web servers
e-TF1: Popular French TV Station Handles Huge World Cup Traffic With Juniper Networks
White Paper TF1 deployed Juniper Networks DX 2200 application acceleration platforms and accelerated downloads 2X - 5X, even during peak traffic, reduced bandwidth utilization by 40% and supported flash crowds with no additional... [11 Sep 2008]
Flow-Cookies: Using Bandwidth Amplification to Defend Against DDoS Flooding Attacks
White Paper Distributed Denial-of-Service flooding attacks against public web servers are increasingly common. This paper presents an easy to deploy mechanism whereby a third party with high access to bandwidth can... [10 Sep 2008]
Five iPhone apps for business
News The business intelligence (BI) tool is available as a free download, but customers must have licensed copies of Oracle's BI software running on their company's servers because the mobile app draws reports and analytics... [04 Sep 2008]
Cloud - not ready for mission-critical business
News In SmugMug's case, the photos it stored on Amazon's servers were at the core of its business; "companies should not place mission-critical aspects of their business on the cloud", said Duursma, speaking at the IDC CIO... [03 Sep 2008]
Deep Packets: Application Layer Security Threats
White Paper Attackers have progressed from scanning network ports and creating denial-of-service attacks to targeting software such as Web browsers, Web servers, e-mail programs and even database... [02 Sep 2008]
DNS Management Best Practices: Lessons Learned From the Leader in DNS
White Paper Configuring, updating, and maintaining a DNS infrastructure requires properly tuned hardware (e.g.name servers) and software, network bandwidth, space in data center(s), and system administration. The purpose of this... [02 Sep 2008]
Firefox extension to protect from wireless hacks
News The Perspectives software queries servers around the internet that Andersen has set up as notary-type nodes and asks them to verify the certificate they see for the website sought and to verify what certificate they have... [27 Aug 2008]
Server sales continue to rise
News Gartner's survey found that, in the second quarter, global sales of servers grew by 12.2 per cent year-on-year. Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys While the continuing economic downturn might... [26 Aug 2008]
Success Story: Sesame Workshop
White Paper The company implemented Novell ZENworks Asset Management to reduce inventory administration time by 70 percent and leveraged SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to consolidate Web servers by 80 percent. With a... [11 Aug 2008]
Predicting Short-Transfer Latency From TCP Arcana: A Trace-Based Validation
White Paper This paper analyzes the predictive abilities of these techniques using traces from a variety of Web servers, and show that they can achieve useful accuracy in many, but not all, cases. For example, a... [11 Aug 2008]
Omaha Steaks and IBM Serve up Well-Done e-business
White Paper Although the company had established a successful Internet presence, fulfillment systems, running on IBM AS/400 and IBM eServer iSeries servers, werent fully integrated with its front-end Web systems. [11 Aug 2008]
Customer Success: Hoover City Schools Case Study
White Paper With a previous direct-attached storage (DAS) environment, they had approximately 30 servers located at several locations throughout the district with 30 different backup devices. Hoover City School District needed a... [08 Aug 2008]
DOH: A Content Delivery Peer-to-Peer Network
White Paper Many SMEs and non-profit organizations suffer when their Web servers become unavailable due to flash crowd effects when their web site becomes popular. This paper presents the approach... [04 Aug 2008]
Canada Web Hosting Counts on Dell Products and Services to Help Drive Its Success in the Highly Complex and Competitive World of Managed Hosting
White Paper For Canada Web Hosting, buying and configuring white-box servers on an as-needed basis could not deliver the efficiencies and scalability necessary to support the company's rapid growth. Canada... [04 Aug 2008]
Metromojo Ensures a Flawless Experience for Members and Grows Lifestyle Communities With Juniper Networks Application Acceleration Solutions
White Paper In order to ensure a flawless user experience and reduced operating costs, Metromojo wanted to optimize web site performance by offloading networking responsibilities from web and application... [04 Aug 2008]