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5 Proven Ways to Drive Continuous Improvement

Process is the lifeblood of every business, and yet too many organizations suffer from processes that are inefficient and unsustainable. Whether your organization is stuck navigating a snarl of unwieldy spreadsheets and emails or painstakingly customizing large, complex systems with part-time support from overworked technical teams, the result is the same: a bogged-down business with frustrated employees, customers, and shareholders.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Creating and sustaining efficient business processes requires expert planning and design, but also supporting technologies to keep work moving across the entire process. In this eBook, we’ll show you how five different organizations transformed previously disparate tasks and workflows into a seamless process with all the benefits—at a fraction of the cost or time commitment—of customizing legacy business applications.

Storage Patterns for Kubernetes for Dummies

Have you run containers and discovered that storage isn’t as simple as mounting a directory? Perhaps you have exposure to Kubernetes and have discovered volumes but need more? The vast and flexible world of hyper converged infrastructure and how that can be implemented with Kubernetes can help. Beyond understanding the pieces and parts, Kubernetes brings it all together with concrete examples of how your applications can benefit from enhanced storage capabilities.

Hybrid CloudSecurity 101

No matter where you are in your hybrid cloud journey, security is a big concern. Hybrid cloud security vulnerabilities typically take the form of loss of resource oversight and control, including unsanctioned public cloud use, lack of visibility into resources, inadequate change control, poor configuration management, and ineffective access controls. This e-book discusses new approaches and considerations for protecting your business in the hybrid cloud.

Technology is complex. Desktops-as-a-Service is not.

Technology is Complex. Desktops-as-a-Service is not.

Your Windows desktop and Microsoft productivity applications are the technology lifeblood of your business.

It’s where you run your business and how your employees get work done. From communicating with customers and processing orders to managing finances and working on your most sensitive documents—Microsoft is front and center.

Location Matters: Considerations for Moving to the Cloud.

Today, it’s no longer a question of moving IT to the cloud — it’s about choosing the best way to do it for your particular business requirements.

Before any cloud migration takes place, you’ll need to make some big decisions about which models make the most sense for your business.

The deployment model describes how you will use the chosen infrastructure, regardless of whether it is located on- or off-premises and who owns the actual equipment.
On the other hand, a service model describes the degree of management and control you want over what you run on the cloud infrastructure.

This eBook explores these considerations and more that could affect your decision. Download this eBook with Quest to learn how to choose the right deployment model for your business.

The DBA’s High Availability and Disaster Recovery Survival Guide

We’ve arrived at the peak of the digital transformation learning curve, where customer demand is driving businesses to deliver outstanding service at all times.

For DBAs, this means you need to single- handedly ensure business continuity is maintained at all times, including scenarios when disaster strikes. You’re taking on the herculean task of maintaining consistent uptime for databases that support data centers, customer portals, web ordering systems and more ... even when no one notices.

Since databases are critical to business operations, DBAs have great responsibility in keeping their organization up and running. For modern, IT-dependent businesses, this means ensuring high avail- ability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). Learn more about the critical role DBAs play in any organization with this eBook by Quest.

DevOps Cookbook for ERP Teams

ERP teams face a different environment than other application teams face because they work with the organization’s financial system of record. Progress toward DevOps can introduce risk of noncompliance for which most people — auditors, change control advisors, compliance managers, even life-long ERP developers — have little appetite.

This eBook explores the potential role of DevOps on ERP teams. It offers a framework for guiding ERP teams toward a DevOps culture, with workflows that can speed up deployment while still mitigating risk. ERP teams will see that, in some ways, they may already be doing DevOps and not know it. They can enjoy the advantages of DevOps without incurring the risk of noncompliance.

Moving Your Databases to the Cloud

Are you thinking about moving your databases to the cloud or making the transition to data- base as a service (DBaaS)?

With cloud computing vendors offering more services at lower prices, the barriers to spin- ning up cloud resources are diminishing. But there are few black-and-white questions in technology and even fewer in business, which is why smart companies look at all the shades of gray in an innovation like the cloud-based database before they commit on a large scale.

In this ebook, we’ll examine the what, why, when, where and how of database cloud computing. This overview of the current cloud landscape includes answers to the most commonly asked questions and a number of important but frequently overlooked points. Database administrators (DBAs) and managers will gain a better view of the path to the cloud, whether they are preparing to migrate two dozen web pages or two dozen years of trans- action history.

Networking Guru’s Guide to Verification

Today, networks have become so large and complex, along with constant changes to accommodate new services and business requirements, that networking teams can no longer document or manage all the details end-to-end. With potentially tens of thousands of devices and billions of lines of code, until now there has been no way to automate the analysis of network designs to quickly verify what devices you have, how they’re connected, where traffic goes, whether it’s really working, or what needs to change. Network verification is a rapidly emerging technology that provides deep insight to network behavior end-to-end, as well as automating many network troubleshooting and remediation tasks. Organizations are leveraging verification to help avoid outages, facilitate compliance processes and accelerate change windows.

The Ultimate Guide To AWS, Azure, and GCP Cloud Asset Visibility

Conventional cloud visibility tools have blind spots. They either don't see all of your assets or can't analyze them in depth. Download this eBook to compare solutions.

But there is a revolutionary new approach to cloud asset visibility and security. With it, there are no overlooked assets, no DevOps headaches, and no performance hits on live environments.

Delivers workload visibility without agents.

Deploys in minutes instead of months.

Detects vulnerabilities, malware, misconfigurations, lateral movement risk, weak and leaked passwords, and high-risk data such as PII.

This ultimate guide covers the pros and cons of conventional approaches and includes a comprehensive solutions comparison matrix. It concludes with a look at what 2020 and beyond holds for gaining deeper visibility into your entire cloud estate.

IT Security Can Support the Health of Your Business and Sharpen its Competitive Edge

Pervasive, stringent cybersecurity that also supports productivity goals is achievable. More than just an essential function, IT security can help companies differentiate themselves from their competition and boost their reputations. Mid-market businesses can benefit from Dell Technologies solutions that protect all of IT, including devices, data, and data centers, on-premises and in the cloud. Download this paper from Dell Technologies and Intel® to learn more.

Onboarding 101

Having a good onboarding program in place increases retention rates by 52%; yet , only 12% of employees think their organization does a great job onboarding new hires.
Bottom line: Great onboarding matters.
Download our onboarding 101 e-book , and find the step-by-step process to build an experience that will set up your new hires for success with your organization.

eBook – Transform your digital retail experience

The world of retail is changing dramatically. Retailers used to have anonymous, transactional relationships with their customers; but now both retailers and customers want a deeper relationship. The retailers that win today are the ones that use technology to build those personal customer experiences and transform their digital retail experience. However, it isn’t always easy to implement new solutions with existing systems.

Read this eBook to discover:

Why existing approaches are not sufficient for the pace of digital transformation that retail demands

How to drive technology change in your organization, creating a greater capability to innovate and transforming the digital retail experience for your customers

How to adopt an API-led approach to integration that packages underlying connectivity and orchestration services as easily discoverable and reusable building blocks

eBook – Building the Connected Retail Experience

“Today’s shoppers expect more than a transactional relationship with retailers; they want a seamless and personalized journey that reflects the context of how they shop across devices and channels. The key to success lies in connecting in-store software with online systems so retailers can provide an uninterrupted experience wherever customers shop.” - Ross Mason, Founder of MuleSoft

Driving digital transformation in retail requires connectivity across an ever-increasing number of applications, data and devices. Because of this, connectivity has emerged as a bottleneck that slows the development of new applications and the adoption of new technologies to meet customer demands.

In response, leading retail and CPG companies have adopted API-led connectivity, which eliminates this connectivity bottleneck and enables a 2-5x faster IT project delivery across the value chain.

Download this eBook to learn:

How leading retailers like Buffalo Wild Wings, TAL Apparel and PetSmart are leveraging API-led connectivity to accelerate IT project delivery speed

How APIs can be used to address the unique business and IT challenges faced by retailers

How MuleSoft’s out-of-the-box API designs, implementations and connectors can accelerate the adoption of API-led connectivity

eBook – Prescription for Disruption

Healthcare organizations across the care continuum, from hospitals and health systems, to health insurers, to life sciences companies, must digitally transform in order to address legislative and market disruption.

Driving digital transformation in healthcare requires connectivity across an ever-increasing number of applications, data and devices. Because of this, connectivity has emerged as a bottleneck that slows the development of new applications and the adoption of new technologies.

In response, leading healthcare organizations have adopted API-led connectivity, which eliminates this connectivity bottleneck and enables 2-5X IT project delivery.

Download this eBook to learn:

How leading healthcare organizations like Sutter Health, Premera Blue Cross and Hologic are leveraging API-led connectivity to accelerate IT project delivery speed

How APIs can be used to address the unique business and IT challenges faced by health systems, health insurers and life sciences companies

How MuleSoft’s out-of-the-box API designs, implementations and connectors can accelerate the adoption of API-led connectivity