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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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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DDoS Response Playbook

This handbook provides you with a practical guide for planning and executing a DDoS response plan. It outlines pragmatic steps and best practices for choosing and setting up the right mitigation solution for your organization, how to authoritatively respond to an attack, and conduct a thorough post-attack analysis for developing follow-up defense strategies.
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Top 10 Database Threats

Practical applications for Big Data have become widespread, and Big Data has now become the new "prize" for hackers. Worse, widespread lack of Big Data security expertise spells disaster. These threats are real. This whitepaper explains common injection points that provide an avenue for attackers to maliciously access database and Big Data components.
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The Challenge of Protecting Critical Data

Almost all data within an organization serves a useful purpose, but not all data is critical to the business’s survival and growth. The data that is most critical can be difficult to define and challenging to protect, as organization’s often face some common roadblocks that can leave the most valuable data exposed. Read the white paper to learn how to clearly define your critical data through a 7-category hierarchy; the price that enterprises pay for losing their most critical data; and 6 common roadblocks that stand in the way of properly protecting your critical data, and how to overcome them.
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