Symantec and VMware: Virtualizing Business Critical Applications with Confidence

Business-critical applications and the systems they run on must be highly available. A common way to increase application availability in a physical environment is to deploy a traditional high-availability clustering solution. IT administrators can move applications for server maintenance with zero downtime and no data loss. The operating-system isolation that VMware virtualization natively provides makes it simple for a small set of highly consolidated servers to provide very high uptime at reduced administrative cost.
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Confidently Virtualize Business- Critical Applications

All businesses have a core set of applications that are critical to successful growth. These applications require a higher level of availability than other applications and services in the organization. In physical environments, traditional high availability clustering solutions are most commonly used to increase the availability of business-critical applications. These solutions help minimize unwanted downtime and also minimize planned maintenance downtime, by providing application failover to additional standy-by servers in the cluster.
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Info-Tech Vendor Landscape: Virtual Backup Software

This independent report from Info-Tech evaluates and scores 14 companies in the Virtual Machine Backup market. It can help you understand what's new in the virtual backup market, evaluate virtual backup vendors and products for your needs and determine which products are most appropriate for your organization. Find out why Symantec was named a “Champion” in virtual backup software.
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Seven Steps to Software Security

The processes that go into making applications more secure are still relatively immature and ownership in an organization is not always consistent or clear. This paper provides seven practical steps organizations can begin today to secure their applications and prevent the damages cyber attacks can bring.
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SANS – Securing Web Applications Made Simple and Scalable

The weakest point in modern networking infrastructures is often not the low-level hardware and software running on the servers, but the web applications that are developed and hosted upon them. According to the SANS survey on application security, poor understanding of web security needs on the part of developers also limit the effectiveness of application security programs. Check out this whitepaper to learn how automated security testing can provide a simple and scalable way to protect your web applications.
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Reducing Risks from Opensource

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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HP Global 2000 Mobile Risk Report

Mobile applications represent a growing threat to the enterprise. But how big of a threat? HP Security Research leveraged HP Fortify on Demand Mobile to scan more than 2,000 mobile applications from more than 600 companies to find out. Download this report to see the alarming realities regarding the sheer number of applications vulnerable to attack, as well as the most common and easily addressable vulnerability errors.
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DevOps for Dummies

Today’s fast-moving world makes DevOps essential for any business aspiring to be agile and lean in order to respond rapidly to changing customer and marketplace demands. This book helps you understand DevOps and how your organization can gain real business benefits from it. You'll also discover how a holistic view of DevOps that encompasses the entire software delivery life cycle - from ideation and the conception of new business capabilities to implementation in production - can bring competitive advantage in a continuous delivery world.
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Meeting Market Demands for Delivery of Innovative, New Application Services

In today’s fast-moving, ultra-competitive business landscape, the days of enterprises spending months—or even years—building, testing and releasing an application, service or new set of capabilities to the market are over. This is because customers, technology users and the market as a whole are more nimble than ever before, and their demands for innovative new functionality have grown in concert. In other words, customers are no longer content to wait for the next big release—nor are they willing to deal with glitches and defects when it arrives. In response to this change in the marketplace, many enterprises have begun focusing on ways they can accelerate their application release life cycle without sacrificing quality and cost—while establishing shorter feedback loops with the market and their customers.
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Application Release Automation with Zero Touch Deployment™

Today’s agile organizations pose operations teams with a tremendous challenge: to deploy new releases to production immediately after development and testing is completed. To ensure that applications are deployed successfully, an automatic and transparent process is required. We refer to this process as Zero Touch Deployment™. This article reviews two approaches to Zero Touch Deployment—a script-based solution and a release automation platform. The article discusses how each can solve the key technological and organizational challenges faced by agile organizations when they set out to implement an automatic deployment system. The article begins by recounting the business and technological contexts that drive agile organizations to seek deployment automation solutions.
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Requirements for an Application Release Automation Platform

Why do we need an Application Release Deployment solution? The IT world is evolving at a rapid pace. Data center and homegrown applications are increasingly complex, application changes are rising in volume and frequency, and operations are deploying across multiple environments and infrastructure models (physical, virtual and cloud). In order to keep up with increasing business demands, development teams are adopting agile methodologies, and QA is employing automated testing. This white paper discusses why application release and deployment automation platforms are becoming increasingly vital for IT operations in global enterprises and explores the specific requirements of such a platform in order for it to prove beneficial, and effective, and offer a substantial return on investment.
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Leveraging Application Deployment Automation in the Cloud

Event Details: July 16, 2014 at 1:00 PM Eastern

Faster time to deployment is a vital component of cloud computing, regardless of what cloud platforms you are using. Automating the deployment of your applications can significantly speed up launch time and simplify management.

Dell Cloud Manager allows you to easily create reusable application blueprints. Design and configure an application stack once, then save for future use. Any authorized user can leverage the blueprint as a ready-made template, or simply deploy to the cloud platform of their choice at the click of a button. Using Chef or Puppet? We integrate with both - or you can use our built-in service catalog.

Join us for this informative session where you will learn how your organization can benefit from leveraging the cloud for application delivery.

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Big Five in Overdrive: Are State and Local Networks Ready?

As state and local government organizations grapple with tight budgets, demanding constituents, growing data volumes, and cross-government coordination challenges, the "Big Five of IT" – data center consolidation, mobility, security, big data, and cloud computing – promise to improve agency performance, productivity, and service. But are state and local networks ready? Recent research determined that the Big Five will choke Federal networks if agencies don't take steps to prepare for increased network demands now. This research report examines potential network impact, state and local readiness, and how organizations can prepare for the onslaught.
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