Next-generation IT infrastructure is characterized by its openness, a services-orientation, Web-based computing – serving a company, as it were, without boundaries. This poses a variety of challenges for enterprise IT security officers – how, for example, do you keep confidential data from passing through now-more porous perimeters? Or, how do you embrace mobility while maintaining high security standards? In this, the second in our six-part New Data Center series, we address these and other questions as we examine the latest trends, technologies and best practices for protecting increasingly open enterprise information infrastructures.
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>New Data Center voices: • Security Strategies, a weekly newsletter by M.E. Kabay, associate professor at Norwich University. Latest topic. | >Best of the New Data Center: Part 1 of this series: the best products and practices |
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| • The 10 best NDC products• Six open source gems• Cool career: data center architect | • Researchers analyze storage management• Boot-from-SAN technology• CitiStreet wins with virtual tape |
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| • 10 best practices for your SOA• Best practices for the new IT • Making security a shared responsibility | • Storage change management• Mercantile Exchange and change management• The perils of automated security |
• McDonald’s serves up Wi-Fi • Gannett’s VMware network• AARP advances Web services | • Researcher: Storage management • Security expert Rhonda MacLean • Starwood CTO: Outsourcing |
| • UPS exec: tips for grids• Grid computing comes of age • JPMorgan Chase’s capacity on demand | • 10 best practices for your SOA• Achieving application optimization • SOA governance |
| • Map of the wireless world • Interactive model of the New Data Center I • Interactive model of the New Data Center II | • Taking VMware beyond the basics• Managing virtualization• Five virtualization tips |
| • The hacker-resistant database• The security operations center• An identity management foundation | • Six proven wireless products• Managing wired/wireless nets• Map of the wireless world |
