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Managing Virtualization Everywhere

No one debates the logic of consolidating 20 lightly used systems into one virtualized server, but the case for creating a virtual cloud or software-defined data center isn’t so clear. Take the risk out of virtualizing your data center by using hardware and management systems designed with virtualization in mind.

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Engineered for Success: 3 Top Ways Next-Gen Servers with Intel® Xeon® Processors Support Business

Purpose-built systems address demands created by the increasing reliance on data analytics and CRM to drive business opportunities. Here’s a look at server innovations designed to meet the new business reality.

**Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

The Product Delivery Problem (Hint: It’s Not You)

It’s not enough to be fast. Or to deliver the right product. Product Managers need to do both. How? This white paper outlines surefire ways you can establish and maintain a strong connection between intended outcomes, development methodologies and customer value.

A Modern Take on the Agile Manifesto

When the Agile Manifesto was published in 2001, our workplace looked very different from how it does today. Despite major changes in how we work, our interpretation of the Manifesto hasn’t changed in over a decade. So what does today’s Agile look like? Do the values of the Manifesto still apply? How can we evolve Agile concepts to tackle today's product-delivery challenges in a new way? Download this eBook for an opportunity to rethink the Agile Manifesto. View Agile in a new light and deconstruct which concepts were home runs and which still need to evolve. Download the eBook.

Increase Product ROI With Better Decision Making

What if you could get the right product to market 18 percent faster? What would that mean to your bottom line? For the average 100-person team, 18 percent translates to $1.5 million a year, and puts about one to two hours back into the day of every person on the product team. Download this whitepaper to learn how you can maximize return on your product delivery investment by getting the right products to market, faster and better than before.

Project Management Best Practices

Project management is a juggling act, with too many balls in the air at once. Anyone can learn to draw a Gantt chart, but effective project managers also rely on the savvy that comes from experience. Whether you are a rookie or a veteran PM, these tips, from people who’ve already done their tours of duty in the project management trenches, will help you drive project success in an unpredictable world.

2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting, Europe

The "2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting, Europe" is available now and there are some important insights that will inform your strategy for bringing cloud like consumption and provisioning attributes to the traditional managed hosting market.

Read the full report for an in-depth analysis of the European market for cloud-enabled managed hosting and the vendors to watch out for.

CloudHarmony CenturyLink Hyperscale Testing Report

The independent testing results are in, and CenturyLink Cloud’s Hyperscale cloud compute instances are the ones to beat for key performance measures and total cost of ownership. With the launch of our new Hyperscale server instances, we approached an independent analytics company, CloudHarmony, and asked them to conduct an extended performance test that compared CenturyLink Cloud Hyperscale servers to the best of breed equivalent servers offered by AWS & Rackspace. CloudHarmony is a well-respected shop that collects data from dozens of benchmarks & shares the results publicly for anyone to dissect.

After running a variety of benchmarks over a long period of time (to ensure that the test gave an accurate look over an extended window), they shared their findings with the world.

A Guide to REST and API Design

In his 1966 book “The Psychology of Science,” American psychologist Abraham Maslow tackled the idea that those in the field of psychology needed to approach treatment from multiple perspectives, to take on new ideas, and not just continue using the same theories and techniques created by Freud and his followers so many years ago. Acknowledging that changing your point of view can be difficult, Maslow wrote “[I]t is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything like a nail.” We have all had this experience. We get so used to the way things have been done in the past, we sometimes don’t question the reasons for doing them.

5 OAuth Essentials for API Access Control

OAuth puts the user in control of delegating access to an API. This allows one service to integrate with another service on behalf of that user. The same social Web providers who popularized the pattern of exposing an API to enable third-party developers to enrich their platforms were the first ones to apply such delegated authorization mechanisms. OAuth was defined in 2006, to standardize mechanisms of this kind.

Five Simple Strategies for Securing APIs

Since the early days of computing, developers have struggled to make applications communicate. Specialized protocols, such as COM+, CORBA, and even SOAP, emerged over the years, but none were sufficient to meet the need for scale, simplicity, and cross-language functionality.

APIs are the technology behind this approach. APIs allow developers to create an open architecture for sharing functionality and data between applications. APIs are like windows into an application—a direct conduit that leads straight into the core functionality and data residing in the heart of the app.

5 Ways to Get Top Mobile App Developer Talent for Your Open APIs

Opening APIs to developers outside the enterprise can enable the creation of apps that add value in innovative and often unexpected ways –without the enterprise having to invest directly in app development. However, this will only happen when the enterprise can grow an ecosystem of visionary developers creating cutting edge apps that provide consumers with something of real value.

In this eBook, we will provide a detailed overview of five key ways smart enterprises attract and nurture top third-party developer talent.

Protecting Your APIs Against Attack and Hijack

The best practice for API security architecture is to separate out API implementation and API security into distinct tiers. Under this model, an API developer can focus completely on the application domain, ensuring that each API is well designed and promotes integration between different apps. CA API Gateway provides the API security administrator with complete control over access control, threat detection, confidentiality, integrity and audit across every API the organization publishes.

Transforming Digital Business with APIs

The app, in many digital forms, mobile, cloud and the Internet of Things, has created the opportunity for enterprises to optimize interaction with employees, customers and business partners in fundamentally new ways. Choosing the right digital platform can be the difference between success and failure.

Application Visibility: The Root Of Good Service Management

IT organizations have long struggled to understand and manage the services they provide. Most have acquired huge portfolios of tools to measure nearly every corner of the IT environment. Despite these investments — many of which were on the order of several million dollars — the goal of understanding and managing service behavior remains elusive.