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August 2011 Are Federal Consolidation Efforts Increasing Data Center Complexity?
With the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) focused on reducing the number of data centers in the Federal government, consolidation is on every agency's menu. Yet as the Federal government reduces the number of data centers to cut cost, the complexity of the remaining data centers will increase. As the complexity of data centers increases, the cost of managing those data centers also increases - jeopardizing the savings from consolidation.
November 2010 Securing Mobile Devices in the Enterprise with Junos Pulse
The Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite is a comprehensive mobile security and management solution that protects smartphones — and the sensitive data on them — against a wide range of threats. Government organizations can use it to manage a heterogeneous mobile environment at scale, while mitigating the risk of losing sensitive, critical organizational or personal data on lost and stolen devices.
August 2010 Overcoming the Challenges of Providing Secure Mobile Connectivity
Today's mobile workers are demanding simple, secure connectivity to networked or cloud-based business applications 24 x 7 x 365 from anywhere in the world. Unlike the limited access to just field calls or email for mobile workers of yesterday, the expectations are changing for these users who now expect maximum productivity on the go, with full network access to all of the corporate applications they typically use when back in the office.
June 2010 The Important Role of Networks in a Virtualized World
With the introduction of server virtualization to help optimize x86 servers and realize significant cost savings, virtualization technology catapulted on the scene to become a hot topic among IT professionals and CXOs. Since then, the implementation of additional virtualization technologies has helped organizations better utilize their IT resources and reduce capital and operational expenses.
May 2010 The New Network Data Center
Enterprises depend on their data centers and business applications more than they ever have before. Employee efficiency, operational costs, and even revenues can be impacted by data center and application performance. As workforces become more distributed, global, and interconnected, Internet architectures and mobile broadband have forced applications, servers, and storage to evolve for optimum business benefits and usability.
Apr 2010 Network Operating System Evolution
At the core of an organization's networking infrastructure are networking devices and, more importantly, the network operating systems running within those devices. An efficient hardware platform is not, by itself, sufficient to achieve an effective, cost-efficient, and operationally tenable product. The software, or network OS, also plays a critical role in developing features, ensuring device usability, and helping organizations meet their business goals.
Mar 2010 Identity Federation in a Cloud Computing Environment
Government organizations can improve mission effectiveness with cloud computing in many ways, from adopting a cloud computing solution, to building "cloud ready" data centers or private cloud data centers, to consuming resources-as-a-service and paying only for resources used.
Feb 2010 Five Steps to Help Mitigate Cyber Security Attacks
Cyber Security threats are ever increasing and becoming more sophisticated, as professional hackers not only strive to compromise federal and commercial networks directly, but also attack non-compliant mobile devices used by government employees and contractors to access critical infrastructure.
Jan 2010 Security Consideration for Cloud-Ready Data Centers
Data centers have evolved significantly as organizations consolidate servers, applications, and other resources, and as they adopt new technologies as a means to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
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