Leveraging the Power of the Next Generation Data Center

A visual infographic highlighting the five architectural principles of developing the Next Generation Data Center (NGDC), including scale-out, guaranteed performance, automated management, data assurance, and global efficiencies. This infographic typically accompanies the white paper, Designing the Next Generation Data Center, which is more in-depth account of the 5 principles.
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Texas Craft Brewery Guide to Enterprise Management Solutions

In the increasingly competitive world of craft brewing, those who will succeed – survive, even – will do so by virtue not only of the quality of their beer but also their agility, effectiveness, and efficiency.

Like any other industry, as competition heats up in the craft brewery industry, those who can maximize their effective use of their data will enjoy both strategic and tactical advantages over the competition. The best solutions combine a comprehensive set of capabilities with low total cost of ownership. No comprehensive solution can be trivial to adopt, but the best solutions will minimize that difficulty. Download our guide to learn more about how you can help your brewery grow!

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Iconic Brewery Management System

Automated systems, like the Iconic Brewery Management System, provide the foundation for the necessary brewery processes to be reproducible, documented, and followed, thus reducing risk by ensuring sound business practices are followed. Download our whitepaper to learn more about the benefits and implementation of an automated brewery management systems.

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Has Your Business Switched to VoIP Yet?

The telephone has come a long way since the days of switchboard operators. In many cases, however, businesses are still using plain old telephone systems (POTS) without knowing that there is a better form of telecommunication that is being adopted at an increasing rate across businesses. That technology is VoIP.

In this Sourceforge white paper, you will learn:

  • What's in Your Phone System?
  • What is VoIP?
  • How Does VoIP Save a Business an Average of 30% or More?
  • How to Switch to VoIP

So if you are considering upgrading your phone system – or are motivated by saving money and adding enterprise level services to your business – let Sourceforge compare the top VoIP providers for you! Simply select that you want to receive a quote on the following page and one of our VoIP Specialists will get in contact with you to jot down a few details in order to provide you with the best, no-obligation quote from a provider.

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Container Storage for Dummies

Although many organizations still use traditional storage appliances, they don’t offer the agility needed by containerized environments. Containers are highly flexible and bring incredible scale to how apps and storage are delivered; traditional storage can be the bottleneck that stops this progress. The underlying storage should be highly elastic, easily provisioned by developers and admins, and, ideally, managed using the same orchestration framework (like Kubernetes).

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How to Profit From Selling Office 365

The IT landscape has shifted a lot in recent years. While some technology professionals have embraced the cloud era and see the benefits, there are still a lot of businesses that need some convincing before they can make a comfortable transition to Office 365.

This is a great opportunity for Managed Service Providers to teach SMBs about the potential of Office 365 and the new opportunities it has to offer.

Download this whitepaper to learn how your business can profit from selling Office 365.

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Executive Brief: Ten Reasons To Choose PureCloud by Genesys

Whether you want to replace a legacy contact center solution or you’re transforming your customer experience strategy, PureCloud by Genesys delivers fast results and helps you deliver next-generation customer experiences.

This executive brief discusses how PureCloud can help you:

  • Bridge silos for collaboration via chat, video and calls with an all-in-one solution
  • Add new capabilities instantly as PureCloud is a true, native cloud 2.0 solution built using microservices architecture
  • Get up and running in days, not months, using built-in best practices and multiple deployment options
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How Microsoft Got Performance Reviews Right

Microsoft, long known for using stack ranking and ratings eliminated both in 2013.

It’s new performance management is based on more timely feedback to align employee objectives with company goals.

In this resource, you’ll learn how Microsoft evolved its annual appraisals to better drive performance, and how you can adopt a modern performance system similar to Microsoft’s.

  • How Microsoft uses check-ins to develop employees
  • What the company uses to determine compensation now that ratings are eliminated
  • How you can implement a performance management system similar to what Microsoft uses
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Disaster Recovery for Multi-Datacenter Apache Kafka Deployments

DESIGN, CONFIGURATION, FAILOVER, FAILBACK

Datacenter downtime and data loss can result in businesses losing a vast amount of revenue or entirely halting operations. To minimize the downtime and data loss resulting from a disaster, enterprises can create business continuity plans and disaster recovery strategies.

Download this white paper for a practical guide to configuring multiple Apache Kafka clusters so that if a disaster scenario strikes, you have a plan for failover, failback, and ultimately successful recovery.

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Kafka: The Definitive Guide

Learn how to take full advantage of Apache KafkaTM, the distributed, publish-subscribe queue for handling real-time data feeds. With this comprehensive book, you’ll understand how Kafka works and how it’s designed.

Authors Neha Narkhede, Gwen Shapira, and Todd Palino show you how to deploy production Kafka clusters; secure, tune, and monitor them; write rock-solid applications that use Kafka; and build scalable stream-processing applications.

  • Learn how Apache Kafka compares to other queues and where it fits in the big data ecosystem
  • Dive into Kafka’s internal design
  • Pick up best practices for developing applications that use Kafka
  • Understand the best way to deploy Kafka in production monitoring, tuning, and maintenance tasks
  • Learn how to secure a Kafka cluster
  • Get detailed use-cases
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2017 Apache Kafka Report

Learn more about how companies are using streaming platforms.

Over the past several years, organizations across many industries have discovered, and are filling, an increasingly important gap in their data infrastructure. It sits at the nexus of big data, data integration, and all of their data stores and applications – a gap that is being filled by streaming platforms like Apache Kafka.

Confluent has enjoyed a front row view as companies adopt streaming platforms to create new products, become more responsive to customers and make business decisions in real time. This survey focuses on why and how companies are using Apache Kafka and streaming data and the impact it has on their business.

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