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Getting Off the Data Treadmill: New Strategies for Hybrid Cloud

In today’s age of Cloud, Big Data and social marketing, businesses are inundated with ever-growing amounts of data. Cost, performance, growth and complexity all add to the risk of data loss, data failure or even migration from one platform to another. This IT Managers Journal offers guidance from data experts and features resources that can help ease the data dilemma.
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IBM MobileFirst Platform Developer Edition

IBM Worklight Developer Edition V6.2 is a collection of three self-contained, easy-to-install development tools:

1) Worklight Studio
Use this Eclipse plugin to quickly build, run, and manage mobile web, hybrid, and native apps.

2) Command Line Interface
As an alternative to the Worklight Studio plugin, you can create and manage native and hybrid apps using your own preferred environments for editing and continuous integration.

3) Mobile Test Workbench
If you have Worklight Studio installed, you can automate the functional testing of Android and iOS apps built with Worklight Studio.

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Good Apps, Bad Apps – The ROI of Creating Exceptional Mobile Moments

Since smartphones launched in 2007, their number has surpassed the 1.5 billion mark — equivalent to nearly one-quarter of the world’s population. The convenience and control afforded by the smartphone and its cousin, the tablet, have changed what we expect and want in mobile: experiences driven by our individual context that delight us as employees and consumers. Forrester calls this the “mobile mind shift.” Successful applications build relationships with customers, while unsuccessful applications waste resources and turn customers away. It has never been more critical for companies to get it right the first time. Download this paper to learn about the key findings from Forrester's August 2014 mobile app study.
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Mobilize your Corporate Content and Apps

In this white paper, you will learn how to:

- Enable secure mobile access to corporate data without an on-device VPN
- Mobilixe SharePoint, Windows File Share and al your intranet sites
- Protect sensitive corporate data with robust security polices and DLP controls
- Provide mobile access without requiring changes to your network or firewall security configuration
- Allow users to collaborate at anytime, anywhere, from their personal devices

Read on to learn more about how you can give your employees access to resources behind the firewall while securing your data with authorization, encryption and containerization policies.

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Transforming How We Deliver Value: Agility at Scale

Continuous delivery in software development allows us to deliver incrementally, get quick feedback, and react. A key enabler is the adoption of agile techniques and methods; key inhibitors in the enterprise are size, scale, and complexity. Now we must coordinate work across multiple interdependent teams to deliver value, rather than focusing on developing a single product or application. Amy Silberbauer shares her experience of adapting SAFe in an enterprise organization and describes the struggles, mistakes, and successes throughout that process. Learn how to avoid some common pitfalls as you and your own organization embark on this same transformation.
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Five vital steps for successful software delivery in a chaotic world

Delivering applications that meet the needs of the business can be a challenge in a complex business climate that is constantly changing. In this complex environment, what practices should you have in place? Watch this on-demand TechBytes webcast and learn more about five vital steps that can help you yield better business results.
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Leaner software development using DevOps

Reduce cycle times and eliminate waste with Rational software. Inspired by lean software development principles, this TechBytes session focuses on various ways to help you notice and remove waste in your process and your time, all while improving time to feedback.
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Software Defined Storage for Dummies

This book examines data storage and management challenges and explains software-defined storage, an innovative solution for high-performance, cost-effective storage using the IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS).
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IBM DB2 for SAP: A No-Compromise Transactional and Analytic Database Platform

This white paper is written for SAP customers evaluating their infrastructure choices, discussing database technology evolution and options available. It is not easy to put forth a black-and-white choice as the SAP workloads straddle both real-time analytics and extreme transaction processing, and infrastructure choices can now be vast, given technology advancements around in-memory and faster processing speeds.
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The IBM Power Scale-out Advantage

RFG examines the cost and architectural strengths of IBM’s latest Power Systems scale-out solutions POWER8 against the leading Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge competitive platforms for open source and other Linux-based workloads.
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The Business Case for Using Unstructured Text Analytics on IBM Power Systems for Critical Decision Making

This article has three purposes: First, to explain the difference in how structured and unstructured data are used in decision making. Second, give examples of how companies realized business value using unstructured data. Third, provide guidance for how companies can realize similar business value using unstructured data, and why picking the right servers and software can make a difference.
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Gabriel Consulting: Linux is the System of Choice

The term ‘Big Data’ is hard to escape these days as more and more enterprises begin to build out their analytic infrastructures, and more and more vendors start to pitch products to fulfill these needs. Gabriel Consulting – BigInsights & Streams: Why Linux on is the System of Choice – explores the characteristics of analytics workloads and why infrastructure choice matters when deploying a big data solution. They also take a look at the suitability of IBM Linux on Power solutions for big data workloads.
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Demonstrating Watson Services on Bluemix: Watson Films App

In the final of three segments, Swami will show you a demonstration app called Watson Films. This application leverage multiple Watson services available today on Bluemix. Powered by a natural language processing system, Watson, this application is a fun demonstration of how Watson can interact with the user. Join us for the live demo of the application, but you can also read and play with the code here . Join us to see a Watson powered application in action and check out the Watson Services available today for any one on Bluemix.net
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