Drill Down: 5 BDR Fundamentals

There are five essential pieces to a sound backup and disaster recovery (BDR) plan, and IT pros who follow these steps are able to feel confident in their long-term organizational plan. Read this expert guide from Ben Maas, an independent consultant and system architect who has guided many companies through BDR deployments, to learn these five fundamentals. Understand how to size your environment, evaluate your BDR capabilities, and test your system for any surprises.
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Why Midsized Organizations Should consider EVault by Carbonite

Today it is possible, even for smaller organizations, to establish both backup and full-fledged hybrid data protection under one robust onsite/offsite underpinning. ESG has four recommendations to assist such organizations as they try to pursue a disk-to-disk-to-cloud data protection strategy in the right way, with particular consideration for EVault by Carbonite
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2017 Strategic Roadmap for Storage

Emerging storage hardware and software enable I&O leaders to lower acquisition costs per terabyte and improve manageability. In addition to focusing on agility, automation and cost reductions, IT leaders should address the cultural changes and skill set shortages caused by digital business projects.
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Leveraging the Power of the Next Generation Data Center

A visual infographic highlighting the five architectural principles of developing the Next Generation Data Center (NGDC), including scale-out, guaranteed performance, automated management, data assurance, and global efficiencies. This infographic typically accompanies the white paper, Designing the Next Generation Data Center, which is more in-depth account of the 5 principles.
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eBook: Contact Center Economics and the Cloud

Move to the Cloud with Confidence

If you are considering the right deployment model for your contact center, economic guidelines can help you choose the solution that is best for your company. Cloud, on-premises or hybrid.

Just a few years ago, businesses were still unsure of the viability of moving their contact centers and other critical enterprise systems to the cloud. Since then, with the decrease of cloud costs, and the corresponding increase in security and, the viability and total cost of ownership of cloud deployments are attracting more and more companies.

This eBook will cover how different criteria can affect a choice between a cloud or on-premises contact center, including:

  • The size of your contact center, and business requirements such as customer journey management
  • The location and quantity of contact centers being managed
  • The need for scalability, speed of deployment, and maintenance requirements

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Disaster Recovery for Multi-Datacenter Apache Kafka Deployments

DESIGN, CONFIGURATION, FAILOVER, FAILBACK

Datacenter downtime and data loss can result in businesses losing a vast amount of revenue or entirely halting operations. To minimize the downtime and data loss resulting from a disaster, enterprises can create business continuity plans and disaster recovery strategies.

Download this white paper for a practical guide to configuring multiple Apache Kafka clusters so that if a disaster scenario strikes, you have a plan for failover, failback, and ultimately successful recovery.

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Kafka: The Definitive Guide

Learn how to take full advantage of Apache KafkaTM, the distributed, publish-subscribe queue for handling real-time data feeds. With this comprehensive book, you’ll understand how Kafka works and how it’s designed.

Authors Neha Narkhede, Gwen Shapira, and Todd Palino show you how to deploy production Kafka clusters; secure, tune, and monitor them; write rock-solid applications that use Kafka; and build scalable stream-processing applications.

  • Learn how Apache Kafka compares to other queues and where it fits in the big data ecosystem
  • Dive into Kafka’s internal design
  • Pick up best practices for developing applications that use Kafka
  • Understand the best way to deploy Kafka in production monitoring, tuning, and maintenance tasks
  • Learn how to secure a Kafka cluster
  • Get detailed use-cases
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2017 Apache Kafka Report

Learn more about how companies are using streaming platforms.

Over the past several years, organizations across many industries have discovered, and are filling, an increasingly important gap in their data infrastructure. It sits at the nexus of big data, data integration, and all of their data stores and applications – a gap that is being filled by streaming platforms like Apache Kafka.

Confluent has enjoyed a front row view as companies adopt streaming platforms to create new products, become more responsive to customers and make business decisions in real time. This survey focuses on why and how companies are using Apache Kafka and streaming data and the impact it has on their business.

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Unifying Backup DR & Data DeDuplication Operations

Gartner reports that IT now views backup applications as complex, frustrating, and unable to meet today’s changing DR requirements. This IT Brief will give you the fundamentals on how to utilize Universal File System Driver (UFSD) technology to save critical business backup data in a virtual disk format. Paragon’s proprietary Protect & Restore (PPR) is Paragon Software’s solution for data protection services. Read this business brief to learn the latest information on how to protect your company from Disaster Recovery using the newest strategies to store & backup critical business data thru BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), VMWare, and Physical Storage Servers while avoiding redundant deduplication. This brief provides 3 different strategies to backup, restore, protect, and save your data physically and in the cloud.

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Paragon’s PPR – The Most Advanced, Centrally Managed Backup Solution for Physical and Virtual Environments

Paragon Protect & Restore (PPR) is an all-in-one, centrally managed, software solution for backing up virtual and physical IT infrastructures. No matter whether your environment is based on VMware, vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, physical servers or a combination thereof, PPR offers quick and flexible restoration functions, easy replication of virtual machines and efficient archiving thereby eliminating many of the challenges now engulfing IT operations. Additionally, Paragon's solutions offer:

  • Single, highly scalable, centrally managed solution for all your Physical & Virtual servers, workstations and hosts
  • Reliable and fast restores, even to completely different hardware
  • Remote Set-and-forget operation of backups and restores
  • US based engineers taking support calls
  • Cut storage requirements by up to 80% via the latest duplication engine
  • Faster Restores and Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) when compared to Veeam, BackupExec, Acronis and many others

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