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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

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.

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.

This paper looks at the four major threat categories you should consider when architecting your XML Web services:

1. Message Transport Security
2. Denial of Service Protections
3. Content Based Attacks
4. People and Process

Read Virtual Media: Optimizing the Efficiency and Security of Data Center Operations to learn how virtual media can improve operational efficiency and security in the data center by allowing you to access storage media, flash memory and external drives anywhere across the enterprise as though you were directly interfacing with the server's USB port.

No company can afford to have its key financial data or valuable customer information fall into the wrong hands, nor can a company afford to ignore the mandate for accurate, reliable information. In this white paper, you will learn how to achieve information security in the advent of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

This white paper, Centralized Management Software: Best Practices to Control Your Data Center, offers valuable insights on how to achieve secure access to any server or network device from a single interface in your data center. Topics covered include centralized access and control, tracking the tools, integrating management tools, Avocent data center management tools, KVM server management, serial over IP, power management over IP, and full remote access.

In this report, you'll learn how Postini Encryption Manager offers an easier and more affordable method of securing email connections and content anytime, for any recipient, according to specified policies. The product gives message administrators unmatched flexibility and control to manage and enforce policy-based encryption without the cost and complexity typically associated with traditional PKI solutions.

This Postini white paper provides a concise summary of how message threats have evolved over the past year, changes in message management concerns and priorities, how organizations are responding to changes in message threats and regulations, and what to expect in 2006.