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Network World has assembled a comprehensive online resource for IT professionals. The resource library contains free technical IT white papers on topics that include Network Security, VoIP, Wireless, Servers, Network Applications, Storage, WAN, and much more.

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The need for Application SLAs: A new opportunity for service providers to increase market share, revenues and profits.
Offering consistent end-to-end application performance guarantees is the role of Service Level Agreements defined between the service providers and the enterprises. Typical network services SLAs are not directly linked to the performance of business critical applications. Application SLA measurement and enforcement capabilities of Ipanema allow service providers to create a new breed of application-centric services.

The Logical Causes of Application Degradation, by Jim Metzler
This white paper examines the logical vs. device-specific causes of application degradation, and explains how route analytics provides insight into logical application issues and helps reduce finger pointing, speed troubleshooting, and streamline planning.

Getting Started with ITIL's CMDB: Best-Practice Tips for Enterprise IT Professionals
The Configuration Management Database (CMDB) provides a common trusted source for all IT data used by the business and holds significant promise as a central point for IT governance, asset management, inventory, change/configuration control and more effective service assurance. In this report, Enterprise Management Associates provides an introduction to ITIL's CMDB; outlines the drivers for CMDB adoption; addresses potential pitfalls on the road to CMDB success; and offers best-practices guidance to organizations undertaking a CMDB initiative.

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Lippis Report: The New Campus Networking Architecture
This report discusses how the campus network architecture is evolving from one based on logical services rather than physical components. It outlines six design principals that will transform the campus network into a business.

The Costs of Running Microsoft Exchange - An Azaleos Whitepaper
Companies often underestimate the costs of running e-mail. Aware that more than any other application, e-mail must constantly be running, many IT organizations are examining their e-mail infrastructures to determine how make them more cost efficient. This whitepaper examines some of the factors driving up e-mail infrastructure costs in the most widely used corporate email system today: Microsoft Exchange.

The need for Application SLAs: A new opportunity for service providers to increase market share, revenues and profits.
Offering consistent end-to-end application performance guarantees is the role of Service Level Agreements defined between the service providers and the enterprises. Typical network services SLAs are not directly linked to the performance of business critical applications. Application SLA measurement and enforcement capabilities of Ipanema allow service providers to create a new breed of application-centric services.

Cisco Commercial Data Center Executive Overview
Cisco Commercial Data Center for Companies with Growing IT Infrastructure Requirements.

Network Access Control Technologies and Symantec Compliance on Contract
NAC solutions require multiple enforcement methods and policy flexibility to cover the entire enterprise network. As an innovator in NAC solutions, Symantec provides the most comprehensive and flexible set of options for deploying NAC to best fit your enterprise needs. Read this paper to learn more about the theory behind Symantec's technology.

Network Downtime, the Configuration Error
This paper shares market research that highlight the importance of employing automated management tools to make networks more reliable. It discusses how some organizations fail to properly apply proven techniques to make network function better. Furthermore, it shares how incorrect configuration on network elements can lead to downtime.

Proactive Analysis is the Key to Optimizing Networks - An Executive Guide to Addressing Network Challenges
This paper describes how some organizations have addressed the issues of performance, security, reliability and compliance. It also shows the benefits to the staff when they can respond to potential problems before they happen in a more productive and efficient manner.

Ensuring Network Compliance - an Opportunity to Optimize the Network
This paper focuses on the impact of legislation on network operations, the requirements for network compliance, the parallel optimization benefits companies may experience from the compliance process, and how NetMRI from Netcordia helps companies manage and enforce network compliance with both best practices and official mandates.

The Essential Elements of Comprehensive Endpoint Security
For todays computing environments, there is little question that endpoint security is a required component of an overall enterprise security strategy. Read this paper is to clarify the various aspects of the endpoint security problem and to identify the functional requirements of a comprehensive endpoint security solution.

Internet Security Threat Report
The Highlights of this volume reveals the security threat environment continues to be populated by lower-profile, targeted attacks as cyber criminals identify new ways to steal information or provide remote access to user systems. This report offers analysis and discussion of threat activity, including: Internet attacks, vulnerabilities, malicious code, phishing, spam, security risks, and future trends.

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