Sponsor: IBM Corporation

Consolidating and Retiring Applications: Effective Management Can Reduce Costs and Modernize IT

Information, an essential asset in virtually all organizations, requires careful attention and robust processes to ensure it can reliably support business decision-making. Information arising from multiple sources must be integrated and governed to ensure it is a trusted source and in compliance with internal policies and external regulations and legislature. The process of the integration and governance of information provides a framework that incorporates acquisition, organization, control and use of information to create and enhance business value.
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Staging the deployment of private clouds with IBM SmartCloud Foundation

IBM is in a strong position to facilitate the deployment of private clouds. A key component of IBM’s cloud solutions is SmartCloud Foundation, an integrated set of technologies for deploying private and hybrid clouds. These hardware and software technologies are built on a common architecture, giving customers a smooth upgrade path as they advance along the maturity curve of deploying private clouds.
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The Big Data Mystique: Analytics for Every Business

Everyone has heard of Big Data. Business analytics offers companies of all types and sizes the opportunity to make decisions faster, get a leg up on the competition and even increase efficiency of their operations. But what are the stumbling blocks that users fear, and what gains are they expecting by implementing advanced analytics into the enterprise? This SlashGuide looks into those questions, which were posed in a Slashdot Media Pulse poll on Big Data Analytics conducted in August 2014. This resultant white paper provides a combination of IT practitioner and expert insights gathered from that survey.
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Becoming a Mobile Enterprise: Business Imperatives that Drive Mobile Strategy

More than ever, businesses today need to be responsive to changing conditions, act quickly on new business opportunities, and improve customer service. To accomplish these objectives, many organizations are turning to the benefits offered by increased mobility. However, taking a “mobile first” approach requires new thinking to address the challenges mobility can introduce. Specifically, it brings new platform, application development, access, data protection, and security challenges.

A recent survey of IT professionals conducted by Slashdot Media asked four key questions about businesses’ plans for mobility and the key factors when undertaking a mobile strategy. Register now to see the results of that survey.

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Evolving toward the next phase of Email

According to most corporate decision makers and influencers, email is the single most important application they have deployed! The typical user spends two hours per day working in the corporate email system and sends or receives a median of 130 emails.
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Improving Collaboration by Adding Social Capabilities to Email

This IDC Technology Spotlight paper takes a look at why Email remains the primary mode of communication in business today. While there is prevalent speculation that social software and other real-time communications applications will replace email, email nevertheless remains a stalwart in business operations. In addition, as relationships across all business communication channels continue to be redefined, innovative modes and methods of communication are emerging. As a result, locating the right data and information at the right time — while still critical — becomes increasingly complex. IDC expects that organizations will use social software, such as Notes and Domino 9x Social Edition, to complement existing tools and address these business needs for the foreseeable future.
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ROI Calculator for IBM Rational Developer for i

Estimate the return on investment you can expect with IBM® Rational® Developer for i. Rational Developer for i provides integrated development and debugging tools to help development teams create and maintain IBM i® applications on IBM Power Systems™. This software also enables you to simplify and accelerate code development and maintenance.
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The Evolution to Modern Development

Application development in the modern enterprise environment is growing increasingly complex and fast-paced. The Rational Developer for System z family of tools helps organizations address new paradigms and business expectations. Read this IBM Systems Magazine article to understand the evolution of modern mainframe development.
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IBM Linux on Power: The system of choice for big data and analytics

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. The Gabriel Consulting paper – Big Data POWERs Up? – explores the characteristics of analytics workloads and why infrastructure choice matters when deploying a big data solution. The paper also takes a close look to see if the POWER8 platform can best x86 on both cost and performance measures for big data workloads.
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Big Data without the Big Bang or Bucks

While some organizations are already utilizing Big Data or various large enterprise analytics techniques, many more are still working to grasp how these new usage models might help them. There’s a lot of undiscovered value in the vast amounts of data they currently have and the data that they can get from other sources. They know that they can somehow convert this data into insights that will let them ramp up efficiency and be ready for tomorrow today.
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Best Practices for Deploying a Virtualized Infrastructure

In a world that demands scalability, modularity, quality, fast performance and a best practices approach is key to ensuring predictable results for the business. IBM’s PowerLinux Open Source Infrastructure Services solution is a workload-optimized system that meets or exceeds best practices for a virtualized infrastructure at a reasonable price point. The PowerLinux solution can help turn today’s IT infrastructure into a well-tuned utility, providing a more flexible, scalable and valuable asset to the business.
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Buyer’s Checklist for Mobile Application Platforms

As part of your research into Mobile Application Platforms, you can use this Buyer’s Checklist in two ways:

• To help identify the key Platform capabilities you require to be able to extend your enterprise to mobile devices.

To easily compare the key capabilities of IBM’s Worklight against other options under consideration.

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A Mobile Application Development Primer

As enterprises realize the need for mobile versions of their business applications, there is a need for an enterprise-class approach to mobile app development. This paper describes best practices for collaborative software lifecycle management for mobile business applications development.
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