Sponsor: Red Hat, Inc.

In this IDC whitepaper, learn how open source cloud management, automation, and orchestration solutions are disrupting traditional enterprise IT management. Rapid digital transformation strategies require tools that can be shared across DevOps teams. Community-developed, open source solutions such as Red Hat® CloudForms and Red Hat Satellite can provide IT teams with access to new innovation, reduce operational friction, and help organizations optimize their infrastructure and life-cycle management.

Like any major technology project, organizations implementing Big Data projects face challenges with aligning business cases, selecting the right technology solutions, and mobilizing the right skillsets. Big data projects add some unique challenges to the mix. With growing awareness of the value of data, organizations must innovate rapidly in the use of that data to preserve competitive edge. And, as they implement solutions, they must contend with a technology base that is becoming a rapidly moving target.

To help businesses easily and cost-effectively realize the benefits of operational analytics, Red Hat has integrated Splunk® Enterprise, an industry-leading platform for delivering real-time operational intelligence, with Red Hat® Gluster Storage, a software-defined storage platform for files, objects, and machine-to-machine data. Using these products together helps enterprise solve the cost and scale problems of explosive analytic data growth.

Red Hat® Ceph Storage is a massively scalable, open, software-defined storage platform that:

• Is designed for cloud infrastructures and web-scale object storage. Combines the most stable version of Ceph with a Ceph management platform, deployment tools, and support services.

• Provides the tools to flexibly, automatically, and cost-effectively manage petabyte-scale data deployments in the enterprise.

• Manages cloud data so enterprises can focus on managing their businesses.

This white paper is aimed at those interested in enhancing the efficiency of their business by the use of BPM technology. It will demonstrate how BPM can make a positive impact on the allimportant bottom line by the use of business rules and process management, and show how the features and capabilities of JBoss BPM Suite provide the ideal platform for your business.

Red Hat can help you gain control of your IT infrastructure at a lower cost. Red Hat®Enterprise Linux® and Red Hat Virtualization gives you the simplified management, military-grade security, and infrastracture flexibility you need to respond quickly to business demands now and innovate in the future. Plus, you’ll be ready for the move to the cloud when the right time comes.

Casio set out to create and transform its business through the use of innovative IT. In doing so, the company wanted to deliver IT solutions that created business processes and contributed to effective business management. Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization has not only cut costs for Casio, but has also helped the company effectively handle business management challenges and prepare for a future cloud environment.

When a company sells services to a consumer audience primarily through a Web user interface (UI), that Web UI had better be online and available, all the time, especially if you are an airline. Such is the real-world scenario that faces Chris Skretowski, Linux Specialist at Devon, United Kingdom–based Flybe, Europe's largest regional airline.

Red Hat has developed a flexible, integrated solution that meets these requirements and helps organizations adopt a cloud infrastructure for both traditional and cloud-enabled workloads. Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure (RHCI) provides a datacenter virtualization platform for traditional applications and OpenStack for next-generation cloud applications, as well as a cloud management platform (CMP) to unify the management across both workload types, running on-premise or in public clouds. It is clear that enterprises will require a full solution to realize the many benefits of cloud while maintaining control and governance. RHCI is a prime example of a cloud solution that can help enterprises make the migration.

This white paper is aimed at those interested in enhancing the efficiency of their business by the use of BPM technology. It will demonstrate how BPM can make a positive impact on the all-important bottom line by the use of business rules and process management, and show how the features and capabilities of JBoss BPM Suite provide the ideal platform for your business.

For this white paper, IDC interviewed six organizations that report achieving significant business value by using Red Hat JBoss Fuse, in particular by making their application integration and development efforts more efficient and productive. Register now to learn exactly how these organizations are earning back their investments in only 8 months!

Deriving value from analytics requires organizations to prepare data for use, but today’s explosion of data volumes, types and sources makes this challenging. Moreover, information must be placed in an operational context to be acted upon. Because current integration methods cannot address all these needs, the results often are inflexible systems and data sprawl. Now, though, data preparation tools are available that enable virtualized access to multiple data sources, making it possible to deliver information promptly and in the appropriate contexts.

Being successful in today’s business climate requires the ability to provide the right services and the right information at the right time. Companies that can quickly modify and integrate applications and data are better able to create rich composite services and drive process efficiency. Modernizing application infrastructure holds the key to ensuring IT departments can deliver the flexibility and process automation needed to support efficient business operation.

In Forrester’s 51-criteria evaluation of hybrid² integration vendors, we identified the 14 most significant middleware providers. Instead of exploring only single products, we researched the functionality and interoperability of all relevant products from each vendor to understand their fit for hybrid scenarios between the cloud and on-premises as well as across the different traditional on-premises integration capabilities. This report details our findings about how well each vendor fulfills our criteria and where they stand in relation to each other to help CIOs select the right partner for their hybrid² integration endeavors.

Making the right business decisions requires the capability to access the right information at the right time. Companies that can tap into the massive and growing volumes of data available to them can expect to make better informed decisions. Modernizing application infrastructure can help IT departments to federate data so that it can be analyzed quickly for business success.