The goal of ESG Lab reports is to educate IT professionals about data center technology products for companies of all types and sizes. ESG Lab reports are not meant to replace the evaluation process that should be conducted before making purchasing decisions, but rather to provide insight into these emerging technologies. Our objective is to go over some of the more valuable feature/functions of products, show how they can be used to solve real customer problems and identify any areas needing improvement. ESG Lab's expert third party perspective is based on our own hands on testing as well as on interviews with customers who use these products in production environments.

"Use this step-by-step guide from Akamai’s CTO, Charlie Gero, to build an inclusive and concrete zero trust architecture, intended to help enable safe application access in a cloud-native world. Easily transition to a perimeter-less environment with this prescriptive process, phasing applications in one at a time and reducing your migration risk profile."

To provide insight into the current environment for startups, and how emerging growth companies can best manage growth and risk, six prominent venture capitalists weigh in on the subject.

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Gone are the days when your physician liaisons called on physicians to discuss referrals and recruit physicians armed with only the “word on the street.” In fact, if your institution is doing this, you can be sure that any competitor is winning the referrals with the help of market intelligence. Download this eBook to get the secrets to unlocking physician liaison ROI and grow market share in this hyper-competitive environment.

With the opportunity to leverage new analytic systems for Big Data and Cloud, companies are looking for ways to deliver live SAP data to platforms such as Hadoop, Kafka, and the Cloud in real-time. However, making live production SAP data seamlessly available wherever needed across diverse platforms and hybrid environments often proves a challenge. Download this paper to learn how Attunity Replicate’s simple, real-time data replication and ingest solution can empower your team to meet fast-changing business requirements in an agile fashion. Our universal SAP data availability solution for analytics supports decisions to improve operations, optimize customer service, and enable companies to compete more effectively.

Change data capture (CDC) technology can modernize your data and analytics environment with scalable, efficient and real-time data replication that does not impact production systems. To realize these benefits, enterprises need to understand how this critical technology works, why it’s needed, and what their Fortune 500 peers have learned from their CDC implementations. This book serves as a practical guide for enterprise architects, data managers and CIOs as they enable modern data lake, streaming and cloud architectures with CDC. Read this book to understand: ? The rise of data lake, streaming and cloud platforms ? How CDC works and enables these architectures ? Case studies of leading-edge enterprises ? Planning and implementation approaches

IT departments today face serious data integration hurdles when adopting and managing a Hadoop-based data lake. Many lack the ETL and Hadoop coding skills required to replicate data across these large environments. In this whitepaper, learn how you can provide automated Data Lake pipelines that accelerate and streamline your data lake ingestion efforts, enabling IT to deliver more data, ready for agile analytics, to the business.

In 2017, Europe produced more Of its electricity from solar, wind and biomass resources than from coal. Today's market is more volatile, with greater variability in energy sources due in large part to the desire to reduce environmental damage. The European Union (EU) is on track to achieve its 2020 goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20% compared to 1990 levels l by reducing its reliance on carbon-based power. This paper examines the five most critical variables that investors, developers, and others must recognise in the due diligence process before investing in a new power generation project in Europe.

IT organizations struggle with numerous challenges — hybrid environments, lack of visibility during cloud migration, multiple infrastructure monitoring tools, and reliance on manual processes. Yet according to a 2018 global survey, less than half of IT practitioners are confident they can ensure performance and system availability with their current toolset. As a Splunk customer, you understand the power of running your monitoring and logging environment in a machine data platform. Are you utilizing your machine data platform to effectively run APM, infrastructure monitoring and Network performance monitoring and diagnostics? This guide outlines the 8 biggest mistakes IT practitioners make and provides solutions, key takeaways and real-world examples to help you improve IT monitoring and troubleshooting in your organization. Download your copy to learn how to: Achieve end-to-end-visibility throughout cloud migration Find trends and root cause faster with automated investigations

Learn more about how Live Nation used Spredfast to bridge social gaps by creating an environment of seamless collaboration between the central and local marketers.

Dinosaurs are super cool, but there are some places where dinosaurs don’t belong, and one of those is in your fast-paced DevOps environment. We’re in a new world where traditional security solutions no longer make the cut. Software is increasingly complex, and when deployed at the speed of DevOps, it creates a new type of risk: Software Exposure. Legacy application security tools are too big, too slow, and too clunky to deliver the innovation needed to protect your customers in the 21st century. The Software Exposure Platform from Checkmarx is an entirely new species heralding the next generation of software security. The platform builds security in from the beginning, supporting all stages of the software development lifecycle, allowing enterprises to deliver secure software at the speed of DevOps while mitigating their business risk. Download the white paper The Demise of the AppSec Dinosaur to learn how Checkmarx provides the combination of integrations and automation required in

There’s no two-second rule when it comes to the law, and in today’s legal environment, maintaining compliance is crucial now more than ever. This ebook provides an overview of the labor laws that impact restaurants today and the high cost of non-compliance. It also presents the features of an automated system that gives restaurants the capabilities they need to meet today’s increasingly complex labor compliance regulations—so they can avoid the high price of non-compliance and create work environments that better serve their employees’ needs and rights.

The way that people and companies leverage IT is in the process of a revolutionary change. To maintain a competitive edge in the face of an unrelenting pace of innovation, opportunity creation and environmental turmoil, organizations must exploit the provisioning of IT resources to facilitate new ways of doing business. And whether you’re talking about the increase in mobile technologies, the Internet of Things or some other transformative technology, cloud is at the forefront and the heart of this change

A multi-cloud world is quickly becoming the new normal for many enterprises. But embarking on a cloud journey and managing cloud-based services across multiple providers can seem overwhelming. Even the term multi-cloud can be confusing. Multi-cloud is not the same as hybrid cloud. The technical definition of hybrid cloud is an environment that includes traditional data centers with physical servers, private cloud with virtualized servers as well as public cloud provisioned by service providers. Quite often, multi-cloud simply means that an organization uses multiple public clouds from many vendors to deliver its IT services. In other words, organizations can have a multi-cloud without having a hybrid cloud, or they can have a multi-cloud as part of a hybrid cloud.

Across enterprises of all kinds, data is multiplying rapidly in both quantity and variety. Across multi-cloud environments, new sources are exponentially increasing the growing stream of information, including the Internet of Things, social media, mobile devices, virtual reality implementations and optical tracking.

The enterprise data warehouse (EDW) has been at the cornerstone of enterprise data strategies for over 20 years. EDW systems have traditionally been built on relatively costly hardware infrastructures. But ever-growing data volume and increasingly complex processing have raised the cost of EDW software and hardware licenses while impacting the performance needed for analytic insights. Organizations can now use EDW offloading and optimization techniques to reduce costs of storing, processing and analyzing large volumes of data. Getting data governance right is critical to your business success. That means ensuring your data is clean, of excellent quality, and of verifiable lineage. Such governance principles can be applied in Hadoop-like environments. Hadoop is designed to store, process and analyze large volumes of data at significantly lower cost than a data warehouse. But to get the return on investment, you must infuse data governance processes as part of offloading.

Studies indicate strong patient and family engagement in clinical care positively contributes to a favorable experience, as well as improved health outcomes and reduced costs. Learn how incorporating technology into patient engagement initiatives can better position providers to overcome the challenges of today’s healthcare environment.

• In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare environment, providers are faced with more challenges than ever when running acute rehabilitation programs. From treating the right patient at the right time to costly reimbursement battles, there is no shortage of issues that can interfere with delivering the best level of care. Addressing these problems is especially urgent when it comes to treating highly acute patients. To succeed, providers must learn strategies for overcoming the two most daunting obstacles: patient access and reimbursement. This guide examines the best practices for meeting these challenges.

In highly competitive environments like the modern marketplace, obtaining accurate and timely data can make real the difference between keeping tabs on, getting ahead of, or being left behind the competition. Download now to learn more!

Cloud implementation, integration and delivery once again topped the National State Chief Information Officer’s list of priorities facing state CIOs in 2018. The same is true on the local government side of the equation, with organizations pursuing infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service models. However, now that those deployments are being realized, governments are looking for more opportunities to reap the cost-savings, flexibility and scalability of cloud environments.

Over the last several years, manufacturers have embraced cloud applications. However, some manufacturers remain reluctant to migrate ERP systems and other business-critical applications to the cloud. Read on to discover four areas where manufacturers can benefit from a more complete understanding of how and why Epicor Cloud ERP offers unique advantages compared to on-premises deployment, including: • Increased data security • Greater financial visibility and control • Better long-term reliability • Easier access to cutting-edge tech innovation Moving an ERP environment to the cloud enables IT leaders to free up the resources they need to partner with the business and to focus on more strategic technology initiatives. Download the white paper to learn more.

As organizations are moving to AWS to gain the operational efficiencies of the cloud, they’re realizing the importance of a well-architected framework. This framework, which consists of twelve pillars, is wellintended, secure, and compliant, but is not exactly easy to achieve. Our clients frequently tell us that two pillars in particular--Security and Cost Optimization--are the most difficult to get right. This is partially because while advanced tooling is required to manage cloud complexities and compliance, selecting, deploying, and operating these tools is costly and burdensome. Without optimizing your environment for these two pillars, you are preventing your organization from scaling up. This has resulted in many businesses that are restricted to a minimal use of AWS, negating any benefit of having adopted the cloud in the first place. AHEAD uses the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which will walk you through common missteps and how to get it right.

If your business is like many other organizations that are in the process of enabling a Microsoft Azure public cloud platform, then you might be struggling with the guardrails needed to secure and manage cost, while at the same time enabling flexibility for the teams consuming cloud services. While the Azure platform is already very secure, it also allows a great deal of flexibility in configuration. In order to avoid accidentally creating security holes and out-of-control spend, a Governance Framework is required. We created the AHEAD Azure Governance framework to allow enterprises to develop and maintain a fully optimized, and secure environment. The resulting framework will be tailored to your organization’s specific business and compliance needs, as every enterprise is different. This guide will introduce you to the components of this necessary Azure Foundational Governance Design.

Many enterprises have successfully integrated VMware tools into their environments and are now looking to reap the benefits of the cloud. But this migration isn’t as easy as flipping a switch, especially if you’re looking to continue running your VMware environment. The ability to utilize your existing VMware tools on an AWS platform can result in a more cost-effective, simplified cloud experience, allowing organizations to begin their cloud journey by moving workloads closer to native cloud services. In this document, we will review ideal use cases for VMware on AWS (VMC).