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A Guide for the IT Professional

Globally there are circa 9.1 million instances of Windows Server 2003 still in operation. On 14 July 2015, support for Windows Server 2003 (WS2003) and Small Business Server 2003 (SBS) comes to an end.

While refreshing infrastructure is often seen as a chore, on this occasion moving away from WS2003 could result in significant benefits for your organization – so don’t put off the inevitable!

Seven ways to fail: the business risk of inadequate testing

Network conditions affect the performance of applications in many ways. Research suggests that 70% of mobile transaction response time is spent on the network. This reality intensifies the need for comprehensive testing of software before applications go into production. Unfortunately, some common approaches to performance testing suffer from critical weaknesses that leave your business at risk.

Develop and test faster by virtualising constrained application components

Today’s consumers have grown up with the expectation that their digital experience is mobile, always-on, and easily enhanced. Consequently, we face a new style of IT that forces everyone involved in building, validating, and delivering applications to find new solutions for decreasing time to market, reducing defects in production, shortening software development cycle times, and enabling constrained testing teams to increase test coverage.

HP Performance Center Software

HP Performance Center software is an enterprise-class performance engineering software, designed to facilitate standardisation, centralisation, global collaboration, and management of a performance engineering center of excellence.

HP StormRunner Load

HP StormRunner Load is a Software-as-a-Service solution for web and mobile application performance testing. HP StormRunner Load (also referred to as ”SaaS”) has self-service administration and enables project and agile teams to plan and execute performance testing and analysis of web and mobile applications.

HP LoadRunner software

HP LoadRunner software is the industry-standard software for performance engineering. Generate real-life loads. Identify and diagnose problems. Deploy with confidence.

Five Star Performance

In today’s digitally driven business climate, high-quality application performance is essential to the success of your business. You cannot afford to go live with poorly performing applications or software updates that anger and alienate your customers, partners, and employees. This reality drives the need for an aggressive approach to testing software that includes the virtualisation of users, services, and networks to create realistic test conditions and accurate results.

Performance management across the application lifecycle

You need a framework for better application performance. HP covers your end-to-end performance testing needs--from initial requirements to post-production refinements.

Is a Secure Workspace Approach Right for You?

A secure workspace solution can address employee expectations for fast, easy, anytime access to necessary software and enterprise resources. It can also deliver a consistent and responsive experience across a variety of device types, regardless of who owns them. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

DevOps: Enterprise Organizations Newest Best Practices

The research shows DevOps delivers 18% faster time-to-market and 19% better app quality/performance.

The application economy is motivating leaders to make critical changes across IT and the business, one of the most significant being the adoption of DevOps. For enterprise IT organizations who need to accelerate delivery of apps and provide customers with higher-quality software, faster, DevOps–with its focus on collaboration across IT domains from development to delivery–is increasingly the answer.

Building a Shortcut Between Innovation and Business Value

Struggling with delivering new capabilities to the market in a timely manner? Start your DevOps journey now and learn how implementing Continuous Delivery solution can be the ultimate competitive differentiator for your business.

Read this executive brief to learn:

How to bring innovation and business value together more rapidly How to improve Communication and collaboration between development and operations teams How to improve quality and increase visibility to the application deployment process.

DevOps Perspectives: Ideas, insight and direction from DevOps leaders

To support digital transformation imperatives, organizations are increasingly exploring DevOps style approaches for the continuous delivery of high quality software. Unfortunately, however, many enterprises remain burdened with accumulated technical debt and legacy wasteful practices – waste that can quickly inhibit the flow of value to customers and the business. Lean thinking provides organizations with a framework by which to quickly identify all forms of waste impacting the flow of value, which DevOps practitioners can apply in a software development context to quickly pinpoint and eliminate 8 elements of waste across people, process and technology dimensions.

This paper presents the 8 elements of waste framework, strategies needed to identify and eliminate waste, and the metrics needed to measure effectiveness.

DevOps Perspectives: IT luminaries discuss the major issues impacting DevOps today

Industry leaders share insights on DevOps and big data, ITIL, testing and more. Once again, we have spent time talking to leading community figures such as Dave Farley (“Continuous Delivery” author) to discuss the major issues impacting DevOps today.

This latest issue features comments from 10 experts and covers many hot topics such as:

• Enterprise DevOps transformation

• DevOps and big data

• DevOps and ITIL

• Shadow IT vs DevOps

• 6 Habits of Effective DevOps Practitioners

• DevOps and Testing

The Digital Transformation Journey: Key Technology Considerations

In the Application Economy, speed, innovation, and quality, have become table stakes. If you can’t meet your customers’ expectations, they will surely find a competitor who can. Whether your organization is in one of the sectors facing the most intense digital competition (like insurance, banking, telecommunications or retail), or a more traditional industry, how rapidly and successfully you embrace a software-driven digital transformation strategy will likely have a profound effect on your organization’s long term viability.

In this Whitepaper, learn how the Application Economy is driving Digital Transformation in companies, and how you can position your organization for success.

Application Performance Management Is Critical To Business Success

This Application Performance Management Forrester Research study captures insight into the benefits and challenges with today’s IT monitoring solutions as well as the types of monitoring features that will help meet application performance and availability expectations.