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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

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

Breach Predictions eBook

Based on analysis of 2014-2016 breach data from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (privacyrights.org), RSA took a look at past breach data to determine if history could help us anticipate the future. The Breach Predictions eBook provides insights from that analysis as well as recommendations to protect your business and personal data.

10 Ways to Use Artificial Intelligence for Simpler, Smarter IT

Whether called AI, machine learning or predictive analytics, new intelligent systems are making our lives simpler and more productive. AI advancements are already being integrated in solutions responsible for backup and data protection. Learn 10 ways you can use AI to your advantage when it comes to backup and recovery.

3 Secrets To Successful Resource Management

Poor Resource Management is at the root of some of the most pressing problems that PMOs, IT groups, service delivery organizations and others face.

The path to achieving improved RM in your PMO begins with three key areas of focus: Attracting Talent; Just-in-Time Resourcing; and Building Effective Processes.

Download the free eBook to learn more!

Navigating the Journey to IT Transformation

Digital Transformation is the reinvention of business activities, processes, competencies, and models that fully leverage current and future digital technologies. In today's dynamic business environment, organizations across the board are tasking IT to accelerate efforts to deliver a unique and compelling customer experience. At the same time, IT organizations are adopting new approaches in order to better serve organizational goals. Organizations are adopting cloud technology to drive agility, efficiency, and effectiveness to become more productive today, and to help ensure that can easily meet future objectives.

Download this white paper from Dell EMC and Intel® to learn more.

Intel Inside®. New Possibilities Outside.

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The World’s Most Advanced Converged Solutions Brochure

In this brochure, discover how you can accelerate your adoption of converged infrastructure (CI) and cloud-based computing models with Dell EMC. CI enables you to reduce IT costs, improve time to market and focus more on business innovation.

Download this brochure from Dell EMC and Intel® to learn more.

Intel Inside®. New Possibilities Outside.

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Digital and IT Transformation with Dell EMC Converged Infrastructure Systems and Software

While just about everyone is writing about how IT and the businesses it serves need to be transformed, the actual industry answers to both digital and IT transformation remain unclear at best. Are transformational initiatives all about analytics and big data? Or are they about the move to cloud in all its varieties? Support for mobile? More agile ways of working and developing software? Or are they actually all about crafting teams to promote more proactive dialog between the business and IT?

This report highlights a unique approach to enabling IT to succeed in the digital age—a fully engineered converged infrastructure with richly supported capabilities for management, updates and configuration, security, and overall resilience.

Download this white paper from Dell EMC and Intel® to learn more.

Intel Inside®. New Possibilities Outside.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries.