Understanding Network TAPs – The First Step to Visibility

A network TAP is a simple device that connects directly to the cabling infrastructure to split or copy packets for use in analysis, security or general network management. Although the term “Tap” predates the networking industry by decades, the IT industry has generally adopted the term to mean Test Access Point. Thus, TAP is considered an acronym.

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Definitive Guide to Next-Generation Network Packet Brokers

Packets arrive, Packets seen, Packets conquered. Find out how next-generation network packet brokers offer powerful visibility and insights into network traffic while reducing risk, complexity and costs.

Download the new Definitive Guide™ to Next-Generation Network Packet Brokers and discover the immediate benefits of shifting your infrastructure strategy to include NGNPBs. You’ll experience expanded feature sets that simplify your architecture, realize the true ROI of your security tools and give you visibility into critical security threats.

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How to prepare for your cloud migration

Cloud migration is consistently one of the top priorities of technology leaders across the world today, but many are overwhelmed by trying to plan their cloud migration, struggling to prioritize workloads and unsure of the cost implications..

Download this white paper to discover the 5 key steps for cloud migration based on the best practices of today’s most successful IT leaders:

  • Baseline TCO resources (cloud, on-premises, hybrid)
  • Map current on-premises resources to cloud offerings
  • Evaluate and prioritize migration strategy
  • Calculate migration costs
  • Define success metrics

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API for Dummies Handbook (Third Edition)

APIs are a hot topic, energetically debated by business people, IT managers, and developers alike. Most of the excitement in the public space is about open public APIs. To some degree, not having a public API today is like not having a website in the late 1990s. Yet for many enterprises, public APIs are really the least of their business concerns. More important concerns include building omni-channel solutions, innovating faster than the competition, becoming a mobile enterprise, or operating in a hybrid cloud environment.

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Central Role of Messaging Middleware in Cloud and Digital Transformation Initiatives

Highly decentralized computing is the new normal for most organizations, and digital transformation (DX) initiatives are changing application architectures to event driven to support real-time and near-real-time response cycles. In this environment, enterprises are increasingly turning to messaging middleware to meet the combined requirements of complexity, speed, reliability, and security to connect the digital world of applications and data.

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Business Phone Solution Buyer’s Guide

This Buyers Guide helps business owners select the right phone system for their business by asking important and revealing questions, including:

  • Traditional Service or Business VoIP Service?
  • Which Calling Features are Most Important?
  • Does the System Support Mobility?
  • How Much Should I Expect to Pay?
  • How Will My Phone System Grow with My Business?
  • What If I Need Customer or Technical Support?
  • What Makes a System Reliable?
  • Is My Information Secure?
  • How Long Does it Take to Set Up a New Phone System?
  • What About Onboarding and Training?
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The Forrester Wave: Data Resiliency Solutions

Today’s IT leaders are struggling to adapt to the ever-changing requirements for protecting and managing data across their infrastructure. Data is becoming increasingly distributed across on-premises and multi-cloud environments and according to Forrester, “this scattering of data requires infrastructure and operations leaders to take a fresh approach to data resiliency.”

Yesterday’s data protection solutions are making way for new future-ready data resiliency solutions. Businesses need to adopt a data-resiliency mindset that addresses today’s IT challenges, including not only the growth of data, but also the increased risks to their data both from internal and external threats.

Read this report and find out what innovative data-resiliency approaches Forrester recommends for businesses like yours, including “delivering data protection in a software-as-a-service (SaaS), and what Forrester says about the critical requirements for data resiliency solutions.

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Digital Transformation Survival Guide

In today’s digital era, business executives recognize that they must disrupt their markets or risk being disrupted themselves. Whether through the development of creative new digital products, revamping of digitally enabled business models, automating back-end processes, or streamlining supply chains, forward-looking enterprises increasingly seek competitive differentiation through digital transformation.

The outcome of these initiatives will make or break the viability of future generations of businesses, even among the most traditional non-tech organizations. The trick will be maintaining a healthy balance between the upsides of digital transformation and the risks of accelerating tech-driven innovation.

Read this quick Digital Transformation Survival Guide to understand how cybersecurity leaders can play a valuable role in this risk management balancing act of security and data privacy concerns vs. digital transformation.

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