CIO Insights: Bringing Shadow IT into the Light

This paper examines the different challenges facing the IT community today and is based on discussions that took place across four roundtable events attended by Chief Information Officers and senior IT professionals from various vertical markets. The key issues analysed in this paper include the influence of cloud and mobile, current strategies that are being implemented, and how the modern day IT strategy must adapt to succeed.
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SAS® Data Loader for Hadoop

Organizations have finally recognized the importance of big data. They know it can be used for analytics and other advanced technologies, so they’ve harnessed and stored it in systems such as Hadoop.
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What Would CIOs do to Redefine IT?

Have you ever wondered what CIOs would do if they could start their IT departments from scratch? CenturyLink posed that very question to a group of IT leaders at a CIO roundtable it sponsored in the UK. The answers varied and were often surprising. However, unlike past CIOs, their answers were not about building infrastructure and the ownership of the underlying IT assets. Discover the top 5 priorities these leaders say are key in today’s business environment. Read this engaging whitepaper to get a glimpse of what these strategic IT and business leaders would do. It offers insights that will help you redefine your IT strategy and deliver the technology leadership your business demands.
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Move IT from the Back Room to the Boardroom

Business Strategy, more than ever, depends on the execution and delivery of smart technology enabled services. IT management is being challenged to align their capabilities to that strategy and lead the technology charge. Often however, there exists a gap between the capabilities IT departments possess and the demands of the business. These gaps generally fall into 3 categories: lack of qualified staff, lack of essential tools, and lack of necessary skills. This informative interactive eBook will help you understand the gaps that are holding your IT department back and provide insights into how best to address them. Only by quickly aligning its capabilities to the needs of the business will IT deliver the technology leadership the business and markets demand.
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Managed File Transfer Buyers Guide

Is your Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution falling flat? The right MFT solution will enable your enterprise to maximize security and compliance, while maintaining system uptime. Our MFT Buyers Guide walks you through what you should look for in a provider and also offers you a checklist of items that your chosen MFT solution should provide.
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Enterprise Mobility Management 101

Enterprise mobility management safeguards an organization’s data and network security, while supporting employee productivity. Minimize organizational risks by implementing a BYOD policy and using supporting technologies to enable employee productivity.
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Managed File Transfer: Can your business thrive without it?

The right managed file transfer solution for your enterprise will deliver bottom-line results and peace of mind. Our whitepaper will show you what an effectively designed and deployed Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution will do for your enterprise. Discover how the right MFT solution will enhance business growth, enhance operational efficiency, enable compliance, reduce costs, and improve ROI.
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NoSQL & Big Data: No Bachelor’s Edition

Why use NoSQL? Watch this webinar for a discussion about the design decisions you should consider when vetting NOSQL as the back end for your application, learn when NOSQL is the right solution and when it’s not.
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Build Exceptional Customer Experiences with IT Agility

It’s clear that digital plays a significant role in shaping how customers engage with brands – but barriers exist that prevent organizations from delivering best-in-class digital experiences to their customers. A recent Forrester Consulting survey of CIOs and CMOs revealed that IT organizations focusing on infrastructure operations and “keeping the lights on” are a barrier to achieving business success, and organizations must collaborate with marketing in order to deliver IT agility. Learn how IT organizations can pivot from infrastructure maintenance to business innovation by downloading this Forrester survey report.
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IDC Webinar: “Bridging the Gap”

5 Predictions to Future-Proof Your Data Centre. Future-proofing your data centre is an ongoing process—often by the time you finish updating technology to accommodate current needs, it’s already outdated. How do you keep up?

In this webinar, Michael Levy, CenturyLink, and Jabez Tan from Structure Research examine the future of the data center and share CenturyLink's predictions on how it will evolve over the next five years and beyond.

Find out what trends - such as Internet of Things (IoT), exploding data generation, Big Data analytics and others - could mean for your business, and what you can do to prepare.

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Profiting from the Transition to Physical + Digital Solutions

Technology trends impacting network equipment providers include increasing software intellectual property (IP) component in physical products, mainstreaming of virtualization technology, the ability to decouple software from hardware and an increasing desire for service providers and enterprises to transition from using custom hardware to generic, commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware powered by software.
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Gear Up For Modern Service Delivery

Just as industrialization modernized the production of goods, automation applied to the modern service delivery life cycle can increase the speed and quality of service releases, which you can tailor to the right cadence of your business. Use new and newly repurposed tools to automate the full life cycle.
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Version Everything for Outstanding DevOps Performance

Over the last five years, the DevOps movement has brought Development and Operations teams together to meet the common goal of releasing better-quality software faster.

A key to DevOps success is the adoption of and adherence to a much advocated best practice: version everything.

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