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- Telecom Expense Management: 5 Best Practices for Reducing Telecom Cost
- Telecommunications expenses are among the largest cost items on corporate income statements. According to leading industry analysts, many companies can lower their telecommunications costs by 15% or more without damaging their service quality, and the savings would go directly to their bottom lines. In this white...
- Tags: Best Practice, MBG Expense Management, Telecommunications Expense, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2009-10-05
- The Economic Impact of Broadband in Developing Nations: Best Practices Enable Developing Nations to Reap Economic Benefits of Broadband
- Broadband networks are an increasingly essential part of the global information society, enabling overall economic growth, and creating new jobs, fostering innovation and enhancing national competitiveness. To achieve these and other benefits of broadband, developing nations need to establish enabling environments that support long-term, cost-effective broadband deployments. By adopting these...
- Tags: Benefit, Broadband, Best Practice, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Social network for CEOs â€" best practices
- The Best & Worst of Business Networks Yesterday, I spoke with Ken Ross, the serial entrepreneur who has launched several successful software firms (e.g., Ross Systems, Pillar). Ken’s a really nice fellow and someone whose company and counsel I value. I called Ken...
- Tags: Network, Best Practice, CEO, Ken, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Best Practices for IT Infrastructures: Deploying Virtualization for Remote and Branch Offices
- There's no question that many companies are experiencing exponential growth in their distributed computing - in satellite sites, remote facilities, and branch offices. Backing up critical applications in these locations can generate tremendous amounts of data and lead to an ever-increasing number of servers, disparate systems and storage environments to...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Data Protection, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Satellite, Best Practice, EMC Corp., Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Backups, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Storage, Network Technology, Data Management, Hardware, Networking
- Webcasts 2008-09-25
- WAN Optimization and Application Acceleration: Technology and Best Practices
- As users become more distributed and applications become centralized, poor WAN and application performance for remote users is becoming a serious issue for many enterprises. Increasing bandwidth provides only minimal improvement and significantly raises costs. As a result, many IT managers are evaluating WAN optimization technologies. What benefits can be...
- Tags: Optimization, Cisco Systems Inc., Best Practice, WANs, Network Technology, Networking
- Webcasts 2008-07-22
- Five Key Best Practices for Reducing Telecom Expenses
- Telecommunications expenses are among the largest cost items on the corporate income statement, easily overlooked by companies as simply the cost of doing business. Rapid technological advancements in voice, data, web services, and wireless devices have made it essential for corporations to keep pace in order remaining competitive. Despite declining...
- Tags: Best Practice, MBG Expense Management, Telecommunications Expense, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2008-06-30
- Best Practices: Use of Web Application Firewalls
- Web applications of all kinds, whether online shops or partner portals, have in recent years increasingly become the target of hacker attacks. The attackers are using methods which are specifically aimed at exploiting potential weak spots in the web application software itself - and this is why they are not...
- Tags: Web Application, Best Practice, Application Firewall, OWASP, Cloud Computing, Firewalls, Security, Networking
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Best Practices for Planning, Deploying and Managing Enterprise VoIP
- The goal of this white paper is to help the reader gain a better understanding of the challenges presented by VoIP as well as what must be done from a planning and management perspective to successfully deploy VoIP. The discussion includes a high level description of a proven methodology for...
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., Best Practice, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Cisco - Performance Management: Best Practices
- Performance management is the practice of optimizing network service response time. It also entails managing the consistency and quality of individual and overall network services. The most important service is the need to measure the user/application response time. For most users, response time is the critical performance success factor. This...
- Tags: Performance, Network, Network Service, Cisco Systems Inc., Best Practice, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Best Practices for Selecting WAN Optimization Solutions: Benchmarking Performance ROI
- As businesses become increasingly dependent on the effective delivery of IT services over far-flung enterprise networks, technologies that optimize the performance of applications over the WAN have become increasingly attractive. This white paper explains how to best make this critical technology decision. It provides an overview of best practices for...
- Tags: Benchmarking, Best Practice, Shunra Software, WANs, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2007-11-22
- Forrester Presents: Best Practices for Network Security in the Healthcare Market
- Most health care facilities have a minimum internal security system to meet basic HIPAA requirements but many are understaffed to support a layered security approach that is needed to ensure full regulatory compliance, up to date systems and complete network security. The presenter will address information and network security issues...
- Tags: Network, Network Security, Health Care, Best Practice, Forrester Research Inc., Perimeter eSecurity, Vertical Industries, Security, Networking
- Webcasts 2007-11-15
- Who's Got the NAC? Best Practices in Protecting Network Access
- For many would-be network access control NAC adopters, what NAC is or is supposed to be is unclear. However, the companies who are successfully protecting their network aren't confused - they also have more demanding views as to what they think a NAC solution should provide. This report from Aberdeen...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Network, Sophos Plc., Best Practice, Networking
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Best Practice Recommendations for IT and Telecom Inventory Management
- Telecom assets are a special class of IT assets that require an accurate inventory for effective financial management. Enterprises should consider the benefits of establishing a "Single version of the truth" that comes from linking management of IT and telecom assets with their other systems and processes. An accurate inventory...
- Tags: Asset, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Best Practice, AOTMP, Telecom Asset, Asset Management, Financial Management, Telephony, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, Networking
- White papers 2007-09-27
- Improve your network defenses: Identify and classify security threats with these best practices and methodologies
- Having the tools and mechanisms to identify and classify threats and anomalies in your network is crucial to effective network defense. In this chapter download from End-to-End Network Security: Defense-in-Depth, learn several best practices and methodologies that you can use to successfully and quickly classify such threats. Chapter...
- Tags: Security, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Best Practice, Chapter Coverage, Networking
- Book chapters 2007-09-19
- Benefits and Best Practices for Migrating from VMware Server to iSCSI and VMware Infrastructure 3
- These days, companies of all sizes need to be conscious of choosing solutions that can achieve results without putting a strain on budgets and staff resources that are already overcommitted. Small and medium-sized companies are particularly sensitive to these concerns, as these organizations rely almost entirely on their internal IT...
- Tags: iSCSI, Benefit, Dell EqualLogic, Server, VMware Inc., Best Practice, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Ip storage, Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Networking
- Webcasts 2007-09-06
- Best Practices for Video Transit on an MPLS Backbone: Using Point-to-Multipoint Label Switched Paths to Simplify and Optimize IP Video Distribution
- This paper describes how an innovative new technology called point-to-multipoint Label Switched Paths LSPs enables service providers to efficiently carry broadcast video IPTV traffic across an IP backbone. This technology can be used for distributing IPTV traffic to residential subscribers, across a private network, or within a Virtual Private Network...
- Tags: Backbone, MPLS, IP Video, Juniper Networks Inc., IP, Video, Best Practice, Corporate Communications, Network Technology, Networking, Telecommunications, Marketing
- White papers 2007-09-01
- Best Practices for Video Transit on an MPLS Backbone
- This paper describes how an innovative new technology called point-to-Multipoint Label Switched Paths LSPs enables service providers to efficiently carry broadcast video IPTV traffic across an IP backbone. This technology can be used for distributing IPTV traffic to residential subscribers, across a private network, or within a Virtual Private Network...
- Tags: Backbone, MPLS, Juniper Networks Inc., Video, Best Practice, Corporate Communications, Network Technology, Networking, Telecommunications, Marketing
- White papers 2007-09-01
- Best Practices for Secure Remote Access - A Guide to the Future
- Significant changes in mobile technology and global business practices have spurred an evolution of both local and remote access. With more people working from more locations using more devices than ever before, attempts at providing access while still protecting network resources have become more difficult and expensive. Now, local user...
- Tags: Network, SonicWall, Resource, Best Practice, Remote Access, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2007-08-21
- Services Creation Best Practices
- The telecommunications industry is focused on key strategic priorities related to services innovation. These services related priorities are to bring new services to market quickly and respond to market needs at the right time to generate new and additional revenue, attract new customers with these services and, create brand loyalty...
- Tags: Best Practice, Service, Stratecast, Telephony, Branding, Leadership, Networking, Marketing, Management
- White papers 2007-08-07
- Best Practices in DNS/DHCP and IP Address Management
- IP Addresses, Domain Name Services DNS, and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP. Together, these three mechanisms make it possible to locate everything one needs on the Internet, including own computer. Each system presents a means to improve performance and maintain order on network. DNS keeps track of the names and...
- Tags: DHCP, DNS, IP, IP Address, Best Practice, Domain Name Services, DIICP, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2007-06-14
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