IBM Cloud Identity – Infusing Identity Everywhere: On-premise, Mobile and Cloud

The next generation of digital transformation to unleash business growth is being fueled by the cloud enterprise. Employees demand the same experience at work that they enjoy as consumers including seamless access to the latest tools in the market. This puts pressure on IT to deliver on these expectations while controlling risk and maintaining security controls. IBM Cloud Identity Connect is a new Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) offering which provides your users with rapid and secure access to thousands of popular cloud applications while enabling single sign-on (SSO) to all their applications, whether they are in the cloud or on premise. You can extend the IT investment you’ve already made in on premise security infrastructure without slowing your business users and their need for speed.

Attendees in this live webinar by IBM to learn how Cloud Identity Connect:

  • Speeds business agility to adopt cloud applications
  • Secures user productivity with SSO from any device, and
  • Enables greater IT efficiency by extending existing infrastructure

SME Bio: Sean Brown, Principle Offering Manager IBM Cloud Identity at IBM.

As Principle Offering Manager with IBM, I am responsible for all aspects involving bringing new and market leading Identity solutions into the IBM Cloud Security portfolio. I am responsible for overseeing the development, marketing, sales and fulfillment of all my offerings, as well as research into new offerings not yet released. I have numerous posting across the web. In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my family, disc golfing, Geocaching and traveling. I have worked in the collaboration and security industry since 2005, starting with IBM's acquisition of Internet Security Systems. Previous to working with IBM ISS, I was the IT Manager for another IBM acquisition going back to 2002.

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Cloud Identity Connect – the Secret to Productivity in The Cloud

The next generation of digital transformation to unleash business growth is being fueled by the cloud enterprise. Employees demand the same experience at work that they enjoy as consumers including seamless access to the latest tools in the market. This puts pressure on IT to deliver on these expectations while controlling risk and maintaining security controls. IBM Cloud Identity Connect is a new Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) offering which provides your users with rapid and secure access to thousands of popular cloud applications while enabling single sign-on (SSO) to all their applications, whether they are in the cloud or on premise. You can extend the IT investment you’ve already made in on premise security infrastructure without slowing your business users and their need for speed.

Attendees in this live webinar by IBM to learn how Cloud Identity Connect:

  • Speeds business agility to adopt cloud applications
  • Secures user productivity with SSO from any device, and
  • Enables greater IT efficiency by extending existing infrastructure

SME Bio: Sean Brown, Principle Offering Manager IBM Cloud Identity at IBM.

As Principle Offering Manager with IBM, I am responsible for all aspects involving bringing new and market leading Identity solutions into the IBM Cloud Security portfolio. I am responsible for overseeing the development, marketing, sales and fulfillment of all my offerings, as well as research into new offerings not yet released. I have numerous posting across the web. In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my family, disc golfing, Geocaching and traveling. I have worked in the collaboration and security industry since 2005, starting with IBM's acquisition of Internet Security Systems. Previous to working with IBM ISS, I was the IT Manager for another IBM acquisition going back to 2002.

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Real-Time Security: Managing Governance and Security In the Big Data Age

Organizations struggle to manage the increasing amount of data, driven by demands for better analytics, social media sentiment, and streaming data flooding the enterprise. In our increasingly hybrid IT environment, with workloads shifting from on-premises to the cloud and back, the need for solid data governance and security is greater than ever, as evidenced by recent breaches such as the recent Equifax fiasco.

What factors are impacting governance and security, and how can you ensure your organization’s data doesn’t end up in the wrong hands – or the 6 o’clock news?

Register for this TechBytes series presented by Slashdot Media and sponsored by Hortonworks to hear industry expert Srikanth Venkat discuss how we arrived here, and what every business can do to improve its governance and security profile.

Viewers will learn:

  • Why traditional solutions can’t keep up with data in motion OR at rest
  • How metadata, lineage, and access all impact governance and security
  • Where digital transformation helps, and where it’s part of the problem
  • How to apply data science and business dynamics at scale to drive innovation
  • Why managing an expanding attack surface has become a big data challenge

Don’t hesitate, register now for this complimentary TechBytes series, and help ensure regulatory, security and governance challenges don’t sidetrack your business’ IT goals.

Bio: Srikanth Venkat is currently Senior Director of Product Management at Hortonworks where he heads Security & Governance portfolio of products. Srikanth is passionate about AI technologies especially as they pertain to Big Data and automated learning systems. Prior to Hortonworks, he has held multiple leadership roles in Product Management, Strategy & Planning as well as Technology Architecture across many global organizations including Telefonica Group, Cisco-Webex, Salesforce.com, Proofpoint Inc. and Hewlett-Packard. He holds a PhD in Engineering, MBA and Masters in Global Management.

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Cloud Data Protection for VMware Environments

As virtualization enables higher flexibility and scalability of infrastructure, protecting these environments becomes increasingly complex, resulting in heavy administrative overhead and infrastructure costs. Download our whitepaper to see how Druva’s unified data protection solution, and direct integration with vSphere & VMC (VMware Cloud on AWS) can reduce risk, cost, and the effort of managing today’s complex information environment.
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Druva Phoenix: Server Backup Born in the Cloud

Server backup, especially at companies managing multiple sites, is an inefficient, expensive process prone to errors. Druva Phoenix simplifies this process by enabling you to backup straight to the cloud, providing a seamless way to manage all your backup and archives centrally. Download our whitepaper to learn more about how Druva Phoenix can help your business!
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The Total Economic Impact Of Avaya Private Cloud Services

Avaya Private Cloud Services (APCS), is a powerful set of applications and remote-managed services that can not only help you win, serve and retain customers, it can also deliver a significant return on your investment. Read this exclusive Total Economic Impact ™ study by Forrester Consulting for a tool to evaluate the potential ROI Avaya’s Private Cloud Services can bring to your organization.
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Data Architecture Optimization

Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP®), built on Hadoop, offers the ability to capture all structured and emerging types of data, keep it longer, and apply traditional and new analytic engines to drive business value, all in an economically feasible fashion. In particular, organizations are breathing new life into Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)-centric data architectures by integrating HDP to take advantage of its capabilities and economics. Download our whitepaper to learn more about the benefits of an optimized data architecture.
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How Big Data in the Cloud Drives the Connected Data Architecture

More and more companies are taking the journey to become truly data-driven — a smart, strategic shift for the future. But this journey presents some unique challenges. The high costs and resulting inflexibility of moving large computing infrastructures online has sparked interest in how cloud computing may alleviate some of the hurdles faced by today’s organizations in leveraging Big Data. Download our whitepaper to see how your organization can best leverage big data.
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Maximize Big Data in the Cloud

Today’s modern enterprise has options when it comes to computing: on-premises and in the cloud. Each has its own unique benefits. However, when it comes to Apache Hadoop, deploying it in the cloud offers additional benefits. Download our whitepaper to see how Apache Hadoop's cloud computing can help your organization.

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eBook: Contact Center Economics and the Cloud

Move to the Cloud with Confidence

If you are considering the right deployment model for your contact center, economic guidelines can help you choose the solution that is best for your company. Cloud, on-premises or hybrid.

Just a few years ago, businesses were still unsure of the viability of moving their contact centers and other critical enterprise systems to the cloud. Since then, with the decrease of cloud costs, and the corresponding increase in security and, the viability and total cost of ownership of cloud deployments are attracting more and more companies.

This eBook will cover how different criteria can affect a choice between a cloud or on-premises contact center, including:

  • The size of your contact center, and business requirements such as customer journey management
  • The location and quantity of contact centers being managed
  • The need for scalability, speed of deployment, and maintenance requirements

Read the eBook today!

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Executive Brief: Ten Reasons To Choose PureCloud by Genesys

Whether you want to replace a legacy contact center solution or you’re transforming your customer experience strategy, PureCloud by Genesys delivers fast results and helps you deliver next-generation customer experiences.

This executive brief discusses how PureCloud can help you:

  • Bridge silos for collaboration via chat, video and calls with an all-in-one solution
  • Add new capabilities instantly as PureCloud is a true, native cloud 2.0 solution built using microservices architecture
  • Get up and running in days, not months, using built-in best practices and multiple deployment options
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Migrating Enterprise Applications to Microsoft Azure

Migrating applications is a subject that can strike fear into the heart of even the most seasoned IT professional. Stories of poorly executed migrations abound, and they often cost businesses dearly in terms of time and money. As organizations consider migrating applications out of their own data centers and into the cloud, the level of anxiety can grow exponentially.

However, moving an enterprise application to the cloud doesn’t have to be a nerve-wracking experience. By following some simple guidelines, you can easily determine the best strategy for migrating your applications and taking maximum advantage of the cloud.

This white paper examines the most common application migration issues and offers guidance on how to manage them.

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Ovum Report: The Total Cost of Ownership of Cloud and Premise-Based Contact Center Platforms

A Look at the Five-Year Cost Comparisons for Technology Infrastructure Deployment

Total cost of ownership (TCO) is a major consideration for organizations evaluating the pros and cons of cloud-based contact center infrastructure deployment versus an on-premise solution. According to this report, for a 50-seat contact center the average cloud platform costs approximately $150,000 less in year 1 and up to $300,000 by year 5.

This Ovum report also discusses:

  • Which deployment model is right for small, midsize, and large contact centers, based on low, medium or high technology footprint requirements
  • How cloud-based systems are much quicker to deploy and can scale up or down in response to changing business conditions
  • How cloud drives a quicker innovation cycle
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Gartner Report: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service

Interactive Intelligence, a Genesys company, Named a Leader 2 years in a Row

The contact center as a service (CCaaS) market in North America is growing rapidly. CCaaS or cloud contact center solutions offer functions and capabilities that are similar to those required to operate call and contact centers as on-premises contact center infrastructure (CCI), except that they are delivered as a service and paid for on a monthly subscription model.

View this report now to learn:

  • Strengths and cautions to consider when evaluating cloud contact center solution providers
  • How the 10 cloud contact center vendors are positioned in each of the four quadrants – Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries or Niche players
  • Why Interactive Intelligence, a Genesys company, Named a Leader 2 years in a Row
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