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Malware B-Z: Inside the Threat From Blackhole to ZeroAccess
This paper provides insight into two of the most commonly used and technically capable pieces of crimeware, the Blackhole exploit kit and the ZeroAccess rootkit. We explain why these kits are so useful to the bad guys and show you how you can stop these threats from infecting your network and your users.
Mobile Device Management Buyers Guide
Mobile device management (MDM) solutions allow IT organizations to centrally manage, monitor and support mobile devices from smartphones to tablets. By using an MDM solution to control and protect the data and configuration settings on users' mobile devices, you can reduce support costs and security risks. In this guide, you'll learn what you need to consider to find a MDM solution that best fits your needs.
Transitioning Business Continuity To The Cloud
In the past, server, storage and data center redundancy were the only options that met corporate resilience objectives. Read this white paper to gain an understanding of the resiliency challenges facing organizations today and how you can transition to cloud-based resiliency.
Cloud-based data backup: A buyer’s guide – How to choose a third-party provider for development, management of your data backup solution
Many IT executive view cloud computing as an attractive platform for data backup. They know cloud can help protect business-critical data and provide near-ubiquitous information access. But while having a cloud-based solution is valuable, developing one in-house is tricky. That's why many organizations want to contract with a third-party cloud provider for cloud-based data backup. Read this buyer's guide to learn how to choose a provider to suit your business needs.
Jumping into the PaaS Pool: Why Platform as a Service is the Next Hot Cloud Service
Plaform as a Service (PaaS) is the hottest topic in cloud computing. This IBM-sponsored, Frost & Sullivan IBM white paper examines definitions of PaaS, discusses how it fits into the SaaS development and delivery ecosystem, and looks at approaches that cloud leaders are taking to integrate PaaS into their portfolios.
DevOps: Why IT Operations Managers Should Care About the Cloud
The cloud holds the power to transform and redefine development and operations—a process that is becoming known as DevOps. This IBM-sponsored, Frost & Sullivan IBM executive brief defines DevOps and examines how the new process can benefit IT operations by streamlining the end-to-end process and ongoing management of applications.
Building a Successful Roadmap to the Cloud
Developing a roadmap for your cloud strategy doesn't have to be daunting. It just takes a little planning, homework and collaboration. Read this IBM-sponsored white paper from Frost & Sullivan to learn about the steps involved in building a cloud roadmap and the value provided by IBM and its partners.
Security Threat Report 2013
In 2012, we saw attackers extend their reach to more platforms, from social networks and cloud services to Android mobile devices. We saw the most sophisticated malware authors up the stakes with new business models and software paradigms while conventional attackers continued to target thousands of badly-configured websites to deliver malware. What does 2013 hold?
IBM SmartCloud Enterprise 2.0: Beyond Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS)
Cloud computing represents a game-changing technology shift for innovative companies looking to rethink and reinvent business. This session will be a practical guide designed to help IT Managers, Architects, and System Designers evaluate and move projects to the Cloud without compromising security, reliability, or control.
Part of the IBM SmartCloud family, this webcast will focus on how organizations large and small can use IBM SmartCloud Enterprise to:
• Realize measurable time and cost savings on your IT projects
• Leverage certified IBM and BP software from our Cloud
• Get a detailed overview of recent SmartCloud Enterprise product and service enhancements
Big Data on the Cloud: A better path to deeper business insight
There are no hotter topics in IT today than big data and cloud computing. Big data brings with it a fundamental shift in how IT can impact business.
In this webcast, you’ll learn about how to:
• Create affordable and flexible cloud services
• Develop meaningful, best-in-class data analytic capabilities
• Harness real intelligence from your structured and unstructured data sources
Leveraging The Cloud For Business Resilience
The cloud has recently come of age as a reliable, secure and cost-effective alternative for achieving a truly resilient business. But developing a cloud-based business continuity and resiliency plan can be challenging. Read this white paper to learn the steps organizations can take now to begin implementing a plan for cloud-based business resiliency.
Four Steps to High Performance WAN and Internet
Problems with application and network performance on the WAN and Internet links are caused by many and varied issues – congestion, latency, protocol design, sudden bursts of disruptive traffic – all contribute. New factors make the calculus even more complicated: social networking, BYOD, cloud applications, growing video content, even IPv6 traffic growing in the shadows. It’s tempting to respond to these problems by jumping to a single set of technologies that fix certain aspects of performance. We recommend, instead, that you take advantage of Blue Coat expertise and technology to take the four simple steps described in this paper.