5 Reasons Why Using Spreadsheets for Open Source Management Strategy is a Recipe for Disaster

As the use of open source grows and deployment timelines shrink, management of open source is a growing concern that many organizations are struggling with handling effectively. Most organizations start off managing all of their open source dependencies in a spreadsheet. 5 Reasons Why Using Spreadsheets for Open Source Management is a Recipe for Disaster discusses:

  • The process for managing open source software licenses with spreadsheets

  • Trends in open source vs. proprietary software usage

  • The 5 most common open source management "fails"

  • Enterprise and industry trends in open source adoption

  • Steps to take to move off of managing open source in spreadsheets

Management of software licenses is an exercise whose importance transcends events like an IPO or a merger/acquisition, as revenue could be impacted when potential clients complete their due diligence before a purchase or an online marketplace requires a report before releasing your app on their platform.

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Building and Maintaining a Successful Open Source Management Strategy

When software is deployed continuously, composition analysis for quality, compliance, and security within code needs to be managed strategically. Ensuring that the benefits of open source are not outweighed by risks, software developers and corporate counsel must align around tools and practices to help manage their open source code responsibly to drive business value. Building and Maintaining a Successful Open Source Management Strategy discusses:

    Software challenges including compliance, security and code quality

    Best practices for managing open source software

    Key goals of a successful open source management strategy

    Essential steps for achieving your open source goals

Developers choose to use open source code to accelerate development, but manual open source management counters the time-saving advantages that drew them to open source in the first place.

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Enterprise Vault: Stay or Go?

One factor that may encourage a move to Exchange Online is that companies can struggle with Enterprise Vault data increasing over time. The volume of data isn’t the problem – it’s the quantity of files. Enterprise Vault creates numerous small files, and the high quantity often makes backing up a slow process. The data generated is still sizeable, and with limited budget this becomes increasingly difficult to handle. With the availability of Cloud storage, the affordability, flexibility and scalability is much higher than that of on-premises storage options.

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Speeding Up Your M&A Deals

Free whitepaper, in coordination with Foley LLC, contains insight from industry experts Rob Brown of Lincoln International, Gabor Garai of Foley LLC, and Dave Curran of Thomson Reuters.

After reading, you’ll learn:

  • What market conditions to observe before conducting your deal.
  • How to organize external and internal teams involved with the deal.
  • What deal killers to avoid.
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Speeding Up Your M&A Deals

Free whitepaper, in coordination with Foley LLC, contains insight from industry experts Rob Brown of Lincoln International, Gabor Garai of Foley LLC, and Dave Curran of Thomson Reuters.

After reading, you’ll learn:

  • What market conditions to observe before conducting your deal.
  • How to organize external and internal teams involved with the deal.
  • What deal killers to avoid.
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Unlock the Value of SD-WAN: ROI and Beyond

SD-WAN is a transformational technology, but some vendors often pitch their solutions as a way to save money. Cost reduction is important to earning a return on investment (ROI), but it is not the biggest opportunity with this technology. Instead, enterprises should use SD-WAN to turn the network into a platform for business transformation. This white paper explores how users can plan for ROI and network transformation with SD-WAN.

This white paper focuses on these major topics:

  • Why enterprises are transforming networks with SD-WAN.
  • How SD-WAN supports transformation.
  • After WAN transformation, build your ROI model.
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Transforming Business in the Mid-Market: A Guide for Engaging with Customers

Driving growth in the face of increased competition and tighter margins is a challenge for businesses that need to cost-effectively acquire new customers while retaining existing ones. And while mid-market firms widely accept that technology is critical to achieving this goal, the key is figuring out how to best use it to drive competitive value through customer relationships. This guide discusses the technologies best able to support midmarket organizations in efficient pursuit, development, and retention of new and existing customers.

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Comparison: Zerto Versus Legacy Disaster Recovery

There are many different approaches to providing disaster recovery in virtualized IT environments. This datasheet focuses on the following technologies and products:

  • Replication
  • Array-based replication such as Dell, EMC, HPE, NetApp and other storage vendors
  • Software-based replication such as VMware vSphere Replication
  • Orchestration
  • Disaster Recovery orchestration software such as VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Download this data sheet for more details about the key differentiators of Zerto Versus Legacy Disaster Recovery.

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Three Initiatives that Drive Up Infrastructure and Storage Value

As decision makers and architects grapple with these issues, they face demands on a number of fronts. The complexity of infrastructure planning continues to rise, along with the complexity of managing and maintaining resources once they are in place. At the same time, they must streamline the value they get from existing capital budgets and data center space, power, and cooling to accommodate demands for growing infrastructure. The complexity of storing, moving, and managing data also becomes more complex in cadence with its volume and diversity.

This document suggests a few initiatives as a starting point for IT decision makers as they consider how to meet these demands and position themselves and their environments for current and future strategic success.

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The Case For End-To-End Security Solutions For Mid Market Firms

In a digital business, processes are rarely, if ever, confined to the infrastructure of the company. Customers and employees engage across numerous digital channels and dozens of third-party relationships critical to operations. IT leaders must rapidly evolve to protect their firms’ brands, strengthen their reputations, and build customer trust. To do so, security and productivity should go hand-in-hand, and that means a well-defined policy framework, metrics that demonstrate business value, and a business-aligned strategy that ties all this together.

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