Efficient IT Operations Require Workload Automation

Achieve greater IT ops control, visibility, and accuracy through workload automation

The demands of digital business call for a more efficient approach to IT operations. This Forrester thought leadership paper evaluates how companies are using workload automation to support business workflows more accurately and with greater control. Learn how IT leaders can:

  • Eliminate manual scripting to increase efficiency and productivity
  • Gain a single view of scheduled jobs across the enterprise
  • Reduce operational waste to meet business needs better and faster

Explore the benefits of a more holistic and automated approach to digital business workflows.

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Visual COBOL: The Agent of Change

This white paper explores the challenges that many organizations face when addressing their IT backlogs while implementing the innovation that will drive future growth.

It also offers a potential solution to these challenges in the form of Visual COBOL, a Micro Focus development environment that bridges the gap between existing IT issues and advanced technology.

You will learn about:

  • The issue of IT debt
  • The skills gap between common IT issues and the developers who need to address them
  • Disruptive technology and innovation
  • Development efficiency
  • New architecture
  • Future challenges
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Get More from Azure from Riverbed

How good is your visibility into app performance on Azure? Nearly two-thirds (64%) of organizations use a fragmented approach to technology monitoring. As a result, this fragmented visibility causes IT teams to spend as much as half their time firefighting performance problems – instead of innovating for the benefit of the business. Join the webinar to learn current best practices for gaining clear visibility into cloud performance.

This webinar will address these questions:

  • Are your end users happy with their SaaS app performance ?
  • Do you have the right toolset for monitoring performance of cloud-based apps?
  • What are the best practices to mitigate performance issues from the cloud?
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Accelerate Office 365 Performance & Enhance Visibility

Do you need to accelerate Office 365 performance? Astonishingly, IT teams learn about more than 60% of performance issues from end-users. This is because performance visibility is so thoroughly compromised by the growing complexity involved in delivering cloud apps over multiple networks to ever-growing numbers of end users. This webinar explores the complexity of cloud delivery and best practices for optimizing application performance and, ultimately, end user experience.

Learn how to:

  • Reduce latency issues for SaaS apps
  • Accelerate and secure corporate data over the Internet
  • Decrease bandwidth use by up to 97%
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Gartner Network Design Best Practices for Office 365

Many organizations transitioning from on-premises Microsoft applications to Office 365 will experience performance problems due to geographic factors and use of the Internet for connectivity. IT can minimize performance issues and deliver an acceptable experience to end users by paying careful attention to network design. Read this research note to learn:

  • How the Office 365 Region you choose can affect performance
  • What tools are available to model and monitor performance
  • What options you have for network connectivity and how they compare
  • How WAN optimization can be used to improve application performance.
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15 Keys for Ensuring a Successful Windows 10 Migration

Whenever you are planning to migrate to Windows 10, there are unique opportunities to optimize IT service support during your migration. This guide shows how to use SteelCentral Aternity End User Experience Monitoring in a best practice continuous improvement process to ensure success. In it, you’ll learn how to:

  • Discover every local, cloud, or mobile app actually in use in your enterprise, to fight “Shadow IT” and migrate only the apps that matter
  • Ensure end user experience on Windows 10 devices is as good or better as that on earlier OS versions, so you can migrate with confidence
  • Proactively monitor applications as they render on the screens of any physical, virtual, or mobile device used in your enterprise, to assure the seamless user experience promised by Windows 10
  • Cost justify your Windows 10 upgrade by analyzing the impact of slow application performance in terms of lost productivity 
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Connectivity Benchmark Report 2017

Nearly all IT decision makers are executing on digital transformation, but they are facing challenges and obstacles along the way. MuleSoft surveyed 951 IT decision makers across the globe to discover how they are executing on digital transformation initiatives, what their IT challenges are, and the role of an API strategy to meet their business goals.

Download the 2017 Connectivity Benchmark Report to find out:

  • The one strategy IT decision makers say help them deliver projects faster
  • The top 11 technologies ITDMs think will increase the pace of digital transformation
  • The two obstacles holding ITDMs back from achieving their digital transformation goals

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Gartner iPaaS Magic Quadrant 2017

MuleSoft Positioned as a Leader 4 Years in a Row

Read this complimentary copy of the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for iPaaS, and find out why MuleSoft was named a Leader based on completeness of vision and the ability to execute

  • Expert perspectives on the iPaaS vendor landscape
  • Critical analysis of key differentiators
  • Latest developments in integration technology
  • Industry benchmarks and trends
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Business Process Management (BPM)

Using an API strategy as a foundation for BPM

Business Process Management is an important part of continuous improvement and business transformation, but many organizations struggle with implementing it effectively. Learn how a holistic API strategy, API-led connectivity, can help your organization implement BPM with ease.

This whitepaper will cover:

  • An overview of Business Process Management
  • A new way of thinking about implementing BPM with APIs
  • A walkthrough of a use case on how an organization uses API-led connectivity to successfully implement BPM
  • Best practices to adopt BPM with Anypoint Platform

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Secrets of a Great API

Not all APIs are created equal

A great API encourages developers to use it and share it with others, creating a virtuous cycle where each additional successful implementation leads to greater engagement and more contributions from developers who add value to your service.

Unfortunately, too many API providers build their APIs before thinking through the critical success factors, resulting in APIs that fail to meet business objectives. Delivering a great API isn’t hard if you follow a few proven principles.

In this paper you’ll learn:

  • What developers really want from your API
  • How to make your API stand out from the crowd
  • Strategies for driving broad developer adoption
  • A fool-proof way to design for great user experience

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Practical Tips to Find and Fix Common App Performance Problems

Performance issues today are compounded by increasingly complex infrastructures that IT teams must contend with when delivering applications. As a result detecting and fixing performance problems is hard. Sluggish end-user transactions may present themselves as being slow due to the code. However, that slowness is often not the root cause, but rather a symptom of an underlying infrastructural issue hidden from view.

Examine common, yet elusive application performance problems that reveal themselves only when you look at them from the right vantage point.

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Simplifying Remote and Branch Office (ROBO) IT with Nutanix Part 1: The Art of Freeing up Time

Managing remote and branch office IT can be a challenge for organizations of any size. Now, thanks to turnkey infrastructure from Nutanix, businesses can consolidate ROBO servers and storage onto a single Enterprise Cloud platform that can be deployed in just 30 to 60 minutes.

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by Nutanix to hear hyperconverged and Enterprise Cloud experts discuss how to eliminate the complexity of managing multiple remote sites with point products, while lowering overall IT costs. View this 3-part web series to learn how investing in the right ROBO solution can simplify IT with central management & control while maintaining optimal application experience and availability for branch office users.

Viewers will learn about:

  • Building lean, low-cost hyperconverged ROBO sites
  • Managing multiple ROBO sites centrally and with a single management interface
  • Seeing a live demonstration of how remote sites are managed with Nutanix Prism
  • Solving disaster recovery challenges cost effectively with localized backup, to the datacenter, or cloud
  • A real-world customer perspective on experiences with Nutanix ROBO solutions

Don’t wait – register now to view this TechBytes series and start on your path to ROBO IT simplification.

About the presenter

Dwayne Lessner is a technical marketing engineer on the product marketing team at Nutanix, Inc. In this role, Dwayne helps design, test, and build solutions on top of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform. Dwayne has worked in healthcare and oil and gas for over ten years in various roles. A strong background in server and desktop virtualization has given Dwayne the opportunity to work with many different applications frameworks and architecture. Dwayne has been a speaker at BriForum and various VMUG events and conferences and Co-Author of “Desktops as a Service: Building the Model”.

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