With more and more businesses going online to tap the benefits of Internet and online media communications, it is clear that they all need protection from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, as well as other malicious attacks. Because the sophistication and frequency of these attacks is growing day by day, more sophisticated tools and solutions are emerging that offer protection against such attacks. Additionally, managing various apps in the cloud is also becoming challenging. So this past week, management techniques were also disseminated.

TMCnet contributor  Mae Kowalke, for instance, wrote about a joint solution crafted by Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert) (ALU) and Arbor Networks, a network monitoring and security solutions provider. To protect cloud computing from hackers, the two have come together to integrate Arbor’s Threat Management System (TMS) software into Alcatel-Lucent’s carrier-class 7750 service router, wrote Kowalke.

As a result, reported Kowalke, the service providers (SPs) can now embed the new DDoS mitigation capability in an integrated card, MS-ISA Threat Management System, directly within their networks to defend against attacks and cut costs. “It is an extensible solution enabling SPs to provide assurance for their VPN, business internet and hosting customers,” wrote Kowalke.

Since managing cloud computing technologies is not as simple as it may sound, Alcatel Lucent (News - Alert) generated a white titled "The 2011 Cloud Networking Report." It is written to help enterprises take firm control over their cloud applications and services, wrote TMCnet contributor Beecher Tuttle. According to a survey included in the report, wrote Tuttle, more than half of IT organizations feel that it is very important or extremely important to do a better job managing their private cloud solutions. As per Tuttle’s report, “A similar percentage also agree that it is very important or extremely important to better manage their application performance, which is even more complicated in a cloud computing environment.”

On the news front, contributing writer Nick McDonald reported that Qualcomm (News - Alert) has successfully completed the first voice call handover from an LTE mobile network to a wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) network, using single radio voice call continuity (SRVCC). As per McDonald’s report, “This is a huge breakthrough in the development of voice-over-LTE (News - Alert) (VoLTE) cellular technology, as the SRVCC feature enables an automatic switch to a WCDMA or 3G network from an LTE data network.”

While Latin America’s leading wireless service provider, America Movil, has selected Alcatel-Lucent to provide infrastructure for its 4G/LTE network rollout in Latin America, Altair Semiconductor (News - Alert), a developer of ultra-low power 4G LTE chipsets, has successfully completed Band 14 interoperability testing for its FourGee-3100/6200 chipset with Alcatel-Lucent infrastructure. Alcatel-Lucent’s Morgan Wright, vice president for End to End Public Safety, said, “it is eager to collaborate with innovative companies such as Altair to create the communications ecosystem public safety organizations need to carry out their vital duties of keeping communities safe, ” wrote TMCnet contributor Trupti Kamath.