TippingPoint Hacktivist Survival Guide: Whitepaper

The last decade has seen the rise of crowd-sourced, activist-driven hacker groups.1 The term hacktivist has been coined to describe this group and refers to the nonviolent use of illegal or legally ambiguous digital tools in pursuit of political ends. Most notable of these hacktivist groups is Anonymous, a loose collective of individuals borne out of a cybersubculture that has gone mainstream.The goal of this paper is to provide a glimpse into the world of hacktivism and, more importantly, the group known as Anonymous.

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Special Report: The Efficient Data Center: Optimization: Whitepaper

The old notion of a data center—a building full of servers that can be expanded at will as the demand to host applications increased—is gone for good. The new environment, defined by perpetual budget constraints but still increasing user needs, requires data centers that deliver more computing power but also cost less to run and take up less space.

Business and Technology Viewpoints: ViON: Viewpoint

ViON CTO Carl Fulp discusses virtualization solutions. Also a special interview with ViON CEO Tom Frana discussing the business of getting the most out of the cloud.

Six Common Challenges of Cloud Implementations: Whitepaper

Private cloud—as an approach to IT operations—calls for organizations to transform their data centers, including the network. Using strategic points of control to aggregate and dynamically provision IT resources can help organizations meet network-related challenges and move past the hype to successfully build, deploy, and secure private clouds.