A dangerous combo looms, as threats to your enterprise’s security morph and intensify while you extend your applications and open corporate databases to outsiders. That places security at center stage in any new data center plan. Here we spotlight your security challenges, from managing multitudes of user identities to stomping out vulnerabilities.
Protected by the network gear
Some switches and routers now can identify, prevent or at least lessen the effect of security threats, but interoperability, performance and management are sticking points.
This means war
The IT security community arms for battle with sophisticated new strategies and technologies for eradicating worms.
Our Federated ID future
An analyst clarifies identity management standards and explains how all things lead
to federation.
Autonomic authority
Six vendor execs tell us why autonomic computing is one of the new data center’s most powerful technologies.
An application framework for the future
From application services to management hardware, semiconductor reseller Smith & Associates strengthens its just-in-time business with new data center technologies.