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What Dangers Are Lurking in Your Tech Stack?

The Costs, Inefficiencies, and Risks Hiding in the Shadows of Your Tech Stack.

For Marketers, Technology has Become the Purpose, not the Means. We Need to Reverse That.

Many of us say we have tech stacks, but instead, we have become consumed by them. We have moved away from a focus on the human elements of marketing – the strategy, the content, and the creative elements – to instead tend to the machines: the tools, the platforms, the software, the widgets.

But relying on too much technology can be inefficient, expensive, and introduce immense organizational risk.

In this whitepaper, we’ll discuss:

What tech stacks are, how they came to be, and why you should be cautious
The downside of a giant tech stack
What Shadow IT is and how it relates to your tech stack
What marketers can do to align business goals with their technology

Download the whitepaper now to learn how to avoid the common mistakes today’s marketing leaders make when it comes to technology.

5 Marketing Predictions for the Next 5 Years

Stay ahead of these upcoming trends with this whitepaper.

In this whitepaper, we’ll explore how:

First party data will emerge as the single most valuable asset.
Customers will demand full control of their personal data.
Location data will become the most accurate indicator of not just where, but who we as customers are.
Companies will emerge to broker data that will teach machines algorithms.
Augmented reality will become a common way to interact, especially while shopping.

Download the whitepaper to find out which digital marketing trends we believe will take hold over the next 5 years.

The Omnichannel Marketer’s Holiday Domination Guide

As the season of holiday sales creeps closer, so does the expectation for marketers to deliver a foolproof strategy for increasing sales and customer retention through personalized 1:1 campaigns. Don’t panic. We know the challenges you face in trying to provide personalized experiences – and we want to help.

This guide will identify those challenges and translate them into an effective strategy that will engage customers and win their holiday business

We’ll look at:

When to start planning for the 2018 holidays.
Results and insights from holidays past.
Leveraging technology to deliver 1:1 personalization.
Establishing a personalized, consistent brand experience.

Download the guide now to learn more about revolutionizing your role and dominating the holiday season.

HIPAA Compliance in the Cloud

Healthcare is migrating to the cloud, putting HIPAA regulations in a new context. Moving clinical and business data into Software as a Service (SaaS) or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) improves scalability, interoperability, and cost—but cloud adoption must not be at the expense of security or compliance.

This whitepaper identifies challenges of enforcing HIPAA compliance in the cloud, and offers technical solutions that address these requirements in order to provide lasting security for ePHI.

PowerShell Whitepaper

While intended for system administration and the automation of daily maintenance and management tasks, PowerShell has become a preferred tool for cybercriminals. Using the framework’s flexibility to carry out reconnaissance, download payloads, and create lateral movement, threat actors are able to quickly create malicious scripts capable of downloading payloads, sniffing out passwords or even downloading and installing PowerShell if it isn’t already installed on the targeted computer. Fileless malware is able to intrude the system through PowerShell vulnerabilities, which raises the concern of PowerShell security issues for security leaders. This whitepaper delves into PowerShell's popularity amongst cyber hackers, how it is being leeched onto by threat actors, and how to protect your endpoints from increasing threat.

Has Your Business Switched to VoIP Yet?

The telephone has come a long way since the days of switchboard operators. In many cases, however, businesses are still using plain old telephone systems (POTS) without knowing that there is a better form of telecommunication that is being adopted at an increasing rate across businesses. That technology is VoIP.

In this Sourceforge white paper, you will learn:

What's in Your Phone System?
What is VoIP?
How Does VoIP Save a Business an Average of 30% or More?
How to Switch to VoIP

So if you are considering upgrading your phone system – or are motivated by saving money and adding enterprise level services to your business – let Sourceforge compare the top VoIP providers for you! Simply select that you want to receive a quote on the following page and one of our VoIP Specialists will get in contact with you to jot down a few details in order to provide you with the best, no-obligation quote from a provider.

Create PDF Apps with the SDK one of the largest PDF Company Uses

Do you need your .NET application to generate high quality PDF documents and administer PDF files with the best accuracy ever?

Do you wish to create PDF in C# / JAVA / PHP or Python at the top speed, stable and customizable?

An easy to use PDF SDK allows users to develop reliable and multi-threaded PDF creation applications. Our SDK supports a variety of programming languages that include: VB, C#, Java, ASP.NET, PHP, and C++. Start converting files without reading API documents. It includes effective and high-quality PDF libraries which gives software developers multiple choices of performing various operations with Portable Document Format and develop powerful PDF solutions in desktop environments as well as server platforms.

Full Function PDF to Word SDK

Do you want to modify a secured document in PDF or need to make a few changes in it without wasting much time?

Would you like to complete PDF to Word coding project with fewer efforts and in the best quality?

BCL easyConverter SDK has been developed for cases when the best quality and the stability matters a lot. It takes only a couple of minutes and a few lines of code to create stunning PDF to Word converter program. Install easyConverter SDK to add ‘Convert PDF to editable document’ functionality to your application right now.

SD-WAN Growth Outlook

What are the top drivers of SD-WAN adoption amongst enterprises in 2018? This report covers why the SD-WAN market is by far the most successful incarnation of software-defined networking to date, the types of vendors gaining the most momentum in the market, and which solutions appear to be most attractive for future adoptions.

The CIOs Guide to SD-WAN

SD-WAN is a potential game-changer for connectivity, but IT has to build a compelling business case for making the transition. In this report, you will learn how SD-WAN deployments can save an enterprise millions of dollars in network costs, reduce bandwidth outages, and also lower the amount of support tickets for network troubleshooting.

Economic Value of In-cloud Data Protection with Dell EMC Data Protection Software

As the shift into a digital economy continues to accelerate, companies must out-innovate, outthink, and outpace their competition. Businesses must embrace change and transform to become the disruptors in their industries rather than wait to be disrupted by their competitors.

In the face of this pressure to evolve, organizations need to transform IT to reduce both the capital and operational costs of legacy IT. They must offload repeatable and time-intensive manual tasks like backup, disaster recovery, and service deployment to software and policy-driven automation.

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

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The Economic Value of Data Domain and Integrated Data Protection Appliances (IDPA)

To out-innovate and out-pace their competition, organizations must be on a consistent path to keep their infrastructure modern. IT is under constant pressure to deliver optimized infrastructure for new business initiatives and supporting applications all while trying to contain or even reduce costs. In fact, respondents to ESG’s ongoing research consistently cite cost reduction as one of the top business drivers affecting their IT spending. When asked in a research survey how their organizations intended to contain costs in 2017, 27% of respondents said that they would be purchasing new technologies with better ROI.

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

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

Deduplication Solutions are Not All Created Equal, Why Data Domain?

Read this paper from Dell EMC and Intel® to learn the business value of Data Domain and how it can...

Speed up your backups
Improve disaster recovery
Save valuable floor space

...and so much more!

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

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

Why the future of the cloud is open

Choosing how to build a hybrid cloud is perhaps the most strategic decision IT leaders will make this decade. It is a choice that will determine their organization’s competitiveness, flexibility, and IT economics for the next 10 years.

Public clouds have set the benchmark for on-demand access to resources. But most organizations that use public clouds do so in concert with a variety of on-premise computing resources, albeit modernized and increasingly operated in a manner that provides self-service, dynamic scaling, and policy-based automation. Heterogeneous environments, both public and private, are today’s face of hybrid cloud.

IDC Report: Object Storage Customer Insights & Best Practices

Many organizations are at a turning point as they strategize their storage infrastructure needs for the long haul. In many interviews with IDC, end users reveal similar concerns consistently. Unsurmountable data growth, risks, long-term data retention for compliance, and cost constraints are some major concerns that define the road map for IT infrastructure within any organization. Generally, a road map is a set of requirements that drive the adoption of certain technologies or platforms. For example, rightsizing applications may mean potentially adopting newer platforms (private/public cloud, IaaS, PaaS, and on-/off-premises traditional storage). IDC's 2018 Data Services for Hybrid Cloud Survey indicates that while organizations are adopting a cloud-first strategy, security concerns (primarily for data in use) lead them to deploy a certain percentage of the workloads on-premises, driving the overall hybrid cloud adoption. The same survey indicates that data loss prevention, ensuring data quality, and regulatory compliance are the top data-related challenges overall.

Learn from:

A Large Retail Chain Store in the U.S. 100,000 employees, 100 IT staff, 6,000+ applications, over 2PB of unstructured data on NAS arrays.
A Large Broadcasting Studio in the U.S. Over 6PB of storage including block, file, and object data; growing at about 500TB a year. Dependence on LTO tape libraries for archiving, but now using Cloudian as an active archive tier to keep data accessible at all times.
A Wealth and Asset Management Services Company in Europe. Over 4,000 employees; 6PB of data across siloed storage solutions for block, file, and object.