Forrester report: The Total Economic Impact of WebSphere Application Server

There are many great things to come out of open source initiatives, not the least of which is innovation. But relying on an open source application server for your most critical customer-facing apps is not a smart strategy. If you plan to be in business now and five years from now, consider the security, integrity, scalability, and ultimately lower TCO of the proven IBM WebSphere Application Server for your enterprise.
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Application Server TCO comparison: WebSphere vs JBoss

When considering open source, in most cases it is not the ability to modify source code that is attractive to customers, but the perceived cost savings that open source can offer. While the easiest and most obvious costs to calculate are acquisition costs, often overlooked are the far reaching effects that your choice of application server can have on other areas such as management, administration, training, hardware, and lost opportunity due to unexpected downtime. Learn the facts of TCO and performance in this comparison of IBM WebSphere Application Server to Redhat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP).
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The New Normal of DevOps

Society is racing forward at breakneck speed. At the same time, the world is becoming more complicated and relationships between companies and their customers are no longer linear, but complex. Coping with these changes is a corporate culture issue for many companies, an issue that will need to be addressed if companies and government organizations want to keep up. For big, established organizations, the road ahead won’t be easy.
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DevOps: The Bridge to Faster Application Delivery

Complex, repetitive, slow and prone to errors. It’s also essential in today’s world. DevOps is gaining traction among IT leaders seeking quality, agility and faster time to market. Validate the importance of accelerating the delivery of new applications and services to market, and to understand organizations’ current ability to meet this objective.
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Workload Automation – From Application Development to Digital Service Delivery

This paper, "Workload Automation – From Application Development to Digital Service Delivery," describes how a workload automation solution can eliminate the manual processes developers now use to define batch workflows and communicate them to schedulers.By extending the use of workload automation to developers, organizations can implement applications faster, slash costs, and increase service quality.
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Solving for “Total Cost” in the Cloud

It’s a simple question: How much is it going to cost to move an application to the cloud? But the answer is not simple, and many businesses suffer costly surprises when they make the move. What’s needed is a holistic view of TCO that includes not only obvious hardware costs but also the human costs of managing apps in the cloud.

This paper helps you understand the total cost of migrating applications to the cloud, including frequently overlooked itemized charges. We also explore hidden costs related to the level of automation provided by cloud platforms, which is a critical factor in minimizing TCO.

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Putting Big Data to Work in the Cloud: 5 Key Success Factors

Many businesses are looking to big data as a potential differentiator that can improve customer insight, drive more informed decision-making, and ultimately boost the bottom line. However, moving from these well-known theoretical benefits of big data to practical implementations in corporate IT settings is a big and potentially costly step.

This paper outlines five key success factors for accomplishing your business objectives with big data. Included are tips for building a big data infrastructure that operates efficiently and securely, and delivers powerful performance, scalability, and manageability.

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How to Use Log Management for Compliance

Session 1: Thursday, August 21, 9 a.m. EDT | 2 p.m. BST | 15:00 CET

Session 2: Thursday, August 21, 11 a.m. EDT | 4 p.m. BST | 17:00 CET

Every day, your network generates event records which can be used to reduce your organization's exposure to intruders, malware, damage, loss, and legal liabilities. But how quickly can you pinpoint an exact log when you really need it? A comprehensive log management solution makes it simple to pinpoint the log you're looking for from within the many possible sources and formats in which it can appear.

This live demonstration of Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Log Management Suite will show you how to quickly pinpoint log events and stay compliant.

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Enterprise Features, Entry Level Simplicity

The need for advanced IT capabilities isn’t limited to big companies. Competent IT is an important philosophy these days, and organizations of all sizes are coming to depend on the functional capability, good economic value, and the competitive advantage that technology can provide. EMC’s new VNXe provides functional capabilities typically found in larger, enterprise-class arrays, but for an entry-level price.
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The Business Value of Data Domain Boost

This paper focuses on Data Domain Boost and the many benefits it provides compared to doing traditional backups. The purpose of this paper is to explain the technical and business reasons why DD boost will change the way customers do backup.
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Build and Run a Sentiment Analysis App

Build a Node.js application to analyze public reaction to any given topic on Twitter. This article includes a demo, sample code, and full instructions for creating a basic PaaS app, then adding sentiment analysis to it and connecting it to Twitter.

The app you build will use popular Node.js modules. You can reuse it anytime you need a quick mobile app to analyze and monitor large volumes of data over time.

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