From Idea to Production in Minutes: IBM DevOps for Bluemix Short-circuits Development Headaches

IBM DevOps for Bluemix provides an integrated set of DevOps services in the IBM Bluemix PaaS, for individuals and teams building mobile and cloud applications (‘systems of engagement’) that enable teams to shrink the application delivery cycle time, and consistently deliver software with speed, quality and accuracy. This session provides an overview of IBM DevOps services on Bluemix, focusing on quickly getting started with new projects and collaborative development with agile tracking and planning.
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PaaS Built for Development: IBM Bluemix Solves a Range of Infrastructure and Middleware Challenges

IBM's new Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, IBM Bluemix, delivers the speed and flexibility of the cloud to allow developers to more quickly compose and build enterprise-grade applications for by providing access to IBM's vast software portfolio as composable services. This powerful PaaS/services combination, built on open standards and taking advantage of Cloud Foundry, enables developers to avoid vendor lock-in while leveraging their existing application development assets and skills, which is essential for building hybrid clouds.

IBM is providing developers an open, flexible cloud environment connecting the enterprise and born-on-the-web developers using their choice of tools, whether IBM, third-party, or open technologies, in a scalable environment. This session provides an overview of IBM Bluemix capabilities.

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Mobility, Location and iOS8: New Context for New Apps

Mobile devices are becoming so ubiquitous that Forrester predicts there will be about 3 mobile devices per living human by the end of this decade. Phones, tablets, wearables and who-knows-what will-come, all with IP addresses and internet connectivity are finding homes in pockets, on wrists and in the frames of eyewear. Now, location services are changing the way developers and marketers think about how to utilize the knowledge of where a user – consumer or business – is located and turn that into an action that can drive revenue, improve productivity or give a competitive advantage. This white paper looks at research about the latest iOS8 announcements, and how they might impact development in general and provide fuel for the coming wearable and contextual revolutions in app development and deployment.
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Bloomberg Research: Faster, Better, Safer

The future success of any company is predicated on perfecting the merger of mobility and security - and being nimble about it. This study focuses on the security issues surrounding mobile applications, and surveyed 150 senior business & senior IT decision-makers. Download to hear what they had to say.
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Mainstay ROI – Does Application Security Pay?

Does Application Security Pay? Actually, it does! Mainstay reviewed the Software Security Assurance solutions of 17 organizations and found financial benefits as high as $2.4M from efficiency and productivity improvements. Download this whitepaper to see how you and your enterprise might benefit from better software security.
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Best Practices for Mobile Application Lifecycle Management

Mobile devices are now a reality in most organizations. Building on Mobile device Management (MDM) and Mobile Application Management (MAM), organizations are increasingly developing their own enterprise apps for specific job tasks to improve productivity, business partnerships, customer satisfaction and bottom-line performance. But to achieve these benefits, it is imperative that mobile security best practices are incorporated throughout the lifecycle of the application.
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Ein erster Blick auf Windows Server 2012 R2 und Hyper-V

Lange Zeit galt Windows Server als solide Serverplattform, doch in Bereichenwie der Virtualisierung kann es nicht mehr mit den Konkurrenzprodukten mithalten. Als Microsoft Windows Server 2012 konzipierte, bestand eines der Hauptziele darin, einen Hypervisor zu kreieren, der gleichwertig mit den Angeboten von VMware sein sollte. Microsoft hat dieses Ziel weitestgehend erfüllt (und in einigen Bereichen sogar übertroffen), dennoch blieb weiterhin Spielraum für Verbesserungen. Der bald erhältliche Windows Server 2012 R2 soll diese Lücken in Windows Server 2012 nun schließen.
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Automatisierung für das Rechenzentrum

Die Arbeits- und Denkweise eines IT-Administrators unterscheidet sich heutzutage erheblich von der vor einigen Jahren. IT-Profis beschäftigten sich damals täglich mit Servern –doch diese Zeiten sind vorbei. Heute verbringen sie die meiste Zeit mit der wachsenden Nachfrage nach Unternehmensdienstleistungen, um Endanwender und Kunden in einer zunehmend komplexeren Infrastruktur zu unterstützen. Zur gleichen Zeit müssen IT-Profis einen hochwertigen Service anbieten und das unter einem strengeren Budget als früher. Diesem Wandel liegen mehrere Ursachen zugrunde.
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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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