The mean time to repair (MTTR) associated with application delivery is notably longer than the MTTR that is associated with fault management. This extended MTTR impacts business in a number of ways, including reduced revenue, lowered productivity, and lowered perceived value of the IT organization.

Download this free report to learn about:

• The networking group's new role in ensuring effective application delivery
• The reasons why it is so difficult to identify a degrading application and the source of the degradation
• How to improve the MTTR for application performance issues
• The importance of profiling the behavior for every IP endpoint and every application
• The key elements of a Rapid Problem Identification solution

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Learn how companies provide secure network access to selected corporate resources for remote/mobile employees, business partners, and customers—all on a single, easy-to-use platform.

SSL VPNs have revolutionized the possibilities for extending access to corporate networks. There is an ever-increasing need to provide access to many different kinds of user groups while maintaining the security of the network and its applications.

This independent analysis explores competing technologies and outlines the criteria to be considered when evaluating options for extending the enterprise without compromising the security of the network.

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Globalization and the move to virtualize business operations are among the current trends placing new demands on the IT infrastructure and, in particular, the data center: the nerve center of the enterprise. IT is responding by looking for ways to optimize the data center and the supporting network infrastructure to deliver the performance, availability, and security the evolving business environment demands.

This paper profiles trends impacting today's data centers and shares proven solutions designed to quickly and economically adapt data centers to meet challenging requirements.

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It's a fundamental truth for organizations worldwide: protecting mission-critical applications, sensitive electronic data, and underlying computing infrastructure is a challenging and never-ending task. A wide array of ongoing trends ensures that IT and security personnel will always have their hands full.

Learn to achieve complete security coverage to address today's increasingly complex network threats.

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Rapidly changing technology and the evolving sophistication of attack methods represent the greatest challenges for IT administrators trying to keep their systems secure and compliant. Whether you are protecting five servers or 5,000, the security status of your infrastructure and your organization's ability to rapidly mitigate emerging threats need to be continuously monitored and measured.

Download this free guide to learn the essential aspects of implementing a measurable and sustainable vulnerability management program.

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Network-attached storage is playing an increasingly important role in enterprise storage architectures, despite the fact that the equipment can still be found everywhere from the data center to wiring closets in remote departments.

Watch this on-demand Webcast to learn about new developments in network storage that can help your company's storage architectures.

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Microsoft^® ForeFront™ Security for Exchange Server and Microsoft^® ForeFront™ Security for SharePoint^® provide comprehensive protection against viruses and other types of malware. Because these products are so flexible, administrators look to best practices for deploying and configuring them to get the optimal balance of performance and security.

This paper discusses the multiple scan engine support of Forefront Security for Exchange Server and Forefront Security for SharePoint and recommends engine configurations for various server sizes and environments.

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See how companies are using wireless technologies to increase productivity and solving the security issues created by the complexity of WLAN infrastructure and proliferation of unmanaged end-point devices.

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The wireless LAN (WLAN) market has seen tremendous growth in recent years. The proliferation of laptops with embedded Wi-Fi, the rising demands of business users on-the-go and the promise of WiMAX has caused WLAN adoption to spread like wildfire.

This report examines total cost of WLAN deployment based on several controller models from Aruba Networks, Cisco Systems, and Trapeze Networks, using list and discounted prices for comparison, for small, mid-sized and large enterprise deployments.

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Learn to protect personal privacy, enforce corporate governance standards, and maintain ethical conduct through email archiving.

Over the past few years, email has become an integral part of the business workflow. This white paper explains why email archiving must be an integral part of every organization. It examines the different methods for deploying and managing email archive solutions in an organization and specifies the key requirements that should be included in a full-featured email archiving system.

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It's a common misconception that perimeter security measures such as firewalls and anti-virus software are enough to secure corporate data residing on the corporate network. This white paper explores how the uncontrolled use of portable storage devices such as iPods, USB sticks, flash drives, and PDAs, coupled with data theft techniques such as 'pod slurping', can lead to major security breaches.

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The necessity for management of a crisis by advanced preparation means planning your communications and putting the actual infrastructure, devices, and protocols in place ahead of time. Be ready to support the response effort when needed. Learn the significance of advanced wireless notification in disaster response.

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Get full access to all the features that make QualysGuard the most accurate and comprehensive way to secure networks, conduct automated security audits, and achieve and maintain compliance. As an on demand service, there's no software to deploy or maintain. All you need is a Web browser, a public IP address, and a few minutes to forever change the way you manage network security risk. Your QualysGuard 14-day free trial includes:

• A fully functional evaluation for up to three users
• Thousands of vulnerability checks, verified fixes and reports
• Free technical workshops, online training and technical support
• No financial obligation

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Learn about VoIP Fax technology, terminology, and ITU protocols in this guide that explains how integrating Fax over IP (FoIP) with VoIP networks can benefit you and your company.

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