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11 Rules for Building Apps in the Cloud If your goal is to leverage cloud environments as an additional avenue to deliver your software, the best practices described in this article demonstrate how to design your applications to achieve a successful cloud-based deployment model. Learn how to provision and safeguard your virtual machines and storage, multi-tenancy in your applications and middleware to help deliver your applications. View this resource now The #1 Reason Marketing Campaigns Fail Ultimately, even with the finest marketing organizations, the success of marketing comes down to the data. Surrounding the data and storage application are people, processes, standards, and technologies used to manage that data. This white paper, focuses on these concepts as they pertain to marketing, and particularly as they are supported by data quality functions inside of the broader EIM framework. View this resource now Renewing Security Tokens: 5 Things You Didn't Know When it comes to IT security, it is easy to simply stick with what you know. However, the threat landscape and the needs of your users are rapidly changing, and technology must evolve even more quickly to stay ahead of them. This paper addresses five critical factors all IT buyers should consider before renewing or extending their security token implementation and presents phone-based authentication as not only a more secure, but also a cost-effective and user friendly alternative. Don't make a vital mistake by overpaying for outdated authentication technology. View this resource now Top Resources of the Week 7 Standards Every Cloud Computing Platform Should Follow The technology industry has changed dramatically over the last 10 years. In economic times like these, leading companies are looking to cloud-computing platforms to deliver business functions ranging from packaged business applications to custom application development at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional on-premises platforms. With this growth in enterprise use of cloud-computing comes a corresponding increase in responsibility on the part of vendors to provide cloud-computing platforms that offer outstanding service delivery. This paper outlines best practices for selecting cloud-computing solutions. READ MORE >>> 10 Simple Steps to Eliminating Document Chaos During contract negotiations, people waste considerable time searching for the most up to date document containing the latest revision...and working with old revisions by mistake can have dire consequences. This e-book includes step-by-step guidelines for streamlining contract negotiations and best practices for exchanging contract documents using SharePoint. READ MORE >>> UC Explained: A Buyer's Checklist Unified Communications solutions offer organizations of all sizes a tremendous opportunity to reduce communication costs, enhance productivity, and increase employee mobility. But at the same time, UC solutions are significant, long-term investments that should be considered carefully. Asking the right questions is essential for selecting the solution that can best meet your business goals and IT requirements. READ MORE >>> Balancing Performance, Availability, Capacity, Energy for Long-term Data Protection and Retention Tape remains the most cost effective, energy efficient and reliable program technology for storing large amounts of inactive, off-line or near-line data while complimenting disk-based data protection and retention solutions. Keep in mind that you cannot go forward if you cannot go back: as a business, in order to provide sustainably, being able to go back in time and access preserved and protected data insures business sustainability. READ MORE >>> eNewsletter Information To avoid any problems with your newsletter delivery, please add newsletters@response.webbuyersguide.com to your address book. Sign up for complimentary subscriptions to eWEEK, CIO Insight and Baseline magazines and receive a 360° view of today's technology arena. eWEEK gives you expert products reviews that helps you choose the best technologies. CIO Insight provides a high-level look at technologies and processes. And Baseline takes you to the front lines, with in-depth case studies. Subscribe today! If you no longer wish to receive The Best Of Web Buyer's Guide, unsubscribe here. Click here to Update Your Email Preferences Copyright © 2011 Ziff Davis Enterprise. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis Enterprise, 28 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016 Privacy Policy