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.

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.

Mobile solutions can be built in many different ways, used on many different devices, operate over many different networks, and integrate with many different back-end systems.

This paper explores the differences between smart-client and thin-client mobile architectures, examining the details of common smart-client architectures in use today, including what type of back-end systems they integrate with, the types of devices they support, how data is managed within the architecture, and development languages that can be used to build the application.

This white paper, ?Are You Getting the True Picture? Facts about KVM over IP, Bandwidth and Video,? details how administrators can access and control multiple computers with KVM over IP and dimension of performance measurement including network bandwidth, frames per second, video quality and cursor responsiveness.

Building Reliable IP Telephony Systems defines reliability & availability and compares various IP telephony vendors and how they ensure high availability.

This InfoTech research report, Strategies for IP Telephony Evaluation and Migration: Best Practice Considerations for Deploying IPT in the Enterprise, provides perspective into selecting and implementing an IP Telephony solution. This brief emphasizes the challenges and success factors that come into play AFTER the basic convergence decision has been made.

This 80-page IP Telephony Guide explains the terms and concepts commonly used in the industry and helps you to plan and implement an IP phone system.

The independently conducted Nemertes Summary Report (not sponsored or commissioned by ShoreTel) includes a comparative assessment of the top IP telephony vendors.

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.

Targeting board-level executives, senior technical management and technicians/engineers, Cable & Satellite International reports on the standards, technology trends and products that shape the cable, satellite and broadcast market. Editorial focus is on the practical application of technology to current and future business needs.

Visit TradePub.com at eComXpo for FREE! We will be exhibiting at eComXpo, the online virtual trade show for eCommerce Marketers, April 4-6, 2006. eComXpo features all the benefits of a top traditional tradeshow without the cost, travel or hassle associated with traditional events.

Why should you attend?

• Choose from over 20 panel presentations on affiliate, search, and interactive marketing.
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Are you reading this on your laptop?

This white paper discusses how an increase in employee laptop use for business actually threatens corporate networks, despite the obvious advantages laptops bring to the corporate world. Learn key ways to protect your company's network from threats such as spyware, malware, and viruses that laptops introduce into your network once they are connected.

Global Services caters to the knowledge needs of outsourcing professionals, bringing together the expertise of Global Outsourcing, Managing Offshore, BpOrbit and Outsourcing Pipeline under a single Global Services brand.

Each issue includes coverage of important sourcing issues and areas of professional development in law, sourcing strategy, HRO, market research, destination selection, and more.

With spam volumes and malicious email- and Instant Messaging (IM)- borne attacks on the rise, growing compliance requirements, and pressure on both budget and resources, IT organizations are looking for better, more cost-effective ways to manage electronic messaging.

Management:
This instructive report, Executive Guide to Integrated Message Management covers the key requirements for delivering "Integrated Message Management" (IMM)?a unified approach for maximizing electronic messaging security, availability, and visibility while meeting compliance requirements.

Archiving:
Regulatory compliance, the legal climate, and record-retention programs are driving the need for enterprises to safeguard, archive, and easily retrieve email and Instant Messaging (IM). An Effective Approach to Electronic Message Archiving discusses best practices for archiving email and IM, explains why organizations must carefully evaluate options, and describes the important roles Legal, HR, and IT play in implementing electronic record retention.

Security:
The Anatomy of IM Threats: Understanding How an IM Attack Works offers the inside story on how IM attacks?which increased by more than 1,700 percent in 2005?can spread havoc throughout your network.

Learn why it's vital for message administrators and security professionals to understand the scope and nature of these threats, and why an integrated, managed-service approach to messaging management is the most effective IM protection.

Proper clock synchronization is critical to ensuring good performance, improving troubleshooting, and producing accurate call detail records (CDRs) for billing. There is more than one way to synchronize time in Cisco CallManager systems and gateways. Using results of lab tests of the two primary options, Cisco IP Telephony Clock Synchronization: Best Practices compares the advantages of each, shows how to mitigate risks, and explains the need to synchronize with an external network time server (such as the Symmetricom NTP Server S100).

Want voice quality and service reliability for your VoIP? Without precise time synchronization, you can forget it. If those who approve budgets need convincing that a high quality VoIP network requires the highest quality network synchronization, read them Synchronization Essentials of VoIP and then ask if they would rather "Sync Now or Sink Later."