The Market Has Spoken: Why You Need New Tools to Simplify Security

With the internet's growth in security technologies, unintended complexity for security professionals has intensified. Described in this article are the factors contributing to security management complexity and why enhanced visibility and manageability across security technologies is the right remedy. In this Frost and Sullivan report, you'll discover the biggest factors contributing to security management complexity, and why improving visibility across security technologies is the best way to protect your data.

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* How to simplify the task of managing network security with tools that go beyond just using and maintaining a stand-alone solution
* How to gain greater visibility into your most sensitive data with consolidated management functionality across network security tools
* How to establish one set of automatically-implemented policies to more effectively remediate security breaches and today’s most lethal threats

Find out how WatchGuard can help your organization identify and overcome key network issues.
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Systems Management 2.0: How to Gain Control of Your Unruly & Distributed Networks

You'd think that your networks are impossible to manage...But, we've seen worse. This year has brought many advances in technology, however these new benefits have also created a plethora of challenges for you as the IT professional. Join Jim Frey, Vice President of Research Network Management for analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and discover:

- The diversity and complexity in IT: The big picture

- Cross-team collaboration and the drive to service orientation in IT operations

- Integration and convergence across management tools, technologies, and practices

- Unifying infrastructure management: Objectives and requirements for success

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Prepare for software-defined networking: Build the foundation for SDN with OpenFlow

Many enterprises are unable to achieve business innovation because of aging networking environments. Enterprise network design and architectures have remained largely unchanged for more than a decade. While applications and systems have evolved to meet the demands of a world where real-time communications, rich-media, and mobility are the norm, the underlying network infrastructure has not kept pace. Read this paper if you are interested in making your enterprise network more agile and adaptable to changing business needs. This paper describes the benefits of software-defined networking (SDN) enabled by OpenFlow technology. SDN, enabled by OpenFlow, holds the promise of breaking the logjam in network agility by eliminating legacy human middleware and paving the way for innovation.
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Realising the power of SDN with HP Virtual Application Networks

Many enterprises are unable to create business innovation because of aging networking environments. Network design and architectures have remained largely unchanged for more than a decade. While applications and systems have evolved to meet the demands of a world where real time rules, the underlying network infrastructure has not kept pace. Software-defined networks (SDN) redefines the way we think about the network and removes the barriers to innovation by giving cloud providers and enterprises complete programmatic control of a dynamic, abstracted view of the network. This white paper gives an overview of software-defined networking and how HP is leveraging SDN to deliver the Virtual Application Networks strategy.
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Lippis Report 210: HP Networking Is Poised to Capitalise on the Software-Defined Networking Market Transition

HP has been an industry leader when it comes to Software-Defined Networking (SDN) as it sees an opportunity to accelerate its growth in the networking market during a fundamental transition point. HP's SDN strategy spans from the data center to campus and branch office networking. Its strategy includes solutions across all three layers of the SDN architecture, including the infrastructure, control and application layers. In this Lippis Report Research Note, we explore HP's SDN strategy and offerings, and offer an approach to pilots and deployment.
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Preventing security risks in real time

The growth of cloud, mobility, social business and big data mean that botnets, credit card theft, cyber criminals and other external threats pose increasing risk to business continuity, financial stability and brand reputation. Read the white paper, "Preventing security risks in real time", to learn how this new reality is forcing the evolution of organizations' defenses to become more intelligent-using global analytics to scale visibility across broad data sets, both diverse and complementary, in real time.
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Beyond the Next Generation: Meeting the Converging Demands of Network Security

A number of network security technologies have arisen that claim to be the "next generation" of network defense - but what does this concept actually mean? How is the threat landscape changing the way we think about and deploy network security solutions? Scott Crawford, Managing Research Director, Security and Risk Management at EMA Research provides insight into what we can expect in the area of network security and how to leverage new technologies to meet today's security challenges in light of other considerations such as overall complexity and performance.
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F5 Security Forum 2012

F5 is coming to your area to talk about what our customers are doing around security. Attend the F5 Security Forum 2012 for an in-depth discussion on how adaptive security services can protect your enterprise. Join us to learn how you can bring together network, application, data, and user-access under a single security strategy that moves IT forward. Register today!
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IPv6 Shadow Networks are Here Today

Many enterprises are planning to transition their working environments to IPv6 over the next two to ten years. But long transition horizons should not fool IT organizations into thinking that all IPv6 issues can be deferred to the future. End points – PCs and Macs as well as smartphones and tablets – are enabled with IPv6 today. Carriers provide IPv6 services, and moderately modern routers and switches are IPv6-ready. These facts raise a key issue: you may very well have IPv6 connectivity and traffic in your enterprise today. If it’s not in your network policy to allow that, you’re out of compliance. Confirm that your security infrastructure is properly enabled and configured.
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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.
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The Value of Smarter Datacenter Services

This paper provides an overview of how IT organizations can optimize across the entire life cycle of their datacenters and build a strong foundation for future IT operations. Opportunities for optimization remain strong, including increasing efficiency on both the IT side and the facilities side, improving user support and protection, and increasing the flexibility of the datacenter to be more responsive to the business.
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The Evolution of the Datacenter and the Need for a Converged Infrastructure

As the economy begins to recover from the recession, organizations will begin to reevaluate how they deploy technology. Currently, enterprise datacenters are very heterogeneous environments that typically handle a lot of applications running on a variety of platforms. In this very complex environment, there's a burgeoning need within datacenters to drive efficiencies by changing how staff members spend their time and how money is spent.
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Optimizing process management with IBM System z

Organizations across the spectrum of industries today are looking at business process management (BPM) as a way to optimize processes and create business value. This white paper will help organizations that are making decisions about BPM deployment: - Understand the overall value and benefits of BPM. - Identify the types of process problems that BPM can address. - Determine where process problems exist in their organizations. - Learn to discover and prioritize BPM projects.
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