Unified Storage for Openstack

Unlike every other storage solution for OpenStack, Ceph uniquely combines object and block into one complete storage powerhouse for all your OpenStack needs. Ceph is a total replacement for Swift with such distinctive features as intelligent nodes and a revolutionary deterministic placement algorithm, as well as a fully integrated network block device for Cinder.

Ceph’s fully distributed storage cluster and block device decouple compute from storage in OpenStack, allowing mobility of virtual machines (VMs) across your cluster. Ceph’s block device also provides copy-on-write cloning, which enables you to quickly create a thousand VMs from one master image, requiring only enough space to store their subsequent changes.

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Ceph®, The Future of Storage

Ceph®, The Future of Storage™, is a massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage system that runs on commodity hardware. Ceph has been developed from the ground up to deliver object, block, and file system storage in one self-managing, self-healing platform with no single point of failure. With its highly scalable, software defined storage architecture, Ceph is an ideal replacement for legacy storage systems and provides a unified solution for cloud computing environments. Ceph is the foundation of Red Hat’s Inktank Ceph Enterprise™ and the brainchild of Inktank® founder and CTO Sage Weil.
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Ceph Storage for Dell OpenStack™ Virtual Infrastructures

Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud operating models are today's dominant strategy for deploying large infrastructures. As such vast scale, every cost is examined and optimized. Many deployments take advantage of free open source software to reduce costs, choosing cohesive cloud frameworks like OpenStack™ to avoid building everything from scratch. OpenStack is a cloud operating system designed to enable anyone to build powerful cloud infrastructures on an open, extensible platform.
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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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Evolved Capacity Management

Effective capacity management has become a critical differentiator for IT organizations. Those that can’t effectively evolve their capacity management practice will continue to struggle with complexity and negligible insights into capacity sizing and the impact of changing demand and resulting service/application performance. However, those that gain advanced capacity management capabilities will be able to more effectively right-size investments, support key IT projects, and align resources with business objectives. This paper offers a practical look at capacity management, outlining the six key steps IT organizations can take to realize capacity management that delivers maximum value.
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Unified IT Monitoring: A Necessity in the Application Economy

Today’s customer and employee profiles look very different than they did just a few years ago. These tech-enabled, highly connected buyers are using many different platforms to research, shop and work. They’re engaging brands in new ways—through social networks, as well as mobile and cloud-based applications. And with all their newfound capabilities, they’re expecting more from their business interactions.
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The Power and Payback of Unified IT Monitoring

This ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) whitepaper examines why unified IT monitoring is an important enabling technology for both enterprises and management service providers, including both the organizational and strategic impacts as well as the business case surrounding it. It goes further to examine CA Nimsoft Monitor as an example of unified IT monitoring, and reviews three case studies where the solution has been deployed for active use in a unified manner.
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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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Reducing Security risks from Open Source

Open source software is a game-changer in helping development organization herd their application security risks. But they can also introduce risk when employed without adequate precautions. However, by following a few strategies, your organization can gain the full benefits of open source and the cloud without compromising the security of your applications.
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VMware vSphere Backups: What are you Missing?

Backups used to be easy. Just check the time stamp or the archive bit. If it changed, then back up the file.

Suddenly virtualization became popular, as did server applications. The unstructured data inside files and folders found itself sharing the datacenter with all manner of applications and databases. Virtual machines (VMs) joined physical machines as the method of delivering IT services.

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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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Watson is Available Today on Bluemix

We want your great application ideas! Join us for this deep dive into the 7 Watson Services available for any user to start using on Bluemix. We'll talk about the new services available for users to start with today. These are foundational components of the Watson machine, new technologies, and improved services that we've discussed in the past. Leveraging these services in your application can: help you understand your user's needs based on the words they use, help you use words that resonate with a particular community, visualize your data in new, interactive ways, and much, much more. Join us to find out more on these services, partners using them today, and check them out for yourself at Bluemix.net
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What is IBM Watson and Bluemix?

Do you want to put the power of Watson in your applications? Do you want to radically change the way you interface with your users? In the first of three Techbyte videos, Nathan Vega and Swami Chandrasekaran will introduce the listeners to the concepts of cognitive computing, IBM Watson, and IBM's Platform-as-a-Service, Bluemix. This is no longer just a machine that won on Jeopardy, but a powerful cognitive cloud platform. This session will orient the listener to what's different about this technology and just how powerful it is. Join us for the series to learn about how you can power your own application with Watson. Join us to find out more on Watson services and check them out for yourself at Bluemix.net
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