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White Papers
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Beyond the Hypervisor: A Holistic Approach to Developing Next-Generation Data Center Architecture
This blueprint for enterprise architects outlines a holistic approach to data center virtualization that can help IT meet the three perpetual business demands of better, faster, and cheaper, while laying the foundation for a dynamic, responsive infrastructure. Architects will learn about the network’s vital role in enabling virtualization, as well as why it’s important to think from the “inside out” when implementing virtualization.
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Blueprint for Collaborative Application Architecture
Effective communication, improved cost efficiencies and increased productivity begins with an architecture that supports your business strategy. This paper provides a blueprint for a collaboration strategy that leverages your network’s capabilities. This open, secure and interoperable approach removes bottlenecks between technologies and effective communications. The resulting architecture allows your enterprise to collaborate with confidence and evolves along with the workplace.
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Cisco Cloud Security: Choosing the Right Email Security Deployment
Enterprises of all sizes face the same daunting challenges – increasing mail volumes and new, evolving threats. This document discusses the various email security service options offered by Cisco Cloud Security and provides insights into choosing the solution that best fits your organization’s business needs.
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Cisco SONA and SAP: Creating an Instantly Responsive Enterprise
The faster an enterprise can respond to a threat – whether inside or outside the enterprise – the less potential damage can occur.
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Cisco SONA in Unified Communications: A Solid Foundation for the Collaborative Enterprise
This paper describes how Cisco’s Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) provides robust, network-based services that enrich emerging, innovative composite applications, such as UC, and significantly contributing to optimal alignment between technology and business processes.
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Case Studies
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“Big 10” University Optimizes 802.11n Performance
See how Cisco customers enhance their wireless infrastructure and decreased wireless interference mitigation from hours to minutes, reduced routine access point maintenance to one-fifth of the time, and reduced cost per access point by 25%.
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Hospital Delivers Reliable Mobile Device Support
Leading hospital migrated to Cisco’s CleanAir system—implementing the Cisco Aironet 3500 Series access points, Cisco Mobility Services Engine, and more—to isolate and address interference from devices and locations across their campus, enabling faster response times to improve overall patient care.
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Virgin Megastores Enhances Customer Experience with SONA
Virgin Megastores improved the customer experience by connecting listening stations and implementing VoIP over a converged, service-oriented network.
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Webcasts
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All Clouds Are Not Created Equal
How do you break thought the cloud computing buzz and discover what’s right for your organization? Just ask Cisco. The company has been at this for decades, starting with its deep roots in the data center right though to its unique approach to security technology. Join this webcast for a tactical session that breaks down cloud computing, addresses concerns around control and reliability, and addresses one of the popular uses of cloud services today: email security.
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Your Users are Everywhere: Understand and Solve the Challenges of Secure Mobility
As the Web has become the ubiquitous platform for application delivery in the enterprise, it has also become the primary target of a near-epidemic level of malware attack threats. Traditional defenses are proving to be inadequate against this rapidly changing Web-based malware, leaving corporate networks more exposed than ever and emphasizing the importance of a robust, secure platform to protect the enterprise network perimeter.
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Product Literature
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Cisco IronPort Cloud Email Security
Customers of all sizes face the same daunting challenges – higher message volumes and new, evolving email threats. Cisco utilizes multiple methods to provide the utmost in comprehensive email security, incorporating preventive and reactive measures to maximize defense.
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Cisco IronPort Hybrid Email Security vs. Appliance and Competitive SaaS Model
Hybrid refers to utilizing a split deployment model to perform email security. Hybrid solutions combine all the benefits of an in-the-cloud service with the granularity required to protect sensitive data from leaving an organization.
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eWeek Podcasts
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Cisco Changes the Channel
Cisco announced a series of new specializations to help partners sell Cisco infrastructure products.
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Cisco CSO Speaks Out
In this eWEEK Podcast, eWEEK Senior Writer Matt Hines talks to Cisco CSO John Stewart about the greatest problems facing chief security officers today, and the increasing role of network-oriented IT security technologies.
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Cisco Gets the Security Message
In this eWEEK podcast, Senior Writer Matt Hines interviews Cisco security executive Mick Scully about the company`s $830 million buyout of messaging security specialist IronPort.
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Cisco Partners Step on It
In this week`s eWEEK Podcast, Jessica Davis talks to Edison Peres, vice president of worldwide channels at Cisco, about how Cisco is helping partners accelerate their growth plans.
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Cisco Primes the Channel
In this eWEEK Podcast, Mike Vizard talks with Keith Goodwin, channel chief for Cisco, about the company`s move toward becoming a platform vendor rather than just selling a collection of networking products.
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Research Reports
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Cisco 2009 Midyear Security Report: An Update on Global Security Threats and Trends
The Cisco 2009 Midyear Security Report presents an update on global security threats and trends. This overview of Cisco security intelligence highlights threat information and trends from the first half of 2009. The report includes recommendations from Cisco security experts and predictions of how identified trends will evolve.
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Cisco 2Q10 Global Threat Report
The Cisco 2Q10 Global Threat Report merges threat analysis from Cisco IPS, Cisco IronPort, and Cisco ScanSafe data. Not only does this report show the who, what, when and where of Web threats, but it also gives a bird's eye view into what types of attacks are happening on enterprise networks - including how they can sometimes correlate to attack outbreaks on the Web.
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Cisco Midyear Security Report
Businesses must change their mindset on security to help ensure that their networks and vital corporate information are protected from evolving security threats. The Cisco Midyear Security Report outlines effective security practices for strengthening and protecting enterprises' competitive edge.
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Reviews
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Cisco`s Free Threat-Alerts Service Uses CVSS
The vendor-neutral attempt to standardize the way security flaws are rated gets a boost from network security vendor Cisco. Will the industry follow? (eWEEK Review)
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Technology Briefs
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Effective Web Policy and Security for Roaming Users
The number of employees who work outside the traditional office is rapidly increasing and perhaps surprisingly now constitutes the majority of workers for many businesses. The benefits of employees working outside the office do, however, come with increased risks due to lower levels of security.
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ScanSafe Web Filtering
As the amount of time spent browsing the Internet continues to rise, the problems associated with providing unmonitored and unregulated access also increase. Learn how Web Filtering can protect your staff and network from undesirable Web content, and drive productivity.
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ScanSafe Web Security
As the Internet transforms from a static resource to a utility platform enabling two-way communications, malicious threats have increased in volume and shifted their focus toward the Web. This change has made traditional methods of control such as anti-virus less effective and requires an alternative approach to security.
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ScanSafe WIRe: Web Intelligence Reporting
Around the globe, organizations face common demands; improve performance, streamline processes and increase productivity, and all while maintaining or lowering IT budgets. Given these contrasting goals, businesses are looking for improved ways to understand and optimize their systems and policies to achieve benefits without incurring additional expenses.
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Videos
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An Introduction to ScanSafe
Making an appearance on Techwise TV, Cisco Product Manager, Mark Guntrip joins host, Jimmy Ray Purser, as he gives an informative introduction of ScanSafe Solution and elaborates on the differences in an on-premise solution and in what ScanSafe provides in the Cloud. Using visual aids, Guntrip gives an overview of User Granularity, Policy Control, and Security along with their Global Infrastructure and breaks down ScanSafe’s Security Architecture.
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An Introduction to WIRe, ScanSafe’s Web Intelligence Reporting
Join Cisco’s Product Manager, Mark Guntrip, as he appears on Techwise TV to answer some of hosts Jimmy Ray Purser’s questions about limited visibility with Cloud and the advantages of ScanSafe’s Web Intelligence Reporting (WIRe). Using a live system coming across the internet that is up in the cloud, Guntrip demonstrates how WIRe can enhance what you are used to with your traditional solutions.
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Behind the Music: Virgin Megastores
Virgin Megastores is improving the customer experience with a converged network based on Cisco`s SONA and Cisco ACNS solution for the stores’ digital listening stations. (3:51 min)
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Cisco TV Presents the Cisco 2010 Midyear Security Report
This interactive video examines the “tectonic forces of change” reshaping the security landscape and features Cisco Chief Security Officer, John Stewart and Senior Security Researcher, Mary Landesman. An overview from Cisco’s security intelligence operations is presented, highlighting threat information and trends for the first half of the year. The video calls out key points from the report and suggest security recommendations for moving forward in 2010.
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eWeek Slide Shows
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Cisco’s Venerable Catalyst 6500 Line Gets Virtual Refresh
The Catalyst 6500 Virtual Switching System 1440 allows two switches to appear as one, reducing management burden and adding resiliency.
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eWEEK Labs Walk-through: Cisco Smart Business Communications System
This slideshow provides a view of Cisco System`s Smart Business Communications System.
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