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  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Exam Guide

    The AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification is an industry‑recognized professional certification that validates one’s knowledge in the design and deployment of distributed applications in AWS Cloud. Having the certification can be a unique opportunity to grow your career, boost your resume, highlight in‑demand skills and generally become more competitive.

  • How to Deliver a Reliable and Secure Digital Customer Experience

    This guide will show you how to resolve points of friction, identify opportunities for greater customer satisfaction and strengthen your bottom line with an exceptional digital customer journey that protects your users — and their data — in real time.

  • Global SRE Pulse 2022 - The State of SRE Infographic

    With many questions and not enough available research available, the DevOps institute conducted a survey of over 460 SRE leaders and practitioners. Their findings are available in a comprehensive report on the state of SRE adoption, deployment and automation that you can download.

  • Global SRE Pulse 2022 - The State of SRE Adoption, Deployment and Automation

    This report is the first-ever Global SRE Pulse, investigating the current state of SRE in 2022. Participants included leaders and practitioners from both midsize and large enterprises. The findings show that the SRE operating model is well established, even as it’s leveraged to varying degrees across organizations. Learn more.

  • Best Practices to Scale Automation for Secure and Reliable Applications

    Cloud-native apps are transforming our lives. For businesses, these apps comprise the core of digital transformation initiatives. Read up on Sumo Logic’s best practices to make automation work for you.

  • Forrester Total Economic Impact of KnowBe4

    KnowBe4 commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic ImpactTM study examining the potential Return on Investment (ROI) enterprises might realize by deploying KnowBe4's Security Awareness Training & Simulated Phishing and PhishER platforms.

  • Report: Phishing By Industry Benchmarking

    Find out how you are doing compared to your peers of similar size. As a security leader, you’re faced with a tough choice. Even as you increase your budget for sophisticated security software, your exposure to cybercrime keeps going up! IT security seems to be a race between effective technology and clever attack methods. However, there’s an often overlooked security layer that can significantly reduce your organization’s attack surface: New-school security awareness training.

  • How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

    One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates. We’ll walk you through how intent data can elevate your marketing operation.

  • 7 Best Practices to Accelerate Your Sales Process

    Sales teams are already overwhelmed with inbound calls, outbound prospecting, and scheduling demos. With any added acceleration, chaos is inevitable. That’s why it’s time to take the wheel with sales processes. But the sales cycle isn’t just a one-man job. It’s a team effort — and sales acceleration can only work when these processes are organized.

  • 16 Go-To-Market Plays for Your Entire Sales Funnel

    Nurturing leads through your sales funnel is a daunting task for many business development teams, especially at the scale required to achieve lofty growth goals. Personalized prospecting is possible at scale, with the right resources in place. At ZoomInfo, we’ve found that a rock-solid go-to-market playbook is key. That’s why we’ve gathered some of the best go-to-market plays from our own B2B sales and marketing pros and packaged them here for you.

  • 4 Data-Driven Steps To Drive Successful B2B Demand Generation

    to make an impact — fast. That’s where your data comes in. In demand generation, data is essential for knowing who you should target and how. In this eBook, you’ll learn how to identify and target your ideal prospects — when they’re most receptive to hearing your message — using different types of data.

  • 7 Ways to Supercharge Your ABM Strategy with Real-Time Intent

    Streaming real-time intent is a homerun for marketing and sales’ account-based marketing (ABM) strategies—the ultimate competitive advantage. With the help of the fastest, most frictionless way to target strategic accounts with in-the-moment behavioral data, marketers can reach prospects at the very beginning of their buyer’s journey. Even before they’ve engaged with any sales or marketing channels.

  • How to solve the top four IT Ops challenges

    Today’s IT Operations managers must drive greater efficiencies to optimize time and resources. How do you manage more with less? You have more apps and more service accounts, and more and more users, but you have less time, fewer people and a shrinking budget; you have more regulations and policies, but less compliance-minded decision makers. You have more contractors and third parties with connections to your infrastructure but less control over access policies and processes for each resource. Until now. Learn how to solve the top four IT Ops challenges with highly effective Azure AD/AD management solutions in this solutions brief.

  • DCIG Report - Choosing the Best Cloud Storage for Data Protection

    This paper reviews a wide range of cloud storage options and discusses best practices and important considerations.

  • Slash Cloud Backup Costs with Quest® QoreStor®

    This paper explains how you can significantly lower cloud object storage requirements and cost for data protection. With the right practices, and technology like Quest QoreStor in place, you can take advantage of object storage in the cloud to lower the overall cost of data protection.

  • Using SharePlex to Accelerate Kafka Streaming

    Organizations demand real-time analytics in order to make the best decisions for their business. They want data streamed from data sources such as IoT devices, online transactions and log files, which can only be gathered using modern data architecture that supports real-time ingestion, allows faster work speeds and enables the freshest data to be shared among multiple teams.

  • Why Windows 10 IoT Enterprise

    Windows 10 IoT Enterprise has the best set of technical and business attributes for your intelligent edge devices.

  • Windows IoT for Healthcare

    Join Jeff Trager, Microsoft IoT/Embedded Software Licensing Specialist and Bob King, Solutions Architect for Microsoft IoT & Server to learn how windows for IoT harnesses the power of windows and the cloud to help organizations do more at the edge with smarter devices with long term serviceability. Learn more!

  • Windows 10 IoT Enterprise

    An IoT OS is designed to perform within the constraints that are particular to Internet of Things devices, including restrictions on memory, size, power and processing capacity.

  • Technical Insights: 3 Strategies for Avoiding Windows IoT Key Theft

    Advantech provides complete IoT solutions to customers who integrate Advantech hardware and software for distribution. We offer a ready-to-use embedded OS image. It provides a complete set of components that enable rapid prototyping and application development. With Advantech’s technical support, we can ensure connectivity and device compatibility.