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What is a Network Fabric – Juniper Networks Interview

April 6, 2012 By Editor Leave a Comment

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Listen to the full podcast interview on Network Fabrics now! Anyone who pays attention to data networking technology has likely heard the term “fabric” bandied about with respect to data center networks. To learn more about what fabrics are and the benefits they provide, we talked with Dhritiman Dasgupta, director of product marketing in the platform and systems division at Juniper Networks, a Carousel Industries partner and a leading company in this space. Fabrics and the Evolution of Campus and Data Center Networks For 25 or 30 years we’ve been building networks in campus and branch locations that are intended… Continue Reading ›

3 Approaches to Identifying Mobile Devices

February 24, 2012 By Editor Leave a Comment

When it comes to managing wireless devices on your network, you’ve got two basic options: treat the device as a known entity that is allowed to access the corporate network, or as an unknown entity that is not. But there are several ways to make that determination, says Chris Williams, a systems engineer with Carousel Industries, and they are progressively more granular and useful. Fingerprinting and Web Browser Snooping The simplest way to identify a device is through fingerprinting or web browser snooping. With fingerprinting, when the device logs on, it performs a DHCP request. In that request is a… Continue Reading ›

Filed Under: Mobility, Network, Wireless, Wireless LAN, security Tagged With: consumer devices, Mobility, network architecture, network security, networking, Security, Wireless, Wireless LAN, Wireless Local Area Network

Facing the Top Challenges Confronting IT: Avaya Podcast

February 6, 2012 By Editor Leave a Comment

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As a leading vendor that supplies infrastructure and tools to help customers address business requirements around voice, data and unified communications, Avaya sees first-hand the biggest challenges companies are facing. But it also knows how to address them. In this information packed podcast, we caught up with Steven Bandrowczak, Vice President of Global Accounts at Avaya, to get his thoughts on what he sees as the most vexing IT challenges of the day. 3 Biggest Challenges Facing IT Without hesitation, Bandrowczak cites the bring your own device phenomenon as the # 1 trend, “in every industry, every size segment, every… Continue Reading ›

Filed Under: Contact Center, Industry Trends and News, Mobility, Network, Network Architecture, Podcasts, Social Media, Unified Communications Tagged With: Avaya, Call Center, Contact Center, industry trends, Mobility, network, network architecture, Social Media, Unified Communications, Wireless Local Area Network

How To Plan Effectively For Your Server Virtualization Project

December 16, 2011 By Editor 1 Comment

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At Carousel, we pride ourselves on properly planning our IT projects to ensure success, and virtualization projects are no different. After working on dozens (hundreds?) of virtualization projects over the years, we’ve come up with a number of planning steps that can help ensure your project goes more smoothly – and ends in success. Take Inventory Before Diving in to Virtualization Before you can start virtualizing servers, you need to have detailed data on what your IT infrastructure looks like, which means performing an IT audit. Only with this data in hand can you make informed financial and functional decisions… Continue Reading ›

Filed Under: Virtualization Tagged With: Best Practices, Data Center, Data Network, Energy Efficiency, Energy Savings, network architecture, virtualization

3 Keys to Providing Effective, Proactive Application Performance Management

November 16, 2011 By Editor Leave a Comment

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In a world where you’ve got employees connecting to your network from all kinds of different devices and locations, it can be tough to deliver great performance from all your applications all the time. Yet that’s exactly what users expect. To meet those expectations requires you have not only a top-notch network architecture, but more and more it requires businesses to have a solid network and application performance management strategy in place. What is performance management? Performance management is an approach that that enables you to identify what constitutes normal behavior in your network and alerts you when things are… Continue Reading ›

Filed Under: Network, Network Architecture, Productivity Tagged With: applications, network, network architecture, network performance, network security, networking, performance, performance management, Riverbed

Meeting the Security Challenges of Educational Institutions

November 14, 2011 By Editor Leave a Comment

For security professionals, educational institutions present a number of challenges that are quite different from the corporate world. It’s an environment with distinct user groups – students, faculty and staff – that require both separation from one another and the ability to collaborate. In K-12 schools, there’s a need to police Internet access. In universities, there is the need to monitor and log traffic and usage. And many institutions have to comply with standards such as PCI and HIPAA, if they take credit cards and store student health data. To get a handle on how schools are dealing with these… Continue Reading ›

Filed Under: Network, Network Architecture, Wireless, security Tagged With: compliance, education, IT security, network architecture, network security, PCI Compliance, Security

Benefits of Identity-Aware Networks – and Tips for Getting There

September 7, 2011 By Editor Leave a Comment

Gartner is predicting that by the end of this year, 30 percent of large corporate networks will become “identity-aware,” meaning they will have features and technologies that enable them to associate user identities with specific network traffic and behavior. The idea is to provide tight access control for applications and resources, taking into account not only who users are, but where they are and what device they’re using – all without forcing users to memorize dozens of user IDs and passwords. In a previous post, we covered four reasons why your network should be identity aware. In this post, we’ll… Continue Reading ›

Filed Under: Mobility, Network, Network Architecture Tagged With: Mobility, network, network architecture, Wireless LAN, Wireless Local Area Network

4 Reasons why your Network Needs to be “Identity-Aware”

August 24, 2011 By Editor Leave a Comment

As companies become ever-more mobile, and embrace technologies including software-as-a-service and cloud computing as well as social media, they need to rethink how they identify the individuals and devices that request access to corporate networks. In a world of distributed devices, people and resources, companies need an identity management strategy that takes into account an employee’s or business partner’s specific roles and access rights to internal infrastructure and applications, as well as the device they’re using and their location. In short, companies need “identity-aware” networks that provide data about both machines and humans. In this post, we’ll give you four… Continue Reading ›

Filed Under: Mobility, Network, Network Architecture Tagged With: Best Practices, identity-aware network, Mobility, network, network architecture

Caught in the Middle: Addressing IT Challenges for Mid-Market Companies

August 23, 2011 By joepitkin Leave a Comment

Many newer technology solutions address the problems large enterprises encounter within their datacenter, and are scaled to sustain large infrastructure requirements. Large companies require continuous production environments and need an IT backbone that supports this continuity. In addition, hosted solutions have opened the door for small companies to take advantage of high-end datacenter solutions without high capital investment costs. Smaller businesses often do not require as extensive solution sets, but still need a backbone IT for common business tasks. Also, limited IT staffcreates obstacles for managing their environments properly, leaning decision makers towards hosted solutions. While newer solutions fit well within… Continue Reading ›

Filed Under: Data Center, Network, Network Architecture, service Tagged With: cloud, Data Center, IaaS, managed services, mid-market companies, network, network architecture, SaaS, strategy

Storage News Roundup: Storage is Getting Sexy

August 11, 2011 By Editor Leave a Comment

Go ahead, admit it. You never used to much care about storage. It was mundane, stodgy, boring technology compared to the wild world of networks, all abuzz with fiber optics, and blazing fast computers. It’s easy to have a new-found appreciation for storage given all the stuff we now have to store – even at home we’ve got terabyte external disks to back up all the music, videos and photos. And the types of storage solutions being called for in the enterprise environment – and that the market is delivering – definitely demand that we sit up and take notice.… Continue Reading ›

Filed Under: Industry Trends and News, Storage Tagged With: industry trends, network architecture, Physical Infrastructure, Storage

What is a Network Fabric – Juniper Networks Interview

3 Approaches to Identifying Mobile Devices

How To Plan Effectively For Your Server Virtualization Project

3 Keys to Providing Effective, Proactive Application Performance Management

Meeting the Security Challenges of Educational Institutions

Benefits of Identity-Aware Networks – and Tips for Getting There

4 Reasons why your Network Needs to be “Identity-Aware”

Storage News Roundup: Storage is Getting Sexy

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