Building and maintaining effective cloud computing infrastructures

June 13, 2018

Cloud computing holds great promise as the next leap in efficiency for enterprise computing. Primarily enabled by server, storage, and network virtualization, cloud computing allows businesses to dynamically allocate and assign computing resources from across the company’s assets to where the resources are most needed. This practice promises to cut hardware and software acquisition costs significantly and can have a tremendous savings in energy expenditures as well. With cloud computing, users access data and applications as they always have – but these data and applications may reside anywhere within the company’s cloud.

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Shorouk GTUG

Google Technology User Groups (GTUGs) are user groups for people who are interested in Google's developer technology; everything from the Android and App Engine platforms, to product APIs like the YouTube API and the Google Calendar API, to initiatives like OpenSocial.

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Bringing companies on-chain

whitePaper | January 2, 2023

Brickken is creating a dApp (decentralized application) which provides the infrastructure needed for companies to bring their assets on-chain and self-fund themselves via Security Token Offerings, and for DAOs to be able to operate in a legally compliant environment. Our goal is to bridge offline to online, and web2 to web3 to prepare the world for a new fully tokenized reality.

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VMware Workspace ONE Design Handbook

whitePaper | March 22, 2022

Smartphones and mobile device management (MDM) tools such as VMware Workspace ONE® (formerly AirWatch) changed everything when it comes to end-user computing, and more specifically, how companies interact with their customers. With widespread adoption of intelligent mobile devices in the early 2010s, consumers’ preferences changed forever. More specifically, iPhone and Android devices provided a platform to streamline everyday tasks like never before.

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4 Reasons Why Managed SD-WAN is a Smarter Network Strategy

whitePaper | April 15, 2021

Managed SD-WAN has revolutionized the information technology space by moving data more efficiently, while allowing for the opportunity to access multiple service providers at a single location as well as across a regional or national footprint. Combining a SD-WAN solution with a Managed Service Provider brings high-level networking experience and technology together to meet your networking needs.

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Software-Defined Data Center – infrastructure for enterprise digital transformation

whitePaper | November 14, 2022

Over the years the trend toward virtualization revolutionized data centers, but it did not change the hardwarecentric architecture that still serves as the basis for most data centers today. This could radically change in light of the latest software-defined approaches. Strategy, organization, technology: This white paper serves as a source of orientation for IT managers confronted with software-defined data center concepts.

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How Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Can Help Your Business Survive the Pandemic—And Prevailin the Future

whitePaper | December 6, 2022

Growing demand for remote working solutions in light of the pandemic is bolstering the case for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) adoption. In this white paper, we discuss why VDI is best suited for today’s business environments, especially since remote work is poised to play a big role both now and in the “new normal” of a post-COVID-19 world. We discuss VDI’s main advantages, its shortcomings and what can be done to address them.

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Zero Trust Maturity Model

whitePaper | June 13, 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) leads the nation’s effort to understand, manage, and reduce cybersecurity risk, including by supporting Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies in evolving and operationalizing cybersecurity programs and capabilities. CISA’s Zero Trust Maturity Model (ZTMM) provides an approach to achieve continued modernization efforts related to zero trust within a rapidly evolving environment and technology landscape. This ZTMM is one of many paths that an organization can take in designing and implementing their transition plan to zero trust architectures in accordance with Executive Order (EO) 14028 “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity” § (3)(b)(ii),1 which requires that agencies develop a plan to implement a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA). While the ZTMM is specifically tailored for federal agencies as required by EO 14028, all organizations should review and consider adoption of the approaches outlined in this document.

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Google Technology User Groups (GTUGs) are user groups for people who are interested in Google's developer technology; everything from the Android and App Engine platforms, to product APIs like the YouTube API and the Google Calendar API, to initiatives like OpenSocial.

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