20 Point Checklist for Vetting a Managed Hosting Provider

Web and digital agencies are hired for what they do best - building highly responsive, well-thought out, and aesthetically pleasing websites and web applications. They are NOT hired for their server and hosting expertise. For the agency, hosting is simply a means to an end — overshadowed by the immense pressure to, “Go live and get paid!” It’s no wonder then that agencies are often left holding the buck in the frustrating cycle of finger pointing, resulting from slow load times, network downtimes, and security attacks.

The beauty of partnering with a managed hosting provider is that you specifically don’t need to know about your service, how it works, or what parts it is made up of – all those details are taken care of for you. In fact, a really good provider should do their job so well that you don’t even realize everything they’re doing to ensure the healthy upkeep of your site – which is fantastic, until you start to wonder if maybe you could get your service cheaper elsewhere.

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Managed Hosting Buyers Guide

If you only take one idea away from this guide, it should be this: Where you host matters.

It’s a simple idea, but one that has far-reaching consequences. The implications of choosing a hosting company that isn’t a good fit for your business can be painful: slow sites, downtime, and worst of all, lost revenue. To the untrained eye, many hosting companies look the same. They offer products that appear similar, have similar features, and even similar guarantees. But looks can be deceiving. Once you scratch the surface, it becomes clear that all hosting isn’t created equal, and some hosting companies are better aligned with your business than others.

This guide is designed to help you make an informed decision when choosing a hosting company for your business

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Product Overview

Introducing Swiftype Enterprise Search

Swiftype Enterprise Search is an easy way for companies to index content across internal cloud data sources and make it accessible from anywhere, on any device. In a single search, your employees can pull any information relevant to the task at hand.

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Too Many Cloud Apps? Stop Wasting Time Hunting for Information

There’s no arguing that your business would run faster with the necessary cloud technologies. They each have a purpose and they each add value to your business. The challenge is in finding information (documents, files, conversations, or data) that’s scattered across these cloud-based systems. It turns a simple search for information into a time-consuming endeavor.

Stop wasting time hunting for information! Download this NEW eBook and learn how a single search experience platform can help increase productivity, gain visibility, and eliminate content duplication.

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4 Steps to Finding & Implementing the Right Modern Enterprise Search Solution

As the amount of an organization’s structured and unstructured digital information grows, productivity can be directly tied to workers’ ability to find the right information in a timely and effortless manner. And that data is growing at a tremendous rate. 26% of organizations saw their content management budget grow over 10% in the past year. Organizations need effective enterprise search solutions because when workers can’t find information they need, their productivity is curtailed by having to ask peers and content creators for the resources directly.

Having an enterprise search solution that searches across cloud applications and returns relevant results keeps knowledge workers productive. Organizations with modern enterprise search solutions are 50% more likely to enjoy double digit revenue growth than those that don’t. This ebook provides 4 easy steps to help when considering to invest in an enterprise search solution.

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The Next Wave of Intelligent Applications, Powered by Apache Spark

Life revolves around prediction—for example, the route you take to get to work, whether to go on a second date, or whether or not to keep reading this sentence are all forms of prediction. Predicating our future is very much tied to progress. We use it to help us plan our lives so we can increase our likelihood of success. The problem is that the human mind cannot possibly process all of the insight flowing from big data. Machine learning is the answer to this problem, through its capacity to augment our decision making in the moment to deliver transformative business outcomes. We are already seeing machine learning powered by Apache Spark changing the face of innovation at IBM.

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The Next Wave of Intelligent Applications, Powered by Apache Spark

Life revolves around prediction—for example, the route you take to get to work, whether to go on a second date, or whether or not to keep reading this sentence are all forms of prediction. Predicating our future is very much tied to progress. We use it to help us plan our lives so we can increase our likelihood of success. The problem is that the human mind cannot possibly process all of the insight flowing from big data. Machine learning is the answer to this problem, through its capacity to augment our decision making in the moment to deliver transformative business outcomes. We are already seeing machine learning powered by Apache Spark changing the face of innovation at IBM.
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Cloud Continuity Platform — Enabling the Hybrid Cloud

Today’s IT demands an agile, flexible environment with the ability to have any application leverage any cloud with any hypervisor. For example, a production workload should be able to reside in a VMware based private cloud for performance, while leveraging Amazon for cost effective backup and a Hyper-V based managed service provider for high SLA disaster recovery. Enterprises want the capability to expand their available choices in terms of meeting the needs of the business. IT provides the robust foundation to ensure end-user productivity across disciplines, and they need to be able to react fast.
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Take Your App Server To The Cloud

IBM Application Server on Cloud is a dedicated instance of WebSphere Application Server in the cloud with an all-in-one offering of hardware and software. Now you can drastically reduce set up time and quickly realize the value of WAS with minimal effort. Our subject matter experts, Yakura Coffee and Alex Mulholland, will discuss: Benefits of moving application server workloads to the cloud WebSphere Application Server as a robust, proven and consistent Java runtime Bringing traditional WAS and WAS Liberty applications to the Cloud without change Reducing CapEx and OpEx via pay-as-you-go or subscription to WAS workloads How to get started with IBM Application Server on Cloud for Bluemix.
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The Total Economic Impact of IBM InfoSphere Information Server – A Forrester Report

How can new technology offerings impact your bottom line? In today’s data driven world how does information governance deliver real benefits? That’s what Forrester research set out to uncover when they wrote their report “The total economic impact of IBM InfoSphere information server”. Today, here to discuss the findings is Jon Erickson from Forrester Consulting, who will present the research his team conducted and provide a detailed analysis of his findings. if you are trying to build a business case for using this software, or are simply wondering what sorts of benefits you could expect, you must watch this webinar.

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Choose the Right Compute – 6 Steps for Investing in the Right Server to Enable Your Organization

The auto industry designs a variety of vehicles. Trucks for freight; buses for people; vans for taking kids to school; sports cars for speed; luxury cars for comfort; and compact cars for economy. You choose a vehicle based on your need; if you need a truck and buy a sports car, you won’t achieve goals. The same is true for servers. This paper highlights the steps you should take in order to drive innovation and transform the server to be the enabler you need to realize the business outcomes you desire.

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The End is Near: Support for Windows Server 2003 Approaches Deadline

A crisis is coming to data centers. Microsoft will end support for Windows Server 2003 on July 14, 2015, yet a shocking 10 million servers are still running that operating system. The downside of inaction is high. When support ends, there will be no scheduled security patches, leaving many systems open to attack. And although custom support may be available from Microsoft, the price is likely to be high.

Read this white paper to learn how to future-proof your infrastructure as you prepare for cloud migration.
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