IDC brief: Building and running apps on Red Hat OpenShift and AWS

This IDC brief shows how enterprises are increasing revenue by rapidly moving to containers to develop and run their applications on Red Hat OpenShift and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Containers may be themselves a singular and simple foundational technology, but they have brought with them a large range of i and benefits that taken together define a full container platform, including transitioning from monolithic applications, scaling and automating orchestration with Kubernetes, and shifting to agile methods.

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Reducing downtime for SAP HANA

With more than 20 years of joint innovation, Red Hat and SAP tailor solutions for the needs of business-critical applications.The combination of SAP® HANA® System Replication and RedHat® Enterprise Linux® for SAP Solutions enhances the ability to operate SAP HANA landscapes with less downtime, helping organizations avoid business disruption, lost revenue, and reputation damage.
Read this overview to learn more.

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6 key steps: what to do after a ransomware attack

Checklist


Ransomware attacks companies every 11 seconds.

The end result? Lost productivity, loss or exposure of sensitive data, loss of current revenue, and even the risk of future profitability.

But there is good news: by deploying a cloud-based backup and DRaaS, your organization can recover much more quickly from a ransomware attack—significantly reducing the impact of ransomware and protecting companies’ bottom lines.

Whether your company has been infected by a ransomware attack or you want to try to mitigate any potential risks in the future, you need to be prepared.

Take a look at this checklist explaining the key steps that need to be taken once ransomware hits.

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Building an innovative cloud disaster recovery plan

Get best practices, examples and templates

White Paper


Cybersecurity Ventures predicts cybercrime damages will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 and “will be more profitable than the global trade of all major illegal drugs combined.” In such a climate, an attack is not a matter of if, but when.

Business continuity and disaster recovery go hand-in-hand, so it’s essential that IT teams are prepared for when the worst strikes.

However, not all DR plans are created equal. Only 22% of businesses have high confidence in their disaster recovery plan.

Download our white paper to design an effective recovery plan and learn:

  • Our 4-step sample disaster recovery plan
  • Best practices for business continuity planning and disaster recovery
  • Emerging methods for implementing a strong DR plan and strategy
  • The advantages of DRaaS in the cloud

Grab your IT disaster recovery plan template today.

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25 things every business should automate

Marketing automation is everywhere in your inbox. Across industries, automation has become a key to success: Nearly 80 percent of top-performing companies have used marketing automation for more than two years.

But automation isn’t reserved for big corporations. Small companies, too, can incorporate automation in every aspect of business: from capturing leads to closing sales to serving customers to checking routine office tasks off the to-do list.

In this guide, you’ll learn about 25 things every small business should—and can—automate, and how automating processes is easier than you might think.

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Get paid faster and improve your cash flow

You just provided your client with your product or service, and now it’s time to get paid. Should be pretty straightforward, right?

But that’s not always the case. You’re probably all too familiar with clients who don’t pay right away or forget to pay and don’t pay until you’ve sent them a couple past due reminders.

Luckily, more and more options that can help you streamline your payment process are becoming available—from stand-alone tools like mobile credit card readers to fully integrated cloud- based solutions.

In this whitepaper, learn how Keap Payments can help you get paid quickly, save time and money, and reduce stress.

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The Definitive Guide to Customer Data Platforms

How to Unlock the True Power of Your Customer Data


Customer data will fuel the future of customer experience—a CDP will drive it.

We wrote The Definitive Guide to Customer Data Platforms to help you uncover powerful use cases to help your business, identify the best processes for your team, and highlight how you might structure a CDP team.

You've already got all the customer data you need to succeed. Now it’s time to put it to work with the right technology, strategy, and team that will take your customer experience to the next level. In our in-depth playbook, we cover everything you need to know about:

  • The benefits of a Customer Data Platform;
  • Getting started with tried-and-true use cases;
  • Building a team with the right skillsets for any size organization;
  • Securing buy-in from executives across the company;
  • Measuring the ROI of CDPs to prove value to different stakeholders

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The Definitive Guide to Customer Data Platforms

How to Unlock the True Power of Your Customer Data


Customer data will fuel the future of customer experience—a CDP will drive it.

We wrote The Definitive Guide to Customer Data Platforms to help you uncover powerful use cases to help your business, identify the best processes for your team, and highlight how you might structure a CDP team.

You've already got all the customer data you need to succeed. Now it’s time to put it to work with the right technology, strategy, and team that will take your customer experience to the next level. In our in-depth playbook, we cover everything you need to know about:

  • The benefits of a Customer Data Platform;
  • Getting started with tried-and-true use cases;
  • Building a team with the right skillsets for any size organization;
  • Securing buy-in from executives across the company;
  • Measuring the ROI of CDPs to prove value to different stakeholders

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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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