How to prepare for your cloud migration

Cloud migration is consistently one of the top priorities of technology leaders across the world today, but many are overwhelmed by trying to plan their cloud migration, struggling to prioritize workloads and unsure of the cost implications..

Download this white paper to discover the 5 key steps for cloud migration based on the best practices of today’s most successful IT leaders:

  • Baseline TCO resources (cloud, on-premises, hybrid)
  • Map current on-premises resources to cloud offerings
  • Evaluate and prioritize migration strategy
  • Calculate migration costs
  • Define success metrics

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API for Dummies Handbook (Third Edition)

APIs are a hot topic, energetically debated by business people, IT managers, and developers alike. Most of the excitement in the public space is about open public APIs. To some degree, not having a public API today is like not having a website in the late 1990s. Yet for many enterprises, public APIs are really the least of their business concerns. More important concerns include building omni-channel solutions, innovating faster than the competition, becoming a mobile enterprise, or operating in a hybrid cloud environment.

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Central Role of Messaging Middleware in Cloud and Digital Transformation Initiatives

Highly decentralized computing is the new normal for most organizations, and digital transformation (DX) initiatives are changing application architectures to event driven to support real-time and near-real-time response cycles. In this environment, enterprises are increasingly turning to messaging middleware to meet the combined requirements of complexity, speed, reliability, and security to connect the digital world of applications and data.

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Business Phone Solution Buyer’s Guide

This Buyers Guide helps business owners select the right phone system for their business by asking important and revealing questions, including:

  • Traditional Service or Business VoIP Service?
  • Which Calling Features are Most Important?
  • Does the System Support Mobility?
  • How Much Should I Expect to Pay?
  • How Will My Phone System Grow with My Business?
  • What If I Need Customer or Technical Support?
  • What Makes a System Reliable?
  • Is My Information Secure?
  • How Long Does it Take to Set Up a New Phone System?
  • What About Onboarding and Training?
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The Forrester Wave: Data Resiliency Solutions

Today’s IT leaders are struggling to adapt to the ever-changing requirements for protecting and managing data across their infrastructure. Data is becoming increasingly distributed across on-premises and multi-cloud environments and according to Forrester, “this scattering of data requires infrastructure and operations leaders to take a fresh approach to data resiliency.”

Yesterday’s data protection solutions are making way for new future-ready data resiliency solutions. Businesses need to adopt a data-resiliency mindset that addresses today’s IT challenges, including not only the growth of data, but also the increased risks to their data both from internal and external threats.

Read this report and find out what innovative data-resiliency approaches Forrester recommends for businesses like yours, including “delivering data protection in a software-as-a-service (SaaS), and what Forrester says about the critical requirements for data resiliency solutions.

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Digital Transformation Survival Guide

In today’s digital era, business executives recognize that they must disrupt their markets or risk being disrupted themselves. Whether through the development of creative new digital products, revamping of digitally enabled business models, automating back-end processes, or streamlining supply chains, forward-looking enterprises increasingly seek competitive differentiation through digital transformation.

The outcome of these initiatives will make or break the viability of future generations of businesses, even among the most traditional non-tech organizations. The trick will be maintaining a healthy balance between the upsides of digital transformation and the risks of accelerating tech-driven innovation.

Read this quick Digital Transformation Survival Guide to understand how cybersecurity leaders can play a valuable role in this risk management balancing act of security and data privacy concerns vs. digital transformation.

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Responsible Password Protection

There is a certain irony that passwords are commonly relied on as the first line of defense for protecting enterprise applications, data, and IT services, yet they are also broadly recognized as the weakest link in enterprise security.

Concerns about the effectiveness of password-based controls are not unwarranted. Hackers are increasingly inventing new and nefarious methods of cracking passwords, with cracking dictionaries, brute-force attacks, keystroke logging, and phishing schemes. Once cracked or exposed in data breaches, passwords are sold across the dark web to bad actors who will use them to penetrate corporate systems, customer accounts, etc.

With attack vectors around password exploitation rapidly increasing, it is no wonder 1 out of every 4 American citizens was considered to be a cybercrime victim in 2018.

It is a major challenge for companies to stay ahead of these bad actors and prevent them from accessing sensitive systems through weak or compromised passwords.

Read this paper from industry analyst group, EMA, to learn how organizations are ensuring responsible password protection for their employees, users and partners.

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Automate Password Policy Enforcement & NIST Password Guidelines

Organizations are now adopting tools to enable real-time password policy enforcement with daily password auditing and automated remediation to improve security without increasing IT workload.

With these tools, they can implement compromised password detection, a custom password dictionary, fuzzy matching with common character substitutions, and continuous daily checks of passwords. They can also easily and quickly adopt NIST password requirements and eliminate vulnerable passwords in Active Directory.

Learn more about how automation for password policy enforcement and NIST password guidelines can help your organization.

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