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  • Using cheap network switches from commodity vendors in your LAN

    Cheap network switches from commodity vendors that use commercially available silicon can help you save money in your LAN network design when budgets are tight. Some networking pros are considering these low-cost vendors as a viable alternative to premium vendors like Cisco for certain parts of their networks.Article | Thu Sep 02 00:00:00 EDT 2010

  • Channel Chat: Low-cost ways to help your customer improve network performance

    With the economy still troubling many of your customers, they need network performance services that can improve network efficiency without breaking the bank. In this edition of Channel Chat, we talk with Carl Mazzanti of eMazzanati Technologies. Carl gives valuable advice about how to improve network performance and make your customer's network run like a Ferrari on a Volkswagen budget, thus helping you gain your customers' trust.Podcast

  • MSPs get more, pay less with PSA software on cloud computing platform

    Professional services automation (PSA) software can take the headache out of running an IT services shop, and using it in a cloud computing platform can be kinder to your budget.Article | Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 EST 2009

  • Choose greener data center networking gear

    Choosing energy-efficient or green networking and IT gear can vitally affect your data center's environmental impact and cost of operation. Learn about environmental and cost savings benefits of choosing energy-efficient networking and IT hardware.Book Chapter

  • Green IT tutorial: Offering green networking services

    Offering green IT services can prove to be lucrative in these environmentally conscious times. Learn how to offer green networking and other energy-efficient IT services, including understanding green networking technology, navigating the green IT market, and pitching green networks to your customers as cost saving measures, with this collection of top green IT resources.Tutorial

  • Cloud services may be cheaper, but MSPs have much to weigh before going up

    The cost, space and energy savings MSPs might gain by hosting services in the cloud rather than in their own data center are tempered with concerns about network visibility, security and management of multiple applications.Article | Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2009

  • Router and switch upgrades: Five reasons your customer should invest

    Mid recession, customers are avoiding investment in even basic router and switch upgrades, but one surefire way to convince them is long-term savings that will outweigh investment.Tip

  • Remote switch management services offer potential for partners

    Remote switch management services offer partners recurring revenue and closer customer relationships -- if they have skilled staff and solid technology.Article | Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 EST 2009

  • Network design checklist: Six factors to consider when designing LANs

    Designing a local area network from scratch is the project most consultants dream of. When it finally lands in your inbox, do you know where to start? This checklist of six potential design issues will help ensure your LAN project is a success.Channel Checklist

  • What role does the network have in the future data center?

    The future data center will be driven by the network. Learn how technologies such as iSCSI and virtualization will provide additional opportunities for network service providers as they drive the creation of future data centers.Ask the Expert

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  • How to break into the healthcare IT services market

    With $19 billion up for grabs thanks to the stimulus package, healthcare IT spending will be on the rise. Find out how you can break into this lucrative market of healthcare IT services as a networking solution provider offering healthcare IT networks and related services.Article | Mon Sep 13 00:00:00 EDT 2010

  • Out-of-band network management ensures data center network uptime

    Enterprises with extremely high uptime requirements for their data center networks will spend the extra money on out-of-band network management. The New York Stock Exhange (NYSE Euronext) has built a Force10 network to manage its Juniper production network.Article | Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 EST 2009

  • Solution provider tutorial: Network disaster recovery

    Value-added resellers (VARs) and solution providers can widen their customer base by offering network disaster recovery planning and business continuity services and software. Learn how to package disaster recovery products and services in this tutorial guide.Tutorial

  • Network security monitoring using transaction data

    Using transaction data -- or application-specific traffic data -- in network security monitoring can give you a new line of defense.Tip

  • CCNA Security - Defending the perimeter

    This section of the chapter excerpt from "CCNA Security Official Exam Certification Guide" introduces how to set up and administrate your router to defend your network perimeter.Tip

  • Disaster recovery software and compliance considerations

    Disaster recovery software is necessary in any organization, but is especially important for public companies that need to comply with industry regulations. Testing and monitoring your client's DR plan is becoming simpler, however, as disaster recovery software is increasingly being built into other tools in the environment. A VAR must figure out how to meet the needs of clients while still satisfying official DR compliance regulations.Feature

  • WAN technologies in network disaster recovery

    WAN technologies and issues, including bandwidth and connectivity, play an important role in network disaster recovery. Learn about some of these roles and how to best apply them to a disaster recovery plan.Feature

  • Network disaster recovery planning and the WAN

    WAN connectivity is a vulnerable, but critical, issue to consider in network disaster recovery. Learn about some of these issues and how to apply them to successful network disaster recovery planning.Feature

  • Network disaster recovery planning: Product sales opportunities

    Network disaster recovery planning is only half the package. VARs who pair products with services can offer customers a complete plan.Tip

  • Network disaster recovery planning: A service opportunity

    Comprehensive network disaster recovery planning includes anticipating, preparing for and recovering from a variety of potential disasters. Learn how to help customers with this vital effort by offering a range of network disaster recovery planning services.Tip

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