October 4, 2006

The Evolving Branch Office: Intelligently Reducing Your Network Infrastructure Footprint

by Robert Whiteley, Stephanie Balaouras

with Simon Yates, Christine E. Atwood

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Enterprises are facing a dilemma: How can they increase services like storage, security, communications, and application services that are available in branch offices while trying to consolidate infrastructure and decrease costs? To date, most firms have deployed numerous point products to solve these woes tactically. But recent technology advancements will streamline infrastructure requirements by consolidating numerous functions — like routing, wireless connectivity, security, application acceleration, IP telephony, IP address management, and remote monitoring — into fewer appliances. So can firms deploy a "branch-office-in-a-box"? No. But depending on the branch profile, firms can intelligently collapse similar services — like security with routing and communications, as well as storage with application acceleration — to reduce the management burden and still offer full-service sites.

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