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Whether your business is focused on gaining competitive advantage, mitigating risk or controlling IT costs, your storage infrastructure matters—a lot. IBM Smarter Storage is an intelligent, efficient, automated approach to the design and deployment of storage systems. This approach enables organizations like yours to take control of their storage so they can focus on gaining more valuable insight from their data—and delivering greater va...

IT managers and industry experts talk a lot about performance and capacity, but those are often only replacement terms for the real issue: economics. Storage decisions are only necessary because of economics -- otherwise all data would be stored in main memory. With the data avalanche always looming and growing, two key trends are critical: simply storing less, and then tiering or caching what is ultimately stored. ...

As small and midsize businesses (SMBs) struggle with the challenge of managing more data with fewer resources and limited budgets, the industry has responded with storage solutions that are either too small (low functionality and hard to deploy and manage) or too big (high capacity and performance with a high price tag). SMBs need the same storage services that the enterprise data center has become accustomed to but in a smaller, less expensive and ea...

This white paper details how enterprises can gain substantial benefits from the latest enhancements to the Riverbed Whitewater appliance using Amazon Glacier as the cloud storage destination. Policy driven data management allows the Riverbed Whitewater-Amazon Glacier solution to excel at addressing both enterprise backup and archival storage requirements.  With intelligent caching, built in replication and Amazon Glacier’s low prices �...

This white paper demonstrates how to increase profitability by reducing the operating costs of backup and archiving using Riverbed Whitewater and Amazon Glacier cloud storage, instead of traditional tape backup methods. Amazon Glacier is designed for low-cost storage of large datasets of infrequently accessed data, such as long-term archives, yearly full backups, and other data sets which typically, once written, are rarely read.  Analysis of the r...

This book provides an overview of network security in general, and explains how cybercriminals can use hidden or currently undetectable methods to penetrate protected network systems. Advanced evasion techniques (AETs) bypass current common network security solutions. They can transport any attack or exploit through network security devices and firewalls, next generation firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and even routers doing dee...

As next-generation firewall (NGFW) technology becomes more mainstream, it is time to review the advanced capabilities and features that separate the leaders from the laggards. At its most basic, the consensus of a NGFW definition would include these capabilities – standard firewall features like stateful inspection and network address translation, integrated intrusion prevention, application awareness and some level of intelligence and integrat...

The go-to method of securing sensitive information and ensuring privacy has always been encryption, and to best utilize it, you need to understand it backwards and forwards, because hackers sure do. This informative paper takes a detailed look at the history of cryptography, going as far back as Ancient Babylon, to give you a thorough understanding of the evolution and application of encrypting important information. Read on to learn about the past...

Phishing attacks are still around a) because they’re easy to execute, and b) because they generally work. Did you know 800,000 users click on malicious links every single day? This white paper outlines a number of best practices that will help protect your organization and your users from phishing attacks and details the latest phishing trends that you need to know about. View now to learn more! ...

Without trust, no website or online service can succeed in the competitive online marketplace. This year has seen a spate of breaches that have targeted the systems of Certificate Authorities (CAs), the companies that prove websites and services are secure and safe to use. Some of these attacks have undermined the trusting relationship between users and even well-known online brands. The changing security landscape has demonstrated not all CAs are the...