While the global economy slows down, network security spending continues to be robust as business and IT leaders seek to protect corporate assets, thus avoiding a major distraction when market focus is needed most. Recent analyst numbers suggest that data loss can result from myriad corporate security vulnerabilities. Itâs getting harder to protect a company's intellectual property as the modern concept of work is based upon anywhere and anytime electronic collaboration and the borderless enterprise. Nasrin Rezai, Senior Director of Information Security for Cisco Systems is my guest as we discuss PPT or People, Process and Technology as the strategy to mitigate data from being lost or stolen from your company. To understand best practices of data loss prevention, you need to listen to this podcast

Green initiatives, governmental requirements, work-home lifestyle changes, business expense controls, reduced real estate requirements, business continuity - all these concerns add up as strong motivation for business and IT leaders to drive enterprise-wide mobility initiatives. Now more than ever, the value gained through the mobile enterprise is being embraced as executive management seeks operational cost reduction and increased productivity. Joe Ghory, Marketing Manager at Riverbed Technology is my guest as we discuss best practices to deliver corporate value though a mobile workforce. If your firm's initiatives are cost reduction and increased productivity then listen to this podcast.

Over the last 20 years, business and IT leaders have been distributing IT infrastructure to the branch and mobile employee environment. However, the past decade has demonstrated a trend in the need to consolidate distributed IT infrastructure back to the data center in order to cut costs and gain more security and control. With data centers being consolidated and virtualized, central applications perform poorly when accessed via branch office or mobile networks. By adding application optimization and acceleration technology to branch and mobile users, IT leaders gain the economic efficiencies afforded by data center consolidation without the pain of poor branch and remote application performance. Bob Gilbert, Director of Marketing at Riverbed Technology is my guest as we discuss strategies to reduce corporate operational spend through data center, branch and mobile networking. If youâre centralizing branch and mobile users applications for then you need to listen to this podcast.

There are many facts that point to continuing growth in branch office deployments, and the realization that application delivery has become data-center and branch office focused. Delivering business innovation to branch office locations has always been challenging with few, if any, IT personal on site, in-consistent application and service delivery among branches and employee demands for higher levels of business services that are available at headquarter facilities. In the current difficult macro economic scenario managed services offers the favorable trade-off of capital plus salary cost for facilities cost; lowering operational spend. Joel Conover Sr. Manager, Network Systems Marketing at Cisco Systems joins me to discuss IT leaderâs options to accelerate business innovation while lowering operational spend through managed services delivered by service providers harnessing the power of Ciscoâs Empowered Branch solution. If you are looking for a new model to deliver branch office innovation and cut capital costs, then you have to listen to this podcast

Enterprise networks, especially branch office networks, have experienced a level of service integration over the past five years that has delivered lower acquisition and operational cost while increasing the number of services available to branch office employees. Branch office routers now include switching, WLANs, PoE, network security, WAN Optimization, VPN, unified communications and advanced routing which increase application performance over thin wide area network links. In this podcast we explain the next generation of branch office optimization, which is the integration of applications into the network fabric. The networking industry has started to open up its software in the form of SDKs and APIs. Cisco, Juniper, Extreme, 3Com and the open source routing initiatives are all allowing developers to write to defined router software interfaces. The concepts here are based upon research contained within an industry paper available for download at http://lippisreport.com/2008/09/increasing-corporate-value-through-integrated-networks-and-applications-a-new-approach-to-it-service-delivery-emerges-for-branch-office-operations/. We explain integrated networks and applications in this pdocast and provide business and IT leaders recommendations to exploit it for corporate advantage.

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