It only costs a criminal about $5 to launch a 300-second DDoS attack against you — but the crippling effects can last much longer. That’s why rethinking your approach to network security and network monitoring is the key outsmarting the criminals and protecting your enterprise — no matter the threat....
Published: Nov 20, 2018
AD security is crucial to controlling risk and ensuring compliance Active Directory (AD) is the foundation of identity and access management (IAM) at most organizations and, as such, is probably the most crucial technology on the network.
User accounts in particular are important for security but are difficult to...
Published: Apr 30, 2020
The challenges with managing accounts in Active Directory (AD) and Azure AD are many and varied.
With the frantic pace of today’s business world, organizations struggle to keep up with requests to create, change and remove access to their on-premises AD. This scenario becomes even more complicated when you mix...
Published: Apr 30, 2020
Throughout this book, a number of conventions have been used to help highlight important points, provide supporting evidence, or advise you of our obvious bias. Look for the following conventions:
Real-world example
Facts and figures
Techie alert
Useful tip
Blatant sales pitch
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Published: Apr 30, 2020
“Bring your own device” (BYOD) is the new mantra of employees who are empowered to innovate the way they work, using the technology tools they prefer. This growing trend has been well-documented.
In our original research on BYOD, described in “BYOD: A Global Perspective,” the Cisco Internet...
Published: Jan 16, 2014
Enterprise IT is changing. It’s evolving from a rigid, static, manually configured and managed architecture to one where connectivity is dynamic, application services are on demand, and processes are automated. Enterprise networking is evolving along with IT.
This has been evident in the past several years in...
Published: Sep 06, 2018
NSX, deployed on top of Nexus 9000 switches and Cisco UCS blade server infrastructure, enables best-of-breed design with flexibility and ease of deployment for a full stack of virtualized network services.
The programmatic capability of software-based services opens the door for self-service IT, dynamic orchestration...
Published: Oct 10, 2018
Brands across the world are planning to overhaul their customer experience strategies. Our new CX strategy guide can help.
The guide dives deeper into our recently released Empathy in the Age of AI research – and maps out a route for any brand that wants to develop empathetic bonds with customers.
Ultimately,...
Published: Jun 15, 2020
5G, the next iteration of wireless networks, is not merely an incremental increase in network speed and capacity. It’s so much more.
5G will transform everyday life and enable new innovation across virtually all industries. Healthcare, for example, will see the rise of telemedicine. Smart grids will automate...
Published: Oct 14, 2019
Many traditional infrastructure vendors would have you believe that hyperconverged infrastructure is only for VDI and tier 2 virtualized applications. But not all hyperconverged architectures are the same.
An Enterprise Cloud is IT infrastructure designed to meet your company’s IT needs for both traditional enterprise...
Published: Oct 30, 2019
For any sized company, the rapidly expanding implementation of today’s technology creates unique and critical business challenges. IT infrastructure management is closely aligned with overall corporate operations, strategies and goals.
The right IT infrastructure monitoring (ITIM) tool can help you gain...
Published: Sep 12, 2019
FlexPod Datacenter improves business agility by providing application and data mobility and by accelerating SAP® lifecycle management. Integrated data protection across the entire stack helps increase the availability of cloud for SAP, and secure multi-tenancy delivers isolated SAP landscapes for various use cases. ...
Published: Apr 14, 2014
Total sales of hyper-converged infrastructure solutions surpassed $3.7 billion in 2017, a staggering total for a technology that had only been on the market for less than four years.
And looking ahead, there seems to be no letup in that growth. By 2023, the market is expected to surpass $17 billion, growing at a compound...
Published: Nov 13, 2018
The deepest reference on Microsoft’s productivity service
Office 365 offers the same productivity power as past versions of Microsoft Office along with tools designed to boost collaboration in the workplace and instant access to the latest Office updates without buying a whole new software package. It’s...
Published: Jan 16, 2020