IDC 2019 Infrastructure Trends Paper

IT leaders have more options than ever when selecting infrastructure strategies: on-premises, off-premises, and hybrid cloud. With this range of choices comes the potential to positively impact budgets, staffing, operational effectiveness, and business outcomes by reaching the right balance. In 2019, IT organizations will be tasked with achieving this balance — and with making the right decisions to update enterprise infrastructure, enable application development, reduce cost and complexity, and accelerate the entire organization's modernization initiatives. In other words, IT will be responsible for enabling digital transformation (DX).

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Accelerating Hybrid Journey

For forward-thinking IT leaders, a key step on the business’s transformation journey is moving workloads away from the premises data center to a private cloud managed by an expert data center services provider. As part of a hybrid strategy, a private cloud offers secure, dedicated hardware resources as a managed cloud service, hosted in a state of the art cloud center.

In this report, we will discuss the challenges of creating a hybrid environment, how to choose the best environment for your workloads, and the important role of private cloud in your hybrid strategy. We will also look at characteristics of “the right” private cloud to meet your needs, both today and in the future.

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Streamlining VM Backups With The Public Cloud

Managing Your VMware, VMC, Hyper-V, and Nutanix Backups With the Public Cloud

Managing the backup and restore of virtual machines in a distributed environment is typically a convoluted process. Leveraging a cloud-native platform for these data protection workloads enables organizations to reduce the demands on IT teams as well as their budgets.

Find out how Druva can help you harness these advantages:

  • Infrastructure that is hosted completely offsite
  • Fast response times in the case of failover for disaster recovery (DR)
  • Dynamic DR and global workload mobility
  • Centralized global coordination and monitoring
  • Radically lower total cost of ownership (TCO)

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Making The Business Case For VMware Cloud Backup

Managing the backup and restore of virtual machines is typically a complex operational process. Making the business case to move these workloads to the cloud is critical to reduce new hardware, software, and administrative burden.

Gain real-world Insights that will help you:

  • Understand the economics of legacy solutions vs cloud-based solutions.
  • Calculate the return on investment (ROI) for your project.
  • Remove virtual infrastructure backup complexity
  • Leverage enterprise cloud backup for disaster recovery
  • Reduce costs up to 60% with an all-in-one cloud-native backup solution

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The Eaton UPS and Power Management Fundamentals Handbook

From plug and receptacle charts and facts about power problems to an overview of various UPS topologies and factors affecting battery life, you’ll find a wealth of pertinent resources designed to help you develop the optimum solution. This handbook is your one-stop source for essential information ... whether you need power protection for small, medium or large data centers; health care facilities; or other environments in which ensuring uptime and safeguarding data are critical.

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How To BenchMark And Improve Employee Communications

This might not have been the case ten years ago, but today, every company needs to have an internal communications department in place, regardless of its size, structure, or operating sector.

Analyzing the need for such a department while putting an emphasis on the importance of delivering effective employee communications, but also state the significance of implementing benchmarks for the measurement of the success of internal communications efforts is mandatory for all businesses. In comprehensively going through those aspects and the characteristics of employee communications, its main focus, major challenges, and how communications teams should operate, this white paper will present what those benchmarks are and how to set them in order to improve employee communications and achieve all company goals.

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Simple, Effective & Flexible Marketing

The average American spends over 4 hours per day staring at their smart phone screen and text messaging is responsible for ¼ of that time. There simply is no other channel that can cut through the clutter and reach all demographics like SMS marketing.

  • Text messaging is the most used form of communication today.
  • User friendly platform.
  • Resources for navigating compliance.
  • Enterprise throughput via Microsoft cloud based technology.

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How To Make Text Message Marketing Work For Your Business

We are living in an age in which communication channels are always open, bombarding us with notifications and messages either from your families, friends, employers, or the brands we engage with.

Therefore, sometimes we might end up disabling notifications or filtering the messages we are getting via an internet channel in the search of tranquility. It is in these times that text messages prove their real value. They are broadcasted in real time, providing a clean, elegant, and effective mean of getting in touch with someone. When it comes to the relationship and communication between businesses and customers, text message marketing is an excellent tool, as it relies upon the prior agreement of the customer and the real-time engagement of the business. This white paper will address and analyze text message marketing and provide an understanding of its benefits but also of best practices to have in mind for a better implementation and achieving of all goals.

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How Avanan Compares To Microsoft Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

Most using Office 365 know first hand the challenges with preventing email based phishing and malware attacks. To help solve the problem, Microsoft is trying to convince their customers to upgrade to an E5 license or purchase ATP as a separate add-on. But does this pricy add-on really solve the problem? In this white paper, we'll explain how ATP falls short in securing Office 365. Further, the white paper goes beyond phishing attacks ATP misses and highlights the missing features enterprise security teams need when trying to secure O365 as a whole.

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The Total Economic Impact of Dell’s PC Lifecycle Services

Both public and private organizations acknowledge that managing the PC life cycle becomes more complicated and expensive as the variety of PC devices and employee workstyles increase. In order to be fully productive, different groups of employees have different needs in terms of end-user device hardware, software, and configuration. Dell and Intel® commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by leveraging Intel® Core™ vPro processors and Dell’s ProDeploy Plus and ProSupport Plus services.

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Evolving Security to Accommodate the Modern Evolving Worker

In order to keep pace with the growth of business mobility without falling prey to its potential risks, IT must be able to efficiently address complex issues ranging from service provisioning, device procurement, and security oversight. Why? Information workers need access to often sensitive information across a wide range of business applications and devices from wherever they are. In other words, security and privacy policies that doesn’t impede end-user productivity will empower workers and boost their performance.

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Whitepaper – Driving Healthcare Innovation with Microservices

The healthcare industry has been affected by disruption and the need for healthcare innovation. Legislative, market, and technology pressures make it imperative for healthcare organizations — including hospitals and health systems, payers, and life sciences companies — to become more agile.

IT teams in the industry are considering a microservices-based architecture as a means of accelerating healthcare innovation and increasing project delivery speed. MuleSoft research suggests that application development productivity increases of up to 10x are possible. Healthcare specifically stands to benefit from this architectural paradigm.

This whitepaper will address:

  • Why microservices matter for healthcare IT teams and for healthcare innovation.
  • Design principles for a microservices architecture.
  • How Anypoint Platform can help you implement microservices best practices.

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Whitepaper – Driving Healthcare Innovation with Microservices

The healthcare industry has been affected by disruption and the need for healthcare innovation. Legislative, market, and technology pressures make it imperative for healthcare organizations — including hospitals and health systems, payers, and life sciences companies — to become more agile.

IT teams in the industry are considering a microservices-based architecture as a means of accelerating healthcare innovation and increasing project delivery speed. MuleSoft research suggests that application development productivity increases of up to 10x are possible. Healthcare specifically stands to benefit from this architectural paradigm.

This whitepaper will address:

  • Why microservices matter for healthcare IT teams and for healthcare innovation.
  • Design principles for a microservices architecture.
  • How Anypoint Platform can help you implement microservices best practices.

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Whitepaper – Modernize retail customer engagement with APIs

eCommerce offers consumers new ways to interact with traditional retailers, resulting in changed consumer preferences – 63% of customers today would switch brands for a better connected experience, and 75% want personalized offers based on purchase history. Traditional retailers need to consider how to build a new digital retail platform strategy within their business models to engage with consumers and help maintain their competitive edge.

Read this whitepaper to learn:

  • A 4-step strategy for retailers to build a retail digital platform strategy with APIs.
  • The role APIs can play in optimizing consumer journey personalization and creating new revenue channels.
  • How a leading fast food company created a unified consumer experience by adopting a platform-based business model.

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