Moving Workloads From a Data Center to a Private Cloud: Challenges and Opportunities

Enterprises are increasingly choosing private clouds to run their most sensitive applications. As they do, challenges like maintaining security and controlling costs can stand in the way of realizing the full potential of private cloud.

To help you get the most out of private cloud, we’ve compiled research that gathers survey data from IT leaders across industries.

Our white paper provides data and insight to address private cloud challenges with real-world solutions and best practices, including:

  • How to determine cloud-friendly vs. data center-friendly workloads
  • Ways to improve private cloud TCO and lessen management burdens
  • Best practices to improve cloud security
  • How real-world businesses use hosted private cloud

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Choosing the Right Private Cloud for your Enterprise

Private Cloud solutions are still at the heart of enterprise IT. In particular, private cloud solutions powered by technologies like Microsoft®, VMware® and OpenStack® will continue to play a crucial role — both today and in the future. As a result, choosing the technology mix best suited for your unique use cases and business requirements is absolutely critical.

In this white paper, we compare the top three private cloud technologies — Microsoft, VMware and OpenStack — and examine:

Whether you’re starting out or stalled out, review these important considerations to get on track. The white paper covers:

  • Platform-specific advantages
  • Platform-specific tradeoffs
  • Real-world case studies
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10 Steps to Success in Public Cloud Adoption

Poor planning is the top mistake organizations make when approaching public cloud adoption. With the pressure to transform while maintaining IT operations, public cloud projects often suffer from rushed implementations, lack of expertise and inadequate organizational support. Before the first chunk of data ever moves to the cloud, there are a myriad of decisions to be made.

Our white paper, 10 Steps to Success in the Public Cloud, boils those decisions down to ten milestones to guide your strategy and planning activities.

Whether you’re starting out or stalled out, review these important considerations to get on track. The white paper covers:

  • Planning frameworks and best practices
  • Ways to foster education and communication
  • Tips on building your business case and selecting pilot workloads
  • Strategies to address security and governance
  • Automation and migration methodologies
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Security Practices Guide for SOC 2 Compliance

Becoming SOC 2 compliant is more than ticking the right compliance checkboxes - it's a powerful investment for strengthening internal operations and attracting new customers.

Check out this guide for actionable advice on how to make your SOC 2 journey a success. The essential security practices in this guide include:

  • How to monitor for the unknown
  • Fine-tuning security alerts
  • How to create a detailed audit trail
  • Read now to learn more!
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Escape from the Cell: A Revolutionary Approach to Complex Spreadsheets

Since the advent of VisiCalc nearly 40 years ago, organizations have increasingly relied on spreadsheets for analysis, reporting, and other uses. As the need for decision speed and precision have escalated, however, business and analytic personnel alike have discovered that the lack of version control, large data sets, and cumbersome analytic tool integration now limit the usefulness of their spreadsheets. Many are looking for a way to supercharge their Excel capabilities. The question is how?

Read this fact sheet to learn how to evolve beyond what spreadsheets alone can achieve. FICO® Optimization Modeler is an advanced analytic platform that helps business experts solve their most challenging, mission-critical problems with powerful, fast and easy-to-use optimization tools. Its rich simulation, visualization and reporting capabilities immediately help transform business scenarios into compelling solutions, while allowing for easy import and export between third party analytic modeling tools and even your complex spreadsheets. Download now and learn more!

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Relativity Trust: Understanding Security in RelativityOne

An introduction to our commitment to protect e-discovery data

At Relativity, security isn’t just a checklist - it’s a way of life and a reflection of our core values. From our people and operations, to how we design RelativityOne and the foundation we build on in Microsoft Azure - security is a defining component of who we are. As such, we are committed to make RelativityOne the most trusted and reliable cloud solution you will ever use. Extending beyond ISO 27001 compliance, our information security practices and operations include how we deliver - such as staff onboarding and administrative safeguards, the processes and technology needed to protect your data, the security and privacy protection inherent to RelativityOne and Microsoft Azure’s infrastructure, and more.

Download this white paper for more details, from hiring practices to password policies and penetration tests.

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CRM First: Laying the Groundwork for Outcome Focused AI

Most sales & service organization find themselves with a hodge-podge of different systems, applications and procedures. Every sale, every deal, becomes way too complicated, creating unnecessary delays and errors. They wish they could start all over with a clean sheet of paper and do it right the next time.

Well, welcome to the world of true omnichannel engagement, powered by CaféX and Microsoft Dynamics 365 with Live Assist.

Read Sheila McGee-Smith’s whitepaper on how the leaders in CRM & customer engagement combined forces to make it happen for District M

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Bringing Omnichannel to Microsoft Dynamics 365

Bridging the Gap between Customer Demand and Existing Technology

In the blink of an eye, the world of customer care has changed. Dialing a toll-free number to connect to a live contact center agent is rarely anyone’s first choice as consumers increasingly embrace digital alternatives. Reminiscent of the introductory sequence to the popular television show “The Big Bang Theory,” where the history of the world is shown in a 20 second sequence, customer care’s progress from the simple phone call to today’s omnichannel world has happened in less than a generation

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Phishing: The Threat from Within

A New Approach to Close the Phishing Security Gap

Your company is not alone. Phishing threatens every organization around the world, large and small. Attackers consider phishing a go-to technique to gain access to the network, because it yields great success. In this paper, we explore challenges IT professionals face when adopting a more traditional approach to email security, such as the significant time and cost burden of having IT manage suspicious email threat investigation and remediation. In addition, we identify new steps you can take to reduce email security awareness training requirements and how you can more quickly identify, report, investigate and resolve inbox phishing attacks in real-time.

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Take MySQL Databases Seriously with Toad Edge

Organizations are increasingly turning to low-cost open-source databases – and that trend shows no sign of stopping. But adding new technology platforms like MySQL comes with a steep learning curve, right? Not with the latest member of the Toad® product family. Introducing Toad Edge™. In this tech brief, you’ll see how our powerful tool set for MySQL development and management makes it easy for database developers and DBAs to work with new database platforms. You’ll learn how Toad Edge:
  • Simplifies MySQL database development.
  • Shortens the learning curve by providing a lightweight, easy-to-use and intuitive IDE.
  • Offers OS flexibility by providing a desktop toolset that runs on Windows and Mac OSX.
  • Alleviates the risk of vendor lock in.
  • Helps ensure code quality and maintainability.
  • Supports DevOps workflows with Jenkins Continuous Integration plugin.
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