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
One can justifiably say that virtualization is a mature technology. It has formed the basis for Cloud computing, and it epitomizes the continuous service delivery and consumption model that beckons in the era of IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS).
Unfortunately for some IT administrators, virtualization might not be a...
Published: Sep 01, 2015
The information technology industry is undergoing one of the most significant periods of transformation in the last 20 years. This period of change is directed by a series of trends such as the explosive growth of powerful smartphones, the consumerization of technology purchasing, and the move toward cloud-based software...
Published: Aug 02, 2013
Has there been a more exciting time to be at the forefront of business? It’s unlikely. According to a NetSuite/ Frost & Sullivan1 survey of IT decision makers and business leaders, three quarters of organisations across Europe anticipate the pace of organisational transformation will be faster than ever before....
Published: Apr 03, 2019
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
Collaboration is increasingly becoming recognized as a critical investment for organizations looking for new sources of productivity and innovation. Cost cutting and efficiency measures can achieve only so much; the next breakthrough levels of business performance will come from the ability to tap into the collective knowledge...
Published: Jul 15, 2013
The most advanced security teams rely on network traffic as a fundamental data source, ground truth for security investigations, but encryption has made certain aspects of that truth increasingly difficult to obtain.
Decrypting the traffic would seem the obvious solution, but in many cases...
Published: Mar 13, 2020
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has developed a Converged Infrastructure including storage, compute and networking.
The data storage element is located in both traditional SAN (Storage Area Network) and Flash media.
This document details the results from a performance benchmark undertaken by Computacenter...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
Low-Code development is the way to build apps more quickly by reducing the need to code.
But that’s not the whole story, c ontinually evolving expectations are forcing you to accelerate operations, improve the customer experience, and be nimble enough to change on a dime. With growing pressure on organizations...
Published: Dec 17, 2019
Over the last couple of years, SD-WAN technology has matured into a mainstream solution. Yet, the most appropriate migration path is not always clear. While there are many considerations to balance during a migration, the enduring benefit of an SD-WAN architecture is simplification: branch design, data center design, routing,...
Published: Jan 31, 2020
Microsoft Office 365 plays an important role in every organization’s digital transformation agenda, however migrating to Office 365 comes with adoption and ongoing management challenges.
A unified workspace management platform can help your organization make the most of your move to Office 365 by simplifying...
Published: Oct 31, 2018