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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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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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.

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.

If you’re an executive responsible for delivering line-of business solutions to market, then you understand the challenges. Whether they take the form of code delays due to API creation, deployment bottlenecks, or challenges around rapid scaling to meet demand, all the weight is on your shoulders.

Fortunately, there are solutions that can help. In this white paper you’ll:

• Learn about managing “two-speed IT” and how you can use DevOps strategies to help your developers get far more rapid-turnaround through continuous test and deployment
• Explore how you can build apps that meet your customers’ needs quickly using “right-fit runtime,” and how you can define and develop APIs with tools to help you manage API traffic and security
• Discover how your operations teams can reduce their workload, increase their productivity, and boost user satisfaction through the power of patterns and self-service IT.

In this webinar, we will share best practices for testing mobile apps for security vulnerabilities and protecting them at runtime, with a special emphasis on iOS applications.

Learn how to test application source code for potential security vulnerabilities, so you can confidently release your organization’s applications.

Hear the pros and cons of application security testing and penetration testing techniques. Learn how you can combat application security threats conveniently and effectively in the Cloud.

CASBs provide CISOs with a critical control point for cloud service visibility, security and compliance. Use Gartner CASB frameworks to support continuous cloud service discovery, adaptive access, verification, protection and the prioritization of CASB evaluation criteria.

Most Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) are blind to off-network mobile usage of cloud apps. IBM Cloud Security Enforcer helps to uncover this blind spot with visibility, identity & access controls, and protection for mobile workers using cloud apps.

Businesses are wallowing in data from an increasing number of sources – both internal and external. However, turning data into actionable information becomes harder as both IT and business users try to keep up with the data deluge.

This Battlecard looks at the evolution in analytics and business intelligence solutions today, especially the bifurcation into Traditional BI vs. Exploratory Analytics, why BOTH are important, and lists three key factors that users – both business and IT – must consider when evaluating a BI solution.

Key points will include:

• How User Experience Matters
• BI and Hybrid IT: Cloud, On-Premises and Both
• Supporting Self-Service: The Data Scientist in the Software

By 2017, 80% of enterprises will have adopted a hybrid IT strategy composed of public cloud, on-premises and private cloud components. In an increasingly “cloud-first” era, agile, scalable infrastructure matters more than ever.

This Battlecard looks at the changing nature of business, the growing importance of data to all parts of the enterprise, and offers five key considerations when evaluating database options for tomorrow’s enterprise.

Key points will include

• Supporting Next-Generation Applications
• Big Data and the Enterprise
• What Hybrid means to the database
• The Economics of Cloud
• Security and the Database