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.
The European headquarters of Mazda has chosen to rely on baramundi technology for its Europe-wide client management. Following almost two years with the baramundi solution, Service Desk manager Leonard Williams is very positive about the results: “The baramundi Management Suite has proven to be the right choice. It has met our requirements and has proven its
At large data centers, the huge amounts of electricity and technical expertise required for cooling led to a rethink in the direction of Green IT at an early stage. In the case of clients however, saving energy is often of only secondary importance. When new PCs are purchased, the lower energy consumption of modern equipment
The modern IT industry is developing at breakneck speed. While there were decades between Konrad Zuse’s Z1 and the introduction of the first usable PCs, innovations are now occurring on an almost monthly basis. As the performance and diversity of systems increases, so too do the system administration requirements – and IT department resources are
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.
Modern corporate email systems such as Gmail and Microsoft Exchange come with a measure of built-‐in security. Some see these built-‐in protections as adequate. They shouldn’t. Mobility, cloud and sophisticated blended attacks are expanding the number, range, and velocity of email transported threats. Inbound threat defense that lags by hours or days, and sometimes even