Data Center Switching

In today’s competitive business environment, you simply can’t afford to have bottlenecks in your data center. Yet when one element of the data center is relying too heavily on the manual processes while others are automated, these bottlenecks will arise.<br><br>You need data center switches and management tools that will allow you to get the automation you need. Of course, it’s not as simple as that—there’s any number of choices out there for your enterprise.<br><br>Organizations want a switching architecture that is cost-efficient and effective, one that can improve uptime and enhance agility all while reducing costs and future-proofing your network. Learn how to make the right choice for your needs.

Five Top Considerations in Architecting Your Network for the Future

Network architects have more choices than ever when it comes to data center switches. From emerging categories such as white box switches to new powerful cloud spine switches built on custom chip sets, networks can now be designed with maximum flexibility to address a diverse range of price/performance requirements. Continue Reading

Why Network Automation is Essential to Modernizing Your Data Center Infrastructure

As virtualization has proliferated through data centers, IT departments have been able to apply advanced automation tools and techniques to server and storage infrastructures. Integrating the network into the automation workflow, however, has been more challenging. Deploying, provisioning, operating and configuring data center networks is still a largely manual and time-consuming process that is vulnerable to human error. Continue Reading

Using Actionable Analytics to Improve the Availability and Performance of Applications

A major challenge in addressing application performance problems is isolating the cause. Is the problem in the application itself, the servers, the network or some combination thereof? One of the best ways to quickly overcome this challenge is to gain granular visibility and timely insight into how your network infrastructure is functioning. The faster you can identify and isolate problems, the faster you can prevent them from causing damage or remediate issues if they do occur. Continue Reading