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The IDC Market Spotlight on Network Automation and Agility

With the arrival of virtualization, cloud computing, and mobility; the data center must evolve to function optimally. At the same time, IT is being challenged to be more responsive and cost-efficient. To meet both of these challenges, this IDC Market Spotlight explains how a data center network fabric can provide a foundation for the automated provisioning, configuration, and ongoing management of network-based services in this new era of IT agility.

Competitive Landscape: Data Center Ethernet Fabric

Get Gartner's recommendations for selecting the right Ethernet fabric for your data center network. This report highlights the competitive landscape of leading vendors in the data center Ethernet fabric market and provides insight into why vendors are pursuing strong end-to-end-data center network integration.

Top 6 Recommendations for Selecting an Ethernet Fabric

Deploying the correct Ethernet fabric is integral to any organization, but selecting it can be daunting. Fortunately, the Lippis guide Top 6 Recommendations for Selecting an Ethernet Fabric reports the findings from a recent study of several types of Ethernet fabric and provides recommendations based on the results.

The Top 5 Requirements of a Next Generation Storage Network Architecture

This document dives into the five key requirements that enterprises of all sizes should consider when upgrading their storage networking architecture to consider that infrastructure worthy of the label "next generation". It looks at the speed, bandwidth, control, visibility, scalability and reliability minimums that must be met to ensure compatibility with tomorrow's networking and storage demands in the age of cloud and big data. IT Planners need to understand the essential requirements of a storage network architecture so they can choose between an IP protocol based on 10Gb Ethernet, like NFS or iSCSI or 16 Gbps Gen 5 Fibre Channel with 100% backward compatibility to prior generations.

Is Your SAN Architecture Ready For Flash?

This white paper looks at how flash based storage, whether it is added to an existing hard drive system or a dedicated flash array, can enable data centers to attain a greater ROI on virtualization and database application infrastructure. It looks at the ways flash supports higher levels of density, more virtual machines per host and more users per database instance, and the weaknesses exposed by a near-zero latency storage architecture to the limitations of legacy IP and Fibre Channel storage architectures.

Health Check Tool – Is Your Storage Network Infrastructure Efficient?

Is your storage network infrastructure running at its peak efficiency? The Brocade SAN Health Diagnostics Capture gives you an easy, accurate, and FREE check-up on the vital statistics of your SAN fabrics and associated multi-vendor components - including switch, topology, and performance benchmarks, allowing you to take inventory of devices, switches, firmware versions, and SAN fabrics. You can capture and display historical port data, compare your zoning and switch configurations with industry best practices, and assess performance statistics while generating detailed reports and diagrams.

The Cost of Maintaining the Storage Network Status Quo

What drives storage upgrades? Typically, it has been the obsolescence of the prior architecture. The move to Gen 5, however, may be driven by the adoption of solid-state drives (SSDs) and the desire to quickly take advantage of these assets. This document looks at the implications of new storage technologies on the enterprise network, and how increasingly performant servers are driving the need for ever increasing levels of network performance, even if it breaks the traditional price-performance curves.

Scanning on the Web

In an enterprise situation, paper documents are plentiful and in many locations. Capturing those documents into a digital enterprise imaging solution can be complex. Download this white paper to learn about the four methods used for capturing documents into a digital enterprise imaging solution.

Beginners Guide to SSL

Whether you are an individual or a company, you should approach online security in the same way that you would approach physical security for your home or business. It is important to understand the potential risks and then make sure you are fully protected against them. This guide will de-mystify the technology involved and give you the information you need to make the best decision when considering your online security options.

The Power to Destroy: How Malware Works

Nearly a quarter of IT managers simply don’t know how secure their website is. However, with the number of web-attacks blocked per day rising year over year, it's vital for businesses to understand the part their website plays in the distribution of malware to clients, customers and the wider online community. As a website owner it’s your responsibility to not only protect your business and customers, but the safety of the Internet too. Register now to read more about how you can protect your business and your brand from infection.

Knowledge is Power: Guide to Protecting Your Website

In 2012 Symantec performed more than 1,400 website vulnerability scans each day. More than half the websites scanned were found to have unpatched, potentially exploitable vulnerabilities. Of the vulnerable sites, one quarter were actually infected with malware that could infect visitors and lead to the sites being blacklisted by search engines. These figures show that millions of legitimate websites are at risk from serious attack and exploitation by internet criminals every day. Download this white paper to learn more about how you can protect your site with proper security and monitoring.

Does Application Security Pay? Measuring the Business Impact of Software Security Assurance Solutions

With the escalating number and increasing sophistication of cyber attacks, perimeter defenses are no longer enough. Enterprises must ensure application vulnerabilities don’t open doors for hackers. Mainstay surveyed 12 organizations that implemented application vulnerability testing with HP Fortify.

Their findings: HP Fortify customers reduced application vulnerabilities from hundreds to tens, the average time to fix them from weeks to hours, and time-to-market delays due to vulnerabilities from 120 days per year to none. And companies who used HP Fortify on Demand-a cloud-based solution-saw results and achieved time to value faster. Read the report to learn how.

Not Your Father’s IPS: SANS Survey on Network Security Results

With cyber crime on the rise, many organizations rely on intrusion prevention systems (IPS) to detect and stop attacks. But to counter increasingly sophisticated threats, IPS is evolving into next-generation IPS (NGIPS). What drives the need for these new systems? And how are they different from earlier IPS?

This study details a survey of 439 IT security and network professionals conducted by the SANS Institute. It explores use of IPS within respondents' organizations and their plans for future NGIPS. Read the results to understand how contemporaries are using IPS and how NGIPS is evolving to counter today's cyber threat.

Why you need a next-generation firewall

Next-generation (NG) firewalls, with features such as deep packet inspection, intrusion detection, application identification, and granular control, are important weapons in the battle against hacking and malware. Mobile applications have taken the overall scheme of corporate IT, and NG firewalls enable organizations to incorporate full-stack inspection to support intrusion prevention. This white paper explores the reasons for implementing NG firewalls and lays out a path to success for overburdened IT organizations.

IDC Spot Light – HPArcSight ESM Solution Helps Finansbank to Combat Fraud and Increase Customer Satisfaction

Turkey's Finansbank needed a way to spot potential fraud among millions of electronic transactions. But implementing a commercial fraud management application would take 18 months-far too long. Based on their experience using HP ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) for IT security operations, they decided to adapt HP ArcSight ESM for fraud management.

Within six months Finansbank was able to use HP ArcSight ESM to authorize transactions in near real time. Using its flexible rules engine and advanced correlation, they reduced false positives by 90% and the time to resolve flagged transactions by 80%. Read the report to learn how.