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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Data Protection Everywhere

In this session learn how Dell EMC's most recent technical developments can enable you to solve the most difficult data protection challenges of today while laying the foundation to address the challenges of tomorrow. Our discussion topics will span protecting mission critical applications, virtualized environments, and next-gen apps. Additionally, we’ll discuss our capabilities when protecting workloads ‘Born in the Cloud’ or ‘Living in the Cloud’.

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Mobility in the Age of Big Data: Analytics, Data, and Devices: Part 3 – Managing Enterprise Mobility: In-house vs. Managed Services

In our increasingly data-driven world, the need for timely access to actionable information can make the difference between business success and failure. The difficulty managing the data deluge, including social media, video, and explosive growth in unstructured data, is amplified by the concurrent increase in the number and variety of mobile devices that users demand for access and collaboration.

This TechBytes series, sponsored by Panasonic and produced by Slashdot Media, looks at the impact that data analytics has on an increasingly mobile workforce, why managing devices and analytics tools continues to vex many organizations, and what businesses should be doing now to address these challenges to remain competitive. We’ll also take a special look at industries that demand mobile computing in challenging environments, such as field services, transportation, logistics and manufacturing.

Viewers will learn:

  • How and why investments in analytics continues to grow
  • What impact analytics has on mobile workers including increased productivity
  • How linking field workers with big data collection increases customer insights
  • How enterprise industries such as field services, transportation and logistics, and manufacturing are being revolutionized by deploying mobile computing devices to its workforce
  • How the right mobile strategy can drive productivity increases
  • When ruggedizing a mobile workforce segment makes sense
  • Managing mobility: in-house versus managed services

    • Don’t hesitate, register now for this TechBytes series to help ensure the intersection of mobility and data analytics brings business rewards to your organization.

    About the presenter:

    Jim Dempsey is a National Sales Manager at Panasonic where he focuses on developing and managing Panasonic's resellers and ISV partnerships. His team’s primary focus is on Panasonic’s Toughpad line of rugged handheld and tablet products. The team works closely with Panasonic’s field sales teams and partners to facilitate joint demand generation and focuses on verticals such as retail, logistics, manufacturing, transportation, utilities, public safety and federal sectors.

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Mobility in the Age of Big Data: Analytics, Data, and Devices: Part 2 – Creating a Mobile Platform for workers in rugged environments

In our increasingly data-driven world, the need for timely access to actionable information can make the difference between business success and failure. The difficulty managing the data deluge, including social media, video, and explosive growth in unstructured data, is amplified by the concurrent increase in the number and variety of mobile devices that users demand for access and collaboration.

This TechBytes series, sponsored by Panasonic and produced by Slashdot Media, looks at the impact that data analytics has on an increasingly mobile workforce, why managing devices and analytics tools continues to vex many organizations, and what businesses should be doing now to address these challenges to remain competitive. We’ll also take a special look at industries that demand mobile computing in challenging environments, such as field services, transportation, logistics and manufacturing.

Viewers will learn:

  • How and why investments in analytics continues to grow
  • What impact analytics has on mobile workers including increased productivity
  • How linking field workers with big data collection increases customer insights
  • How enterprise industries such as field services, transportation and logistics, and manufacturing are being revolutionized by deploying mobile computing devices to its workforce
  • How the right mobile strategy can drive productivity increases
  • When ruggedizing a mobile workforce segment makes sense
  • Managing mobility: in-house versus managed services

    • Don’t hesitate, register now for this TechBytes series to help ensure the intersection of mobility and data analytics brings business rewards to your organization.

    About the presenter:

    Jim Dempsey is a National Sales Manager at Panasonic where he focuses on developing and managing Panasonic's resellers and ISV partnerships. His team’s primary focus is on Panasonic’s Toughpad line of rugged handheld and tablet products. The team works closely with Panasonic’s field sales teams and partners to facilitate joint demand generation and focuses on verticals such as retail, logistics, manufacturing, transportation, utilities, public safety and federal sectors.

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Breach Predictions eBook

Based on analysis of 2014-2016 breach data from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (privacyrights.org), RSA took a look at past breach data to determine if history could help us anticipate the future. The Breach Predictions eBook provides insights from that analysis as well as recommendations to protect your business and personal data.
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Mobility in the Age of Big Data: Analytics, Data, and Devices: Part 1 – Data Analytics and the Mobile User

In our increasingly data-driven world, the need for timely access to actionable information can make the difference between business success and failure. The difficulty managing the data deluge, including social media, video, and explosive growth in unstructured data, is amplified by the concurrent increase in the number and variety of mobile devices that users demand for access and collaboration.

This TechBytes series, sponsored by Panasonic and produced by Slashdot Media, looks at the impact that data analytics has on an increasingly mobile workforce, why managing devices and analytics tools continues to vex many organizations, and what businesses should be doing now to address these challenges to remain competitive. We’ll also take a special look at industries that demand mobile computing in challenging environments, such as field services, transportation, logistics and manufacturing.

Viewers will learn:

  • How and why investments in analytics continues to grow
  • What impact analytics has on mobile workers including increased productivity
  • How linking field workers with big data collection increases customer insights
  • How enterprise industries such as field services, transportation and logistics, and manufacturing are being revolutionized by deploying mobile computing devices to its workforce
  • How the right mobile strategy can drive productivity increases
  • When ruggedizing a mobile workforce segment makes sense
  • Managing mobility: in-house versus managed services

    • Don’t hesitate, register now for this TechBytes series to help ensure the intersection of mobility and data analytics brings business rewards to your organization.

    About the presenter:

    Jim Dempsey is a National Sales Manager at Panasonic where he focuses on developing and managing Panasonic's resellers and ISV partnerships. His team’s primary focus is on Panasonic’s Toughpad line of rugged handheld and tablet products. The team works closely with Panasonic’s field sales teams and partners to facilitate joint demand generation and focuses on verticals such as retail, logistics, manufacturing, transportation, utilities, public safety and federal sectors.

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Navigating the Journey to IT Transformation

Digital Transformation is the reinvention of business activities, processes, competencies, and models that fully leverage current and future digital technologies. In today's dynamic business environment, organizations across the board are tasking IT to accelerate efforts to deliver a unique and compelling customer experience. At the same time, IT organizations are adopting new approaches in order to better serve organizational goals. Organizations are adopting cloud technology to drive agility, efficiency, and effectiveness to become more productive today, and to help ensure that can easily meet future objectives.

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Intel Inside®. New Possibilities Outside.

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The World’s Most Advanced Converged Solutions Brochure

In this brochure, discover how you can accelerate your adoption of converged infrastructure (CI) and cloud-based computing models with Dell EMC. CI enables you to reduce IT costs, improve time to market and focus more on business innovation.

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Dell EMC XC630 – Greater Database Performance than Alternative Integrated Solution

If your business uses a three-tier architecture with disaggregated servers, storage, and SAN to run applications, you might be considering upgrading to an integrated solution to streamline your business. However, implementing a hyper-converged Dell EMC XC Series cluster powered by Nutanix software is an even more attractive option that can provide 73 percent greater database performance - an advantage that translates to 50 percent greater database performance per dollar than a traditional integrated solution.

In addition to superior performance, the hyper-converged Dell EMC XC solution also offers software-defined tiered storage, high availability, and a redundant network architecture. This makes it an excellent investment for businesses that are ready to take their computing and storage to the next level.

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What’s New In RecoverPoint for VMs 5.1

Learn the best practices and use cases to leverage a simple, efficient operational and disaster recovery solution for virtualized applications in VMware environments leveraging Recoverpoint for Virtual machines 5.1.

Empower your VMware admins and application owners to manage disaster recovery provisioning and simplify operational and disaster recovery management for all virtualized applications.

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SQL Database Backup Using Dell EMC Data Domain Boost Technology

Discover advanced backup integration with Microsoft SQL server that enables more efficient resource utilization, reduces storage footprint, utilizes 99% less bandwidth during backup which ensures a faster and more efficient backup.

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2017 Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays

Solid-state arrays have matured beyond performance-oriented workloads, and the benefits are now compelling for primary storage plus old and new unexpected workloads. This Magic Quadrant will help IT leaders better understand SSA vendors' positioning in the market. Gain insights into the rapidly evolving market for solid-state arrays with the 2017 Gartner report. Discover vendor strengths and the criteria that must be met to be positioned in the leaders’ quadrant.

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