Free eGuide: 10 Things Your Team is Afraid to Tell You About Your DR Plan

"10 Things Your Team is Afraid to Tell You About Your DR Plan"

Learn what CIOs need to know about disaster recovery management.

You lead a top-notch IT team. The challenge is, they may not have the time, expertise, or support needed when it comes to building a truly comprehensive Disaster Recovery plan.

To avoid costly downtime, it is important to truly understand how your company addresses recovery management. This checklist reveals 10 truths about DR that IT teams are most likely reluctant to tell their CIOs, and provides you with questions you can use to ask your team about your recovery management strategy.

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Free eGuide: 12 Hiring Manager Secrets to Getting the IT Job You Want

"12 Hiring Manager Secrets to Getting the IT Job You Want"

Learn how you can make yourself a more attractive candidate now with PrepLogic's free 12 Hiring Manager Secrets to Getting the Job You Want.
Think about this the next time you're interviewing for a job. Your interviewer WANTS to hire you! Get into your hiring manager's head and understand what he/she really wants to know so they can take the next step and hire you. Learn how you can make yourself a more attractive candidate now with PrepLogic's free 12 Hiring Manager Secrets to Getting the Job You Want.

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Free eGuide: Cloud Computing - Latest Buzzword or a Glimpse of the Future?

"Cloud Computing - Latest Buzzword or a Glimpse of the Future?"

Explore the diversity of opinion on what cloud computing is, what it isn't, and whether it's a sea change or just another technology fad.

The chairman of the Cloud Summit Executive 2008 conference reportedly started the event by joking that he asked 20 people to define cloud computing, and got 22 different answers.

The term came into vogue a few years ago and has since generated its share of controversy. Here are some descriptions they found for cloud computing:
Something that will "profoundly change the way people work and companies operate." (The Economist)
"Reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users." (Wikipedia)
"The next step in the evolution of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology." (Knowledge@W.P. Carey, Arizona State University's online business publication)
"Industry-speak for just about anything tangentially related to the Internet." (Ben Worthen, The Wall Street Journal)
"We've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements." (Larry Ellison, Oracle)

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Free Guide: Choosing a Cloud Provider with Confidence

"Choosing a Cloud Provider with Confidence"

Cloud computing is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and the conversation around adopting cloud technology has progressed from “if” to “when”.

Although cloud services offer enormous economic benefits, they also pose significant potential risks for enterprises that must safeguard corporate information assets while also complying with industry and government regulations. Download this paper to better understand where and when to use cloud solutions and the ways in which SSL can help you conduct business in the cloud with confidence.

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Free eGuide: The Ultimate 'Should I Use Linux?' Checklist

"The Ultimate 'Should I Use Linux?' Checklist"

By downloading this free guide, you agree to receive regular updates on the latest cool apps, product reviews, and giveaways from MakeUseOf.

For those who aren’t sure how to evaluate the efficacy of Linux for themselves, we have created a simple guide that can walk you through the criteria you need to look at. Since you want an operating system to work for you without any issues, it’s safe to assume that any major issues that you find along the way are enough reason to choose not to use Linux. Get started and find out for yourself.

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Free Guide: Harnessing the BYOD Phenomenon - an IT Guide

"Harnessing the BYOD Phenomenon - an IT Guide"

Learn to identify the right approach for IT professionals to implement and manage BYOD.

For enterprises embracing BYOD to drive employee productivity and efficiency, corporate data security and employee privacy are primary considerations. As they ponder the problem from various angles, CIOs invariably must look at a single key question: ‘How can we find the right mix of what we need to implement BYOD quickly and manage it end-to-end, without introducing new IT processes to manage?’

Download this white paper to learn more!

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Free Video: Debugging PHP: Advanced Techniques

"Debugging PHP: Advanced Techniques"

Debug your PHP code efficiently with a variety of client and server-side tools.

In this concise course for experienced PHP developers, author Jon Peck demonstrates how to leverage PHP's built-in tools, as well as the Xdebug and Firebug extensions, and FirePHP libraries to improve the quality of your code and reduce troubleshooting overhead.

This course covers installation of Xdebug on Apache as well as working with the NetBeans IDE (Integrated Development Environment). Jon then introduces native web browser developer tools for Firefox and Chrome, and demonstrates browser independent web debugging tools. Best practices for debugging and profiling web application failures and performance issues are also covered.

Topics include:
Configuring PHP to report what went wrong
Profiling performance to find bottlenecks
Along with the free video training tutorials you will also receive monthly offers, tips, and insider information you won't hear elsewhere--including special discounts extended to newsletter subscribers.

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Free white paper: The Java Virtual Appliance-No OS Required

Learn how a new approach to Java virtualization can make your data center's hardware go farther—and run faster.

This free white paper reveals how a new Java virtualization approach can result in a streamlined "Java Virtual Appliance" that lets you leverage your current hardware for years—without the usual OS overhead. Learn why most servers run at only 10 percent of capacity; how virtualization saves an average of 23 percent on server space, power, and cooling; and how virtual middleware enhances speed, flexibility, and ROI. Download your free copy now.

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10 Network Security Tools and Tests Everyone Should Use- Free White Paper

Be the IT expert for yourself by using these tools to strengthen the security of your systems.

Whether you are operating a home system, overseeing a small startup, or performing security governance for an enterprise, everyone can benefit from paying attention to security. This paper provides a list of 10 security tools or tests that will help you check out suspicious issues and keep ahead of new risks and threats.

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Free White Paper: 6 Job Scheduling Tactics for Windows Server Sprawl

Companies run many of their mission-critical processes on a growing array of Windows servers these days. Instead of automating nightly batch streams on a mainframe, data centers are running processes on multiple Windows servers using built-in schedulers like the Windows Task Scheduler applet or Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.

Built-in schedulers often fall short when you need to include dependencies, the behavior of other applications, or the completion of business processes on other servers.

If your data center is starting to get out of control, it’s time to consider an enterprise scheduler, also known as workload automation.

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Microsoft Lync 2013 -- Free Quick Reference Card

This Microsoft Lync 2013 Reference Card offers the fundamentals, as well as tips for using the various applications within the operating system.

Use this reference to brush up on the basics and to find alternative methods to your favorite commands. This printable quick reference is yours to use, distribute, and share at your organization!

Along with this free reference card, you will also receive a 30-day trial of CustomGuide training, including over 7,000 Online Skills Assessments and Interactive Tutorials.

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A Guide to Password Use in WebSphere Application Server

"A Guide to Password Use in WebSphere Application Server"

Learn how passwords in the WebSphere Application Server work and discover recovery tips that are likely to be helpful.

Nearly every WebSphere administrator has desired a deeper understanding of how passwords are created, used, stored, and encrypted. Learn about the different types of passwords used inside of the WebSphere Application Server and the recovery plans to help restore your server when passwords go awry.

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Free Oracle Magazine

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Published bimonthly and distributed to more than 550,000 of the top IT managers, database administrators, and developers.

Oracle Magazine contains technology strategy articles, sample code, tips, Oracle and partner news, how to articles for developers and DBAs, and more. Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company.

For more information about Oracle, please visit their Web site at http://www.oracle.com. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Geographic Eligibility: USA, Mexico, Selected International

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Free Magazine: Profit Magazine

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Published quarterly, Profit: Technology Powered. Business Driven. is distributed to more than 110,000 executives, managers, and IT strategists who trust Oracle solutions to increase productivity, trim margins, improve operational efficiency, and grow the bottom line.

Through personal interviews and site visits, Profit writers and editors document the hard work behind enterprise IT and the innovative ways Oracle customers are transforming their businesses for the 21st century. As business and technology grow closer together, Profit's mission is to help members of the Oracle community stay current, learn from their peers, and stay ahead of the competition.

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The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014 - Report

"The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014"

This report offers Forrester Research's unbiased evaluation of enterprise social platform vendors.

The evaluation includes 13 solutions providers including Jive Software and was based on products generally available as of February 2014. There has been much vendor attrition since the last report—Jive is the only pure-play enterprise social vendor included in the evaluation. Download this report to learn more!

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Free Magazine: History of Cryptography

Title: History of Cryptography
Primary Category: IT - Security
Short Description: An easy to understand history of cryptography.
Long Description: This white paper presents a brief history of cryptography and how encryption-related technologies have evolved and will continue to evolve as well as the measures Internet users should consider when implementing modern encryptions.

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Free Guide: Build Your Agile Business - The Sourcebook: Agile at the Team Level

Title: Build Your Agile Business - The Sourcebook: Agile at the Team Level
Primary Category: Information Technology
Short Description: Learn new skills that will pay big dividends throughout your projects, teams and organization.
Long Description: The benefits of Agile are multi-dimensional. But the most important change is that it focuses the entire organization on meaningful delivery to the customer. Get your copy of the Agile Team Sourcebook. A guide to empowering teams to deliver valuable, fully–tested software increments every two weeks, it's packed with proven planning techniques, agendas, and real-world advice from experts and peers to help you quickly grasp and apply the principles of Agile.

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