Your Guide to Developing a Multi-Cloud Data Strategy

Organizations today are adopting cloud-based applications, platforms, and services to achieve greater elasticity and faster delivery times in today’s app-driven world.

As the name suggests, adopting a multi-cloud strategy means using multiple cloud services from different providers, with workloads spread out across cloud environments. While most businesses require rapid and flexible access to computing, storage, and networking resources, not all enterprises are pursuing multi-cloud for the same reasons.

Of course, not every team, business function, or application workload will have similar requirements in regards to performance, privacy, security, or geographic reach for its cloud environments. Whatever the impetus, companies must build a culture that puts data front and center in a world where every company is becoming a data company. This leads us to our main points: understanding key data challenges and getting your data ready for multi-cloud environments.

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The ROI Story – A guide for IT Leaders

Disruptive IT infrastructure has been the norm over the decades, rather than the exception. Still, we have never seen a time such as now. The traditional hardware-defined datacenter model is besieged on multiple fronts. On one side is the public cloud, which continues to grow ever more popular. On the other side is software-defined infrastructure known as hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), which is also growing extremely rapidly. Seemingly sandwiched in the middle is the hybrid combination of software-defined infrastructure on-premises with multiple public cloud options – known as multi-cloud.

The goal of this book is to assist CIOs, CTOs, CFOs, IT managers, IT staff, channel partners, manufacturers, consultants, cloud providers, systems integrators, outsourcers, and anyone else interested in how to use financial analysis as a framework to optimize strategic decision-making. It is geared toward evaluating and building a corresponding business case for disruptive infrastructure technologies, and focuses on Nutanix’s HCI-based solution, what we call enterprise cloud, though the methodologies should prove helpful for analyzing any platform.

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10 ways to automate Microsoft Windows with Red Hat Ansible

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform contains modern tools for managing and automating Microsoft Windows environments. In this checklist, you will learn 10 ways Ansible can be used to manage and execute core functions in Windows environments, from security updates to remote management using WinRM.

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FreddieMac- Crawl, Walk, Run – Improve IT operations with xMatters

Over the course of the past several years, FreddieMac's IT service management needed a way to pull support staff and information from workday, the current system at the time. They needed a tool that was easy to use, worked reliably all the time, and something that was consistent and fun. Instead of updating information manually on spreadsheets, they were able to achieve IT excellence with xMatters.

Learn more about FreddieMac's journey with xMatters, and how they integrated with ServiceNow to master roster rotations, manage escalations among staff, and streamline the IT infrastructure to grow from ~100 to ~300 support groups.

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8 reasons why Citrix Desktops-as-a-Service is right for your business

To meet the increasing demands of customers and the expanding mobile workforce, organizations of all sizes are moving toward an always connected workplace—where employees can work from anywhere and on any device.

Today, small and mid-sized businesses are turning to Desktops-as-a-Service (DaaS), which enables workers to access the apps and data they need to get their job done as well as provide IT with cost efficiencies and centralized management.

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Comparing Cloud Asset Visibility Solutions

How does the status quo compare to Orca Security?

Orca Security provides workload-level visibility into every AWS, Azure, and GCP asset without the operational costs of agents. It deploys in minutes to surface vulnerabilities, malware, misconfigurations, lateral movement risk, weak and leaked passwords, secret keys, and high-risk data such as PII.

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Best Practices for Managing Risks in Your Cloud Deployment

IT teams are embracing the cloud for its scalability, reliability, flexibility, and rapid deployment capabilities, helping them achieve performance and cost-savings goals.

According to Gartner, by the end of 2019, we’ll see, “30 percent of the 100 largest vendors’ new software investments will have shifted from cloud-first to cloud-only.”

But for enterprises transitioning from on-prem architectures, a move to the cloud opens up new and uncharted territory when it comes to managing risk. Complex, distributed resources in the cloud call for an update to the standard risk management and security approach.

For security teams tasked with securing cloud environments, holding on to pre-cloud tools and mindset is no longer going to work, as the challenges and tools needed to secure cloud environments are different from what was required to secure pre-cloud architectures. Even worse, copying pre-cloud solutions means that the drawbacks of pre-cloud architectures are brought into the cloud world. Only by fully embracing the cloud and its values can enterprises take full advantage of its benefits.

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Forrester Report: Top 10 Ways to Master Performance for Your Cloud Migration

Get guidance on planning your cloud migration efforts early to save headaches later.

Cloud migration has been a hot topic for some time, yet the measurement of performance before, during, and after migration has remained somewhat subjective and, in many instances, has led to bad customer and employee experiences. Planning your approach when moving applications to the cloud is paramount to success.

This report helps infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals achieve higher performance during a cloud migration effort.

    Read this Forrester report to learn:
  • How to build a realistic cloud migration strategy
  • 10 best practices for maximizing performance

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ANALYST REPORT: The economics of hybrid and multi-cloud

451 Research highlights the opportunities that hybrid and multi-cloud strategies present to the modern enterprise.

The adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud deployments in the enterprise has become an explicit IT strategy.

According to 451 Research, more than half of enterprises are pursuing an integrated hybrid IT strategy. What’s more, more than 70% of enterprises deploy a public cloud strategy that involves more than one provider.

Enterprises want to choose the best technologies available to them for their specific needs and hybrid and multi-cloud approaches are favored strategies.

    Read this report to:
  • Understand the economic and business opportunities of hybrid and multi-cloud strategies
  • Learn examples of how other companies are finding success leveraging this model
  • Gather recommendations for developing a hybrid and/or multi-cloud strategy that’s best for your organization

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eBook: Microsoft 365 Identity and Security Assessment

In today’s world, there is a plethora of IT solutions that overlap in functionalities. Some of these solutions are not being utilized to their fullest, while others are duplications.

Concerning overall data security environments, more often than not, organizations have unforeseen gaps from an IT infrastructure perspective. While mobile devices and cloud applications have accelerated workplace productivity, they also create new opportunities for security vulnerabilities due to access and permissions. Managing around those vulnerabilities can be operationally difficult.

Download our e-book to learn how to implement a more holistic approach to securing your organization’s data, enabling remote productivity, and reducing costs in these times of shift and change.

  • Ensure your organization’s data and IT infrastructure are secure
  • Enable mobility and remote productivity without compromising on security
  • Streamline solutions to gain efficiency and reduce costs
  • Leverage the power, flexibility, and security of Microsoft 365

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Whitepaper – How APIs Modernize Legacy Systems

The world is moving at lightning speed from legacy enterprise software to SOA, SaaS integration, and APIs, compelled by the power of convention over configuration and the promise of agility and operational efficiency. Yet most businesses face a widening divergence between the IT infrastructure demanded by emerging business needs and the infrastructure they’ve built up over generations.

The result? Many organizations find it difficult to modernize their legacy systems in a way that enables them to create an IT strategy that supports the quick adoption of newer technologies such as cloud, big data, IoT, and mobile. This is where APIs come in.

Discover how to make legacy a competitive advantage:

  • Leverage APIs and API-led connectivity to future-proof your IT infrastructure
  • Expose legacy systems using Anypoint Platform in a straightforward way
  • Connect legacy systems quickly, without disruption
  • Build on a platform that can extend legacy to SaaS and APIs
  • Learn how MuleSoft customers like Siemens, Mount Sinai, and Service NSW unlock legacy to drive value

Don’t ditch your legacy systems, modernize them.

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