What are the essential things you need to consider when looking to build a wireless network? Whether you work in a primary school or the world’s tallest building, needs are not so different - reliability, ease of operation, security and flexibility. So why do so many organisations get it wrong first time around?

The demonstration will be previewing the next generation of Check Point's VPN-1 Virtual Edition product. It will highlight integration with the VMsafe API and the virtual switch. Demonstrating setup, configuration and management from the Check Point Manager. We will then demonstrate how the security policy can operate at both Layer 2 and Layer 3 to provide firewall and IPS protection. This allows for port level security as well as traditional gateway security.

Fiber optic networks are commonly used to interconnect data centers. Until recently this technology has been considered as being invulnerable against hacking attacks. Recent events have shown that this is not true anymore. This presentation will explore the reality of the threat and what countermeasures can be taken to protect your data.

Rising costs and mountains of data make the protection of data a daunting challenge. In this session learn about best practices for backup and archive, costs of disk and tape, tape encryption, how to utilize disk and tape to address objectives and the exciting new LTO-5 tape technology, review the updated LTO roadmap and the new Linear Tape File System which can allow the use of tape in a fashion like disk or other removable media!

By using virtualisation significant savings can be made, but Allied Telesis have even more ways to squeeze the OPEX costs, further reducing both electricity and air-conditioning costs.

A hurricane completely destroyed our data center! Fortunately, 100% of our data was saved the previous night on tape off-site. We now use a very comprehensive and strategic blend of disk, virtualization, and LTO tape to manage performance, data growth, data protection and costs. Learn how we do it!

In this session, Gordon Graylish will review how Intel is playing a leading role to enable internet expansion through the embedded internet and enabling Cloud computing to be realized through the evolution of infrastructure capabilities that hold the promise of greater efficiencies, less complexity, improved asset utilization and reduced TCO.

In this session, Gordon Graylish will review how Intel is playing a leading role to enable internet expansion through the embedded internet and enabling Cloud computing to be realized through the evolution of infrastructure capabilities that hold the promise of greater efficiencies, less complexity, improved asset utilization and reduced TCO.

This presentation introduces the concept of “Encryption as a Service” and provides examples of using PGP encryption technology in combination with cloud based computing services. We will discuss typical business scenarios where PGP has been implemented to secure sensitive data in both private and public clouds.

An overview of the Red Hat Cloud Vision followed by a detailed explanation of the various key components, technologies and offerings including topics such as deltacloud, Cloud Engine, Red Hat Cloud Foundations and Red Hat Platform as a Service (PaaS).

Whether in a virtualised environment or on a physical network, the need for security against all types of threat is real. This session will show how you can secure your virtual machines, applications and traffic, as well as meet critical regulatory compliance requirements, by segregating virtual systems from each other as well as from external threats. Check Point's VPN-1 VE is the only solution that can inspect inter-VM traffic, protecting against both internal and external threats with a single management interface to ensure consistent, efficient security management.

Founded in 1996, Claranet has evolved from being a pioneering ISP (Internet Service Provider) into an MSP (Managed Services Provider) with annual revenues of around €100 million. We have 520 employees with an international footprint in six countries and although Claranet has grown internationally, the focus has always been on local service, out of local offices, using local data centres. Claranet brings together the best people, process and technology to provide flexible, secure and cost-e...

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Provider of Security Enabled Middleware Securing your data should be easy and unobtrusive to your users and business applications. We provide organisations with an extremely flexible solution for embedding leading cryptographic technology into existing business applications and messaging systems.

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LTO Ultrium technology is a powerful, scalable, open tape format created by HP, IBM and Quantum to address data protection in midrange to enterprise-class server environments, offering users competitive sources of products and an eight generation technology roadmap. LTO tape storage technology provides organizations with portable, reliable, cost effective data storage for business and entertainment applications. LTO generation 5 technology specifications include a 1.5 TB native cartridge capa...

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A new threat to data has emerged – data theft. The increasing amount of
business critical electronic information being stored in remote data
centers for backup and disaster recovery purposes is forcing IT managers
to reassess the security of their networks, where data can potentially
become vulnerable to theft through interception.

AN_Encryption.pdf 250.70 kB

PensionsFirst Analytics offers advanced analytical and advisory services to the defined benefit (DB) pensions industry. The company's PFaroe application brings a revolutionary level of precision and speed to the measurement and management of defined benefits pensions risk, providing fast, accurate, and up-to-date information. As PensionsFirst moved the application to a web-based platform, the company turned to F5 solutions to ensure the performance and reliability of its online services. In the process, the IT team discovered that F5 could also help improve the security authentication process.

pensionsfirst-analytics-cs.pdf 647.49 kB

How building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost.

Once you understand your data, the next step is to execute on that understanding and map business value to different types of storage. This requires flexibility to not only place files on specific storage tiers as they are created, but also to move them as their value changes.

Data Manager is a powerful software tool that gives you the ability to look deep inside your storage environment. It monitors your file data and discovers information you need to proactively manage your storage. Rich data profiling capabilities and powerful reporting tools help you identify trends in your file data so you can improve capacity planning and forecasting, create effective file management policies and uncover optimization opportunities.

As an intelligent file virtualization device, ARX gives you the ability to move file data without disrupting user access to that data. This gives you the flexibility to make changes in your storage environment to respond to changing business needs. ARX devices include “set and forget” data management policies that automate the movement of data between tiers without downtime, and without ever impacting user access to data. ARX is available in four hardware platforms, each with the same virtualization and automation capabilities, for performance and scalability for any storage environment.

To learn more about Data Manager and ARX, please visit www.f5.com/products.

Smarter-Storage-Strategy-wp.pdf 234.48 kB

With the advent of cloud computing concepts, whether deployed “in the cloud” or “in the data center,” it has become even more important to tightly integrate the network infrastructure into the workflow processes that enable, disable, create, remove and migrate applications in a variety of containers both virtual and non-virtual. For F5’s application delivery platform, that integration is realized through the use of iControl.

iControl is a Web services-enabled open API providing granular control over the configuration and management of F5’s application delivery platform, BIG-IP®. iControl, like other SOA and Web services-enabled solutions, can be used by virtually any platform capable of integrating via SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). It can be used to build custom management and monitoring applications, to integrate with business process management (BPM) and other workflow applications, and can be integrated directly into applications to provide better control over the delivery of the application. It also integrates with virtual computing platform management tools like VMware vCenter and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to help orchestrate the automated provisioning and de-provisioning of applications that can be used to build private and public cloud computing environments.

Using iControl you can control the way your application is delivered based on factors you define. You can modify the F5 BIG-IP device’s configuration in myriad ways, including:
• Adding servers dynamically to an application pool
• Stopping requests from going to an application server
• Changing the way requests are routed to servers
• Influencing the choice of servers based on current application or server load

iControl-wp.pdf 944.17 kB

Data security is not a single feature, but rather
an increasingly important set of technologies, used to safeguard private data sent across both public and private networks. The proliferation of data requiring protection – whether internal corporate data or records containing information on customers or other associates – means there is more data at risk of being compromised than ever before.

This, in conjunction with the increasing cost of a data breach, measured in both hard-dollar terms like legal settlements and soft costs such as loss of customer loyalty, makes the intelligent use of data protection technologies increasingly necessary for organizations of all sizes.

WP_Encryption.pdf 298.10 kB

Solutions that provide a quick ROI along with significant technological benefits do exist. The trick is finding these solutions and proving that the ROI model is valid for almost every case.

"Server offload” moves computationally intensive (CPU and memory) processing that would normally be handled by servers to an external platform. This report explains how modern offload technologies in Application Delivery Controllers can drastically reduce expenses in traditional and virtualized architectures, with a fast ROI.

Whether you are looking to consolidate physical resources and create a virtualized data center, or you’re sticking with a tried-and-true traditional architecture, the ability to forestall additional capital expenditures through the implementation of server offload techniques can only improve your financial efficiency—while maintaining or even improving availability, capacity, and performance.

Assume 100 servers, each costing an average of US $2,500, consume 150 watts of power at an average cost of 10.6 cents per KwH1 , and cost the organization $2882 a year in administrative costs. As this paper will show, reducing the number of servers from 1,000 to 600, while servicing the same number of users at the same performance levels, results in a full return on a $200,000 investment in about 10 months. The savings that achieve this ROI come from the reduction in power and management costs those 400 servers would have required. Future savings can be calculated by reducing the projected growth in server count and applying the same cost savings to those servers as well.

ROI of Application Delivery Controllers in Traditional and Virtualized Environments.pdf 299.50 kB

The ADVA Optical Networking FSP 3000 is a scalable Wavelength Division
Multiplexing (WDM) platform specifically designed for service providers
and large enterprises requiring a flexible and cost-effective solution that
will multiplex, transport and protect high-speed data, storage, voice and
video applications. The FSP 3000 facilitates bandwidth scale and service
flexibility in access, backhaul, metro core and regional network applications,
while supporting the creation of new revenue opportunities for high-speed
Ethernet and Storage Area Networking (SAN) services.

FSP_3000.pdf 374.02 kB