Networking

Tighter security requirements and ever-faster networks are placing extraordinary demands on UTM platforms. In order to accelerate network traffic while blocking new threats, enterprises must deploy specialized hardware/software security devices.

This white paper describes common DoS techniques, explains the technology integrated into every FortiGate consolidated security platform that helps in blocking DoS attacks, and offers suggestions on how to prevent an organization's network from being used to attack another organization.

This EMA White Paper examines in more detail the building blocks for private cloud computing - automation, virtualization, and cloud service management - and provides EMA's recommendations for a phased approach to cloud computing, based on EMA's maturity model, research data, and enterprise activities, with prescriptive approach and some sample use cases to help get started.

Read this white paper to learn how IT organizations can implement an effective Service Catalog that will enable them to reap the full benefits of self-service in virtualized and cloud computing environments.

This paper examines both methodologies and highlights the reasons why hot aisle containment emerges as the preferred best practice.

Learn the risks associated with using the POP and free email systems and how a hosted Microsoft Exchange solution can provide guaranteed availability and make email users in even the smallest businesses much more productive.

Accenture's Jeanne G. Harris and Allan E. Alter take a look at how companies are taking advantage of this technology, and provide specific steps business decision makers, IT leaders and governments must take to move forward.

HP's Converged Infrastructure incorporates tools that make remote support and management efficient and effective. HP Insight Control, for example, helps reduce server deployment time from four hours to just 20 minutes, a 12-fold decrease in deployment time.

This IDC research with small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and branch offices shows that well-targeted technology upgrades, coupled with a rigorous program to standardize and improve IT practices at a company's remote locations and headquarters, can deliver substantial business value and could reduce total annual IT costs in the branches by over 30%.

HP's Converged Infrastructure incorporates tools that make remote support and management efficient and effective. HP Insight Control, for example, helps reduce server deployment time from four hours to just 20 minutes, a 12-fold decrease in deployment time.

This IDC research with small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and branch offices shows that well-targeted technology upgrades, coupled with a rigorous program to standardize and improve IT practices at a company's remote locations and headquarters, can deliver substantial business value and could reduce total annual IT costs in the branches by over 30%.

This whitepaper describes the various forms that cloud computing can take and how different types of technology relate to each other.

An IDC executive report examines the future of cloud computing, focusing on design goals that support portability of applications and data, which will certainly avoid expensive and time-consuming fixes.

Learn how your organization can deliver self-service application provisioning, flexible and standardized application deployments, and integrated management, without losing control or radically change existing management and development processes.

Learn how CloudForms fully delivers on your requirements to increase business agility, efficiency, innovation, and simplified IT management.

The Red Hat Cloud Quickstart consulting engagement leverages Red Hat's Cloud Foundations Reference Architecture Edition One to speed up assessing the viability of a cloud environment for your enterprise, and, if chosen, it can demonstrate a tangible implementation of a private cloud for testing purposes.

Do you have an effective cloud governance plan? This whitepaper guides you through best practices for ensuring your applications and data can safely move between clouds - whether they are private, public or hybrid.

Organizations around the world are benefiting from public clouds. But, when production applications or critical data is involved, it's important to extend on-premise governance to your public or hybrid cloud resources. Effective cloud governance is possible.

Virtualization and cloud computing are sometimes discussed interchangeably. But gaining the full benefits of cloud computing requires approaches and processes that often aren't in place where ad hoc virtualization is the norm. Join us and learn how to make a smooth transition.

This white paper investigates how a hosted VoIP solution can be an affordable approach that delivers value and a big-company image for micro-enterprises.

In a new video, security analyst Rich Mogull discusses mobile data protection topics and addresses many issues, including, the latest trends in mobile security, mobile device management, and mobile data protection.

Maintain visibility and control, regardless of device or OS. The consumerisation of enterprise information technology is one of the most significant security concerns today. Gartner's Analyst Ken Delaney explains the impact of consumerisation on enterprise IT.

Answers to Your Mobile Device Data Protection Questions. The IT landscape is changing quickly, Get expert advice on developing a strategy and learn how your organization can manage security on employee-owned mobile devices.

The Consumerisation of Enterprise Mobility: A Formidable Challenge for CIOs, but a great opportunity. Download the Trend Micro Enterprise Security Whitepaper: The Consumerisation of Enterprise Mobility to learn the secrets to data protection on mobile devices.

Find out how 'micro'-businesses - those with fewer than 20 employees - can leverage the power of Voice over IP (VoIP) in this white paper.