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By next year over half of all US companies will formally support BYOD, bringing on the challenge of securing data and applications on devices that may often be in the hands malicious users, or worse – teenagers looking to win a game of Pokémon Go with mom’s work iPhone. And, thanks to the consumerization of IT, mobile users increasingly expect the same smooth user experience with business applications that is provided by popular games and consumer applications. Fortunately, increased mobility and the bring your own device explosion don’t always add up to increased security challenges and UI/UX struggles.

This Tech Byte series will look at the most important considerations when planning a mobile strategy – from application development platform to security and governance to user interface guidelines, and present best practices that businesses of all kinds can use to help ensure a successful shift towards a mobile-first enterprise.

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Organizations of all kinds need data scientists. Accordingly, as part of its commitment to data science, IBM is making available technology, almost 10 years in incubation, designed to help organizations apply machine learning through Apache Spark. Doing so can bring significant benefits to the analytics industry as companies increasingly make space for machine learning in the enterprise.

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Do you want to do Hadoop in the cloud? Explore the The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions, Q2 2016 report to understand how to evaluate Hadoop cloud solution vendors across 37-criteria.

The report explains the benefits for Hadoop cloud deployments including economizing the analysis of more data using cheaper infrastructure, enabling faster advanced analytics, scaling to unlimited resources in minutes, providing a self-service analytics platform, and simplifying big data deployment. Come away armed with how to evaluate IBM BigInsights on Cloud and other vendors across several dimensions including current offering, strategy and market presence. The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions, Q2 2016 report details how elasticity, automation and pay-as-you-go features are driving enterprise adoption of Hadoop in the cloud.

IBM differentiates BigInsights with end-to-end advanced analytics, and also has among the highest scores in the Cloud Platform Integration, data security, data management, partnerships and solution configuration criteria. Learn more about how to get started with Hadoop in the cloud with IBM.

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This tutorial describes how data scientists and developers can build an application to predict flight delays. The app uses machine learning (Spark MLlib), fueled by publicly available airplane flight data and enriched with weather data, to predict flight delays due to weather conditions. In the event that a delay is likely, the app can also help determine the degree to which the flight will be delayed. To build the app, you will learn how to use a Get-Build-Analyze methodology and the IBM® Analytics for Apache® Spark™ service, which includes an interactive Jupyter Notebook. Learn how to:

• Collect data from various sources, including weather and flight patterns.
• Build the data collected, and test a predictive model.
• Analyze the data for business advantage, and quantify the impact of weather on flight delays.

Get started building this flight prediction application, and gain inspiration for your next data science projects.

By next year over half of all US companies will formally support BYOD, bringing on the challenge of securing data and applications on devices that may often be in the hands malicious users, or worse – teenagers looking to win a game of Pokémon Go with mom’s work iPhone. And, thanks to the consumerization of IT, mobile users increasingly expect the same smooth user experience with business applications that is provided by popular games and consumer applications.

Fortunately, increased mobility and the bring your own device explosion don’t always add up to increased security challenges and UI/UX struggles. This Tech Byte series will look at the most important considerations when planning a mobile strategy – from application development platform to security and governance to user interface guidelines, and present best practices that businesses of all kinds can use to help ensure a successful shift towards a mobile-first enterprise.

By next year over half of all US companies will formally support BYOD, bringing on the challenge of securing data and applications on devices that may often be in the hands malicious users, or worse – teenagers looking to win a game of Pokémon Go with mom’s work iPhone. And, thanks to the consumerization of IT, mobile users increasingly expect the same smooth user experience with business applications that is provided by popular games and consumer applications.

Fortunately, increased mobility and the bring your own device explosion don’t always add up to increased security challenges and UI/UX struggles. This Tech Byte series will look at the most important considerations when planning a mobile strategy – from application development platform to security and governance to user interface guidelines, and present best practices that businesses of all kinds can use to help ensure a successful shift towards a mobile-first enterprise.

In this study, IDC found that companies are achieving significant value through their investment in IBM Networking Services and that they will earn an average return on investment (ROI) of 322% over five years.

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An IBM infographic highlighting the drivers behind software defined networking (SDN), the advantages for business and the importance of enterprise readiness.

It is becoming increasingly difficult for caseworkers and care providers to ensure healthy and productive lifestyles for individuals and families. The combination of assessing individual risk and aligning programming helps promote satisfying, productive family environments; adjust or reinforce positive individual behavior; aid in overcoming trauma and reduce or avoid risk. As a result, there is a pressing need for solutions to assess specifically what services are required at a given time for an individual or family. But by using predictive analytics technology, combining best practices in risk assessment with best-in-class analytic tools to better assess risk and determine near real-time outcome pathways, Human Outcome Analytics help practitioners provide the quality care families and individuals need.

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Government revenue management agencies are using computer technology to capture and harvest data and extract value from it. This paper explains the importance of being data-driven and outlines a way forward in the journey of getting there.

In this exclusive report, Nucleus Research cites findings from interviews with IBM QRadar on Cloud customers who have adopted a cloud subscription model to access security intelligence & analytics capabilities. Download the report to read about the reported benefits, including better flexibility and agility to address a rapidly changing threat environment, increased IT productivity and access to a growing range of additional security services in the cloud.

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Learn how modern BI platform blend the best of both top-down and bottom-up BI in a governed discovery environment tailoring self-service capabilities to business users based on their skills, roles and responsibilities.

The pace of business continues to accelerate, with customers expecting new and better application services delivered quickly. IBM®PureApplication® Software on VersaStack™ allows organizations to easily develop and deliver applications faster. Weeks of manual effort, documentation and ongoing maintenance are replaced by less than a few hours to deploy IBM recommended highly available golden topology in a repeatable fashion.

Read this IBM Solutions Brief to find out how PureApplication Software:

• Simplifies and accelerates application delivery with VersaStack
• Provides the fastest and simplest way to deploy enterprise applications and middleware onto cloud environments
• Provides workload deployment and cloud management capabilities on new or existing VersaStack deployments

Enterprise IT departments strive to contribute to the competitiveness of the business organization, developing and deploying innovative applications that can help benefit the bottom line and drive top-line growth. Too often, however, IT managers find themselves unable to develop and deploy applications with the agility they would like. The skills needed to quickly design, test, configure and integrate applications into complex IT environments can be difficult to find, and expert IT staff can quickly become overwhelmed by demand. Virtualization technology has helped drive efficiency improvements through consolidation of workloads and to a lesser extent through the management of systems and workloads. Now virtual application patterns from IBM take these capabilities a significant step further. This paper shows how IT organizations can use patterns of expertise provided by virtual application patterns to speed deployments, reduce the risk of error, and help simplify and automate tasks across the management and maintenance life cycle.

If you’re an executive responsible for delivering line-of business solutions to market, then you understand the challenges. Whether they take the form of code delays due to API creation, deployment bottlenecks, or challenges around rapid scaling to meet demand, all the weight is on your shoulders.

Fortunately, there are solutions that can help. In this white paper you’ll:

• Learn about managing “two-speed IT” and how you can use DevOps strategies to help your developers get far more rapid-turnaround through continuous test and deployment
• Explore how you can build apps that meet your customers’ needs quickly using “right-fit runtime,” and how you can define and develop APIs with tools to help you manage API traffic and security
• Discover how your operations teams can reduce their workload, increase their productivity, and boost user satisfaction through the power of patterns and self-service IT.