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Why Veeam and HPE Simplivity are Better Together
In today’s ever-evolving digital landscape, it’s imperative that companies of all sizes, especially enterprises, focus on reducing any unplanned downtime and guarantee the backup and replication of all mission-critical data and activities. By adding Veeam into the mix, IT managers can now ensure they possess a heterogeneous data protection solution that minimizes downtime, reduces resources allocated for reactive activities and helps them achieve their business goals.
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How to implement three-dimensional Endpoint Protection
According to statistics, around 75% to 90% of all email communications are spams. Of those, some are virus-infected or emails designed to lure recipients to phishing websites.
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EMC InfoArchive: Data Sheet
Information accumulation stretches capacity to the breaking point, with higher costs for servers, storage, application maintenance, database software, and operations. Keeping all information in its source application is neither cost-effective nor scalable. And backup is only a temporary measure; difficult to access and not a compliant solution.
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Analyst Report: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems
Accelerate your journey to IT Transformation with VMAX 250F, architected for the enterprise and designed for midmarket budgets. Learn the top ten reasons Dell EMC customers deploy VMAX 250F.
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Top 10 Reasons Why Customers Deploy VMAX 250F
Accelerate your journey to IT Transformation with VMAX 250F, architected for the enterprise and designed for midmarket budgets. Learn the top ten reasons Dell EMC customers deploy VMAX 250F.
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TSIA 2015 Remote Support Trends
As of 2015 remote support solutions are typically well regarded by users, consistently delivering one of the highest average satisfaction scores in TSIA’s annual Global Technology Survey. Service executives should acquaint themselves with the new features and capabilities being introduced by leading remote support platforms and find ways to leverage the capabilities beyond technical support. Field services, education services, professional services, and managed services are all increasing adoption of these tools to boost productivity and avoid on-site visits.
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Beginner’s Guide: Control With Red Hat Ansible Tower
In this whitepaper, find out how IT organizations can expand automation to the enterprise and bring new levels of control, security and delegation capabilities to Ansible environments and how Using the open-source Ansible automation engine, organizations are deploying apps faster, managing systems more efficiently and crushing complexity. In doing so, they are building a strong foundation for DevOps and making automation a reality for everyone.
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Improves IT Agility and Time to Market
Read the IDC report exploring the benefits organisations realised by using Red Hat Ansible Automation to standardize and automate IT operations and configuration activities across their environments.
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Gartner Network Design Best Practices for Office 365
“Many organizations transitioning from on-premises Microsoft applications to Office 365 will experience performance problems due to geographic factors and use of the Internet for connectivity. IT can minimize performance issues and deliver an acceptable experience to end users by paying careful attention to network design.
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DevOps/Continuous Delivery Tooling: Launchpad for the Digital Enterprise
The digital economy is characterized by a rapidly changing and fast-moving business climate. This “need for speed” has revolutionized application and software delivery, where DevOps and Continuous Delivery have become core competencies.
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The Need for SaaS Speed – How to Drive Workforce Productivity with Microsoft Office 365
94% of users rate SaaS performance as important to their overall productivity. But how do you ensure the performance of business-critical SaaS apps like Office 365 when you don’t control the apps themselves?
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The Impact of Poor SaaS Performance on Globally Distributed Enterprises
In March 2019, ESG (Enterprise Strategy Group) surveyed 200 IT leaders responsible for SaaS applications in distributed and global enterprises to better understand the impact of performance on workforce productivity. In the paper, ESG reviews their findings. Read this white paper to learn more about the current enterprise environment as it relates to SaaS applications.
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Increasing Enterprise Application Performance with Flash Storage
Know more about the criteria for selecting flash storage in support of enterprise applications and makes recommendations based on the strengths of each flash system. Read more to find out how NetApp helps align enterprise-wide application performance with business priorities and growth through the use of multiple flash storage architectures and a Data Fabric.
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Creating purpose-built joint solution of Dell appliances & F5 software
Read to know more about how F5 has leveraged its strengths by jointly building applications with Dell for the modern business to optimise storage and application performance. These applications are built to cater to organisations from various segments.
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Meet Changing Business Needs With Modern ECM Platforms
Businesses today are continually faced with the challenge of managing the proliferation of digital content that flows in and out of their business. Most companies have business objectives that are constantly fluctuating based on market needs. But despite this variability, business users expect to have access to the content they need, where and when they need it. It is no longer feasible to operate a business with employees storing files on personal hard drives or individual business unit folders. The need for integrated content across the enterprise is paramount.
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A simple guide to research design and analysis
Analytically curious HR professionals wanting to join conversations about analysis might find learning all of the jargon and complexity daunting. However, this paper has presented a view of research design and analysis that will enable informed participation in workforce analytics discussions. The curious among you are now encouraged to explore these ideas in more detail beginning with the references at the end of this paper.
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Using workforce analytics to drive business results
The power of workforce analytics lies in its ability to challenge conventional wisdom, influence behaviour, enable HR and business leaders to make and execute smarter workforce decisions. To realize value from investments in workforce analytics, organizations need to understand: the relationship between their workforce strategies and their business challenges; the approaches at their disposal; and the capabilities required to translate raw HR data into defensible action.
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Your Journey to Always On in 4 steps
Today’s information-infused society hinges on the cloud, analytics, mobile and social. On-the-go consumers are almost always within reach of an Internet-connected device. Users expect quick, consistent access to their business-critical data and applications around the clock. That’s why outages, whether they are planned or unplanned, can negatively affect revenue, consumer trust and your reputation.
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Designing a Customer-Obsessed Business
The imperative to be customer-obsessed has clearly resonated with companies, but actually redesigning the business with an eye to customer experience goals remains problematic for most. Though many agree with the need to be customer-centric, they are still hindered by misaligned priorities and organizational silos, a lack of shared data and advanced tools, and the absence of clear leadership for the initiatives. If companies hope to succeed in the age of the customer, then they must begin to close these gaps in communication, organization, and leadership in order to prioritize creating a more satisfied customer.
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Digital workforce in the cognitive era
By using blockchain within a B2B network, events representing the exchange of documents could be recorded on a shared ledger – along with new kinds of supplemental events, including those produced by third-party IoT and smart devices. This can and likely will be accomplished by building upon, rather than replacing, technologies and systems that are used today. We envision blockchain, that is, providing a shared visibility overlay.
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How Blockchain Is Illuminating the Supply Chain Like Never Before
By using blockchain within a B2B network, events representing the exchange of documents could be recorded on a shared ledger – along with new kinds of supplemental events, including those produced by third-party IoT and smart devices. This can and likely will be accomplished by building upon, rather than replacing, technologies and systems that are used today. We envision blockchain, that is, providing a shared visibility overlay.
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Harness the Potential of SAP HANA with IBM Power Systems
Across industries, SAP is at the heart of companies that are undertaking digital transformation initiatives. As SAP customers plan the transition to the SAP HANA platform they need the right infrastructure to take full advantage of SAP HANA solutions. IBM Power Systems provide an excellent basis for the SAP HANA ecosystem.
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Enterprise Messaging in The Cloud
Why is messaging so essential to your success in the emerging cloud environment? Because it provides data resilience, performance and simplicity across your IT infrastructure.
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Re-thinking Enterprise Tech Support for the World of Internet of Things
Way back before the phrase “Internet of Things” was hot (in fact, way back before there was an Internet), there were connected ATM devices. The ATM was actually pioneered by IBM1 in the 1960s and 1970s and went on to change the face of banking. 24/7 availability gave customers more options while also freeing up time for bank workers to sell additional services and provide support, rather than just handling money.
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Explore, Analyze and Interpret Information for Better Business Outcomes
Begin your journey toward becoming a cognitive enterprise and start gaining unprecedented value from your own data. Watson Explorer reduces unnecessary research time and allows enterprises to work smarter and faster. Read this brochure to learn how Watson Explorer combines content and data with cognitive computing capabilities to help your organization work more efficiently and make better decisions.
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The IT Architects Guide to File Gateway Consolidation
This white paper outlines five key characteristics that IT architects should look for in an enterprise file gateway solution as a part of a larger MFT strategy: DMZ edge security; Integration across a diverse technology stack; Enterprise-scale and performance; High availability, failover and disaster recovery; Operational visibility, monitoring and reporting.
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IBM: An obligation to future generations
Every industry, including the industry of government, is facing digital disruption. Seventy-five per cent of government leaders say traditional business models are not sustainable in the current environment. The public expects the agility and efficiency found in the private sector, and governments must appeal to new workers with the skills to meet these requirements to attract investment and grow economies. Physical and cybersecurity alone demand significant increases in investment and oversight. For many governments, it may take time to re-examine their role in society and re-imagine how to achieve sustained success. This IBM whitepaper looks at what provocative changes can be made to help the government-industry.
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#DataDecoded for the Modern Enterprise
The conversation has been growing around data preparation. What started as a push for self-service access for specific use cases has now expanded to operationalizing a data pipeline across the enterprise. This has created an opportunity for greater collaboration between IT and the rest of the business to create efficiencies and eliminate workflow silos in the interest of propelling data strategy forward.
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Empower your business with continuous communications
Key technology trends and user preference shifts are changing the way businesses communicate and collaborate today. Enterprise solutions must be simpler to deploy, more intuitive to use, and must enable today’s mobile users the ability to collaborate effectively wherever they are. At the same time, they must deliver a secure and seamless communications experience. Smart companies must catch on or be left behind.
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Solve the Enterprise Communications Crisis with an Open Cloud Strategy
There is a crisis in enterprise communications and collaboration, due in large part to the diversity of technology and application silos that create user complexity and confusion. As cloud and mobile become the convergence points for enterprise communications and collaboration, enterprise planners have to focus on a global open cloud strategy to facilitate effective internal and external collaborative business workflows.