Migrate SQL Server applications directly to AWS

Zadara hybrid cloud storage service for AWS delivers enhanced availability, simplified backup, advanced replication, and comprehensive disaster recovery capabilities, while providing a path to dramatically reduced Microsoft SQL Server licensing costs.

Read this solution brief to discover how you can migrate SQL Server applications directly to AWS, virtually unmodified, with Zadara hybrid cloud storage services.

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Migrate SQL Server applications directly to VMware Cloud on AWS

Zadara hybrid cloud storage service for VMware Cloud on AWS delivers simplified application backup, advanced replication, and comprehensive disaster recovery capabilities, while providing a path to dramatically reduced Microsoft SQL Server licensing costs.

Read this solution brief to discover how you can migrate SQL Server applications directly to VMware Cloud on AWS, virtually unmodified, with Zadara hybrid cloud storage services.

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How to Establish High Availability with SQL Server Standard Edition

Microsoft SQL Server is the foundation of many enterprises’ mission-critical applications, making high availability (HA)imperative as they seek to modernize on the cloud. However, the cost of SQL Server Enterprise prohibits many from doing so, as the cost is too high for those that only need the HA features.

This eBook outlines how Zadara makes it possible to establish high availability SQL Server using standard licenses, while maintaining your enterprise-grade capabilities and unlocking the speed and scale of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Mobile Devices: The New Support Frontier for IT

Recent years have brought a huge shift in the workplace around mobility. Smartphones and tablets are now essential work tools for employees in many types of organizations and many lines of work. But where do these employees turn when they need help with an app or setting, especially if they use their personal device for work purposes?

A guided support model meets employee expectations and increases IT effectiveness.

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Infographic: Biggest Tech Support Time Wasters

When it comes to IT support, time is money. When you take into account loss of employee productivity, a company of 10 employees could lose as much as $183/hour of downtime plus the cost of support. When downtime occurs, every minute counts, and communication is key—especially if the issues are actually easy to fix. This infographic highlights some of the biggest communication barriers to resolving tickets.

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Infographic: Day in the Life of a Support Agent

Life doesn’t have to be stressful for a remote support agent. Sure, there are always fires to put out – last-minute software upgrades, crashed servers, forgotten passwords. But with the right remote support tools, demanding organizations can satisfy their evolving needs anywhere, anytime, from any device. Here’s what freedom looks like for one support agent.

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Abderden Report: Onward to the Future of IT Support

In this Aberdeen report we look at how new technologies & evolving consumer expectations are transforming IT support. Organizations primed to deliver innovative solutions and meet the high expectations of customers can expedite support, resolve issues faster, increase productivity, reduce costs, and leave end-users satisfied.

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Time To Replace Symantec?

Switch from Symantec, and get the industry’s best endpoint security from enSilo, which automatically protects everything in real time – from workstations and servers with current and legacy operating systems to manufacturing and Internet of Things (IoT) devices – even blocking threats that bypass traditional AV.

We're the only solution that protects in real time. enSilo offers fully automated security and orchestrated incident response across any communication device in a single integrated platform with flexible deployment options – all for a low, predictable operating cost.

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Addressing Challenges in Hybrid Cloud Security

How can you secure your apps and services without compromising your schedule? (Hint: It’s all in the automation.) Enterprises are using hybrid cloud technologies to enrich the user experience and power their digital transformation. But running applications in public clouds while managing the application data in private clouds makes for a unique set of security requirements. We discuss the challenges that DevOps teams face in hybrid environments and how those challenges can be overcome.

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How to build a modern IT foundation for maximum business efficiency

Studies show that IT spends 71% of its budget on maintenance. The process of IT optimization helps you incrementally reclaim that budget. With an optimized IT foundation that supports automation and scales as you grow, you can implement what you want, when you want, without complex processes. By optimizing IT, you can focus your staff and budget on the projects that deliver deeper value to your customers.

Learn how in this Red Hat e-book.

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Addressing Challenges in Hybrid Cloud Security

How can you secure your apps and services without compromising your schedule? (Hint: It’s all in the automation.) Enterprises are using hybrid cloud technologies to enrich the user experience and power their digital transformation. But running applications in public clouds while managing the application data in private clouds makes for a unique set of security requirements. We discuss the challenges that DevOps teams face in hybrid environments and how those challenges can be overcome.

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Windows Server 2008/R2 Application Migration Program

End-of-support (EOS) for Windows Server 2008/R2 is a critical event that, if left unaddressed, puts an organization at much higher risk for security breaches. Unfortunately, most organizations don’t align their internal application lifecycle schedules to the EOS schedules maintained by software vendors like Microsoft, and therein lies the problem. How do you migrate applications running on Windows Server 2008/R2 to a supported OS without disrupting current business or projects.

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Modernizing Legacy Applications For The Digital Age

Technology today moves fast. Customers demand unique, high-quality digital experiences for interacting with your company, and they'll move on quickly to a competitor if they don't get what they want. Yet enterprises today struggle not only with new product development, but also with the ongoing maintenance and upkeep of a significant legacy application portfolio that has been a bedrock of their company's longevity. IT executives are quickly realizing that a bi-modal approach to their application portfolio, where some components can evolve quickly while others are left to stagnate, is now inhibiting growth, because innovative customer experiences are forcing fundamental changes in business processes. These modifications, which touch all applications, mean that legacy systems are now becoming a drag on innovation. A new approach is needed.

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The Business Value of Red Hat Solutions and Cost Relationship to Unpaid Alternatives – IDC Report

This IDC Study takes a look at such a comparison of several Red Hat products including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (including Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat Insights); Red Hat OpenStack, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat Ansible, with community-based alternatives. The cost of deploying, managing and life-cycling these products, both individually and collectively, was considered in comparison to community-based alternatives. In addition, the impact of user productivity — the impact of time to deploy, cost of outages, and related metrics — was considered for these two sets of technologies.

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10 Ways to Improve I.T. Efficiency

In today’s digital businesses, IT organizations are expected to deliver more services at a faster pace than ever before.

However, the IT infrastructures of most companies encompass a variety of operating system vendors and versions, server hardware configurations, and management tools, resulting in a complex maze of resources that requires a large, highly skilled IT staff. Interoperability issues, complicated administration, and convoluted processes can delay provisioning, increase downtime, and create security and compliance risks, all greatly hindering flexible and efficient operations.

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