Is it possible to implement an Office 365-ready network, at scale, without a proof-of-concept (PoC)?
While many companies have had challenges with Office 365, others have realized that understanding a few key network concepts can make all the difference.
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Published: Feb 19, 2018
There’s no denying that Office 365 is a big deal. It’s a big part of the Microsoft Intelligent Cloud strategy. It’s big in terms of its user base. And it has a big impact on your network. Fully deployed, Office 365 will quickly become your greatest consumer of bandwidth and slayer of firewalls.
Office...
Published: Feb 19, 2018
Giving students, faculty, and administrators access to resources through their mobile devices can improve learning—but leave your network vulnerable, too. See how a security assessment can help your team address key policy, security, and management concerns—before you deploy.
Published: Oct 18, 2013
J.R. Simmons is President and Principal Consultant of COMgroup, Inc., and an executive board member of the Society of Telecommunications Consultants. With 37 years of experience, including 28 years as an independent consultant, he provides a broad range of in-depth telecommunications experience. J.R. is recognized as an...
Published: Jan 16, 2014
In its quest to increase agility and reliability, IT is adopting cloud services and related technologies like PaaS, micro-services, and containers to rapidly deliver applications that scale to real-world conditions.
Application topology is often transient and unpredictably interrelated with countless other applications...
Published: Oct 26, 2016
The first wave of virtualization has delivered dramatic benefits to organizations through consolidation, improved utilization, reduced total cost of ownership, efficient energy consumption and more effective use of physical space.
But organizations have only scratched the surface of virtualization’s potential....
Published: Oct 08, 2013
Many companies are moving away from hardware-centric networking and adopting a new approach: network virtualization. As adoption grows, new stories are emerging about the enhanced security, agility, and application continuity that are possible with this software-centric model.
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Published: Apr 12, 2017
The time you save with the Cisco UCS solution's automated process can quickly add up when you are implementing a large-scale blade server deployment.
By choosing the Cisco Blade Servers, your IT staff can save days or weeks - time much better spent on other projects. Less time spent on routine tasks...
Published: Apr 08, 2014
Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) provide the framework for systems design based on common use cases or current engineering system priorities. They incorporate a broad set of technologies, features, and applications to address customer needs. Cisco engineers have comprehensively tested and documented each CVD in order to...
Published: Aug 18, 2014
Office 365 enables organizations to leverage all of their business-critical applications without having to hire a huge IT staff, deal with upgrades and troubleshoot issues. While Microsoft may provide the overarching infrastructure for Office 365, it’s up to the customer to secure everything else.
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Published: Apr 15, 2015
An efficient working environment relies on people being able to hear and be heard clearly on calls.
Background noise can affect office workers who often use a combination of desk phones, smartphones, and computer softphones to talk to colleagues and customers. It also impacts flexible workers, who spend most of the...
Published: Nov 05, 2015
802.11ac is the next generation in wireless and is 3x faster than 802.11n. If you are planning a brand new wireless installation, expanding an existing wireless network, or upgrading an older wireless network the benefits of 802.11ac are real and the time to move is now.
This paper will provide information on planning...
Published: Sep 17, 2014
The traditional approach to managing desktops in a global enterprise has become untenable. Increasingly,
geographically dispersed user endpoints, in the form of desktop and laptop computers and personal devices, are making “desktop” management and security nearly impossible.
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Published: Jan 24, 2014
Planning for business continuity and disaster recovery can be a real challenge, so we have pulled this guide together to make things a bit easier for you.
This guide includes everything you need to know about planning or recovering from a disaster/unexpected event, to ensure you resume operations quickly without too...
Published: Mar 01, 2015