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Emerging DDoS attacks target mission-critical services such as DNS, VoIP, streaming and IM for economic gains. This white paper discusses defenses required for Service Providers and ebusinesses to protect their servers from such attacks.

Download Optimizing Application Management Outsourcing: Best Practices to Reduce TCO and Increase Business Value to learn specific best practices for reducing cost of ownership and improving business performance based on hundreds of successful application management outsourcing engagements among the Global 2000.

Suggestions include:

• Managing support activities by business value
• Consolidating support portfolios
• Measuring "business services management"
• Minimizing support processing costs
• Implementing rigorous security measures

Learn how BMC Transaction Management solutions provide a single, integrated view of your transactional data, the end user experience, and the IT infrastructure. This comprehensive solution enables you to improve customer service, identify and resolve problems faster, and streamline IT workflow. Find out more in this complimentary analyst white paper from Enterprise Management Associates, compliments of BMC Software.

Given that most companies can benefit from business intelligence tools, the real question is how much of this technology constitutes a good investment of time and energy?

Get the answers on selecting the right accounting and business management software to meet your company's specific needs with this complimentary, fact-filled information kit, "Understanding Business Intelligence and your Bottom Line," from Sage Software.

Can new application delivery technologies eliminate slow application response times? In this report from IT experts at TCS, learn how to accelerate the performance of Oracle E-Business Suite by 15x.

This comprehensive report summarizes the results of several performance tests of the Oracle E-Business Suite, focusing on common Oracle transactions that substantially impact overall application response times.

In this eye-opening test summary from The Tolly Group, learn how a network appliance can accelerate the performance of both enterprise applications and public Web sites 15x or more.

This comprehensive report summarizes the results of a series of exhaustive tests designed to measure improvements in application performance achieved with a Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery system, a network appliance purpose-built to optimize the performance of applications. In technical detail, learn how the Citrix NetScaler solution accelerates the delivery of enterprise applications 15x or more, reduces user response times by 97%, and lowers bandwidth consumption by 98%, all without modifications to application code.

Learn how to address the common causes of poor Web application performance - low bandwidth, server resource constraints, security holes, and more - with a single solution.

A unified application delivery infrastructure enables dramatically increased application performance without the complexity and cost of deploying and maintaining multiple point products and technologies such as load balancers, SSL accelerators, or caching and compression technologies. Learn how to improve the performance of Web applications up to 15x and ensure continued application availability while dramatically reducing network complexity and operational costs.

With the current focus on fiscal responsibility and due diligence, CIOs and IT executives have indicated that more than 80% of current IT purchases require financial analysis for justification.

This white paper is designed to provide the initial basis for exploring the financial advantages of HP-UX 11i versus other platform alternatives, and to empower organizations to consider all costs and benefits to help make better investment decisions.

The server landscape is changing. Faced with limited IT budgets in recent years, IT managers have learned how to consolidate workloads onto scalable servers - and how to deploy new workloads on racks of low-cost volume servers.

In the improving economy, system plans that were delayed and deferred are once again being evaluated. IT managers are considering ways to increase current capacity while creating new designs for IT infrastructure that can be assembled from standard building blocks, with the aim of reducing acquisition costs, deployment costs, and operational costs over time. Download this paper to learn more!

Your business is dynamic. Faced with unpredictable market pressures and limited resources, you must be faster, better, and more efficient than your competition in order to remain both competitive and profitable.

Virtualize your IT resources so supply meets demand. Download HP Virtual Server Environment for HP Integrity and HP 9000 Servers to learn more!

Is Offshoring the software industry's salvation?or its downfall? This new study from the Sand Hill Group covers trends, strategies, and best practices for offshoring initiatives in today's leading companies.

Protecting data has become part of standard business practice. But it's no longer just about data. Emphasis is now being placed on ensuring the productivity of your users and the profitability of your business.

Download Stay Connected, a free eBook from Neverfail, and learn how to keep your users continuously connected to critical business applications whether a failure occurs in the hardware, software, operating system, network or application. Includes a check list for assessing your High Availability and Disaster Recovery solution.

You know the dilemma well -- you want to provide constant uptime for your mission-critical applications but you're having a difficult time convincing management to invest in a SAN and Server Cluster because of complexity and cost concerns.

Learn about the critical issues you should consider when evaluating high availability alternatives:

• Hardware/software requirements
• Operating system requirements
• Installation and ongoing maintenance
• WAN considerations and disaster recovery
• Data Rollback

In ?Achieving Compliance: Best Practices for Outward Bound Internet Content Protection?, you will find out how a best-practice information security framework will support the coordination of compliance strategy across multiple channels and guide control responses to multiple threats to all sorts of information assets.