Sponsor: Brocade

Brocade is transforming networks to support the new IP by delivering cloud-optimised architectures that offer new levels of scale, agility, and operational efficiency.

These highly automated, software-driven, and programmable data center fabric solutions provide flexible network virtualization options and scale for data center environments ranging from tens to thousands of servers.

Brocade solutions make it easy for organizations to architect, automate, and integrate their infrastructure with current and future data center technologies as they transition to a cloud model.

As organizations continue to transform their business and adapt to new digital workloads, IT operations teams struggle to keep pace with the volume and variety of digital data going across their networks.

Visibility is critical, and in order to meet customer and end-user service and application expectations and remain competitive, organizations need to provide service and application assurance, improve operational efficiencies, and enable new monetisation opportunities. They need comprehensive visibility into the operational state of the network and into the traffic that is transiting the network without compromising day-to-day operations and performance.

To unleash new levels of business innovation and competitive advantage, customers are embracing digital transformation. Success depends on building an agile business. In the digital era, IT agility is key to business agility. However, IT infrastructure is only as agile as its least agile component.

The lack of network automation and the inability of the network to align with IT operations and tool chains today is the single biggest inhibitor to an organisation’s ability to capitalise on digitalisation. In fact, 75 percent of CIOs say the network is an issue in achieving their organization’s goals.

Read this eBook to understand how you can accelerate your journey with Brocade and VMware

You’ve virtualized your compute and storage. So what’s next? To complete the journey to a software-defined data center you must modernize your network. This eBook explains how integrated solutions from Brocade and VMware will deliver:

• Seamless integration of the physical and virtual infrastructure
• Full network visibility across all environments
• Competitive advantage thanks to improved performance and agility

IT and application architectures have changed significantly in the past decade as cloud, big data, and mobile computing have disrupted business processes and applications. Cloud computing offers a particularly attractive value proposition: It gives organizations of all sizes the ability to leverage IT resources as needed.

When data center investment is a concern or IT is an enabler but not a core business, cloud-based services can allow organizations to scale effectively via hosted applications, or infrastructure-as-a-service. Organizations also are building their own next-generation data center infrastructure in order to benefit from the cost-efficiencies, flexibility, and scale that a cloud provides.

The arrival of virtualization, cloud computing, and mobility has strained data center networks—and IT staff—like never before. This Market Spotlight explains how data center network fabrics provide a foundation for automated provisioning, configuration, and management of network-based services in a new era of IT agility.

Deploying the right Ethernet fabric is key for any organization, but selecting one can be daunting. Fortunately, the Lippis guide “Top 6 Recommendations for Selecting an Ethernet Fabric” provides insight and deployment tips based on the results of a recent study.

SDN deployment is not a matter of if but when—is your data center ready? This new eGuide reveals how to maximize the value of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

From governance issues to unique technology challenges, state and local agencies are using emerging technologies to create winning services and policies. Discover new tools and techniques for leveraging IT innovations and strategies to create winning results. This Center for Digital Government technology playbook for government agencies on choosing the right technology for government modernization.

State and local agencies face increasing challenges of dealing with complex IT environments, skyrocketing data volumes, and accountability hurdles. The Big Five of IT offer a beacon of light – promising to improve agency performance, productivity, and service. But they will choke state and local networks. Watch this webinar to learn how you can prepare networks for new data center consolidation, mobility, security, big data, and cloud computing initiatives.

As state and local government organizations grapple with tight budgets, demanding constituents, growing data volumes, and cross-government coordination challenges, the "Big Five of IT" – data center consolidation, mobility, security, big data, and cloud computing – promise to improve agency performance, productivity, and service. But are state and local networks ready? Recent research determined that the Big Five will choke Federal networks if agencies don't take steps to prepare for increased network demands now. This research report examines potential network impact, state and local readiness, and how organizations can prepare for the onslaught.

Throughout the history of computing there have been some major new technologies that changed the way people connected and business was done. And these changes are still coming. And rather than just one major technology having a big impact, we are seeing many emerging technologies rising at the same time.

Modern network traffic between offices has a much different makeup than in past years. Rather than just email and files, businesses today send vast amounts of data, virtual systems, and real-time traffic such as voice and video. This report analyzes how top performing businesses improve network and application performance and also looks at how one organization built their own smarter global network.

New trends impact networking costs, which can already represent a significant portion of IT spending. Mobile devices and cloud computing as well as video viewing may drive network requirements to new and unseen levels. This report from Gartner forecasts changes to enterprise network capacity over the next five years by evaluating the impact of cloud, mobile, video and BYOD using a range of scenarios. This research will help network planners to understand the challenges and measure which kind of evolution is best practice.

New trends impact networking costs, which can already represent a significant portion of IT spending. Mobile devices and cloud computing as well as video viewing may drive network requirements to new and unseen levels. This report from Gartner forecasts changes to enterprise network capacity over the next five years by evaluating the impact of cloud, mobile, video and BYOD using a range of scenarios. This research will help network planners to understand the challenges and measure which kind of evolution is best practice.