Midmarket enterprises strive for success in a highly competitive landscape. Being a successful leader means encouraging employees to collaborate and work more efficiently to increase the success of the enterprise. Technology solutions can empower employees for success at work, home, and when mobile, but technology must also be able to support changes that occur in
Simple, affordable collaboration solutions are making it easier for people to work more effectively, on any device, and from any location: in the office, at home, or on the move. Nowhere is this more evident than in small and medium organisations where more and more businesses are seizing new opportunities to differentiate the services they
The technology industry has changed more in the last five years than in any other period in IT’s history. Virtualization has redefined the data center; the network edge has become predominantly wireless; and consumers are calling the shots with regard to business devices. However, two of the areas that have yet to evolve are the
Today, less than 1 percent of things in the physical world are network connected. In the near future the growth of the Internet of everything (IoE), which Cisco defines as the convergences of people, process, data, and things, will make networked connections more relevant and valuable than ever before, creating unprecedented opportunities for countries, businesses,
To increase operating efficiency and business agility, chief information officers (CIOs) and IT managers are seeking to simplify their data centers and manage them more easily. Cisco UCS® Director automates end-to-end IT processes across virtualization, server, computing, network, and storage resources to help achieve these business goals.
Cisco UCS™ Manager provides unified, embedded management of all software and hardware components of the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS) across multiple chassis and rack-mount servers and thousands of virtual machines. Cisco UCS Manager manages Cisco UCS as a single entity through an intuitive GUI, a command-line interface (CLI), or an XML API for
In small and midsize organizations, IT staff often wears many hats. This means that the same administrator who provisions the servers for a new environment also has to configure the required networking resources, as well as carve out storage volumes and configure the hypervisor.
Blocking access to “bad” URLs was at one time considered an effective web security strategy. Today, however, users are more likely to encounter malware on legitimate websites than traditional attack sites.1 Public Wi-Fi initiatives, branch offices, remote and roaming workers, and “bring your own device” (BYOD) policies have challenged traditional web security and deployment models.
From collaboration to communication to data access, the web is a mission-critical business tool. Enterprises rely heavily on the web not only to innovate and compete, but also to conduct daily business. But the web also poses significant security risks to the enterprise that are easily encountered by users, yet not so easy to detect.
Since the early 1990s, email has evolved from a tool used primarily by technical and research professionals to become the backbone of corporate communications. Each day, over 100 billion corporate email messages are exchanged.1 With this level of use, email is vital to businesses worldwide.