SOA Design Principles for Dummies

What you may call basic SOA or IT - centric SOA applies SOA principles to the flexible integration of an enterprise IT portfolio. But controlling interactions through well-defined services and interfaces certainly applies to mobile, social, cloud, and Big Data solutions as well. SOA is simply good design for IT integration and for the business solutions of an ever-more-connected and ever-more-distributed world. This book is a guide to applying the design principles of SOA to the business problems of today.
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Website Security Threat Report

Symantec has established some of the most comprehensive sources of Internet threat data in the world. The network monitors attack activity in more than 200 countries and territories through a combination of Symantec products and services, and other third-party data sources. These resources give Symantec's analysts unparalleled sources of data with which to identify, analyse, and provide informed commentary on emerging trends in attacks, malicious code activity, phishing, and spam. The result is the annual Symantec Internet Security Threat Report. This version of the report - the Website Security Threat Report - has been created to specifically focus on website security issues.
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Six Things That Can Kill Your Website and How To Stop Them

Your website is your shop front, your brand on display and an essential sales and marketing tool. You spent a lot of money building it and attracting visitors. It is business critical: it would be a disaster if that shop front were smashed, your reputation was tarnished and visitors stopped coming. This is why website security is so important. This white paper lists six threats to your website and what you can do to prevent them.
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Three Ways to Improve Your Data Storage Capabilities

Storage is at the heart of any data center application. Whether you're managing hundreds of virtual machine images or millions of records, you need to be able to save, search for, and retrieve that data in the optimal amount of time. This guide will detail storage strategies that will help you gain access to high-speed Flash storage, and bring it into your data center, regardless of the size of your operation. We'll explore how you can manage your storage needs, optimize storage performance, and do so while saving money at the same time.
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5 Ways to Move From IT Resilience to Cloud-Based Business Resilience

By now most IT departments have some form of resilience strategy in place and is likely already out of date. Many of these legacy plans rely on expensive remote locations and duplicate facilities, concepts that are no longer feasible in today's business environment. Learn five ways your organization can better utilize cloud computing to build a better, holistic resilience plan that will cover the entire business, not just IT infrastructure and systems. This IT Managers' Journal covers all the topics for cloud-based resilience, including cloud-based offsite backup and data protection, service-level agreements (SLAs), disaster recovery, virtualization and more.
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Do you Have an Enterprise-wide Cloud Strategy?

Cloud computing is experiencing strong, sustained growth across enterprises large and small. Proven benefits like flexibility, cost reduction, and rapid provisioning of new applications and services are among the drivers. But as cloud models continue to mature, IT leaders face a number of decision points as they seek to maximize those benefits. Questions like, "Where do I start?" "What's the right approach for my organization: private, public, or hybrid?" and "What about security, privacy, and compliance?"
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NetApp SAN performance and Clustered ONTAP

Storage systems today must match agility with diversified I/O performance to satisfy an enterprise's changing needs. In their review, Silverton Consulting ranks the NetApp FAS6240 Clustered SAN, as an Enterprise OLTP "Champion of Champions". Read the results of their benchmark testing and the features that impressed them the most.
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Maximizing Private Cloud Benefits with an Efficient Storage Foundation

How can you make sure that your private cloud is agile, responsive, and efficient? NetApp offers private cloud technology that aligns with the following recommendations from Enterprise Strategy Group:

-Optimize storage to fully realize the benefits of server virtualization and private cloud

-Treat storage efficiency as a strategic opportunity to hone and improve the overall cloud environment

-Use techniques such as deduplication and compression to expand the available capacity of a private cloud

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Providing the Best-of-Breed Private Cloud with NetApp and Windows Server 2012

Many organizations have adopted virtualization as a standard for server workloads. But virtualization has not proven to be the "game changer" many organizations had envisioned. IT departments face huge challenges related to server sprawl, which has actually increased with virtualization.

Although virtualization has brought benefits beyond the physical paradigm of one operating system per server, the true optimal infrastructure for organizations comes with adopting a private cloud infrastructure. Check out this white paper to learn the benefits you can reap by deploying just one private cloud solution.

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