Identifying the Right Solution for your business

The biggest challenges around cloud adoption aren't the technologies involved but rather involve finding the people that can effectively leverage those technologies to provide the best outcome for an organization. Learn how to implement a cheaper and faster cloud by understanding:

  • The challenges of a hybrid, managed and DIY cloud
  • How cloud providers are better at detecting attacks
  • DIY versus managed hosted clouds
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Why you should care about Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS): An Expert’s perspective

There’s a lot of discussion going on lately about identity. In fact, it’s a very hot topic among most of the organizations today. However, identity is not a new topic, there are just better technologies available to manage identity and more companies providing identity solutions. Azure Active Directory is a comprehensive identity and access management cloud solution that provides a robust set of capabilities to manage your users and groups.

Join our featured speaker from Rackspace, Benjamin Villanueva, a Microsoft Certified Master in Directory Services, and a Microsoft Certified Solutions Master in Directory Services as we discuss and answer some burning questions that many of you may have:

  • How do I manage identities in the public cloud with Azure Active Directory?
  • What are the benefits of identity-as-a-service?
  • How do I streamline my existing Azure Active Directory implementation?
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Challenges of building and operating a Microsoft Private Cloud

A Microsoft Private Cloud enables businesses to balance the benefits of cloud computing with the benefits of a private data center. Building and maintaining a Microsoft® Cloud Platform environment can be challenging, though, and most organizations don’t have the resources to effectively manage the environment. This white paper examines how businesses can address those challenges and leverage the benefits of a Microsoft Private Cloud by using Rackspace to host and manage their Microsoft Cloud Platform environment.
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Don’t go Public with your Private Cloud

Have you always wondered about those “corner of the booth” discussions experts have with themselves when it comes to Cloud? What if it was with experts whom have had thousands of real-world cloud deployments under their belt and more than 15 years of experience managing public, private, hybrid and multi-clouds? Now’s your chance! Join Jeff DeVerter, Chief Technologist for Microsoft Technologies at Rackspace in a “corner of the booth” discussion with three (3) industry expert’s including a SharePoint MVP, chatting on how to keep your private cloud private. There are many reasons companies make the decision to deploy their applications on private cloud with security leading the way for making that decision. With this in mind, it’s vitally important that the deployment of private cloud stay secure. The experts will key in on choosing the right cloud infrastructure for your initial cloud deployment, the required security for your applications to be deployed with, and importance of a comprehensive cloud management strategy that insures success.
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IoT Upsets Application Development

Before IoT, applications worked using a "request and response" design where information flows in one direction. Now with the emergence of IoT, applications need to be able to flow data both ways and be able to learn from the incoming data to make improvements on-the-fly.

This report will provide you with insight into how applications must now be developed to cater to an IoT world and how you can incorporate machine learning to facilitate IoT data interpretation.

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The Platform Transformation: How IoT Will Change IT and When

IoT is here to stay. In fact, the IoT platform market is projected to hit $1.6 billion by 2021. IoT makes it possible for businesses to connect to things, people, and locations, manage those connections and harnesses data that can provide insight for businesses.

This report explores key considerations for future-proofing elements of your IT stack and smoothing the transition to IoT components for your business.

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Foundational Elements of an IoT Solution

IoT may seem like a wide array of technologies arranged in a bewildering set of combinations, which is true, but reading this eBook can thankfully break things down for you into clear layers that you can use to inform your mental model of IoT to create your own IoT application. This eBook will teach you how to:

  • Break down IoT into a mental framework to think about your solution
  • Connect, secure and interact with things in the cloud
  • Design and implement with key cloud technologies in mind
  • Wrap up all the information into an application quickly and effectively
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Gartner Critical Capability

Growing investments in Mode 2 IT projects and cost reduction efforts in core enterprise workloads are driving the demand for object storage. Here, we compare 12 object storage products against seven critical capabilities in use cases relevant to infrastructure and operations leaders.

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Deploying Java EE Apps in Cloud and Container Environments

Keeping your Java organization up to speed means delivering new applications and updates in days or weeks, grappling with application deployment in different environments, and struggling to keep application reliable and performing smoothly.

Successful leaders are turning to DevOps methodologies, microservices architectures, and containers to meet these requirements. But without the right application development platform, these infrastructures may not be properly supported.

Access this product overview and learn how you can best support your on premise infrastructure by employing the right application development platform.

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8 Reasons to Rethink Virtualization in Your Datacenter

Although server virtualization has become an integral part of today’s data center, the underlying architecture has remained a separate component of the infrastructure stack, despite technology advances and evolving user expectations.

But now the time has come for virtualization to become integrated as a core feature into the rest of the infrastructure.

This white paper details an infrastructure platform delivering enterprise-class storage, compute, and virtualization services for any app. Access now and you’ll learn eight benefits of integrating virtualization in your data center infrastructure.

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Enterprise Cloud For Dummies

WHAT IS THE ENTERPRISE CLOUD?

More and more leading organizations are going beyond hyperconvergence and turning to an enterprise cloud strategy to bring the agility, simplicity, and pay-as-you-grow economics of public clouds to their datacenters. This book will help you understand what the enterprise cloud is and how it can help you propel your organization into the future.

Download and learn how you can:

  • Prepare your organization for the new era of IT infrastructure
  • Get the frictionless benefits of public clouds without sacrificing the control of on-prem infrastructure
  • Leverage new best practices for enterprise storage, virtualization, and cloud technologies
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Machine Learning with Spark

Organizations of all kinds need data scientists. Accordingly, as part of its commitment to data science, IBM is making available technology, almost 10 years in incubation, designed to help organizations apply machine learning through Apache Spark. Doing so can bring significant benefits to the analytics industry as companies increasingly make space for machine learning in the enterprise.

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IBM is a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ – Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions, Q2 2016

Do you want to do Hadoop in the cloud? Explore the The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions, Q2 2016 report to understand how to evaluate Hadoop cloud solution vendors across 37-criteria.

The report explains the benefits for Hadoop cloud deployments including economizing the analysis of more data using cheaper infrastructure, enabling faster advanced analytics, scaling to unlimited resources in minutes, providing a self-service analytics platform, and simplifying big data deployment. Come away armed with how to evaluate IBM BigInsights on Cloud and other vendors across several dimensions including current offering, strategy and market presence. The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions, Q2 2016 report details how elasticity, automation and pay-as-you-go features are driving enterprise adoption of Hadoop in the cloud.

IBM differentiates BigInsights with end-to-end advanced analytics, and also has among the highest scores in the Cloud Platform Integration, data security, data management, partnerships and solution configuration criteria. Learn more about how to get started with Hadoop in the cloud with IBM.

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Mobile Security from Platform to Device: What you Need to Know Now

By next year over half of all US companies will formally support BYOD, bringing on the challenge of securing data and applications on devices that may often be in the hands malicious users, or worse – teenagers looking to win a game of Pokémon Go with mom’s work iPhone. And, thanks to the consumerization of IT, mobile users increasingly expect the same smooth user experience with business applications that is provided by popular games and consumer applications.

Fortunately, increased mobility and the bring your own device explosion don’t always add up to increased security challenges and UI/UX struggles. This Tech Byte series will look at the most important considerations when planning a mobile strategy – from application development platform to security and governance to user interface guidelines, and present best practices that businesses of all kinds can use to help ensure a successful shift towards a mobile-first enterprise.

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Mobility, Cloud, and the Enterprise: Mobile Application Strategies for Today

By next year over half of all US companies will formally support BYOD, bringing on the challenge of securing data and applications on devices that may often be in the hands malicious users, or worse – teenagers looking to win a game of Pokémon Go with mom’s work iPhone. And, thanks to the consumerization of IT, mobile users increasingly expect the same smooth user experience with business applications that is provided by popular games and consumer applications.

Fortunately, increased mobility and the bring your own device explosion don’t always add up to increased security challenges and UI/UX struggles. This Tech Byte series will look at the most important considerations when planning a mobile strategy – from application development platform to security and governance to user interface guidelines, and present best practices that businesses of all kinds can use to help ensure a successful shift towards a mobile-first enterprise.

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