Expect More from your Web Infrastructure
[ Source: Red Hat ]
May 2013-
There's a reason Red Hat Enterprise Linux is consistently chosen as the operating platform for industry-standard performance benchmarks. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is designed to deliver scale-out and scale-up performance for small and large servers, offering documented scalability up to 4,096 CPUs and 64 Terabytes of RAM.
Linux in the Mainstream: Business Critical Workloads Quickly Becoming the Norm
[ Source: Red Hat ]
May 2013-
This IDC White Paper takes a look at the growth of Linux as a server operating system and how deployment form factors have changed over time. Today, commercial Linux has become a key platform across many workloads. This paper considers both workload data and the ecosystem that has grown up to support the opportunity for Linux deployments, including application software, application development and deployment software, and infrastructure software. Detailed case studies covering the Red Hat ...
Building a Bridge to the Next-Generation Data Center
[ Source: Red Hat ]
May 2013-
Making your datacenter more agile and responsive requires changes to tools and processes. Organizations can build a bridge to the next generation by selecting a widely adopted operating system as a foundational component.
How Red Hat Delivers a Secure Enterprise Platform for Next-Generation Datacenters
[ Source: Red Hat ]
May 2013-
Traditional security measures such as network firewalls are no longer enough to keep an enterprise secure. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux, security mechanisms are incorporated and applied at the core of every solution, and security is extended to include all the open source packages that make up Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As a result, customers experience a higher quality of service.
Mission critical defense
[ Source: HP ]
May 2013-
Attackers don't work in silos. To defend against them, your defenses can't be siloed either. The teams, tools, and solutions you use in the response must be quick, decisive, and adaptive. Disparate teams must come together; information must be shared; and, it all must happen in near real time. Read this white paper and learn how to respond to attacks and how to mitigate risks as efficiently and effectively as possible.
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Mapping Security for your virtual environment
[ Source: HP ]
May 2013-
Is management of a virtualized environment a major concern? Does your business need a technology that helps you secure your virtual environments?
With the gaining popularity of virtualization in today's enterprise data centers, you need a virtual security solution that allows you to confidently adopt virtualization throughout your data center without compromising on your existing security postures. Read this white paper to learn more.
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Big security for big data
[ Source: HP ]
May 2013-
In order to meet the current security problems faced by organizations, a new paradigm shift needs to occur. Businesses need the ability to secure data, collect it, and aggregate into an intelligent format, so that real-time alerting and reporting can take place. The first step is to establish complete visibility so that your data and who accesses the data can be monitored. Next, you need to understand the context, so that you can focus on ...
Providing security for software Systems in the cloud
[ Source: HP ]
May 2013-
The software industry has learned that putting fancy boxes on the network doesn't fix bad software, cloud converts must focus on the risks they bring along with the software they deploy. This paper details risks to software deployed in the cloud and what steps to take to mitigate that risk.
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Designing a defense for mobile applications
[ Source: HP ]
May 2013-
To compete today, your business needs to have a mobile storefront on smart phones and tablets and with this comes risk. Instead of accessing your website from the safe confines of work or home, your customers can now perform sensitive transactions anywhere. As a result, mobile applications, and the devices and data they interact with, can now be more easily attacked.
Attackers will probe all components of your application for vulnerabilities, and the ...
Know the Big Three
[ Source: HP ]
May 2013-
There is no question that mobile computing is growing at an exponential rate. This rapid transformation has seen security concerns outpaced by the ease of use, flexibility, and productivity of mobile devices. When vulnerabilities are exploited, the security of mission-critical data becomes a serious concern. In this this white paper, learn about three of the top mobile application security threats facing businesses today and recommendations on how to mitigate the risk.
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2012 IBM X-Force Annual Trend and Risk Report
[ Source: IBM ]
May 2013-
The IBM X-Force Trend and Risk Report is produced twice per year: once at mid-year and once at year-end. This report provides statistical information about all aspects of threats that affect Internet security, including software vulnerabilities and public exploitation, malware, spam, phishing, web-based threats, and general cyber criminal activity. They are intended to help customers, fellow researchers, and the public at large understand the changing nature of the threat landscape and what might be done ...
The Business Analyst's Guide to Hadoop
[ Source: Hortonworks and Alteryx ]
May 2013-
Rapidly emerging as a transformative technology framework for storing and processing massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, Apache Hadoop plays a central role in Big Data. However, most Big Data strategies stall with IT challenges. In order to harness Big Data for competitive advantage, organizations must enable more than a handful of scarce IT specialists and expensive data scientists to access the information.
By making Big Data usable by business decision-makers and ...
Optimizing Your Wireless Network
[ Source: Xirrus ]
May 2013-
Driven by the rapid evolution of mobile devices, the move to cloud-based applications and data, and the continued development of new wireless technologies, Wi-Fi has become the network of choice for connectivity. Most new devices no longer have wired connectivity-for them Wi-Fi is the only option. IT managers now count Wi-Fi as an essential business facility.
Wireless Infrastructure Management in the Cloud
[ Source: Xirrus ]
May 2013-
Wireless devices have changed the way organizations and their users interact. Mobile smartphones, tablets, laptops, and wireless enabled devices have driven the mindset that wireless networks must be ubiquitous, fast, and constantly available. These are demands that have traditionally put organizations and their users in direct contrast with their IT departments, as constructing and maintaining wireless infrastructures have typically been time-consuming, complex, and costly endeavors.
Application Control at the Wireless Edge
[ Source: Xirrus ]
May 2013-
BYOD and cloud-based services are driving monumental changes in IT everywhere - they are no longer in control of what is running on their networks. The ability to provide a level of visibility and control over what is happening in the Wild Wild West of BYOD is mandatory for IT managers to do their jobs. The goal must be to ensure business-critical applications operate properly on the network and that in the least, there is ...
Demystifying 802.11ac
[ Source: Xirrus ]
May 2013-
802.11ac is a new very high throughput Wi-Fi standard (final approval in 2014). It delivers data rates in excess of 1Gbps in its first phase of products with future iterations planned to take performance to nearly 7Gbps. 802.11ac maintains backward compatibility with existing 802.11 equipment to simplify network migration to the new technology.
Consumerization of IT: Find the Right Device for the Job
[ Source: Intel ]
May 2013-
Consumerization is driving increased technology choice, and users are in the driver's seat. IT organizations must find a way to provide the mobility and flexibility that users want with the security that business requires. As a strategic partner in the business, you can offer innovative technology choices to your employees based on the roles they have in your organization. These choices can deliver an improved user-centric experience and help maintain the technology standards needed for ...
Deploying Business Ultrabook Devices in the Enterprise
[ Source: Intel ]
May 2013-
Recognizing the productivity and flexibility benefits that business Ultrabook devices deliver to mobile employees, Intel IT has established a fast-track strategy for offering business Ultrabook devices as an option in our regular corporate supplied PC refresh cycle, making them available to all employees who currently use a mobile business PC. This strategy provides employees with greater choice in mobile computing platforms and form factors, enabling them to select the compute platform that best fits their ...
How to test and launch a world-class application
[ Source: uTest ]
May 2013-
Testing and launching a web application isn't getting any easier. In fact, with the assortment of new browsers, plugins, third party apps and programming languages, this process has never been more complicated. Unfortunately, it's also never been more critical for success.
Ensuring Your Apps Work in the Real World
[ Source: uTest ]
May 2013-
The mobile and web matrix has grown to such epic dimensions that it is nearly impossible and extremely cost-prohibitive to cover entirely in-house. There are thousands of device, carrier and platform combinations for mobile alone. Add web browsers, anti-virus software, plug-ins and PC specs into the mix and your testing lab would need to be the size of an aircraft hangar. But somewhere in the world there are potential users for every matrix combination.
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Ensuring application security in mobile device environments
[ Source: IBM ]
May 2013-
In today's business environments, mobile devices make up the fastest growing segment of computing devices - outpacing desktop and laptop computers. As more employees prefer to use mobile devices in the workplace, organizations are rapidly moving towards a bring-your-owndevice (BYOD) model - allowing employees to use their own mobile devices for business purposes. This often leads to employees having a mix of corporate and personal applications on the same device, which gives the security team ...
Five Steps to Achieve Success in your Application Security Program
[ Source: IBM ]
May 2013-
This white paper provides a general framework your organization can use to create or build upon an application security program. It includes guidelines that can be useful at different stages of your security program's maturity. By addressing key considerations, providing clear and actionable items, and offering real-world examples, these five steps provide an adaptable strategy to help your organization get started and maintain an effective, ongoing application-security strategy.
Eliminating the Need for WAN Acceleration Using the Cloud
[ Source: Nasuni ]
May 2013-
Data is an organization's most important asset and the ability to provide access where and when it is needed is vital to the success of every company.
Download this white paper to learn about how the cloud is an exciting new alternative to traditional WAN acceleration. Specifically:
• WAN acceleration - the good and the bad
• The cloud as the new data center
• How Storage Infrastructure as a Service changes ...
The Top Ten Headaches Caused by Remote Office Storage
[ Source: Nasuni ]
May 2013-
IT directors at growing, distributed enterprises face a number of unique challenges, particularly when it comes to storage. Nasuni has worked with hundreds of customers to alleviate the pain that today's enterprise IT departments face in trying to manage storage remotely.
We drew upon the insights and experiences of IT directors at enterprises that range from five to fifty locations and often cross multiple continents. In every case, IT has to ensure that ...
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