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Disaster preparedness and avoidance handbook

Today’s information-driven organizations depend on the 24/7 availability of their IT infrastructures. Not only are downtime costs enormous, but data integrity is threatened by an ever-growing array of hazards, including power outages, natural disasters, equipment failure, and user error. Additionally, as data centers become more software-defined, they are increasingly vulnerable to software problems and cybersecurity-related catastrophes.

While virtualization of the data center has proven to be revolutionary for IT professionals—providing increased reliability, flexibility, and control, among other benefits—in order to fully realize these advantages, DR processes must also be optimized. This can create some unique challenges as IT professionals must focus their virtualization disaster recovery strategy around backing up and recovering virtual machines (VMs) as opposed to physical servers.

Disaster recovery checklist

Use Eaton’s disaster recovery checklist to ensure your company is prepared for an emergency or disaster. Included are specifics on department head onboarding, IT inventory assessment, network structures, diagrams, back up data procedures and more. Whether you want to assess the state of your current disaster recovery plan or start a grassroots recovery proposal, refer to this checklist to determine what’s needed to prepare for and respond to threats.

The Guide to Team Selling in the Relationship Era

The idea of teamwork in sales has always been somewhat dubious. Traditionally, the stereotypical salesperson has always been someone who operates and wins deals through heroic solo efforts—and their experiences of work‑place isolation are well documented.

So, is sales really (and should it be) a team sport?

Well, yes. And here's how you can be the MVP.

In this ebook, you'll learn about:

The situations in which team selling will come in handy
The key components to successful team selling
Team selling best practices
And more!

Download the free ebook to find out how to make your team awesome at team selling.

Breakthrough Technology Interactive eGuide

The workplace is changing and the one-size-fits-all approach to technology is changing along with it. As a result, your organization may need to rethink how to keep productivity high, promote collaboration, delight employees with the latest devices all while keeping IT within budget. This interactive eGuide will be your one-stop resource to understand all the new innovation available in Dell’s latest notebooks, desktops, 2-in-1s and ecosystem powered by 8th Generation Intel® Core™ processors that can keep your organization future-ready.

Access the eGuide from Dell and Intel® and you will learn:

How the workplace and workforce is changing
What tools and solutions help IT go from maintenance to innovation
How innovation is changing notebooks, 2-in-1s, desktops and workstations
The latest Windows 10 features employees will be talking about
What you need to keep endpoints and data secure

Security for the Modern Worker

Today's dynamic data demands pose new threats to security and IT professionals have to mitigate new risks without restricting the flow of information. Per findings discovered in a recent Forrester report, "Evolving Security to Accommodate the Modern Worker", Brett Hansen, Dell's Vice President of Client Software and General Manager of Data Security, shares his insights on solutions Dell provides to meet the needs of employees and IT.

Download this article to learn:

What IT departments can do to tailor security solutions to different users
How flexible security can be to address the needs of various workers
Which solutions are best at protecting your data

Is This Even Legal?

Maybe you’re evaluating GPS fleet tracking, but you’re worried it’ll spook your drivers.

Or maybe you’re just starting to research vehicle tracking. You see how it could benefit your company — saving you money, improving customer service, encouraging better driver behavior. But you’re thinking it could also hurt employee morale. What if it makes your drivers think you don’t trust them?

And what does the law say? When are you violating your drivers’ privacy? What can and can’t you do? Could these trackers come back to bite you with a lawsuit?

5 Steps to Achieve Risk-Based Application Security Management

Software applications support the most sensitive and strategically important business processes of most enterprises. Yet application security is one of the most neglected fields of cybersecurity.

IT and business management typically have no visibility into the overall state of application security. Activities for assessing, prioritizing and remediating application vulnerabilities are ad hoc, fragmented and carried out at low levels in the IT security organization. Quality assurance and software development groups lack the knowledge and incentives to address critical vulnerabilities early in application development lifecycles, where testing and fixing vulnerabilities are most cost-effective.

Buyer’s Guide – Cisco Enterprise Agreements

You maybe aware that Cisco has introduced a new solution to manage license agreements: the Cisco Enterprise Agreement (Cisco EA).

This simple agreement model offers a number of benefits for procuring and managing your Cisco software suite (network,collaboration and security):

Get upfront savings and protected pricing for 3 to 5 years;
Consolidate all your maintenance contracts and licenses in a single contract;
Easily manage and deploy licenses through one simple portal;
Access free services to optimize deployments and enable adoption through Softchoice's Cisco Lifecycle Advisor program.

We have created a comprehensive a Buyer's Guide to provide more details on the advantages of a Cisco Enterprise Agreement.

Learn how the program works in 6 easy steps and get ready for the next level of Cisco licensing.

What You Need to Know About SD-WAN

Up until recently, networks supporting corporate functions were clearly separated from the internet.

As more and more applications move to the cloud, traffic can take an indirect route, resulting in poor performance. Fortunately, networking technology has evolved to tackle these challenges. Enterprise IT leaders can use the simple best practices shared in this guide to reap the benefits of software-defined networking and make the unpredictable internet look and feel like your own network.

Security for the Modern Worker

Today's dynamic data demands pose new threats to security and IT professionals have to mitigate new risks without restricting the flow of information. Per findings discovered in a recent Forrester report, "Evolving Security to Accommodate the Modern Worker", Brett Hansen, Dell's Vice President of Client Software and General Manager of Data Security, shares his insights on solutions Dell provides to meet the needs of employees and IT.

Download this article to learn:

What IT departments can do to tailor security solutions to different users
How flexible security can be to address the needs of various workers
Which solutions are best at protecting your data

Breakthrough Technology Interactive eGuide

The workplace is changing and the one-size-fits-all approach to technology is changing along with it. As a result, your organization may need to rethink how to keep productivity high, promote collaboration, delight employees with the latest devices all while keeping IT within budget. This interactive eGuide will be your one-stop resource to understand all the new innovation available in Dell’s latest notebooks, desktops, 2-in-1s and ecosystem powered by 8th Generation Intel® Core™ processors that can keep your organization future-ready.

Access the eGuide from Dell and Intel® and you will learn:

How the workplace and workforce is changing
What tools and solutions help IT go from maintenance to innovation
How innovation is changing notebooks, 2-in-1s, desktops and workstations
The latest Windows 10 features employees will be talking about
What you need to keep endpoints and data secure

The Field Guide to Board Orientation

Set up your board members for success. Download your FREE copy of The Field Guide to Board Orientation for Associations.

In it, you’ll discover foolproof ways to get new board members up to speed quickly and efficiently. Get useful tips on how to:

Structure your orientation
Prepare board meeting attendees for maximum payoff
Build a robust board book
Hold an effective orientation debriefing

5 Steps to Achieve Risk-Based Application Security Management

Software applications support the most sensitive and strategically important business processes of most enterprises. Yet application security is one of the most neglected fields of cybersecurity.

IT and business management typically have no visibility into the overall state of application security. Activities for assessing, prioritizing and remediating application vulnerabilities are ad hoc, fragmented and carried out at low levels in the IT security organization. Quality assurance and software development groups lack the knowledge and incentives to address critical vulnerabilities early in application development lifecycles, where testing and fixing vulnerabilities are most cost-effective.

The IT Leader’s Guide to Maximizing Cloud Value

Cloud services like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are robust tools for business success. They have evolved far beyond the obstacles and limitations of the past. In 2017 alone, the cloud grew by almost 40% - a phenomenal growth rate for any technology. By 2020, 60% of IT infrastructure and 70% of software and IT services spending will be in the cloud.

When deployed effectively, the public cloud is a powerful and disruptive model. It brings positive operational transformation and greater competitiveness. But poor implementation is equally disruptive.

Invest in the right flash storage solution

You’re looking at flash storage because you see it’s taking the storage world by storm. You’re interested in accelerating business-critical applications, consolidating a virtual server or desktop deployment, trying to get ahead of your company’s data onslaught, or some combination of the above.

This easy-to-read guide was developed to help arm you with key considerations and questions to ask before investing in a flash storage array for your business today, and for the future.