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Align your IT Infrastructure with the Demands of your Customer Base

Finding a technology partner that understands your customers is crucial to success. When Linedata, a financial software and services provider, launched its new SaaS offering, it needed a world-class data center, and a trusted network carrier to connect clients to the product. But serving clients in the investment management and leasing and lending markets, Linedata knew it was also critical that their partner understand the unique and demanding requirements of the financial industry.

After evaluating numerous vendors, Linedata chose CenturyLink Technology Solutions – which had everything it needed and more. CenturyLink met all three of Linedata’s core criteria, having strong security compliance, a reliable global network and a deep understanding of the financial industry.

Read “Linedata Launches SaaS-Based Offering and Expands Global Reach with Markets Infrastructure” now, and learn how Linedata partnered with CenturyLink to expand its product offerings and achieve a global presence.

Solving for “Total Costs” in the Cloud

It’s a simple question: How much is it going to cost to move an application to the cloud? But the answer is not simple, and many businesses suffer costly surprises when they make the move.

This paper shows you how to calculate the total cost of migrating applications to the cloud, including obvious hardware costs as well as the human costs of managing apps in the cloud.

Have you factored in these costs?

• Training related to new skills, tools, and processes

• Server CPU, memory, storage, and monitoring

• VPN and direct connect fees

• Need for additional cloud administrators

• Cost of moving data to the cloud

Gartner Quadrant for Cloud IaaS

The 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Infrastructure-as-a-Service is available now and there are some must-read findings that will impact your cloud buying decision.

Download the complimentary analyst report, “Gartner magic quadrant for Cloud IaaS” now and discover:

• How the choice of an IaaS impacts the quality of your IT operations

• What visionary providers offer to reinvent the relationship between infrastructure, applications, and management

• How capabilities are being tailored to be attractive to both developer and IT audiences

Download the complimentary Gartner analyst now for additional insight into the fast-moving cloud market, and get armed with the information you need to evolve your cloud strategy.

3 Keys to 5-Star Mobile App Performance

This infographic provides insights on how to 1) Measure - See how your users REALLY experience your app—from the moment they tap, swipe, or stretch, 2) Focus - Quickly zero in on critical problems that affect large numbers of users and 3) Improve - Gain actionable insight to improve your app and enhance the user experience. Download and explore the 3 keys to 5-star mobile app performance infographic today.

Deliver Mobile Apps

Download the whitepaper and explore software and services that accelerate and simplify the creation of internally developed or “in-house” enterprise mobile applications. Learn how to to deploy and manage these mobile apps on both company-provided and “bring-your-own” smartphones and tablet computers.

nomorerack Case Study

Learn how nomorerack.com protects its website and brand image with Neustar DNS and DDoS security services.

Secure DNS Prevents Attacks Video

You’ve probably been hearing plenty about the threat of DDoS attacks—and how more and more attackers are targeting DNS. Watch this short video and hear Neustar’s Rodney Joffe explain how hardened DNS can keep your business safe.

4 Ways DNS Can Accelerate Business Growth

This DNS ebook describes how DNS has developed over the years to support business growth as new needs have emerged, for example, advanced traffic management and protection from cyber threats.

It’s Time for a Serious Talk: 3 Questions to Ask Your DNS Host about Lowering DDoS Risks

It’s no secret that DDoS attacks are worsening by the day. From the largest financial institutions to smaller Internet companies, everyone’s a target. Neustar has had wide-ranging conversations with clients wanting to know how they can optimize protection as DDoS attacks increase in frequency and size. Most of these conversations boil down to three key questions and form the conversation you should be having, too—whether you use Neustar, another provider or your in-house team to manage your external DNS.

The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM MQ

Read this Forrester Consulting analyst report to help you evaluate the potential financial impact of deploying IBM® MQ for message-based connectivity between business applications and other IT systems. Benefits can include:

• Reduced support incident costs through higher reliability
• Improved team efficiency as a result of reduced application complexity
• Reduced hardware requirements because of better throughput
• Reduced maintenance costs as a result of built-in alerts and application monitoring capabilities

The Ultimate Guide to Drupal 8

Whether you’re a site builder, module or theme developer, or simply an end user of a Drupal website, Drupal 8 has tons in store for you. This ebook will enumerate the major changes in Drupal 8 for end users, for site builders, for designers and front-end developers, and for back-end developers.

Note that since Drupal 8 is still under active development, some of the details here may change prior to its release. Drupal 8 is now feature-frozen, so most information should remain relevant. Where applicable, Drupal 7 contributed equivalents of Drupal 8 features will be noted.

Cloud Security in Flux— Protecting Your Business with Defense in Depth

Can you build an invincible Drupal site? The easy answer is no, but you have a few ways to prepare and secure your site to withstand any sort of vulnerability or traffic spike.

Protecting your Drupal site requires multiple levels of security. By building layers of application-, network-, and endpoint-level protections—or what Acquia calls “defense in depth”— organizations can buy time to fend off would-be attackers, improving resiliency. However, defense isn’t just about on-premise security. Keeping your Drupal site safe and secure is a shared responsibility across your organization and trusted vendors.

In this ebook, we’ll go over ways you can best secure your Drupal site and best practices for how your organization handles security incidents.

Putting the Design in Responsive Design

Mobile devices are rapidly becoming the predominant consumer choice, with adoption increasing daily as PC sales diminish in response. Designing your digital site for desktop or laptop, as well as tablets and smartphones within a single codebase, is called responsive design.

Six Keys to Agile Delivery

Learn about top 6 things your agile platform should be: 1) Divvied up for focus, 2) Hands on with stakeholders, 3) Designed to raise issues, 4) Rigorous, cumulative testing, 5) Designed for change and 6) Measured for true progress. Download the white paper today.

Five Steps to Simplify and Accelerate Mobile App Testing

While the era of the app and the user brings big challenges, it also brings big opportunities for companies armed with the right tools. Download the white paper and read how to deliver better software in less time in five steps. Move your functional testing processes into the era of the app, bring the focus on the user, and learn about the HP tools that can enable your transformation.