The Value of Analytics

Is your application performance data growing out of control? With the increasingly complex, dynamic, and interconnected applications, analysts and administrators need application performance management (APM) tools with advanced analytics capabilities. Principled Technologies, a technology assessment firm, reports in this white paper commissioned by CA Technologies, that advanced analytics is a key functionality in the modern APM tool to better support IT in delivering the quality of service that mission-critical applications demand.
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Ovum Decision Criteria Matrix

CA Technologies is positioned as a leader in the Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting an Application Performance Management Solution, 2014–15. This report on APM evaluates ten of the leading APM solutions in the market and compares them side by side. Ovum notes CA APM’s long history as an enterprise grade solution, and that its latest release “ensures CA APM's place as a leading APM solution.” Download this free report to learn more.
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APM Essentials: Navigating the maze of EUE Solutions

Application ecosystems have become more complex and the value of Application Performance Management (APM) has shifted from the application to the transaction. The transaction is no longer confined by the application and can traverse multiple composite applications before being displayed on the user’s device. For this reason, transaction monitoring has become user-centric and more sophisticated.

This white paper by leading analyst firm EMA, offers clarity to these discussions, giving readers additional insight and a starting point for selecting the solution that best meets their needs.

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Why Everyone Needs to Own Customer Experience in the Application Economy

The viability of your brand largely rests on the quality of your customers’ experience with your applications—often the most important experiences they’ll have when doing business with you. Successful CIOs and technology leaders will know how to deliver the application experience users expect by taking ownership of the application experience, obtaining key performance information needed to share—or democratize—that data with all relevant teams and business leaders. These technology leaders recognize that great performance is driven when all teams understand what they need to know to act.
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Application and Service Delivery Handbook

Dr. Jim Metzler, Webtorials Distinguished Research Fellow, has released the initial installment of the 2014 edition of his Application and Service Delivery Handbook, featuring detailed research and analysis. In this first of four installments, he lays the groundwork to ensure that the applications and services that an enterprise uses: can be effectively managed; exhibit acceptable performance; incorporate appropriate levels of security; and are cost effective. This year's handbook also focuses on three key second generation challenges including mobility and BYOD, virtualization, and cloud computing. 
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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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Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2012 R2 in Depth

Data deduplication has been around for years and comes in many forms. Most people think about expensive storage arrays when they talk about deduplication but that is certainly not the only type of data deduplication technology.

This white paper examines the data deduplication technology embedded in Windows Server 2012 R2 and the benefits it can bring to your environment. The discussion includes how it works and the possible scenarios for using Windows Server 2012 R2 data deduplication.

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Application Delivery Controllers: Evolving to Support the User Experience

For many of today's data centers, the existing architecture is not designed for the needs of an increasingly mobile customer base. Users — no matter their location or specific device — are increasingly demanding rich, dynamic content. In this environment, a change in the network architecture is required for Web servers/Internet-facing content. IT organizations need to keep pace with end customer demand while still delivering highly efficient infrastructure. With Web-based applications and services now mission critical, there is a new focus on the end-user experience and the performance and availability of applications.
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PCI DSS Compliance in Cloud Environments

PCI DSS is a pragmatic set of best practices and security measures that any organization must follow if they accept and handle cardholder data online. The standard encompasses network security, data protection, data encryption, system security, access control, ongoing monitoring and testing and security policy development.
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Brilliantly Simple Business Communications

Complexity is NOT synonymous with "sophisticated" - that's a myth the suppliers of complexity want you to believe so they can sell you a service to cope with it.

Learn how to leverage the power of pure IP, to provide your organization with a brilliantly simple unified communications suite that will drive collaboration and enhance productivity. With ShoreTel, end users take control of all their communication methods (voice, video, IM) – regardless of location (office, home, Starbucks, Tahiti).

The definition of office is no longer four walls, a desk and a telephone. Time and place is almost irrelevant now – workforces are demanding total versatility to work smarter, where they want, when they want and on whatever device they choose.

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Forrester Report: Build a Better Business Case for UC

This report details Forrester Research, Inc.’s recommendation for IT professionals building out a Unified Communications and Collaboration infrastructure within their business. The key to success of a UC deployment is delivering benefits to both users and business units. This report guides IT professionals through the key needs, drivers, and likely benefits of a UC deployment. The report also predicts and quantifies how a communications and collaboration infrastructure rollout can reduce overall IT cost, drive productivity, and improve collaboration across the firm.
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Building and Supporting High-Performance Applications

Over the past few years, IT has undergone a subtle transition due to the increasing importance of applications. Many top executives say that digital transformation will become critical to their organizations within the next two years.As a result, the number of digital business processes is skyrocketing. Download this paper and learn how automation and self-service can increase efficiency and productivity, while improving the flow of business processes from multiple applications.
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Securing Your Worklight Applications with IBM Worklight Application Scanning

As the use of mobile devices exponentially expands, so too does security threats to the increasing number of mobile applications that companies rely on. As a result, companies struggle to keep pace with mobile application security and face the risk of embarrassing and costly data breaches.

In this technical session, you’ll learn how Worklight Application Scanning helps you deliver applications that aren’t susceptible to the most common types of malware, including SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting. In addition, you’ll learn how this powerful tool helps address the OWASP Top 10 Mobile Risks for 2014.

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