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Most organizations face challenges when implementing a configuration management capability. In this book, you will learn basics of configuration management, how to build and maintain an effective configuration management capability for your organization, use cases, and key milestones on your journey.

Machine Learning For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, gives you insights into what machine learning is all about and how it can impact the way you can weaponize data to gain unimaginable insights. Your data is only as good as what you do with it and how you manage it. In this book, you discover types of machine learning techniques, models, and algorithms that can help achieve results for your company. This information helps both business and technical leaders learn how to apply machine learning to anticipate and predict the future. You will find topics like: - What is machine learning? - Explaining the business imperative - The key machine learning algorithms - Skills for your data science team - How businesses are using machine learning - The future of machine learning

The increase in sophisticated, targeted security threats by both external attackers and malicious insiders have made it extremely difficult for organizations to properly protect critical and sensitive information. The task of protecting these assets has only grown harder as IT environments have become more complex and widely distributed across geographic locations and in the cloud. Many recent high-profile breaches have one thing in common: They were accomplished through the compromise of passwords. In many cases, end-user passwords are initially hacked through various social engineering techniques. Then permissions are escalated to gain access to more privileged accounts — the keys to the kingdom. This unauthorized access can easily go undetected for weeks or even months, allowing hackers to see and steal information at their convenience. Unfortunately, many IT users lack a full understanding of how privileged accounts function, as well as the risks associated with their compromise an

Keep Your Organization Up to Speed As your organization expands, you need a resilient, fast, and secure network — balancing all three is no easy task. A software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) provides a competitive advantage over traditional service provider options and "hub and spoke" architectures. This is where a software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) comes to the rescue. And deploying it today can provide a quantifiable competitive advantage. Gartner estimates SD-WAN has less than 5% market share today, but predicts 25% of users will manage their WAN through software within two years. "Secure Enterprise SD-WAN for Dummies" guides you step-by-step how to manage and secure digital networks with SD-WAN, with instructions even the most novice networking professional can understand. Read “Secure Enterprise SD-WAN for Dummies” and gain a competitive edge today!

Keep Your Organization Up to Speed As your organization expands, you need a resilient, fast, and secure network — balancing all three is no easy task. A software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) provides a competitive advantage over traditional service provider options and "hub and spoke" architectures. This is where a software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) comes to the rescue. And deploying it today can provide a quantifiable competitive advantage. Gartner estimates SD-WAN has less than 5% market share today, but predicts 25% of users will manage their WAN through software within two years. "Secure Enterprise SD-WAN for Dummies" guides you step-by-step how to manage and secure digital networks with SD-WAN, with instructions even the most novice networking professional can understand. Read “Secure Enterprise SD-WAN for Dummies” and gain a competitive edge today!

ODM is the evolution of business rules management. It provides a complete, easy-to-use system for automating day-today operational decisions and allows businesspeople and IT to collaborate on business rules by using an interface and a language that are comfortable and intuitive for both. ODM not only allows you to automate your business rules, but also it enables you to apply insights and analytics to operational decisions by bringing together data from different sources and looking at historical trends and patterns to determine the next best action. It ensures that you’re making the right decisions at the right time, when it can make a difference. What can this mean for your business? Adopting operational decision management can: • Improve customer centricity (acquisition and retention) by engaging individuals at the right time with the right offers

This book helps you understand both sides of the hybrid IT equation and how HPE can help your organization transform its IT operations and save time and money in the process. I delve into the worlds of security, economics, and operations to show you new ways to support your business workloads.

Most companies moving into the public cloud today are making strategic decisions about which applications should go to the cloud and which should stay on-premises. Get acquainted with hybrid cloud management strategies and solutions, and learn what critical components must be addressed as you plan your hybrid cloud environment.

Accelerate Digital Transformation. Make data center infrastructure cloud-ready. Optimize storage across clouds and data centers.

The new Multicloud Storage for Dummies consists of five short chapters that explore the following: - How the multicloud storage model aligns with modern business and IT initiatives - Common barriers to cloud adoption and how a multicloud storage model addresses them - How to build a multicloud data center - What to look for in multicloud storage services - Real-world multicloud use cases

Powerful IT doesn’t have to be complicated. Hyperconvergence puts your entire virtualized infrastructure and advanced data services into one integrated powerhouse. Deploy HCI on an intelligent fabric that can scale with your business and you can hyperconverge the entire IT stack. This guide will help you: Understand the basic tenets of hyperconvergence and the software-defined data center; Solve for common virtualization roadblocks; Identify 3 things modern organizations want from IT; Apply 7 hyperconverged tactics to your existing infrastructure now.

Accelerate Digital Transformation. Make data center infrastructure cloud-ready. Optimize storage across clouds and data centers.

We’re in the era of hybrid cloud, an integrated combination of public and private cloud environments. Most organizations moving into the public cloud today are making strategic decisions about which applications should go to the cloud and which should stay on-premises. Get acquainted with hybrid cloud management strategies and solutions, and learn what critical components must be addressed as you plan your hybrid cloud environment.

What is HPE Synergy and why should you care? Read this beginner’s guide on the world’s first composable infrastructure. It future-proofs your data center, accelerates application delivery in traditional and new environments and simplifies hybrid IT.

Big data and analytics is a rapidly expanding field of information technology. Big data incorporates technologies and practices designed to support the collection, storage, and management of a wide variety of data types that are produced at ever increasing rates. Analytics combine statistics, machine learning, and data preprocessing in order to extract valuable information and insights from big data.

Cisco designs and sells broad lines of products, provides services, and delivers integrated solutions to develop and connect networks around the world, building the internet. As a global market leader in our industry, we help our customers connect, digitize, and thrive. Together, we change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns.

This book helps you understand both sides of the hybrid IT equation and how HPE can help your organization transform its IT operations and save time and money in the process. I delve into the worlds of security, economics, and operations to show you new ways to support your business workloads.

Multicloud Storage for Dummies consists of five short chapters that explore the following: - How the multicloud storage model aligns with modern business and IT initiatives - Common barriers to cloud adoption and how a multicloud storage model addresses them - How to build a multicloud data center - What to look for in multicloud storage services - Real-world multicloud use cases

"Now there’s an innovative new way to move enterprise applications to the public cloud while actually reducing risks and trade?offs. It’s called multicloud storage, and it’s an insanely simple, reliable, secure way to deploy your enterprise apps in the cloud and also move them between clouds and on? premises infrastructure, with no vendor lock?in. Multicloud storage allows you to simplify your infrastructure, meet your service?level agreements, and save a bundle."

How can your business support new identity-defined workspaces across a variety of users — retail store associates checking inventory on a PC and a smartphone, hospital clinicians entering test results into a mobile workstation and an iPad, or financial advisors placing trades from Android devices and laptops? The answer is the digital workspace.

"Multicloud Storage for Dummies consists of five short chapters that explore the following: - How the multicloud storage model aligns with modern business and IT initiatives - Common barriers to cloud adoption and how a multicloud storage model addresses them - How to build a multicloud data center - What to look for in multicloud storage services - Real-world multicloud use cases

Security Delivery Platforms for Dummies introduces IT professionals to a class of technology that transforms how security and monitoring tools are deployed on the network to provide pervasive visibility. Learn how to detect threats faster by removing network blind spots, see what matters across the global enterprise and optimize your security tools’ performance and efficacy. If you’re responsible for protecting a corporate network or managing the deployment of security tools, this book is for you!

To stay ahead in today's hybrid network, you need a lens into the end user's experience as well as an understanding of the dependencies between your applications and network. With this approach, you are alerted to issues before the business is impacted and problems are resolved faster. This eBook details what you need to know to select a best of breed network performance management solution and outlines the critical capabilities required for deep application visibility across virtualized, hybrid and cloud networks no matter where a user is located. Read this book and: Discover best practices - for proactive network monitoring and fast troubleshooting Learn how to stay ahead of application performance issues with increased visibility Increase productivity and a higher ROI - with automatic discovery, end-to-end monitoring, reporting, analytics and faster MTTR Ensure your approach is a proactive mode Study the

Traditionelle Backup-Systeme können den Anforderungen moderner Unternehmen nicht nachkommen, weil sie auf die Datensicherung (Backup) und nicht auf die Wiederherstellung (Recovery) ausgerichtet sind. Sie behandeln Datenbanken als generische Dateien, die kopiert werden müssen, und nicht als transaktionale Workloads mit spezifischen Anforderungen in Bezug auf die Datenintegrität, Konsistenz, Leistung und Verfügbarkeit.

T raditional backup systems fail to meet the needs of modern organizations by focusing on backup, not recovery. They treat databases as generic files to be copied, rather than as transactional workloads with specific data integrity, consistency, performance, and availability requirements. Additionally, highly regulated industries, such as financial services, are subject to ever?increasing regulatory mandates that require stringent protection against data breaches, data loss, malware, ransomware, and other risks. These risks require fiduciary?class data recovery to eliminate data loss exposure and ensure data integrity and compliance. This book explains modern database protection and recovery challenges (Chapter 1), the important aspects of a database protection and recovery solution (Chapter 2), Oracle’s database protection and recovery solutions (Chapter 3), and key reasons to choose Oracle for your database protection and recovery needs (Chapter 4).