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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.

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).

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Why Facebook Employees Are More Productive, Motivated, and Satisfied

How the largest social network in the world also boasts one of the highest employee approval ratings is nothing short of exceptional. While most competitors struggle to grow, Facebook has expanded from 3,000 employees to nearly 15,000 in just 5 years, reaping a whoppin $18 billion in revenue. Performance reviews, management strategies, and accessibility are core factors of their success. To better understand how these factors contribute to Facebook's meteoric rise, download our free pdf to learn more!

4 Ways to Improve Your DevOps Testing

You already know the longer it takes to detect a problem, the more expensive it is to resolve. Your testing needs to happen earlier in the development pipeline while considering all aspects of privacy, security and monitoring.

Read the 4-part eBook to learn how to detect problems earlier in your DevOps testing processes by:

Proactively responding to your monitoring software
Integrating your security reqs in your initial development
Replicating real-world conditions to find unexpected variables
Performing continuous testing to uncover points of failure

Competing With Amazon: 6 ECommerce Performance Metrics You Need to Know

As the giants of ECommerce claim larger market shares each day, online retailers often struggle to compete. Understanding the strength of companies like Amazon, and the metrics associated with their success can give online retailers the advantage that they need to level the playing field more than ever before. Whether your store uses a website, a mobile app, or a combination to reach its audience, understanding the core metrics of performance are of paramount importance. Download our presentation to learn how.

Unifying Backup DR & Data DeDuplication Operations

Gartner reports that IT now views backup applications as complex, frustrating, and unable to meet today’s changing DR requirements. This IT Brief will give you the fundamentals on how to utilize Universal File System Driver (UFSD) technology to save critical business backup data in a virtual disk format. Paragon’s proprietary Protect & Restore (PPR) is Paragon Software’s solution for data protection services. Read this business brief to learn the latest information on how to protect your company from Disaster Recovery using the newest strategies to store & backup critical business data thru BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), VMWare, and Physical Storage Servers while avoiding redundant deduplication. This brief provides 3 different strategies to backup, restore, protect, and save your data physically and in the cloud.

Paragon’s PPR – The Most Advanced, Centrally Managed Backup Solution for Physical and Virtual Environments

Paragon Protect & Restore (PPR) is an all-in-one, centrally managed, software solution for backing up virtual and physical IT infrastructures. No matter whether your environment is based on VMware, vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, physical servers or a combination thereof, PPR offers quick and flexible restoration functions, easy replication of virtual machines and efficient archiving thereby eliminating many of the challenges now engulfing IT operations. Additionally, Paragon's solutions offer:

Single, highly scalable, centrally managed solution for all your Physical & Virtual servers, workstations and hosts
Reliable and fast restores, even to completely different hardware
Remote Set-and-forget operation of backups and restores
US based engineers taking support calls
Cut storage requirements by up to 80% via the latest duplication engine
Faster Restores and Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) when compared to Veeam, BackupExec, Acronis and many others

Download Paragon's whitepaper to learn more!

Keep IT Costs Low and Performance High with Mobile Barcode Scanning

A new generation of barcode scanning is upon us. The best replacement for dedicated scanning devices is often a traditional smartphone. Discover how smartphone-based barcode scanning offers a significantly lower TCO than legacy and mobile barcode scanning hardware. Learn how mobile barcode scanning easily and cost-effectively integrates into any workflow, app, back-end or store system.

Mobile barcode scanning is the next generation of barcode scanning
Smartphones with mobile scanning software are an effective replacement for dedicated devices
Mobile barcode scanning has much lower TCO than dedicated scanning devices
Mobile barcode scanning integrates easily into existing workflows, apps and systems
Mobile back-end cloud services provide in-depth analytics and extend software lifecycles

Scanning Your Way to Increased Revenue

Retail has entered the seamless era. Retailers who want to survive need to future-proof their enterprise by utilizing the latest mobile solutions to improve store operations and reinvent consumer engagement. Discover how retailers can integrate mobile barcode scanning into existing workflows to maximize sales and loyalty across all channels. From increased supply chain visibility to streamlined in-store fulfillment and increased consumer loyalty, mobile data capture helps boost revenue and lower operating costs.

Constantly connected consumers are disrupting retail operations
Real-time supply chain visibility lets workers quickly find, pick, and ship desired goods for customers
Fulfill digital purchases in stores, increasing brick-and-mortar revenue
Integrate mobile barcode scanning into existing workflows
Maximize sales and loyalty across channels