5 Proven Ways to Drive Continuous Improvement

Process is the lifeblood of every business, and yet too many organizations suffer from processes that are inefficient and unsustainable. Whether your organization is stuck navigating a snarl of unwieldy spreadsheets and emails or painstakingly customizing large, complex systems with part-time support from overworked technical teams, the result is the same: a bogged-down business with frustrated employees, customers, and shareholders.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Creating and sustaining efficient business processes requires expert planning and design, but also supporting technologies to keep work moving across the entire process. In this eBook, we’ll show you how five different organizations transformed previously disparate tasks and workflows into a seamless process with all the benefits—at a fraction of the cost or time commitment—of customizing legacy business applications.

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Microsoft SQL Server on RedHat Enterprise Linux

Microsoft SQL Server on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® offers businesses additional flexibility, superior performance, enhanced security, and ultra-high availability for larger workloads. This combination provides a scalable foundation with a consistent application experience, whether deployed across bare-metal, virtual machine, container, or cloud environments.

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ROI Study of Financial Institution using Network Verification

The primary function of Forward Enterprise is to collect device configuration data from every network device, including state information that governs the active behavior of the device. Forward Enterprise can then model and anticipate the behavior of the entire network end-to-end, and report on potential vulnerabilities, policy violations or risk exposure.

The common identified process improvements we have seen at several large customers are:

  • Reduced time to trouble ticket resolution
  • Reduced time spent on audit related fixes and updates
  • Fewer, shorter and more reliable change windows or network updates

Read how this financial institution cut costs by leveraging network verification in trouble ticket resolution, audit-related fixes, and change window frequency.

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Network Reassurance

Network verification is a new technology for managing network chaos and automating key IT tasks such as troubleshooting, compliance processes, audits and change windows. Verification has been used in other engineering disciplines, such as software and semiconductor design, but has never been viable for networking until recent breakthroughs that Forward Networks helped pioneer. Since 80-90% of large enterprises are looking to incorporate intent-based networking into their IT strategy in the next few years, now is the time to determine how a verification platform can fit into your architecture going forward, and which use cases will bring the most benefit for your organization.

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Networking Guru’s Guide to Verification

Today, networks have become so large and complex, along with constant changes to accommodate new services and business requirements, that networking teams can no longer document or manage all the details end-to-end. With potentially tens of thousands of devices and billions of lines of code, until now there has been no way to automate the analysis of network designs to quickly verify what devices you have, how they’re connected, where traffic goes, whether it’s really working, or what needs to change. Network verification is a rapidly emerging technology that provides deep insight to network behavior end-to-end, as well as automating many network troubleshooting and remediation tasks. Organizations are leveraging verification to help avoid outages, facilitate compliance processes and accelerate change windows.

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Why Network Verification Requires a Mathematical Model

Network verification is a rapidly emerging technology that is a key part of Intent-Based Networking (IBN). Verification can help avoid outages, facilitate compliance processes, and accelerate change windows. Full-feature verification solutions require an underlying mathematical model of network behavior to analyze and reason about policy objectives and network designs. A mathematical model, as opposed to monitoring or testing live traffic, can perform exhaustive and definitive analysis of network implementations and behavior, including proving network isolation or security rules.

In this paper, we will describe how verification can be used in key IT processes and workflows, why a mathematical model is required and how it works, as well as example use cases from the Forward Enterprise platform. This will also clarify what requirements a mathematical model must meet and how to evaluate alternative products.

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Shifting to 1st Party Data for a Better Customer Experience

With customer data increasingly driving the personalization strategies fueling the customer experience across marketing, sales, and customer support, your data strategy has never been more important. Customers expect consistent experiences across the myriad channels they interact with— whether in-store, on the website, or in an app.

Customer data is what fuels the teams and technologies responsible for your customer experience, but for years there was little incentive for companies to prioritize customer data as an asset itself to be taken care of and safeguarded. To take on personalization and privacy, you need a unified view of customer data at an individual level to deliver relevant experiences with consent.

In this eBook, you will learn how to scale engagement across all your tools and channels — accurately and with consent— in order to deliver experiences that matter to your customers.

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Druva Data Protection for VMware Cloud on AWS

Solution Brief


On-demand cloud compute and storage services have grown steadily as companies continue their digital transformation journey. As businesses look to reduce costs, increase agility and improve the efficiency of their data center operations, they are selectively moving workloads to the cloud. The result has been the creation of a new business model known as hybrid cloud.

The goal of the hybrid cloud is to bring portability and consistent operations to on-premises and cloud environments. VMware Cloud on AWS is a joint development effort between AWS and VMware to deliver such an integrated cloud solution.

Learn how, with VMware Cloud on AWS, customers can:

  •   Reduce operational overhead and get to the cloud faster by leveraging existing
        skills, tools, and processes familiar to IT personnel
  •   Align costs to business needs with flexible consumption options and
        investment protection
  •   Get a single inventory view of both on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS
        resources using vCenter server technology

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You need to simplify remote office backup – and here’s why

White Paper


Cloud backup has a compelling value proposition for every enterprise looking to protect their data, and especially for remote and branch offices (ROBOs). Companies can reduce data protection costs by over 50%, minimize downtime, and enable central IT to manage backup and recovery remotely. Cloud backup allows companies to better comply with data privacy regulations and provides protection against data loss due to ransomware attacks.

Read this white paper to learn:

  •   Relevant business cases in which distributed data risk is especially high
  •   Why cloud-based data protection is ideal for ROBO
  •   Best practices for implementing cloud backup and recovery for ROBO
  •   How an effective cloud-based data protection solution looks like

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What is cloud-based backup and recovery?

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Today’s companies struggle with the challenges of protecting data cost-effectively. Cloud-based backup and recovery can help your company – no matter how large or small – achieve reliable, scalable backup at a much lower cost compared to expensive on-premises protection.

Find out how your company can benefit from cloud-based backup and recovery. Read this white paper to learn:

  •   The difference between “backup and recovery” and “disaster recovery”
  •   Why cloud-based backup and recovery costs much less than on-premises
        backup
  •   How easy it is for your end-users to access cloud-based data storage
  •   Why cloud-based backup is ideal for remote-office/branch-office storage

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Reduce costs with cloud-based VMware data protection

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IDC estimates data is growing at a 61% compound annual growth rate — and with this influx of data, your organization might struggle to maintain data security and facilitate growth. That’s why you should consider a third-party data protection solution that is certified for VMware on-premises and cloud environments.

Read how VMware data protection in the cloud provides:

  •   Radically lower TCO, with up to 50% costs savings
  •   An infrastructure that is hosted completely offsite (no hardware, software,
        maintenance, or real estate)
  •   Fast response times in the case of failover for disaster recovery
  •   Centralized global management, visibility, and monitoring

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Microsoft SQL Server on RedHat Enterprise Linux

Microsoft SQL Server on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® offers businesses additional flexibility, superior performance, enhanced security, and ultra-high availability for larger workloads. This combination provides a scalable foundation with a consistent application experience, whether deployed across bare-metal, virtual machine, container, or cloud environments.

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What to Consider When Protecting Healthcare Data

Data protection is critical in healthcare. Hospitals, clinics, urgent care centers, medical offices, insurance providers, billing services providers, and other organizations face a dual responsibility: first and foremost, they must safeguard the privacy, identity, security, and finances of their patients. No less important, they must also protect their own organization from costly breaches, regulatory fines, and damage to their business, reputation, and patient relationships.

Seeking to secure the sensitive data they hold and work with, healthcare organizations increasingly use encryption to protect data in transit. While effective as far as it goes, this approach can lead to a false sense of security—as organizations fail to realize that encryption can also be used to hide attacks. Rendered invisible to their own security devices, malware and viruses can then pass easily into the organization’s environment alongside other types of encrypted traffic.

Recognizing this problem, some organizations turn to decryption as a way to effectively inspect all the traffic leaving and entering their environment. In practice, though, decryption is typically implemented in a highly inefficient, ad hoc manner that quickly raises issues with cost, scalability, and performance. The organization faces a hard choice between security and efficiency.

In this ebook, we’ll talk about the security threats facing healthcare organizations, the issues with traditional approaches to encryption and decryption, and a better way to protect data privacy without impairing security.

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Eliminate Friction in Design Collaboration

Traditional tools of the engineering trade don’t accommodate today’s need for cross-team collaboration. From using different mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) applications to working on projects with stakeholders located all over the world, engineers have to overcome various obstacles to get the job done. Learn how technology can help streamline communications and collaboration, ultimately setting up your team for success.

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Cosine Additive

When he co-founded Cosine Additive Inc. to design a 3D printer that could be economically competitive with traditional manufacturing methods, CTO Andrew McCalip had one design platform in mind. “I’ve always preferred SOLIDWORKS because it’s the most modern package and supports an intuitive, common-sense approach to design,” he says. Learn more. Read the case study.

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