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8 BIGGEST MISTAKES IT PRACTITIONERS MAKE AND HOW TO AVOID THEM
This guide outlines the 8 biggest mistakes IT practitioners make and provides solutions, key takeaways and real-world examples to help you improve IT monitoring and troubleshooting in your organization.
AI for IT: Preventing Outages With Predictive Analytics
Find out how AI and machine learning can transform your IT operations — download your copy of AI for IT: Preventing Outages With Predictive Analytics.
BRIDGING THE TECHNICAL SKILLS GAP
How IT teams can keep up with growing talent needs as technology and big data mature
Digital Document Management and E-Signature Optimize the New HR
Aberdeen’s research offers recommendations on how to prioritise and resolve misalignment and address risks for collaboration projects.
Gain Agility by Migrating ERP Workloads to Public Cloud Infrastructure
In this IDC report sponsored by Google Cloud, you’ll learn what challenges you face by moving mission-critical ERP applications to the cloud; how to take advantage of Google Cloud’s analytics and open-sourced solutions as a benefit of migration to the public cloud...
Infrastructure Monitoring 101: The Power to Predict and Prevent
Learn how complex IT infrastructures create opportunities for failure and how an infrastructure monitoring practice benefits other teams
MAKING THE CASE FOR CLOUD-BASED MODELING APPLICATIONS
This ebook outlines the value of a connected planning framework in the organization and the importance of purpose-built, cloud-based modeling software applications
The API Buyers Guide
Everything Technical Leaders Need to Know About Purchasing APIs
Meet 12 IT Trailblazers
How 12 IT visionaries are creating new paths to success
Modernize Your Legacy IT with Predictive Analytics
Build alignment between your IT department and business stakeholders. ... Speed up the process of identifying bottlenecks and performing root-cause analysis, letting you solve problems faster and prevent them from reoccurring.
The Total Economic Impact™ Of Box’s Enterprise Content Management And Collaboration Platform
From focusing IT efforts where it counts and removing clunky security protocols, to saving thousands of hours of work, you'll find out how one intuitive content platform yields stellar ROI and keeps work simple, secure, and compliant.
The Platform Equinix Vision – Build Here, and Go Anywhere
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company. Digital leaders harness our trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. We enable our customers to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage.
ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS ADD VALUE BEYOND THE LAN
Why Carrier Ethernet is the trusted, resilient connectivity solution for meeting increasing bandwidth needs—and how it can help your business stay ahead.
THE IT LEADER’S NETWORK MONITORING CHECKLIST
Learn what to include in your wireless network monitoring.
11 Things You Need To Know About DevOps
This report tells you the most important things to know about DevOps
A SIX-STEP FRAMEWORK FOR YOUR MULTI-CLOUD STRATEGY
A framework to help you define and implement a successful multi-cloud strategy
Improve Productivity with Box and Office 365
Organizations across are relying on Box and Office 365 to get a consolidated content layer to improve productivity, collaboration, security, and compliance.
Five Steps to Build a Process-Centric IT Organization
Learn 5 steps to building a process-centric IT organization and effectively position your team for the future
A FRICTIONLESS ZERO TRUST STRATEGY
Download this white paper to learn how to realize frictionless Zero Trust to understand authentication gaps across on-premises and cloud identity stores, detect, analyze and reduce risks in real-time and improve user experience and operational efficiency for both the end-users and IT teams.
SAP digital transformation requires Continuous Testing
Find out why it's time to move towards Continuous Testing for your SAP-enabled business processes; How Tricentis can help transform the SAP software testing …
10 Things to Look for in an RMM Solution
Researching RMM systems, but not sure what you need? We’ve compiled a list of essentials to help you with your search.
The Ultimate Cloud-Based Management Showdown: Windows Management Approaches Compared
Learn why Cloud-ready isn’t enough. Only Cloud Native solutions can optimize resources, secure and protect endpoints, deliver remote first experiences, and help organizations move to modernized IT.
DevOps Without Measurement Is a Fail
This ebook will introduce you to five critical drivers of DevOps success and show you how and what to measure to achieve that success: business success, customer experience, application and infrastructure performance, engineering velocity, and quality.
Monitoring as a Service: The MSP Opportunity Featuring a Hybrid IT Service Definition
This document describes a new managed service that helps MSPs monetize the rapidly growing cloud computing market. While cloud adoption is proceeding rapidly, especially for testing and development projects, the lack of visibility that enterprise customers have into public cloud services and hybrid IT creates a major pain point that cannot be solved easily and which acts as a significant barrier to cloud adoption for mission-critical workloads. Legacy monitoring tools are typically very difficult and costly to extend for seamless visibility into public cloud services, while the more cloud-centric tools have little or no coverage for the extensive tail of legacy IT systems that may remain on-premises for a considerable time yet
Best practice makes perfect: malware response in the new normal
Computing surveyed around 150 cyber security decision-makers, representing organisations from a wide variety of industries, including education, finance, technology manufacturing and the public sector, to gain a detailed picture of the challenges facing security teams in the modern environment. Our objectives were to explore how SOC professionals were reacting to the rise in remote working, especially the increased susceptibility of employees to malware attacks; identify how such attacks have changed in terms of scale and sophistication; and examine the importance of quickly isolating and remediating an attack. The research also looks at how to secure their organisations after the pandemic.
CROWDSTRIKE FALCON COMPLETE - How to Achieve Instant Cybersecurity Maturity for Organizations of All Sizes
This white paper explores the challenges organizations face in getting the most out of a security solution. It also offers insights on how CrowdStrike Falcon Complete can raise you to the highest level of endpoint protection with speed and efficiency, regardless of your size and IT resources.
Finding the Best WAN Edge Solution for Your Enterprise
SD-WAN (Software Defined Wide Area Network) can help enterprises improve application performance, lower WAN costs, and strengthen business continuity. But as you consider deploying SD-WAN, it’s important to understand the differences between solutions. Identifying which features matter to your enterprise is essential in making this selection. This paper discusses the most important considerations and outlines capabilities that separate “just okay” products from really good ones. While this paper does not compare specific products, it does include examples of features from Citrix SD-WAN, one of the leading WAN Edge solutions in the industry.
Introducing MLOps: How to Scale Machine Learning in the Enterprise
This book specifically for analytics and IT operations team managers, that is, the people directly facing the task of scaling machine learning (ML) in production. Given that MLOps is a new field, we developed this book as a guide for creating a successful MLOps environment, from the organizational to the technical challenges involved.
The IT Roadmap for Digital Business Transformation
From our expert research and interactions with thousands of companies in a wide range of industries, we’ve compiled digital business transformation best practices into a customizable roadmap. Your organization can use this roadmap to understand the key stages, resources and people required to plan and execute an effective digital business transformation initiative.
2021 Top Priorities for Data and Analytics Leaders
This e-book highlights the trends and challenges data and analytics (D&A) leaders will have to reconcile in the coming year and provides specific actions that they can take in response — and to better align their piece of the organization with the business.
2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report
The report provides tech and business decision-makers important information on the threats their competitors and peers are facing, and how they are reacting to them. This can help guide how you deploy and invest in security for your business.
3 Shifts in the Modern Data Environment And What it Means for IT Leaders
This paper seeks to outline three major thought shifts concerning the modern data environment that Information Technology leaders need to understand in order to support data-driven decision making within their organization.
Pricing IT Services: A Complete Guide
Take a look at streamlining your strategies to make sure you’re charging what you should be. Get the details on calculating your billable labor burden, accounting for your overhead, totaling your annual billable hours, and discovering your true annual cost of service delivery
How to build a Security Operations Center (on a budget)
Download this eBook today to learn how to build a Security Operations Center without requiring costly implementation services or large teams to manage it. You'll get an in-depth look at how organizations with limited resources can set up an operations center for monitoring, detecting, containing, and remediating IT threats across applications, devices, systems, networks, and locations.
SIX MUST-DO STEPS TO MODERNIZE YOUR SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGEMENT
In this white paper you will discover the six critical shifts that ITAM and SAM teams must make to modernize and remain relevant in this new technology landscape.
Office 365® Backup For Dummies®, Veeam Special Edition
Office 365® Backup For Dummies®, Veeam Special Edition, addresses the data security challenges organizations face in today’s computing landscape by outlining the out-of-the-box security features in Office 365 and uncovering the gaps that require action to achieve an effective backup and recovery strategy. It explains the gamechanging functionalities in Office 365 to drive productivity while tackling the repercussions of data loss either intentionally or accidentally.
Pure Storage's Evergreen Storage Continues to Be the All-Flash Array Market's Customer Experience Program to Beat
This White Paper assesses the impact Evergreen Storage has had on the enterprise storage industry and discusses the technical, financial, and business implications of the program, which was again expanded in late 2019, from a customer point of view.
Prevalence Of Legacy Tools Paralyzes Enterprises’ Ability To Innovate: IT Ops Teams Lacking A Modernization Initiative Are Stifling Future Growth
If only 12% of enterprises use modern tools, are they evolving fast enough to progress beyond basic survival mode? Older, larger enterprises are facing intense competition from younger, disruptive, digital-native startups born in the cloud. To catch up, many enterprises have attempted to modernize by adopting cloud-based architectures, but they are all falling short because their legacy tools don’t manage these systems and many modern tools don’t manage legacy systems. This disconnect puts the operations teams, users, and customers in a perpetual hamster wheel of problem resolution, inhibiting growth, increasing risk, and undermining their efforts to be more competitive. The path to transformative IT Ops anchors on modernizing management tools as part of a broader strategy toward AIOps. For those that haven’t started, consider yourself late.
Find Your Edge: Create value by harnessing data at the point of creation
Business priorities drive IT priorities. And IT capabilities underpin business capabilities, which either limit or expand future priorities in an endless cycle. Whether that cycle is virtuous or vicious depends on how closely IT and business priorities are aligned. With data increasingly coming from outside the core data center, harnessing all that information will require stretching your imagination to the edge.
Buyer's Guide to Modern Web-Scale Backup and Recovery
Choosing the right enterprise-grade, modern, web-scale backup and recovery solution involves understanding the full list of potential problems first, then comparing solutions to those problems. This Buyer’s Guide is your handbook for selecting the product that best meets the needs of your organization, for today as well as tomorrow.
ABC's of DNS, DHCP, and IPAM Security
From diagnosing network issues to reducing downtime, to identifying network breaches and preventing cyberattacks, DDI security has become a vital element in any organization's cybersecurity playbook. In this eBook, we will discuss these components in detail.
Defend Your Data from a Ransomware Attack
It's time to demand more from your backup. Download this ebook to learn how you can prevent your backup solution from becoming a ransomware target, why taking a multi-layered approach to data protection is the best way to safeguard your backup data against ransomware, a nd if the worst happens, how quickly can you recover to reduce downtime and data loss.
Tried and tested best practices for Active Directory security
This eBook details out some of the most tried and tested practices that you can adopt to safeguard your organization's Active Directory. Check this eBook now to know: - About role of access management - Principle of least privilege in a security group - Stale accounts a s potential threat and much more…
Ransomware Recoverability Must Be A Critical Component Of Your Business Continuity Plans
The global spend on cybersecurity skyrocketed from $3.5 billion in 2004 to $124 billion in 2019. This 35x jump is expected to exceed $1 trillion by 2021. Yet according to a new study from Forrester, fewer than a quarter of businesses are prepared to recover quickly from a ransomware attack. In this study Forrester Research asked 313 IT infrastructure and operations decision-makers to gauge their team’s readiness in recovering post- ransomware attacks. Download the report to delve into the study findings and learn how you can protect your last line of defense against a ransomware attack — your backup data.
State of Data Management Report: Data Management as a Service
During these tough times, more and more organizations are showing an appetite for comprehensive Data Management as a Service (DMaaS) – a SaaS solution that goes well beyond backup and can save IT teams time and money. Read the report and gain insights from 500 IT decision makers on what’s hot and what’s not in SaaS-based data management.
How IT Resilience Gaps Impact Your Business
Discover the five signs your business is (or is not) on the path to true business resilience in a remote-first environment. Read the report.
Dell Technologies Unified Workspace: An Approach to Deliver a Modernized End-User Experience That Pays for Itself
This guide will outline: • Introduction • Dell Technologies Unified Workspace Delivers an Employee Experience That Offsets Hardware and IT Costs • The Dell Technologies Unified Workspace Approach • 5 Steps to Implementing Dell Technologies Unified Workspace • Unify the Employee Endpoint Experience
Combating hacking techniques: How to defend against DDoS, ransomware, and cryptojacking
We created this e-book to educate and create awareness about the security threats and major cyberattacks that are plaguing businesses right now. Our objective is to dissect three popular attacks - DDoS, cryptojacking and ransomware - and provide tips on ramping up your organization's security defenses. After reading this e-book, you should also have a clear idea about the threats these three attacks can cause to your business.
CUSTOMER COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT BUYER’S GUIDE
Rather than merely a piece of technology, good Customer Communications Management (CCM) is better understood as a business strategy that employs the maximum potential of all its parts. Our whitepaper covers all the essential aspects.
Say Goodbye to Downtime : Keep your SAP services up and running with SUSE
Digital transformation initiatives put pressure on your IT organization to adapt to requirements for delivering innovative new services that are reliable and secure. As a result, you are under constant pressure to provide continual uptime in the data center to meet growing customer demand and stay competitive.
The Forrester Wave™: DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q1 2021: The 11 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
In our 28-criterion evaluation of DDoS mitigation solution providers, we identified the 11 most significant ones — A10 Networks, Akamai Technologies, Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, Google, Imperva, Lumen, Microsoft, Neustar, and Radware — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps security and risk professionals select the right one for their needs.
2021 Webroot BrightCloud® Threat Report
Discover the most important (and surprising) cybersecurity trends from the last year and learn how you can build a united defensive front to stay resilient against threats.
Carbonite Data Protection & Cyber Resilience: All the tools necessary to protect any type of data
A blended approach to data protection—with high availability combined with backup and non-disruptive data migration—gives IT decision-makers confidence in their ability to mitigate disruptions, preserve historical data and maintain business agility. It also simplifies administrative tasks and allows IT staff to focus on strategic initiatives. Organizations of all sizes wish to achieve this level of cyber resilience. Carbonite’s Data Protection Platform enables businesses to deploy comprehensive protection for any physical, virtual, cloud, legacy or heterogeneous environment.
The Hidden Costs Of Ransomware
The true cost of ransomware infections includes more than just the ransomware payment. Carbonite and Webroot spoke with business leaders and IT professionals to find out how their organizations were affected by ransomware, beyond losing access to their data and paying a ransom.
Preparation, Recovery, and Remediation: A Holistic Approach to Ransomware Protection
When your organization gets hit by ransomware, it needs to be prepared with an exercised Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) plan to help it resume operations as quickly as possible. Key steps and solutions must be followed to prepare and respond to cyberattacks against your organization.
How Secure is Your Cloud Data? With employees working remotely at higher rates, business data is increasingly at risk.
With employees working remotely at higher rates, business data is increasingly at risk. IT administrators are now responsible for maintaining the same high level of security for data that’s more dispersed than ever, and on networks that lack the same robust protection as office environments.
A Proven Approach to Cloud Workload Security
This white paper shares some of the knowledge and experience the CrowdStrike team has gained from securing its own cloud. It begins by describing the major factors that make the cloud vulnerable to threats and sharing some security-related observations made by the CrowdStrike cloud team. It then explains CrowdStrike’s approach to protecting a cloud infrastructure that is processing trillions of events per week and continues to grow as the company adds new capabilities to the Falcon platform and gains new customers. The paper concludes by describing the role the Falcon platform can play in protecting cloud workloads.
CLOUD SECURITY REPORT 2019: Cloud Security Challenges, Solutions, and Trends
The 2019 Cloud Security Report is based on the results of a comprehensive online survey of 674 cybersecurity and IT professionals, conducted in Spring 2019 to gain deep insight into the latest trends, key challenges and solutions for cloud security across a balanced cross-section of organizations of varying sizes across multiple industry sectors. The survey was done by Cybersecurity Insiders, the 400,000-member information security community.
Three Ways to Make Cloud Your Business
The 3 key responsibilities for today's I&O leaders and how a cloud management solution helps address them
Managing Kubernetes Performance at Scale
With this practical ebook, Kubernetes administrators and systems architects will examine common challenges and operational tips for running Kubernetes clusters in production.
Power your Hybrid Cloud Service Portfolio with Snow Commander: A Guide for Managed Service Providers
In this guide, we discuss how MSPs can fuel growth and enable digital transformation for their customers through use of an enterprise- proven, commercial off-the-shelf solution that offers: - Complete visibility into hybrid cloud environments - Customized, self-service access to their cloud resources - Simplified infrastructure management including automation
Taking Control of Public Consumption
In this essential guide, we explore how IT leaders can effectively manage their public cloud environment by implementing a cloud management platform to increase visibility, improve standardization and reduce costs.
Transforming IT Operations To Enable Better Business Outcomes
Read this ESG whitepaper to know how improving operational efficiency is the most important objective IT expects to accomplish from their organizations’ investments in the area of AI/ ML.
Unleash your SAP Data - Enable modern analytics with your SAP data on Azure
QLIK & MICROSOFT LAUNCH JOINT GLOBAL PROGRAM TO ACCELERATE ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS USING SAP DATA ON AZURE SYNAPSE
The Total Economic Impact™ Of Moxie Kbot: Cost Savings And Business Benefits Enabled By Contextual Guidance
Forrester Consulting conducted a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to examine the potential ROI enterprises may realize by deploying Kbot. The results: A quantifiable benefit of over $9M over 3 years.
The state of SIEM
The Security and Information Event Management (SIEM) market is undergoing transformation, fueled by continuously evolving IT infrastructure: cloud computing, mobility, virtualization, and other business drivers.This white paper discusses capabilities that markedly distinguish the SIEM of today from previous iterations. Then it goes beyond SIEM as the industry understands it today, and discusses what should be the natural next evolutionary step of the SIEM market. Download today to help guide your organization’s SIEM journey.
Strained Relationships Between Security And IT Ops Teams Leave Businesses At Risk
Endpoint security and management has become very complex. Despite investments in teams and tools, organizations still struggle with visibility gaps across their IT environment, organizational silos and broken workflows that leave businesses exposed to risk. Tanium commissioned Forrester Consulting to survey more than 400 IT leaders at large enterprises to uncover the challenges and consequences they face when managing and securing their endpoints.
Bad Bot Report: Bad Bots Strike Back
Imperva’s 2020 Bad Bot Report investigates the daily attacks that sneak past sensors and wreak havoc on websites.
5 Ways to Boost IT Efficiency with Intelligent Storage and Robotic Process Automation
Too many IT resources are being spent manually responding to storage problems and routine maintenance that, if left unchecked, could lead to downtime or data loss. Fortunately, a new class of intelligent storage with autonomous capability, combined with robotic process automation (RPA), can hyper-automate storage management, using software automation to perform tasks faster and more accurately. Read this white paper to explore five key benefits of deploying intelligent storage and RPA to optimize data center efficiency.
Become a Connected Nonprofit - Unlock the Power of the Salesforce Platform
You may have heard that many nonprofits are turning to technology that is based in the cloud to help them be more effective in program management, engagement, fundraising, analytics, and more. The benefits of cloud platforms are being seen across the social sector. But first... What is a cloud platform? Let’s find out.
