Bring Your Own Device is a growing trend where employees use personally owned mobile devices to access privileged company resources. While BYOD can reduce corporate costs and improve employee morale, it can lead to serious problems for corporate IT departments, including higher management costs, less control over content, compliance issues and security risks. This paper examines BYOD, presenting the results […]

Business software is meant to satisfy the needs of the business. But when your existing software comes up short, why fall into the trap of putting it on life support—supplementing with spreadsheets and other remedial efforts—when it’s actually never been easier to upgrade to a better, more robust financial management system. Download this report from Mint Jutras to see why […]

Client virtualization is an important IT strategy aimed at improving employee productivity by supporting mobility and bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives while assuring application and data security. At the same time it has the ability to improve efficiency and reduce IT infrastructure management costs. On the surface the benefits of client virtualization are very attractive, but without proven deployment […]

Companies are trading in their traditional phone systems for VoIP due to its flexibility and increased efficiency. Whether you’re a small business or an enterprise, it’s important to find the right provider to meet the needs of your VoIP plan. This eGuide outlines the essential features in a calling plan and how the competitors in the market stack up with […]

Many businesses are migrating over to cloud strategies for their telephony needs due to improved costs and growth capacity. With increased flexibility, scalability, and constant improvements to the technology, VoIP is playing an integral role in evolving the telecommunications industry and changing the way businesses address their telephony needs. This eGuide outlines a handful of the hottest VoIP trends for […]

The Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies Book introduces you to common network performance management (NPM) issues and give you a new way of looking at solving them. This perspective allows you to see your network from your users’ point of view, namely, the services and applications they use and their experience with them.

In this whitepaper, analyst firm, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), presents an economic value validation study of Riverbed Performance Management solution, Cascade application-aware NPM. ESG interviewed current Riverbed Cascade customers and based on these interviews, developed an economic model that predicts the benefits of deploying a Riverbed Cascade solution.

The growing complexity and abstraction that cloud and virtualization bring makes visibility across the enterprise all that more important. Consequently, any new options and capabilities that can help to shine a light into an otherwise obscured part of the IT architecture are most welcome. In this report EMA reviews Cascade to see how it measures up.