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Optimizing Security and Carrier Network Performance With IBM and CloudShield

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Overview As technology changes continue to accelerate, telecommunication service providers are seeking new ways to manage more complex, high-bandwidth, IP-based data services such as multimedia, full-HTML web browsing, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing, streaming video on hand-held devices, and Internet Video Services. Each of these services requires greater demand from the service provider's infrastructure, necessitating more computing power and I/O than ever before. Of equal importance is the increase in the number of high-severity computer vulnerabilities, and the challenge of reducing threats by performing.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	IBM
Live Date	12th November 2008 00:00 UTC
Format	Webcast
Topics	Network Security, Security Management

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