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Hardware.com's approach to effective management of your IT network; from procurement, repair, support, asset management, leasing, disposal and managing upgrades.

Hardware.com's approach to effective management of your IT network; from procurement, repair, support, asset management, leasing, disposal and managing upgrades.

Now you can extend the life of faulty, out-of-warranty network equipment; reliably, quickly and affordably with no need to replace.

Two articles relating to Cisco kit, maintenance and software licensing.

Smartpac Structured Cabling.

Find out what Unified Conferencing is, why you should use it, what it's benefits are and how to implement it.

Force10 Networks high performance switching and routing equipment is an essential part of the network architecture of some of the world’s largest Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks equipment. Some of these happy customers, including Yahoo!, CERN, Vertitas DGC and Equinix, explain why.

The Force10 TeraScale E-Series switch/routers meet CERN’s demanding requirements for their global network supporting the world’s largest scientific instrument. The E-Series provides 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) LAN and WAN interfaces, non-blocking, high density equipment, fault tolerance, adherence to standards, and a low cost of ownership.

Force10 Networks provides reliable next-generation infrastructure solutions that customers deploy when the network is their business. The company is uniquely positioned to deliver innovative and high performance solutions that address data center consolidation, virtualization and cloud computing as well as service providers’ rapid evolution to converged, IP/Ethernet-based networks and business models.

The Force10 Networks C-Series are resilient chassis-based switches that deliver reliability, network control and scalability. The C-Series is designed to support mission critical applications with very low latency across converged networks. Comprehensive management capabilities make the C-Series a cost-effective and flexible deployment option.

The Force10 Networks C-Series are resilient chassis-based switches that deliver reliability, network control and scalability. The C-Series is designed to support mission critical applications with very low latency across converged networks. Comprehensive management capabilities make the C-Series a cost-effective and flexible deployment option.

An examination of how Force10 Networks equipment was used to triple traffic growth at Central Europe’s largest Internet exchange.

The Force10 Reliable Networking product portfolio provides the reliability, network control and scalability eHarmony requires in its data centre to successfully match users based on more than 400 parameters.

The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) has deployed the Force10 Networks C-Series family of resilient switches and the S-Series family of access switches to serve as the backbone of its campus and data centre networks. With Force10, FMI is interconnecting researchers throughout the facility with a high-performance network supporting instruments that generate as much as one terabyte of data per day.

The network infrastructure deployed by NYSE Euronext represents its commitment to maintaining competitiveness and scalability in the global financial markets for today and into the future.

SEGA deploys the TeraScale E-Series in its gaming data centre to provide a reliable, high performance foundation for its online interactive worlds.

Yahoo! is one of the leading Internet

The Force10 Networks ExaScale platforms are virtualised chassis-based switches that enable a new way of designing switching and routing infrastructures. ExaScale’s architecture, and patented backplane and ASIC technology are designed to increase network availability, agility and efficiency while reducing power and cooling costs. ExaScale supports mission critical applications across converged fabrics in data center, telecommunication provider, service provider, enterprise and HPCC networks.

The transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) is underway in the data center, and the ubiquity and reliability of Ethernet make it a desirable solution for delivering a high performance interconnect fabric. Modern 10 GbE adapters are capable of supporting a variety of hardware-based offload mechanisms delivering high bandwidth, high throughput and low latency Ethernet solutions for the rigorous demands of low latency clustering applications.

The Force10 S25N and S50N bring core-like resiliency in a compact form factor to the network edge, enabling cost-effective scalability. These high performance and low latency Gigabit Ethernet switches deliver the critical functionality that advanced data center network edges demand.

While evolving to meet the needs of telecommunications carriers, each generation of switch and router platforms has benefited from successive improvements in hardware and software availability. Force10 has taken high availability to the next level in the design of the E-Series to keep pace with the exponentially increasing volumes of mission-critical traffic in today’s networks.

Force10 Networks is a pioneer in building reliable networks. With its Reliable Networking product portfolio that has been hardened in some of the most complex networks in the world, including Yahoo!, eHarmony and Equinix, Force10 delivers the reliability, network control and scalability performance metrics that are crucial to building a flexible network that is application and service ready.

A report with charts to illustrate how HP TippingPoint compares favourably with the competition.

Highlights of how various industries and people around the globe are gaining significant business and personal value from video communications.

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 introduce a number of new features to enhance head office-branch office communications. This technical white paper describes the Branch cache and read only domain controller technologies.

An explanation of what previous versions you are entitled to downgrade if you have purchased hardware with an OEM software license.

Stolen Notebook? All is not lost!

Force10 Networks VirtualView™: Taking the Mystery and Risk out of Virtualisation.

A hands-on evaluation of VMware vSphere 4 by press reviewers, technology analysts, and IT professionals who wish to compare vSphere to competing virtualisation products such as Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer.

An overview of the major enhancements introduced with VMware vNetwork, the collection of networking technologies for optimally integrating networking and I/O functionality into vSphere.

VMware vSphere 4, the industry's first cloud operating system, includes several unique new features that allows IT organisations to leverage the benefits of cloud computing, with maximum efficiency, uncompromised control, and flexibility of choice.

VMware has added many new storage management capabilities that increase disk utilisation rate, provide greater control of these storage resources and enable increased options for datastore protocol support and format of virtual disk format.

An assessment of how VMware ESXi 3.5 and Microsoft Hyper-V compare when it comes to hosting multiple virtual machines.

Data protection is critical for small and medium businesses. Conventional data protection infrastructures are still largely tape-based and are not always proving up to the new requirements for backup, recovery, and disaster recovery.

A new virtualization specification, the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) lays the foundation for a fundamental change in how enterprises deploy and manage software. This development has ramifications on how users recover applications, clone golden images, and ensure license compliance.

While it is true that server virtualisation is an essential building block of the infrastructure required for cloud computing initiatives, a considerable base of infrastructure and technology has to be in place in addition to server virtualisation to achieve the promise of cloud computing.

While it is true that server virtualisation is an essential building block of the infrastructure required for cloud computing initiatives, a considerable base of infrastructure and technology has to be in place in addition to server virtualisation to achieve the promise of cloud computing.

An analysis of organizations adopting a centralized virtual desktop computing environment with the use of VMware View shows that investment in the technology can result in significant business value with very high return on investment.

VMware vSphere Essentials editions are all-inclusive packages that enable you to virtualise and consolidate many application workloads onto three physical servers running vSphere and centrally manage them with vCenter Server for Essentials.

As the industry’s first cloud operating system, VMware vSphere holistically manages hardware resources and provides built-in application service level controls, creating dramatically simplified cloud infrastructures for organisations of all sizes.

VMware vCenter Server is the universal hub for managing your VMware vSphere environment. VMware vCenter Server provides unified management of all hosts and virtual machines in a datacentre from a single console.

VMware vSphere Essentials editions are all-inclusive packages that enable you to virtualise and consolidate many application workloads onto three physical servers running vSphere and centrally manage them with vCenter Server for Essentials.

If disaster strikes you need to be sure that you are able to recover your resources with as little disruption as possible. With vCentre Site Recovery manager you are able to build your disaster recovery plans easily and more importantly implement them quickly and seamlessly.

VMware vCentre CapacityIQ allows you delivery of the right capacity to your applications and to eliminate wasted resources within your datacentre. You can monitor the demand of your applications and provision resources as required.

VMware Data Recovery provides you with a centralised data backup and recovery system that provides complete data protection for your environment. Unlike traditional backup products which use tape as their medium, Data Recovery takes snapshots of the virtual machines and uses de-duplication technology to efficiently store them on disk. This means if you have to recover a server, it is back at the touch of a button.

Deliver unique and personalised desktop environments to your users and benefit from truly centralised administration. VMware View allows you to run the desktops virtually in your datacentre and provide your users with a familiar environment. This provides you with greater efficiency, security and allows for rapid deployment.

When choosing a virtualisation platform to build your cloud infrastructure, it is important to ensure that you realise all the benefits of virtualisation and maximise your return on investment.

Businesses spend a significant proportion of their IT budget building & maintaining client server infrastructures, where changes frequently happen on an 'ad-hoc' basis in response to immediate business problems or requirements.

The Air Traffic control technology explained as the foundation for fourth generation wireless technology.

Why the bandwidth offered by 802.11n networks does not always offer better service.

Why traditional wireless deployments suffer in large scale deployments.