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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10 Steps to Success with Public Cloud Adoption

You can’t ignore it anymore – cloud is no longer an option, it’s a requirement. Your cloud program is the single most significant technology shift your company will face over the next decade. However, getting to the cloud requires much more than following a few best practices. This guide walks you through ten best practices and resources — from Rackspace and CTP — to support your successful transition.
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Accelerate Your Journey to the Cloud

Deploying technology that helps streamline operations and drive innovation is a top priority in the digital agenda. Find out how the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service can support your digital transformation goals.
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Security approaches for open hybrid clouds in government

Government agencies depend on the ability to effectively share and utilize data, deploy digital services, and pool IT resources.

This whitepaper summarizes several effective approaches that government agencies are adopting to ensure their cloud initiatives are highly secure even as they enable greater data-sharing and collaboration across agencies. These approaches are drawn from the webinar, “Securing Intelligence in an Open Hybrid Cloud,” which explains that a multifaceted approach to cloud security is required to achieve successful outcomes. Cloud security is the keystone of IT modernization efforts.

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Give Legacy Code New Life With Modern COBOL AppDev: Using COBOL as a JVM language

With billions of lines of COBOL in use, this business language powers a large percentage of every ATM, government, and many other business transactions. Many businesses are looking for new ways to utilize decades of solid business logic without having to replace a mission critical application.

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by Micro Focus and presented by SourceForge to learn how organizations around the world are utilizing existing .NET and Java development teams to integrate and modernize COBOL applications. Attendees will learn:

  • What tools can be used to ‘free’ business logic from legacy code
  • Exposing COBOL processes as REST base services
  • Using COBOL as a .NET or JVM language

Don’t wait – register now for these TechBytes to get started.

About the Presenter:
Michael Bleistein, Principal Architect, at Micro Focus, is a 25-year veteran when it comes to COBOL. Currently he specializes in modernization through .NET, Java, and SOA using Visual COBOL, helping customers understand Micro Focus solutions and how they can be used to combat their business problems.

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Give Legacy Code New Life With Modern COBOL AppDev: Using COBOL as a .NET language

With billions of lines of COBOL in use, this business language powers a large percentage of every ATM, government, and many other business transactions. Many businesses are looking for new ways to utilize decades of solid business logic without having to replace a mission critical application.

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by Micro Focus and presented by SourceForge to learn how organizations around the world are utilizing existing .NET and Java development teams to integrate and modernize COBOL applications. Attendees will learn:

  • What tools can be used to ‘free’ business logic from legacy code
  • Exposing COBOL processes as REST base services
  • Using COBOL as a .NET or JVM language

Don’t wait – register now for these TechBytes to get started.

About the Presenter:
Michael Bleistein, Principal Architect, at Micro Focus, is a 25-year veteran when it comes to COBOL. Currently he specializes in modernization through .NET, Java, and SOA using Visual COBOL, helping customers understand Micro Focus solutions and how they can be used to combat their business problems.

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Give Legacy Code New Life With Modern COBOL AppDev: Exposing COBOL processes as REST based services

With billions of lines of COBOL in use, this business language powers a large percentage of every ATM, government, and many other business transactions. Many businesses are looking for new ways to utilize decades of solid business logic without having to replace a mission critical application.

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by Micro Focus and presented by SourceForge to learn how organizations around the world are utilizing existing .NET and Java development teams to integrate and modernize COBOL applications. Attendees will learn:

  • What tools can be used to ‘free’ business logic from legacy code
  • Exposing COBOL processes as REST base services
  • Using COBOL as a .NET or JVM language

Don’t wait – register now for these TechBytes to get started.

About the Presenter:
Michael Bleistein, Principal Architect, at Micro Focus, is a 25-year veteran when it comes to COBOL. Currently he specializes in modernization through .NET, Java, and SOA using Visual COBOL, helping customers understand Micro Focus solutions and how they can be used to combat their business problems.

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The CIO Guide to Autonomic IT

Given the ever-increasing criticality of IT to the business, the CIO that cannot deliver predictable performance, while minimizing cost will be replaced. Yet a number of trends are increasing the complexity of solving this problem. Moreover, organizations today vary in their level of IT maturity. The ability to adopt new technologies and processes, pressure from the business, as well as the beliefs and aspirations of CIOs all play a role in how and why organizations mature.

This document describes five stages of IT maturity for CIOs to understand where their organization is today and where they can aspire to reach:

  1. Aware: Collect and review performance and cost metrics
  2. Proactive: Proactively make changes to assure performance and control cost
  3. Automated Management: Continuously assure performance within cost constraints
  4. Demand Aligned: Auto scale apps and infrastructure based on real-time demand
  5. SLA Delivery: Deliver differentiated service levels within cost and constraints

Adopting an autonomic IT approach requires a change in mindset across the organization. But whatever their stage of IT maturity, CIOs and their organizations can benefit. This document is your roadmap.

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Capacity Management in the Modern Data Center

Capacity management as an operational discipline has existed since the advent of server-based computing, dating back to the age of the mainframe. Commercial tools to support this discipline have existed for more than 30 years with each successive generation of server platform creating its own unique requirements.

The introduction of virtualization in particular introduced the Intelligent Workload Management (IWM) problem where capacity management was no longer a sufficient solution to assuring application performance. In particular, traditional capacity management solutions suffer from a few shortcomings.

This whitepaper explores the traditional methods of managing capacity in the data center, the new approach IT must adopt to stay competitive and how you can assure application performance while scaling your infrastructure.

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Public Cloud Guide: New Clouds, Same Challenges

A growing number of IT leaders are transforming IT’s unfortunate reputation as a cost-center into one of a competitive advantage. In doing so they acknowledged that IT cannot be a gate-keeper. Their teams must enable applications teams to deliver on business needs—or they’ll be replaced. The public cloud promises many things, but there remain three key elements to consider as you transform IT: Performance, Cost, and Agility.

This white paper is for leaders of Operations, Engineering, or Infrastructure teams who are creating or executing an IT roadmap. It discusses the challenges that must be recognized and questions that must be considered in order to succeed in this new cloud era.

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