Is your Database Ready for the Era of Big Data?

You need a database designed to control both the infrastructure and personnel costs that form the IT budget. The next generation of IBM DB2 helps organizations get more value from their big data to improve their IT economics. Major innovations provide out-of-the-box performance gains that go beyond the limitations of in-memory-only systems to support decision making at the speed of business.
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Considerations for maximizing analytics performance

Philip Howard of Bloor Research compares performance capabilities of the leading business intelligence platforms. Companies studied in this comparison are IBM® (Cognos, DB2 with BLU Acceleration), SAP (BusinessObjects, HANA), Oracle (Business Intelligence, Exadata) and Microsoft (Business Intelligence, SQL Server). His conclusion: "DB2® with BLU Acceleration should not only provide better performance in the first place, but also provide consistent performance, with a corresponding requirement for less hardware and less cost."
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Grow Your Business by Building Customer Trust

Building a successful small business website is a huge challenge. Whether the site is merely promotional or a full-service e-commerce enterprise, you – the small business owner – have to create an attractive and functional place with compelling content that is frequently updated. If you are new to online retailing or have only recently launched your company’s online presence, some of the questions you may have asked yourself probably include:

• How can I improve incoming traffic from search engines?

• I don’t have a big name brand, how can I get people to trust my website and do business with me?

• Should I really worry about my website getting attached by malware?

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The Big Data Mystique: Analytics for Every Business

Everyone has heard of Big Data. Business analytics offers companies of all types and sizes the opportunity to make decisions faster, get a leg up on the competition and even increase efficiency of their operations. But what are the stumbling blocks that users fear, and what gains are they expecting by implementing advanced analytics into the enterprise? This SlashGuide looks into those questions, which were posed in a Slashdot Media Pulse poll on Big Data Analytics conducted in August 2014. This resultant white paper provides a combination of IT practitioner and expert insights gathered from that survey.
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Simplify SSL Certificate Management Across the Enterprise

The need for SSL certificates has moved well beyond the “Buy” page to core functions of the enterprise. SSL certificates are used to protect remote employee and partner communications via webmail, chat and IM. Browser-to-server communications for cloud-based services require SSL certificates when used to display customer account information, business partner transactions and for employee productivity tools. Finally, SSL certificates are used to secure server-to server communications for applications and data exchange.
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EQUINIX CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY

BrightRoll wanted to build the world’s fastest real-time bidding (RTB) solution for digital video advertising, a business in which milliseconds make the difference between a completed transaction and a missed opportunity. The company expanded its technology infrastructure by locating its video ad exchange in Equinix data centers and interconnecting directly to exchange participants to circumvent the public Internet. This significantly reduced latency and improved matched transactions on the exchange, increasing business opportunities and revenues for all participants.
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Beginner Guide to SSL Certificates

Whether you are an individual or business to network security protection as for family or company to provide security, should not be taken lightly. Because these measures will not only make you feel more secure, and can also protect visiting your family, company or Web site visitors. Understanding the potential risks, and indeed receive full protection, this is important. The fast-changing world of technology, it is not easy to keep abreast of the latest technology. Therefore, the selection of reputable Internet security company as a partner, is a sensible approach.
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Mitigating Risk of Cloud with SSL

Businesses are increasingly turning to cloud computing for flexibility, cost savings, and a new range of services offered by cloud vendors. The users of cloud computing services and cloud vendors have a shared responsibility to protect private and confidential information.

Mitigation of the security risks associated with cloud computing involves:

• Protecting data moving into and out of the cloud

• Protecting data at rest in the cloud

• Authenticating servers in the cloud

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Website Security Threat Report 2014-2013

Symantec has the most comprehensive source of Internet threat data in the world through the Symantec™ Global Intelligence Network, which is made up of more than 41.5 million attack sensors and records thousands of events per second. This network monitors threat activity in over 157 countries and territories through a combination of Symantec products and services such as Symantec DeepSight™ Threat Management System, Symantec™ Managed Security Services, Norton™ products, Symantec Website Security Solutions and other 3rd party data sources.
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Website Security Threat Report 20142013

Symantec has the most comprehensive source of Internet threat data in the world through the Symantec™ Global Intelligence Network, which is made up of more than 41.5 million attack sensors and records thousands of events per second. This network monitors threat activity in over 157 countries and territories through a combination of Symantec products and services such as Symantec DeepSight™ Threat Management System, Symantec™ Managed Security Services, Norton™ products, Symantec Website Security Solutions and other 3rd party data sources.
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Mitigating Risks of Cloud Computing with SSL Certificates

Businesses are increasingly turning to cloud computing for flexibility, cost savings, and a new range of services offered by cloud vendors. The users of cloud computing services and cloud vendors have a shared responsibility to protect private and confidential information.

Mitigation of the security risks associated with cloud computing involves:

• Protecting data moving into and out of the cloud

• Protecting data at rest in the cloud

• Authenticating servers in the cloud

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Ensuring Compliance in the Asia Pacific Region with SSL Certificates

For those doing business in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore. or in other parts of the Asia Pacific region, privacy is a significant concern. Businesses holding personal data have a responsibility to preserve the privacy and confidentiality of that data. The task is complex, especially in an era of sophisticated, global cyber-crime. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates can help protect data and meet the demands of privacy laws across the region.
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5 Ways to Build Trust with Customers

With consumers facing a steady stream of news reports about corporate data breaches, major retailers hacked for credit card information, nation-state-sponsored cyber attacks, and the Heartbleed Bug vulnerability in OpenSSl it is understandable if they are hesitant about online commerce. Fortunately, businesses have an opportunity to build trust with potential customer's privacy concerns and implementing controls to protect customer data.
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IBM Linux on Power: The system of choice for big data and analytics

The term ‘Big Data’ is hard to escape these days as more and more enterprises begin to build out their analytic infrastructures, and more and more vendors start to pitch products to fulfill these needs. The Gabriel Consulting paper – Big Data POWERs Up? – explores the characteristics of analytics workloads and why infrastructure choice matters when deploying a big data solution. The paper also takes a close look to see if the POWER8 platform can best x86 on both cost and performance measures for big data workloads.
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