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Staying Agile with Big Data

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.

Choosing the Right Storage Platform for Splunk Enterprise

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: An Open, Software-defined Storage Platform for the Cloud

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.

IDC MaturityScape: Software License Optimization

This study provides organizations with a framework of stages, critical measures, outcomes, and actions required for the effective management of software license assets for the purposes of spend optimization. IDC's Software License Optimization MaturityScape can be used to assess current competencies and maturity and identify steps for improvement as well as help identify the critical people, process, and technology strategies that help drive effective software license optimization.

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.