Faster, Better, Smarter: Rebooting IT Infrastructure for the Digital Age

whitePaper | March 30, 2022

5G is now entering diverse industries, including the electric power industry. 5G technologies can be adopted in the electric power industry to quicken the industry's digital and intelligent transformation, which will provide strong support for building a clean, secure, efficient, and lowcarbon electric power system. However, before widely applying 5G technologies in the industry, we must address current network security issues. Network security is at the basis of digital transformation and the industry has put forward the security protection principle "secure partitioning, exclusive network use, horizontal isolation, and vertical authentication".

whitePaper | May 12, 2022

The document discusses load balancer design considerations and deployment options in Cisco ACI, specifically with F5 BIG-IP from three aspects: network design, F5 design, and multi-tenant design. This document covers features up to Cisco ACI Release 5.2. One of the key considerations of the network design with load balancer is to ensure incoming and return traffic go through the same load balancer (one exception is direct server return (DSR), which doesn't have this requirement). There are various options you can use to insert the load balancer. One way is to use the load balancer as a gateway for servers or as a routing next hop for routing instances. Another option is to use Source Network Address Translation (SNAT) on the load balancer or use ACI Policy-Based Redirect (PBR) to make the return traffic go back to the load balancer.

whitePaper | October 18, 2022

This document is a conceptual and architectural review of the Dell VxRail system, optimized for VMware vSAN. The Tech Book first describes how hyperconverged infrastructure drives digital transformation and then focuses on the VxRail system as a leading hyperconverged technology solution.

whitePaper | August 19, 2022

Data-driven insights form the basis on which organizations can gain competitive differentiation now and in the future. Externally, competitive differentiation is delivered via new products and services or existing products and services continually enhanced via new user engagements and experiences. Internally, differentiation can be achieved via streamlining and optimizing business operations. Being data driven is compressing time to value of insights, thereby creating top- and bottom-line impact on the business.

whitePaper | May 9, 2022

Security is a fundamental requirement for all enterprise-level technologies. The pandemic has created a “new normal” dominated by long-distance remote working. This has served to increase reliance on multiple cloud platforms, making connectivity more important than ever. This, however, has also led to an increase in the number of threats and attacks. For this reason, businesses are strongly advised to transform their WANs and security architectures

whitePaper | November 15, 2019

IT professionals continuously tackle new and ongoing challenges in connection to the operation and performance of their infrastructure. Managing an organization’s IT infrastructure is a demanding responsibility requiring experience, strategic thinking and the ability to balance current technology challenges and future opportunities.Service Express surveyed IT professionals on a variety of topics from changing technology to plans regarding the use of a hybrid approach to finding the optimal solutions within their data center environments. We think you will find these insights useful in understanding how IT professionals are prioritizing and acting on current and future needs and opportunities.