With a strong background of being an extremely secure platform for virtualized environments and workloads, mainframes can be a viable alternative to the massively scaled-out environments often deployed in the cloud. In this paper, explore a mainframe cloud approach that delivers a solid, secure foundation on which to build a cloud environment. 

IT managers everywhere feel overwhelmed with the rising tide of security threats they have to deal with in the face of an increasing regulatory burden. It is not surprising then that they tend to overlook one particular area of IT security, which is the privileged access that they grant themselves and/or their colleagues in order to do their jobs. 

<p>Join Chris Eng, VP of Security Research and one of the 30 contributing authors of the SANS Top 25, as he discusses the Top 5 most prevalent application vulnerabilities, impact of attacks on your application and your customers, methods to identify, track and remediate these vulnerabilities and more.</p> 

Yesterday's virus is today's custom malware, while denial of service attacks has been replaced with botnets. This paper examines the history of attacks of malware and the defenses needed to counter these attacks. 

In this white paper, we'll take a look at access control lists, often referred to as access lists or ACLs (sometimes pronounced "ackels"). 

In this year’s report you will be able to see analysis presented on a global basis, compare trends across continents and explore country-by-country overviews. The results show that the CIO community is wrestling with significant pressures as the Great Recession fades into history and a new decade, with a new competitive landscape, emerges. 

VMware offers market leading solutions that help businesses address their virtualization needs. Dell and VMware have a long history of collaboration. Read this white paper to learn more. 

While the technology that supports VoIP has been present since the mid-1990s, the ability to quickly alternate between VoIP and circuit-switched networks has come into prominence in the last few years. Access this white paper for a full history and overview of the current mobile communications landscape. 

This list features a selection of Data Security laws in the US. As Quantum is a computer storage company, we cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of this list. Please check with your local government or legal advisors on the laws in your own location. Thank you. 

This special eight-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing Microsoft, its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the IT market and its future strategy. 

This resource examines how the New York Philharmonic digitized their enormous collections to provide universal online access with a robust, scalable document management system. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now. 

Here five things about Windows Server 2008 that are the less obvious, more esoteric, yet useful features or quirks. The following is a brief list of some things that I tend to assume that many people know, and I am constantly amazed by clients and students who really don't know them. How many do you already know?