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While the next-generation firewall (NGFW) is well defined by Gartner as something new, enterprise-focused, and distinct, many network security vendors are claiming NGFW is a subset of other functions.

Careers today are no longer narrowly defined by jobs and skills, but are instead viewed as ways for workers to gain valuable experiences and develop new skills. Learn what’s behind this shift in employee expectations and how to adapt your HR practices to meet them.

Careers today are no longer narrowly defined by jobs and skills, but are instead viewed as ways for workers to gain valuable experiences and develop new skills. Learn what’s behind this shift in employee expectations and how to adapt your HR practices to meet them.

This Guide will help companies to improve the effectiveness of their existing strategy or are looking to make their first move into the cloud.

This white paper reveals a list of top 10 trends in cloud computing to help you take advantage of all the greatest new innovations in cloud technology.

This paper will help you choose the right cloud provider, optimise your security and deploy the solution.

The latest version of the Medianet-enabled Video Surveillance Manager (VSM) now runs on the Cisco Unified Computing System. Scale and reliability are redefined as Intelligent Networked Surveillance has come of age. VSM 7 and MediaNet have completely changed how this is deployed and operated.

As infrastructure managers confront urgent demands for data center agility and cost savings, the benefits of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) become all the more compelling. HCI enables lower cost IT operations and greater flexibility by combining compute, storage and management in a single software-defined solution on commodity hardware. This paper offers guidance on selecting an HCI solution. It is based on IT Central Station member reviews of VMware vSAN, a foundational component of VMware HCI.

This IDC White Paper offers an overview of the new datacenter infrastructure trends that are being driven by a need to solve traditional datacenter challenges that still exist today. This paper also offers insight into a recent IDC survey of different customers running VMware vSAN, a software-defined, hyperconverged solution. The survey was conducted during the second half of 2017 to understand the real-world value VMware vSAN provides when deployed within production environments. 

This IDC White Paper offers an overview of the new datacenter infrastructure trends that are being driven by a need to solve traditional datacenter challenges that still exist today. This paper also offers insight into a recent IDC survey of different customers running VMware vSAN, a software-defined, hyperconverged solution. The survey was conducted during the second half of 2017 to understand the real-world value VMware vSAN provides when deployed within production environments. 

As infrastructure managers confront urgent demands for data center agility and cost savings, the benefits of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) become all the more compelling. HCI enables lower cost IT operations and greater flexibility by combining compute, storage and management in a single software-defined solution on commodity hardware. This paper offers guidance on selecting an HCI solution. It is based on IT Central Station member reviews of VMware vSAN, a foundational component of VMware HCI.

In this book, we are going to look at the key trends driving the modernization of data infrastructure. We’ll see how organizations are adapting and flourishing in a data-driven world. For some time, headlines have been around the internet of things (IoT), big data and data analytics. While these developments are important, the reality is that you cannot take full advantage of them without modernization. We’re going to look at these trends and priorities in detail, then look at the three key drivers of modernization: governance, mobilization and analytics. We’ll also consider the technologies that make up modern data infrastructure including artificial intelligence (AI), flash storage, converged and hyperconverged platforms and software-defined infrastructures. By making sense of data, we make sense of the world. With more data than ever before, we have the tools to turn all that information into intelligent innovation and change the way the world works.

SAP Redefined: EMC IT leverages the power of VMware to virtualize SAP HANA, increasing performance by 400% and giving them freedom to grow without physical limitations. Read how in this infographic.

SAP Redefined: EMC IT leverages the power of VMware to virtualize SAP HANA, increasing performance by 400% and giving them freedom to grow without physical limitations. Read how in this paper.

According to this global survey, in three years more than half of all IT services will be delivered via private, public and hybrid clouds. This study highlights the challenges faced by IT organizations as they move into a new role as “cloud brokers” and how a common data platform can help enable seamless data management across multiple clouds.

The ideal customer experience is everything today, and it starts with a modern digital foundation. You can’t give customers the timely and relevant experiences they expect with outdated solutions that are cobbled together. Read The Blueprint Redefined to see how a modern digital foundation can get you there. You’ll learn: • How a unified platform lets you easily manage and refine customer experiences • Three steps to deliver great digital experiences on all devices • The roles of personalization, analytics, and asset management

The ideal customer experience is everything today, and it starts with a modern digital foundation. You can’t give customers the timely and relevant experiences they expect with outdated solutions that are cobbled together. Read The Blueprint Redefined to see how a modern digital foundation can get you there. You’ll learn: How a unified platform lets you easily manage and refine customer experiences Three steps to deliver great digital experiences on all devices The roles of personalization, analytics, and asset management

The ideal customer experience is everything today, and it starts with a modern digital foundation. You can’t give customers the timely and relevant experiences they expect with outdated solutions that are cobbled together. Read The Blueprint Redefined to see how a modern digital foundation can get you there. You’ll learn: •How a unified platform lets you easily manage and refine customer experiences •Three steps to deliver great digital experiences on all devices •The roles of personalization, analytics, and asset management

The new world order of media and advertising demands that brands experiment and search for new ways to drive consumer engagement. As marketing and media strategy becomes ever more important, brands must look for ways to optimize paid, owned and earned media. Paid media is everything that you spend advertising dollars on such as TV, radio, print, digital advertising, and sponsorships. Owned media includes your website and other “owned” assets, and earned media is defined by the social amplification and interaction you “earn” through active participation with your customers. How do you create the perfect “owned media” experience for your customers, and what is the right formula for paid media to maximize your earned media opportunity? Download now to find out!

The EMC IsilonSD product family combines the power of Isilon scale-out NAS with the economy of software-defined storage. IsilonSD Edge is purpose built to address the needs associated with growing unstructured data in enterprise edge location including remote and branch offices. Read the solution brief to find out more about the power of software-defined storage combined with EMC Isilon.

A modern data warehouse is designed to support rapid data growth and interactive analytics over a variety of relational, non-relational, and streaming data types leveraging a single, easy-to-use interface. It provides a common architectural platform for leveraging new big data technologies to existing data warehouse methods, thereby enabling organizations to derive deeper business insights. Key elements of a modern data warehouse: • Data ingestion: take advantage of relational, non-relational, and streaming data sources • Federated querying: ability to run a query across heterogeneous sources of data • Data consumption: support numerous types of analysis - ad-hoc exploration, predefined reporting/dashboards, predictive and advanced analytics

Modernize application networking with Citrix NetScaler and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

A recent study by Engineering.com indicated there is a significant gap between how Industrial Equipment Manufacturing companies value specific aspects of their project execution and how they judge their performance. In order to address the challenging aspects of product development projects, it was determined that projects with a web-based Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution will perform higher. Learn how PLM solutions with embedded project management can uniquely provide the following operational best practices: • Full alignment between projects and the product portfolio in order to leverage common technology platforms and launch products to market faster • Coordination of a project’s schedule and resources, with its scope as defined by requirements and development constraints, in order to meet market expectations • Automatic project task updates as development work is completed to provide a real-time understanding of project status and progress

Creating competitive advantage starts with a sound digital strategy. In a 2017 survey of healthcare consumers across the U.S. from a representative range of demographic groups, we found that 88% of consumers begin their search for healthcare providers online. Consumers rely on search engines and review sites to steer their decisions about where to go for care. What consumers read about you online heavily influences their decision-making. Your reputation is defined at every touchpoint a potential patient has with your doctors and organization on the web — from the doctor or location listing, to patient rating and reviews, to finding the right doctor and reading profiles on your website. Done well, online reputation management (ORM) enables your providers to generate a high volume of representative reviews from the “silent majority,” while providing valuable insights to improve patient experience, make operational improvements and drive new patient appointments.

Modernizing the Distributed Enterprise Network Your company is only as agile, connected and secure as its networks are. But making changes to your networks can feel risky, since improving security often means harming connectivity and vice versa. Even still, if your networking approach is inconsistent or labor intensive, it’s probably time for a change. Modernizing the Distributed Enterprise Network investigates how Forcepoint NGFW is changing the status quo and enabling digital transformation efforts: Read Modernizing the Distributed Enterprise Network and take the first step toward true network efficiency.