Top 5 Myths on WAN Optimization
A misunderstanding of the problem within your network can lead to a costly and incorrect IT investment, not to mention online downtime, potential data loss and/or corruption, and human resource wastage. Do you really want to spend cycles trying to improve your application packet delivery when the real issue may be that your data center sends all of the application information at once to every user, vs. prioritizing which employees need which pieces at which times to do their job effectively? See below five of the common WAN mis-perceptions and how to better address the issues......Read about Top 5 Myths on WAN Optimization...

Network and Voice Management Software
Bloor Research has carried out an evaluation looking at four leading companies (CA, EMC, HP and IBM) in terms of their strategies and technologies for addressing network (fault and performance) management and voice management for major enterprises (dated February 2008). The report compared and contrasted their relative strengths and approaches. This paper is a summary focusing on CA’s approach and its Network and Voice Management (NVM) solution.....Read about Network and Voice Management Software...

How to Secure and Accelerate Your Oracle Applications
Globalization and ecommerce have fundamentally reshaped the competitive landscape, and forced companies to operate more efficiently. Mobile technology and broadband networks have enabled employees to work anywhere, and raised their expectations for easy access to centralized applications and corporate databases. Companies have never been as dependent on software applications to perform their day-to-day operations and achieve their corporate objectives.....Read about How to Secure and Accelerate...

Interpreting Events With Intelligence to Find Root Cause
Today’s complex IT infrastructures are dynamic, multi vendor engines made of frequently changing components and technologies. The complexity of the infrastructure and the continual changes caused by business demands often lead to faults within the infrastructure. A fault in a single device can have a ripple effect that causes performance and availability problems for many users. The ripple effect also makes it difficult to pinpoint the root cause of the fault. To remain relevant and competitive in the marketplace, companies must minimize outages and performance degradations and this requires effective performance and availability management......Read about Interpreting Events With Intelligence...

Business Activity Monitoring: Process Control For the Enterprise
Business Activity Monitoring Applications are becoming increasingly common and sophisticated. Much can be learned about the analysis and visualization of real-time data from comparisons with previous generations of process monitoring and telemetry systems. While there are similarities, there are also significant differences in the technology involved in the handling of real-time data. This paper discusses practical issues regarding the analysis and visualization of real-time data in BAM applications......Read about Business Activity Monitoring...