Integrate Big Data into Business Processes and Enterprise Systems

In the paper, “Integrate Big Data into Your Business Processes and Enterprise Systems” you’ll learn how to drive maximum value with an enterprise approach to Big Data. Topics discussed include:
  • How to ensure that your Big Data projects will drive clearly defined business value
  • The operational challenges each Big Data initiative must address
  • The importance of using an enterprise approach for Hadoop batch processing
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Workload Change: The 70 Percent of Your Business DevOps Forgot

Organizations that have successfully integrated workload automation (WLA) into their software development lifecycle have seen substantial benefits. So why is WLA, also referred to as job scheduling or batching processing, largely missing from the DevOps discussion? Adding WLA early in the development process ensures that the benefits of DevOps accrue for all applications, including your batch services.  This paper explores the benefits in greater detail and explores possible ways to remedy the situation. 
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Workload Change: The 70 Percent of Your Business DevOps Forgot

Organizations that have successfully integrated workload automation (WLA) into their software development lifecycle have seen substantial benefits. So why is WLA, also referred to as job scheduling or batching processing, largely missing from the DevOps discussion? Adding WLA early in the development process ensures that the benefits of DevOps accrue for all applications, including your batch services.  This paper explores the benefits in greater detail and explores possible ways to remedy the situation. 
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Get Big Data into Production at the Speed of Business

In this paper, learn how workload automation can help you adopt, manage, and exploit Hadoop effectively and meet enterprise requirements for self-service, compliance, forecasting, SLAs, and more. Find out how to:
  • Build out your Hadoop environment more quickly and minimize complexity
  • Test Hadoop projects efficiently with production data from diverse sources
  • Avoid the expense and risk of scripting
  • Maintain visibility, control, and compliance for applications in Hadoop
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Get Big Data into Production at the Speed of Business

In this paper, learn how workload automation can help you adopt, manage, and exploit Hadoop effectively and meet enterprise requirements for self-service, compliance, forecasting, SLAs, and more. Find out how to:
  • Build out your Hadoop environment more quickly and minimize complexity
  • Test Hadoop projects efficiently with production data from diverse sources
  • Avoid the expense and risk of scripting
  • Maintain visibility, control, and compliance for applications in Hadoop
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Build or Buy TCO Online Tool: Colocation

When deciding whether to build or buy infrastructure, the choice is simple when the potential savings are substantial. Compare your potential 10-year costs using CenturyLink’s TCO Comparison Tool – and decide with confidence.

Calculate your data center TCO now – and see how you can:

• Reduce upfront costs

• Increase efficiency of IT staff

• Scale power, bandwidth and space on-demand

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Hybrid IT: The Best of All Worlds

Download “Best of All Worlds” now and fast-forward your business’ agility with a hybrid IT solution.

In “Hybrid IT: Best of All Worlds,” you’ll learn why this situation is leading many IT decision-makers to re-evaluate and re-imagine their core infrastructure. And, as a result, they’re outsourcing a growing proportion of it, utilizing a hybrid array of different approaches – such as data center colocation, managed services and cloud solutions. This allows decision-makers to focus more of their resources on delivering business applications – not managing the day-to-day operations of data centers.

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Align your IT Infrastructure with the Demands of your Customer Base

Finding a technology partner that understands your customers is crucial to success. When Linedata, a financial software and services provider, launched its new SaaS offering, it needed a world-class data center, and a trusted network carrier to connect clients to the product. But serving clients in the investment management and leasing and lending markets, Linedata knew it was also critical that their partner understand the unique and demanding requirements of the financial industry.

After evaluating numerous vendors, Linedata chose CenturyLink Technology Solutions – which had everything it needed and more. CenturyLink met all three of Linedata’s core criteria, having strong security compliance, a reliable global network and a deep understanding of the financial industry.

Read “Linedata Launches SaaS-Based Offering and Expands Global Reach with Markets Infrastructure” now, and learn how Linedata partnered with CenturyLink to expand its product offerings and achieve a global presence.

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Automation and Orchestration for Effective Datacenter
Operations

Read this Technology Spotlight to explore how next-generation IT automation solutions, including physical and virtual server provisioning, process orchestration, and self-service capabilities, are overcoming many operational challenges and improving end-user experiences. Learn how datacenter automation technologies can help streamline and optimize many costly, time-consuming, and error-prone datacenter management activities.

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Digital Business Requires Application Performance Management

Learn how IT leaders are using application performance management (APM) to address their top business priorities. In this Forrester Technology Adoption Profile, you’ll explore current challenges in digital service management and how APM can help solve them. Find out:
  • Which issues pose the greatest threat to your digital service management effectiveness
  • How APM can improve both business and IT productivity
  • What IT infrastructure and operations professionals need to succeed today
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Five Key Elements of Complete IT Compliance

Ensuring complete compliance with regulatory requirements and best practices grows more challenging every day. Security and compliance teams need to move fast to reduce risk, but run into conflicts with under-resourced operations teams attempting to control change—leading to a SecOps gap between audit and remediation. Read this eBook and learn more about reducing the SecOps gap and how you can make even the most complex and dynamic IT infrastructure fully secure and compliant.
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Intelligent Compliance – Establishing Trust in the Datacenter

With the average cost of a data breach reaching $3.5 million, the pressure is intense to maintain the security and compliance of your data center. Discover how your organization may be at risk and how you can protect your data center from costly and highly visible breaches. Read the whitepaper today to put the trust back into your data center.
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Five Key Elements of Complete IT Compliance

Ensuring complete compliance with regulatory requirements and best practices grows more challenging every day. Security and compliance teams need to move fast to reduce risk, but run into conflicts with under-resourced operations teams attempting to control change—leading to a SecOps gap between audit and remediation. Read this eBook and learn more about reducing the SecOps gap and how you can make even the most complex and dynamic IT infrastructure fully secure and compliant.
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