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- Identity Management
- Inventory Assessment and Management
- IP Address Management
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- Network Configuration Management
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- Network Test Gear
- Patch and Vulnerability Management
- Server Management
- Storage Resource Management
- Web Site Application and Performance Management
- WLAN Management
Featured Reviews
- Arista, Blade win top spot in data center switch test
- As data center managers consolidate and virtualize their servers, the next order of business becomes moving all that traffic. Enter top-of-rack data center switches that offer speed, scalability, redundancy, virtualization support and other features not available in garden-variety Ethernet switches.
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- Lies, Damned Lies and Latency
- Some vendors' data sheets claim lower latency and jitter than the numbers we measured in this test. While these claims are valid, they also should raise questions about how the measurements were obtained.
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- How We Tested 10Gigabit Ethernet switches
- We invited 13 vendors to participate in this test. Besides the six that accepted (Arista, Blade, Cisco, Dell, Extreme, HP ProCurve), we also invited 3Com/H3C, Brocade, Enterasys, Force10, Fujitsu, Juniper, and Raptor.
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- Storage/data convergence: Cisco stands alone
- Data center switches offer the promise of combining previously separate data and storage networks, thus reducing capital expense costs. However, the switches tested take different approaches to convergence.
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- LANS & WANS RESOURCES
- WHITEPAPER: WAN Governance Executive Primer
- WHITEPAPER: HP Technology Guide for Scalable Business Solutions
- WHITEPAPER: Technology Brief: Technologies in HP ProLiant G6 c-Class server blades with Intel Xeon processors
- WHITEPAPER: IDC Research Report: The Business Value of Consolidating on Energy-Efficient Servers
- WHITEPAPER: The Business Case for Virtualization
- WHITEPAPER: Seven Requirements for Balancing Control and Agility in the Virtual Environment
- TESTS AND REVIEWS
- TESTArista, Blade win top spot in data center switch testAs data center managers consolidate and virtualize their servers, the next order of business becomes moving all that traffic. Enter top-of-rack data center switches that offer speed, scalability, redundancy, virtualization support and other features not available in garden-variety Ethernet switches.
more...TESTLies, Damned Lies and LatencySome vendors' data sheets claim lower latency and jitter than the numbers we measured in this test. While these claims are valid, they also should raise questions about how the measurements were obtained.
more...TESTHow We Tested 10Gigabit Ethernet switchesWe invited 13 vendors to participate in this test. Besides the six that accepted (Arista, Blade, Cisco, Dell, Extreme, HP ProCurve), we also invited 3Com/H3C, Brocade, Enterasys, Force10, Fujitsu, Juniper, and Raptor.
more...