The Issue:

Headquarters and data centers have received ample attention in the past
five years from the IT and networking staffs. With data-center consolidation
projects in place at most organizations, an entire reassessment of the core
infrastructure has taken place. (Please see Nemertes’ Next-Generation Data
Centers benchmark series for more information). As data-center consolidation
projects wind down, IT focus is shifting to branch offices. In many cases, voice
and data applications and even security functions are in data centers.

Now, IT needs to deliver these centralized services to a steadily increasing
number of branches so employees can access applications and data securely and
consistently. This growing virtual workplace puts ever greater demands on the
network and IT infrastructure to support collaborative applications in a
consistent, predictable, and reliable manner. IT staffs must evaluate the needs of
each branch location and respond with a consistent set of products and services
enterprise-wide. They also must evaluate management options to find those that
most effectively prevent problems from emerging and quickly resolve the
problems that do.

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