Channel Tech Center

Security has become a cost of networking. Whereas security was once considered a completely separate discipline, it’s becoming increasingly clear that vendors are responding to customer demands for a more integrated approach.
Evidence of this convergence abounds. Security software vendors are lined up to port their wares to network infrastructure platforms from companies such as Hewlett-Packard, [...]

Looking to do a better job monitoring all of your network’s applications portfolio? The GV-2010 is a unit designed to give you very granular control over how your end users use particular applications, and inspect all of your content leaving your network.
We tested the appliance on a small network in February 2010.
Global Velocity GV-2010
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There have been a lot of advancements in the area of telepresence that has gotten a fair amount of attention from customers. After all, the idea of being able to hold meeting using high-definition video conferencing systems that can be used to reduce travel time and budget has universal appeal. The issue, of course, has [...]

Profiler makes it easier to troubleshoot and manage up to five McAfee Enterprise firewalls from one central console and help you keep up with changes to your network and applications. You can examine the implications to real-time changes in your network before you commit them and also quickly do ad hoc analysis on rule sets.
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At the end of the day, solution providers in the channel need viable technologies that not only sell themselves, but also create an opportunity for the solution provider to deliver downstream services that are the key to ultimately being profitable. What follows is a list of 10 technology areas that in the last year have [...]

Over the years IT organizations have deployed appliances to handle all kinds of specific tasks on the network, ranging from security to application acceleration. But too much of a good thing has resulted in a Byzantine maze of appliances at the edge of the network that have become cumbersome and costly to manage.
In the meantime, [...]

Unless you’re been away somewhere for a very long time, you’re aware that VMware and Citrix are now locked in mortal combat over which company is going to control the future of desktop virtualization.
Arguably, Citrix is the incumbent because of its long history with terminal services. But VMware has been coming on strong in its [...]

Although the economy may have just started to recover, there have been some fundamental advances in data center technology driven by virtualization that all the major system vendors are in the process of addressing.
Just this past week we saw Cisco line up with VMware and EMC to create pre-packaged sets of offerings for the data [...]

Given the fact that Oracle is about to close on its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, solution providers in the channel might have found it out this week to see Oracle cozying up to Hewlett-Packard on the subject of data center convergence.
At Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle announced application support for the integrated BladeSystem Matrix from HP. For [...]

NetScout Systems has extended the visibility of its popular performance management tools to include support for virtual machines from VMware.
The addition of virtual machine support means that solution providers in the channel that rely on NetScout management software can use the same tools to track network traffic regardless of whether the application resides on a [...]