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Forrester Total Economic Impact Study

KnowBe4 recently commissioned Forrester to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, examining the potential Return on Investment (ROI) enterprises might realize by implementing the KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training and Simulated Phishing Platform.

The resulting research paper assesses the performance of the KnowBe4 Platform. How does 127% ROI with a one-month payback sound?

At the end of the study, you will have a framework to evaluate the ROI of the KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training and Simulated Phishing Platform on your organization, and how you can leverage your end-users as your last line of defense using KnowBe4.

Employees at the Frontline in the Battle Against Ransomware

The recent escalating ransomware attacks have shown that no organization is safe and the effects of those attacks can be devastating. By many reports, ransomware has been already responsible for causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, with no end in sight. Find out how you can help to combat these attacks by training your employees to create a human firewall in the battle against ransomware.

This whitepaper answers questions to:

Is a ransomware attack presumed to be a breach?
How with little effort hackers are tricking your employees.
Can employees be trained to make better security decisions?
A Checklist for employees to help keep security top of mind.

Best Practices for Protecting Against Phishing, Ransomware and Email Fraud

Organizations have been victimized by a wide range of threats and exploits, most notably phishing attacks that have penetrated corporate defenses, targeted email attacks launched from compromised accounts, and sensitive or confidential information accidentally leaked through email.

A survey conducted among corporate decision makers in early 2018 discovered that nearly 28% of organizations had experienced a phishing attack that was successful in infecting their networks. Don’t let this happen to your organization.

This new Osterman Research whitepaper outlines ten best practices to consider that show how a combination of risk assessment and audits of your current security posture, implementing end-user security awareness training, and establishing detailed security policies can protect your organization from ransomware, CEO Fraud and other phishing attacks.

10 Simple Tips to Protect Your Organization from Ransomware

Did you know that ransomware is the most widespread, destructive malware in the world today? It accounts for 39% of all security breaches, with ransomware gangsters projected to make $11.5B in profits from online extortion by 2019.

When you inevitably get hit by the ransomware epidemic, your options will be: pay the ransom (a bad idea), recover from backup (better, but still potentially costly), or stop ransomware before it ever locks up your data (the best).

Option 3 is not hard when you know how. Get the complimentary checklist, “10 Simple Tips to Protect Your Business from Ransomware”, and learn how to:

Close the most obvious vulnerabilities that ransomware uses
Train your users to avoid ransomware infections
Deploy the latest endpoint technologies to thwart ransomware attacks

Learn how to protect your vital business data and help put ransomware criminals out of business for good.

5 Reasons to Improve Your Data Backup

Protecting your organization’s data has never been easy, and today’s dizzying pace of change in IT makes it even harder. Learn how you can quickly adapt your backup strategy to address challenges like surging data volumes and new malware threats.

Today’s IT managers have it rough. They are expected to support more users, more devices, and more data with the same limited resources, and that is even before they figure out how to deal with lethal new malware threats like ransomware. What is a besieged IT team supposed to do?

One place to start by downloading a complimentary tip sheet to help:

Identify and prioritize the top challenges to your data protection regimen
Consider some straightforward tactics to address these issues
Understand how emerging technologies like machine learning can help

In a world that’s constantly changing, it can be hard to navigate a clear path to robust data protection. Take advantage of this free tip sheet for some practical pointers today.

Acronis Machine Learning on guard of your data

Introduced in January of 2017, Acronis Active Protection is an advanced technology that uses sophisticated analysis to monitor your system for any erratic behavior and quickly stop it. While performing well in independent testing and earning accolades from the media, Acronis has worked diligently to make it even better. The result is an improved version that incorporates machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies.

IDC – Business Value of JBoss Fuse WP

“The Business Value of Red Hat Integration Products” IDC whitepaper, six organizations discuss the benefits and value they’ve found in using Red Hat® Fuse for rapid app integration.

By integrating with Red Hat Fuse, these organizations achieved:

An average three-year ROI of 520%.
A payback time of six months.
5.5x more apps integrated per year.
31% better app performance.

All-flash Availability for the Always-On Enterprise

Together, Pure® Storage and Veeam enable the Always-On Enterprise™ to meet service level agreements (SLAs) for ALL applications and data.

The Pure Storage data platform powers virtualization by allowing administrators to consolidate workloads without sacrificing performance and to achieve 100% virtualization with confidence. Pure Storage enables scale from hundreds to thousands of VMs without disruption, and is completely managed inside vCenter.

Pure Storage FlashArray provides fast and reliable block storage for your production data, as well as local snapshots for rapid restore. FlashBlade™, a highly dense all-flash data platform designed for big data and concurrent workloads, enables you to store large data sets in a small data center footprint and restore them rapidly.

Veeam Software leverages virtual machine capabilities, Pure Storage snapshots, image based backups and cloud technologies that enable the Always-On Enterprise to achieve recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs), of <15 minutes for All applications and data. Veeam simplifies IT operational management, mitigates risk and dramatically reduces capital and operational costs.

Building Application Security Into Production Container Environments

Organizations are leveraging containers on a massive scale to rapidly package and deliver software applications. But because it is difficult for organizations to see the components and dependencies in all their container images, the security risks associated with containerized software delivery have become a critical topic in DevOps.

This puts the spotlight on operations teams to find security vulnerabilities in production environments without sacrificing the efficiency of containers.

Amadeus innovates customer service with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Amadeus is a leading provider of innovative technology solutions for the global travel industry. To meet changing customer demand, the €4 billion company needed a new computing platform that was highly available, flexible, and tolerant to infrastructure fluctuations. Amadeus chose Red Hat® OpenShift Container Platform® as the foundation for its new application infrastructure. When the project is complete, Amadeus expects the cloud solution to decrease system latency for better customer service, increase platform availability, streamline operations through automation, and reduce time to market for new services.

The path to cloud-native applications

For the majority of organizations, digital business means pivoting to a culture of organizational agility, where the rapid pace of demand can only be satisfied by faster and more flexible development and delivery models. As most organizations do not have the luxury of completely rebuilding their technology foundation or immediately adopting new practices and mindsets, they are embracing gradual yet fundamental shifts in culture, processes, and technology to support greater velocity and agility. Learn 8 steps to guide your journey to cloud-native application development, including Red Hat® customer success stories.

Agile integration: A blueprint for enterprise architecture

As applications and services become more central to business strategy, and as distributed methodologies like agile and DevOps change the way teams operate, it is critical for IT leaders to find a way to integrate their backend systems, legacy systems, and teams in an agile, adaptable way. This e-book details an architecture called agile integration, consisting of three technology pillars—distributed integration, containers, and APIs—to deliver flexibility, scalability, and reusability.

TCO Report – NAS File Tiering

Every organization is under pressure to meet the exponential growth in demand for file storage capacity. Surveys show, however, that 60% or more of data on Tier 1 storage is either dormant or rarely used. Organizations can now achieve significant savings by moving that inactive content to a secondary storage tier.

While the concept of storage tiering is well known, it has not been widely adopted in the past due to various limitations. New storage technologies now overcome those limitations, making tiering an attractive option to reclaim capacity on Tier 1 storage systems and reduce backup costs and time requirements — often resulting in overall file storage cost savings of 50%.

Of particular note, new solutions now enable these savings with zero impact on user data access.

In this paper, we compare the total cost of ownership (TCO) of traditional NAS to the TCO of traditional NAS augmented by file tiering with Cloudian object storage.

TCO Report – Tape vs. Object Storage

We are living in an age of explosive data growth. IDC projects that the digital universe is growing 50% a year, doubling in size every 2 years. In media and entertainment, the growth is even faster as capacity-intensive formats such as 4K, 8K, and 360/VR gain traction. Fortunately, new trends in data storage are making it easier to stay ahead of the curve.

Historically, many studios and broadcasters have relied on LTO tape as the most economical option for long-term media archiving and backup — but that is beginning to change. The increasing costs of maintaining and expanding aging tape libraries are prompting many businesses to explore other options. At the same, the costs of more modern and flexible solutions like object storage now make them a cost-effective alternative to LTO tape.

In this paper, we will examine how object storage stacks up against LTO tape for media archives and backup. In addition to a detailed total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis covering both capital and operational expenses, this paper will look at the opportunity costs of not leveraging the real-time data access of object storage to monetize existing data.

TCO Report – Cloudian HyperFile

A new class of storage promises to revolutionize file data management with scalability, simplicity and cost benefits that together represent a step function improvement from traditional NAS.

With unstructured data growth rates exceeding 50% per year, the need for such a solution is clear. Files have become more numerous, much larger and they’re being retained and accessed over longer periods of time. For 30 years now, Network Attached Storage (NAS) has been the go-to technology for file storage, but the changing nature of data is straining the ability of NAS to scale, deliver adequate performance, and do so economically.

Cloudian HyperFile offers a new approach that addresses both the scalability and cost concerns. It is the first to combine traditional NAS features with a limitlessly scalable, fully modular storage environment that reduces CAPEX costs by 2/3 while simplifying management and eliminating storage silos.