Choosing the Right Private Cloud for your Enterprise

Private Cloud solutions are still at the heart of enterprise IT. In particular, private cloud solutions powered by technologies like Microsoft®, VMware® and OpenStack® will continue to play a crucial role — both today and in the future. As a result, choosing the technology mix best suited for your unique use cases and business requirements is absolutely critical.

In this white paper, we compare the top three private cloud technologies — Microsoft, VMware and OpenStack — and examine:

Whether you’re starting out or stalled out, review these important considerations to get on track. The white paper covers:

  • Platform-specific advantages
  • Platform-specific tradeoffs
  • Real-world case studies
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10 Steps to Success in Public Cloud Adoption

Poor planning is the top mistake organizations make when approaching public cloud adoption. With the pressure to transform while maintaining IT operations, public cloud projects often suffer from rushed implementations, lack of expertise and inadequate organizational support. Before the first chunk of data ever moves to the cloud, there are a myriad of decisions to be made.

Our white paper, 10 Steps to Success in the Public Cloud, boils those decisions down to ten milestones to guide your strategy and planning activities.

Whether you’re starting out or stalled out, review these important considerations to get on track. The white paper covers:

  • Planning frameworks and best practices
  • Ways to foster education and communication
  • Tips on building your business case and selecting pilot workloads
  • Strategies to address security and governance
  • Automation and migration methodologies
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5 Ways to Strengthen Your SaaS Security and Build Customer Loyalty

The SaaS business model is built on one thing – trust. As a SaaS provider, you must prove to prospects and customers that your platform is secure and their data is safe.

This eBook addresses the unique security requirements for SaaS companies including elastic infrastructure, shared resources, and the housing your customer data. Read all about:

  • Creating real-time security observability and monitoring workflows.
  • Applying operations principles to security
  • Data encryption and continuous scanning.
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Toad for DB2 Tips and Tricks for Top Performance

Spend less time managing DB2 and more time on new projects and strategic initiatives. If you’re a Toad for DB2 user, you’ve experienced its powerful automation and administration capabilities. But are you truly getting the most out of your investment?

Join Quest’s DB2 expert Jeff Podlasek to learn all about the productivity-enhancing features in Toad for DB2 and how to ensure your DB2 databases are running at peak performance levels. Podlasek will also demonstrate many of the new features included in Toad for DB2 Suite 2017:

  • Flexibility of the dashboard, user and role management, and object management
  • Productivity improvements to the query builder, SQL editor and pivot grid
  • Usability enhancements to partition analysis, reporting options and permission management for LUW
  • Improved object compare/migration and support for utilities for z/OS
Speakers
  • Jeff Podlasek: Software Development Manager, Quest Software
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Enabling Database Development Agility for DevOps

Join guest speaker IDC research director Melinda Ballou and Quest® Toad® product manager John Pocknell as they discuss the state of DevOps and the value it provides for continuous application delivery.

This session will highlight the advantages of bringing database development into the DevOps pipeline. You’ll learn how this prevents bottlenecks from occurring when application releases require database changes. You’ll also get to see how new tooling helps integrate Oracle database development processes to accelerate DevOps momentum.

You’ll gain a deeper understanding of:

  • The challenges and benefits of DevOps
  • Key factors for DevOps success
  • How software can support DevOps processes and integration of the database
Speakers
  • Melinda Ballou: Research Director, Agile ALM, Quality and Portfolio Strategies
  • John Pocknell: Sr. Product Manager, Quest Software
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Unleash your DevOps Strategy by Synchronizing Application and Database Changes

Need an easier way to keep up with business and customer demands? In this educational session, you’ll learn how to integrate database changes with your DevOps strategy. And before you say, “That’s only for application development” – don’t worry. You’re about to see how to extend those same time-saving concepts to database teams.

So what’s the secret to DevOps for databases? Implementing specific processes and tools to synchronize database and applications as they are deployed. You’ll get step-by-step guidance from Oracle expert and Toad Product Manager John Pocknell to help you streamline database development.

In this DevOps training session, you’ll learn how to:

  • Shorten your database development cycles without compromising quality and performance.
  • Integrate code-quality reviews and functional code testing into your continuous integration workflow.
  • Work smarter and become more agile by delivering code 40 percent faster.
Speakers
  • John Pocknell: Sr. Product Manager, Quest Software
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True or False: Debunking Flash Myths

This e-book addresses common misconceptions about enterprise flash storage, providing clarity for anyone using or considering flash in enterprise environments. Learn about old myths laid to rest and the reality of how enterprises can make full use of their flash storage investment.

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Keys to Business Success with All-Flash Storage

Are you building a business case for replacing disk systems with all-flash? Read this paper to find out what enterprise users are saying about their own experiences with all-flash storage. Findings are based on over a dozen different product reviews.

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Make Your Infrastructure Data Ready with NetApp

Your IT team is struggling with aging, inflexible, and complex infrastructure and processes that make it difficult to support new business needs or take advantage of cloud. Learn how you can transform your data infrastructure using flash storage to meet service level performance and availability, enabling your team to focus on the delivery of new applications and services.

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Top 3 Things You should Know about Modernizing your SAN eBook

Migrating to a flash storage solution does much more than simply save you money. Read this ebook and learn the top three things to know about modernizing your SAN. Find out how you can accelerate your most important apps by up to 20 times compared to traditional storage—while minimizing downtime.

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