Sydney hospital chooses HP networking

Northern Sydney Central Coast Health has awarded HP a $1.15 million networking contract, reports IT News.

HP will build a networking solution for a new 12-storey, $99 million facility, the Kolling Building, for medical research and education at Royal North Shore Hospital, in Sydney.

The hospital needed high-speed connectivity and secure deployment of voice, video and data in a high-performance environment.

Aruba Networks, a provider of wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, has made available three reference guides for network integrators that are designing and deploying Aruba solutions, states Market Watch.

The best practice architectures are intended to reduce the time and expense associated with successfully planning and deploying large campus wireless LANs, role-based network access control on wired networks, and retail applications.

"Aruba's reference guides are intended to lower installation and maintenance costs by providing validated reference designs that integrators can use to plan, deploy, and support Aruba wireless LANs and security solutions," said Chuck Lukaszewski, Aruba's director of Professional Services.

Modern applications and networks are becoming increasingly difficult to manage, applications are moving to hyper-distributed SOA, infrastructures are becoming virtualised, and the lines are blurring between the network and application tiers, says Market Watch.

At the same time, traditional application and network-management tools have remained virtually unchanged for the last decade or more, and fall short when it comes to providing visibility for troubleshooting, performance tuning, and capacity planning.

To meet the demands of today's complex applications, ExtraHop Networks has unveiled its Application Delivery Assurance Appliance to move today's IT organisations beyond monitoring and toward holistic application assurance.