HP Technology Guide for Scalable Business Solutions. This guide features HP's latest industry leading technologies - products designed to help you build and maintain an infrastructure that delivers the performance you need to drive your best business outcomes. As the world changes, many business initiatives require technology that is easy to manage and makes every dollar count. Download the full guide now, compliments of HP.

Clipper Group Report: HP Provides Enhanced Options for Data Center

HP already announced a wide variety of servers based upon Intel's newest architecture, the Xeon 5500 Series Processor. They have now followed that up with the first announcement of support for Six-Core AMD Opteron Processors. To learn more about how HP can reduce the TCO of your data center with scalable, energy-efficient options that can consolidate and virtualize your environment, read this brief report from the Clipper Group.

Technology Brief: Technologies in HP ProLiant G6 c-Class server blades with Intel Xeon processors

An HP ProLiant c-Class server blade is a complete server that slides into an HP BladeSystem c-Class Enclosure. For a complete briefing on these technologies, download this informative whitepaper from HP.

Introducing the HP ProLiant G6 servers

The sixth-generation (G6) of HP ProLiant DL, ML, and BL servers is the broadest range of servers in the industry based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series. The ProLiant G6 server lineup includes rack, tower, and server blades that provide industry-leading energy efficiency, extreme flexibility, and scalable performance. HP has also developed smart management tools that help you squeeze every bit of productivity out of each ProLiant G6 server and get the best return for your budget.

How to Secure and Accelerate Your Oracle Applications

This whitepaper will examine the escalating application performance and security challenges facing corporations, and show how companies are securing and optimizing the performance of their enterprise applications, such as those from Oracle, with WAN application delivery solutions from Blue Coat.

Optimize Performance of Datacenter to Datacenter Traffic

Through a combination of server consolidation and organic data growth, traffic between datacenters is growing at an accelerating rate. Worse, protocol limitations and tiered bandwidth pricing translate into steep cost increases as throughput expands. To get the backups and database synchronizations completed on time, enterprises rely on WAN optimization from Blue Coat.

Enterprise Application Delivery: No User Left Behind

Enterprises need the ability to deliver applications, with the appropriate levels of performance and security to all users, using any device, across any network.

Practical Strategies to Accelerate Business Applications Across the WAN

Remote users in branch offices often suffer from slow application performance over the WAN. Discover how Blue Coat SG appliances, uses five essential techniques to speed delivery of internal and externally hosted business applications  including encrypted SSL applications - to all remote users.

Infonetics: WAN Optimization Appliance Market Highlights 1 Q09

Vendor market share positions shuffled once again in 1Q09: With Cisco down 30%, Riverbed down 10%, and Blue Coat holding steady, Blue Coat is back on top with 30% revenue market share. This market has become a 3-horse race. The top 3 vendors captured roughly 3/4 of the overall market.

Accelerate SSL Encrypted Applications

The amount of SSL traffic is growing in the enterprise. Because it is encrypted, it cannot be properly controlled and accelerated. Blue Coat SG appliances with MACH5 technology provides complete visibility into SSL application sessions, making it easy to apply appropriate acceleration and security controls to all SSL traffic.

WAN Application Delivery for Executives

For ease of management, enhanced security and compliance, the trend is to consolidate (or outsource) critical applications and servers to fewer, centralized locations. This simplifies server and application administration but often creates performance problems for distributed users. In many cases, a centralized application is a poorly performing application.

Top 5 WAN Optimization Myths

Do you really want to spend cycles trying to improve your application packet delivery when the real issue may be that your data center sends all of the application information at once to every user? Read on for five of the common WAN mis-perceptions and how to better address the issues.

Right-Sizing Your Power Infrastructure

Now more than ever, businesses need a power infrastructure that's right sized to their precise energy requirements. This white paper discusses the ways in which new technologies are impacting power demand patterns, explores the consequences of having too much power capacity or too little and then provides concrete advice on strategies for right sizing your power systems.

Can Heuristic Technology Help Your Company Fight Viruses?

In the face of today's increasingly sophisticated malware, using multiple layers of email and web protection is essential. Heuristic technology helps provide that extra layer of security by collecting 'virus DNA' through scanning billions of emails and using that information to identify both known threats as well as new, unknown threats. Learn more now.

Why Email Must Operate 24/7 and How to Make This Happen

Email communication is essential. Unplanned email outages or even routine maintenance can cause huge disruption not only to your business, but also to your customers and partners. In this new Osterman Research paper you'll learn about the issues organizations face regarding email outages and the importance of implementing an email continuity service.

Eradicate Spam & Gain 100% Asurance of Clean Mailboxes

Learn how a hosted service provides multi-layered protection against spam.