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Solution Centre - Accelerate Business Applications With WAN Optimization

Blue Coat's Application Delivery Network  (ADN) infrastructure optimizes and secures the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere in the world making businesses sustainable and competitive. The Application Delivery Network infrastructure addresses the demand for greater application mobility and security in a distributed enterprise. When deployed together, their three core capabilities - Application Performance Monitoring, WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway technologies - enable the ADN, providing:

• Visibility to classify and prioritize applications, content and user access in real time.
• Acceleration of internal, external and real-time applications across the distributed enterprise.
• Security of people and information from malicious applications, content and intent.

Whitepaper - The Business Value of Social Networking Applications

This paper examines the development of the enterprise social networking market, provides an overview of the benefits to be derived from using social networking technologies, and looks at the role of social networking vendor HiveLive in this strategically important market.

Whitepaper - Web Applications Under Attack - Four Eye-Opening Findings

Web applications are under attack from hackers.  Which means that every one of your employees, customers, and  partners - anybody with a browser - may be an unwitting  accomplice in subverting your security, stealing your data,  or worse. If that idea doesn't already have your attention, you'll find  a wake-up call in a free report,  Web Applications Under Attack: Four Eye-Opening Findings.

Case Study - A Risk Assessment Framework Helps ICICI Bank Secure its Applications

CIO 100 Winner: ICICI Bank has around 550 bank applications and security checks would take upto 15 days. The Group CIO however envisioned and rolled out an application security framework and program that eased many of their problems.

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  :: How to overcome application vulnerabilities

  :: Importance of automated scanners Vs manual testing

Article - Benefits of Consumer applications

Your end users are downloading Skype and sharing links to company webpages on Del.icio.us. But don't panic. Although emerging consumer applications can pose security risks, here are five that offer business benefits if you manage them well

Top Story - Microsoft's Private Cloud Release All About Composite Applications

Microsoft detailed two key pieces of its strategy for helping developers build applications for the Web and private cloud networks, with a heavy focus on using existing components to build composite applications and services.

Article - Cloud Computing and Software Applications Make IT Hard To Ignore

Organizations have traditionally devoted minimum attention to Web browsers, but IT departments feel that they need to change that hands-off strategy.

Whitepaper - How unauthorized applications impact security and how you can take back control

Employees who install and use legitimate but unauthorized applications, such as instant messaging, file sharing, games and virtualization software, are a real and growing threat to business security and productivity. Removable storage drives make the challenge of securing data and controlling application use even more complex. This paper explains why it is important to control unauthorized applications and devices, discusses the different approaches, and highlights how integrating this functionality into malware protection is the simplest and most cost-effective solution.

Top Story - Riverbed Looks to Speed Cloud Applications

Riverbed Technology has a plan to help companies accelerate access to applications and storage resources that are located in a cloud computing environment and delivered over the Internet to private data centers, distributed branch offices and mobile end users.

Article - Heralding the Age of Mobile Applications

It’s already here. For many, the mobile phone is their preferred endpoint. Yet, many CIOs haven’t got onboard. Here are five CIOs who aren’t waiting any longer.