Putting Watson Developer Cloud to Work: News Inc.

A new generation of API provider is packing the power of PhD-grade science, natural language processing, deep learning, image recognition and the semantic Web into something as simple as a basic RESTful API call. This makes it possible for organizations of all types and sizes to benefit from the experience, expertise and intelligence of a team of PhDs—without having to actually find and employ them. How is this all possible? In this case study from ProgrammableWeb, you can see the source code behind one company’s API implementation.
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Rethinking Recovery for Distributed and Cloud Databases: A Versioned Database Future

Databases are essential tools for applications and much effort has been spent on managing and protecting them accordingly for the lifecycle of the data. The innovative new distributed approaches in database design have brought many advantages for enterprises in terms of agility and onboarding newer applications.

However, to unlock enterprise value from their data, organizations must also be sure that the data can be managed and recovered over its lifecycle. It is imperative that businesses fill these data recovery gaps to benefit from the best of both worlds and to scale their adoption across the enterprise and for their core applications.
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Now that you have a Microsoft private cloud, what the heck are you going to do with it?

Choosing and building a Microsoft Private Cloud is just the first step. Once you have the Microsoft Cloud Platform infrastructure up and running, you then have to figure out what you're going to monitor and manage all of the resources.

This whitepaper examines how businesses can leverage the benefits of a Microsoft Private Cloud, and take advantage of the following functions:
  • Enabling self-service.
  • Federating your Microsoft® Cloud Platform.
  • Taking advantage of software-defined networking.
  • Messaging services.
  • Database as a Service (DBaaS) and its advantages.
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The Challenges of Building and Operating a Microsoft Private Cloud

Business today requires a robust IT infrastructure and the connected mobile world needs 24/7 service with the agility to accommodate rapid changes in demand. A Microsoft Private Cloud enables businesses to balance the benefits of cloud computing with the benefits of a private data center. However, building and maintaining a Microsoft® Cloud Platform environment can be challenging.

Read this whitepaper to gain insight on:
  • How the Microsoft Private Cloud enables you to exceed the cost effectiveness of a standard virtualized infrastructure.
  • The challenges of managing a Microsoft Private Cloud.
  • The moving parts involved in establishing IT-as-a-service using Microsoft Private Cloud.
  • Features of the Microsoft® Cloud Platform powered by Rackspace©.
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The Cloud at Your Pace

The cloud has taken many twists and turns on its route to maturity. Along the way, many IT leaders have enjoyed real business advantages, including:
  • Lower costs
  • Reduced complexity
  • Faster roll-out of new apps and capacity
  • Streamlined processes
Yet some CIOs remain hesitant to get started. This white paper shows how you can now use the Microsoft technology stack to address your concerns, while minimizing your risks, and moving to the cloud at your own pace.
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3 Reasons Why the Future of Storage is Open Source and Cloud

Analysts predict massive growth in software defined storage in the coming year— and with solid reasoning. The capacity to pool storage across different arrays and applications is the latest wave in virtualization and is expected to have the same impact on the cost and upgrade cycle for storage as it has had on servers.
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Effective Azure Migrations

Moving existing line-of-business (LOB) applications to the cloud can be a daunting task. In this white paper, find out how Rackspace makes moving to the Microsoft cloud easy by:
  • Assessing current system and applications with one of 250+ Microsoft Experts
  • Understanding how to utilize new cloud capabilities based on our over 15 years of Microsoft Cloud experience
  • Manage, monitor and secure migrated applications and workloads 24x7x365
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Creating Resilient Architectures on Microsoft Azure

In this world of always-on services, the systems that support them must be designed to be both highly available and resilient. Today, many IT leaders are looking for their applications and infrastructure to be covered by the following:

  • Defined SLA¹s for workloads and applications
  • Mapped failure points and impact of these on the business
  • Regularly measure application and Infrastructure health

Access this white paper to discover your resiliency, and learn how to create a resilient architecture on Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

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An Upgrade Path to Enterprise Unified Communications

Cloud unified communications (UC) started as a mostly small and midsize business (SMB) phenomenon, but has recently been moving upmarket to larger enterprise customers based on demand. This isn’t surprising - UC has many advantages over traditional private branch exchange (PBX) deployments, including features, redundancy, and price. But enterprise customers migrating from an on-premise PBX to a cloud UC solution expect the same quality and reliability they had with their PBX and primary rate interfaces (PRIs).

Download this whitepaper to find out how Fuze can provide customers the quality service they deserve.

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Unified Communications Security Measures: Ensuring Peace of Mind

The decision to invest in new technology should never be taken lightly. From calculating ROI to anticipating and negotiating contracts and changes in infrastructure, there are a multitude of factors to consider when making the transition to a new or upgraded communication service. Yet while financial and infrastructure decisions are ultimately major factors in a company’s choice of deployment, another significant area is often overlooked— the impact that a new solution will have on your company’s security.
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The Unified Communications Buyer’s Guide to Picking the Right Cloud Telephony Solution

There’s no better time for a business to embrace unified communications solutions. Actually, that’s not entirely true – several years ago would probably have been a better time. After all, these tools offer major benefits to businesses of all kinds, from the largest enterprises to the smallest shops. With a UC system in place, an organization’s employees can become more collaborative, more efficient, and happier. The sooner a company starts to take advantage of these possibilities, the better.

For those firms that have yet to embrace UC, though, one of the most important steps they must take is choosing a particular solution. While UC as a general concept is fairly straightforward and consistent, there is a tremendous amount of variety between the various services available. Here are some important considerations to keep in mind when evaluating available UC options.

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6 Questions for a Prospective Cloud Service Provider

In order to remain competitive in today’s global marketplace, organizations must constantly improve customer service, reduce IT overhead, and increase efficiency—frequently with fewer resources than before. This may seem like an impossible feat, but the advent of UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) has enabled IT departments to be viewed as business drivers rather than cost centers.

Companies looking to take advantage of a cloud UC strategy need to consider the move from a myriad of business perspectives. “How will Provider X’s solution serve specific departmental needs as well as the requirements of the organization as a whole?” “Will Provider Y be able to better equip us with the required tools to streamline processes and increase collaboration?”

Here are six additional questions to ask any potential UCaaS provider before making a decision.

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Affordable, Scalable, Reliable OLTP in a Cloud and Big Data World: IBM DB2 pureScale

This white paper discusses the concept of shared data scale-out clusters, as well as how they deliver continuous availability and why they are important for delivering scalable transaction processing support. It also contrasts this approach, taken in a relational database context, with clustering approaches employed by NoSQL databases and Hadoop applications, showing the importance It goes on to discuss the specific advantages offered by IBM's DB2 pureScale, which is designed to deliver the power of server scale-out architecture, enabling enterprises to affordably develop and manage transactional databases that can meet the requirements of a cloud-based world with rapid transaction data growth, in an affordable manner.

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Data Warehousing Shifts: Hadoop and Analytic tools move to the Cloud

This IT Managers Journal looks at how enterprises are leveraging the power of Hadoop and the evolving Big Data ecosystem to rapidly extract the information needed to speed business decision-making in today’s hybrid data environments.

Slashdot’s editors will provide a POV on the importance of leveraging Hadoop as part of a data warehousing solution whether Cloud, hybrid or on-premises, and will present several other assets that highlight the bottom-line benefits of these new approaches.

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Live Event: Cloud & SDN – What It Means For Your Wi-Fi

The rapid evolution of networking solutions and the impact of macro technology trends makes future-proofing your infrastructure more complex than ever. With hype around Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Cloud reaching tipping point, what impact do these technologies have on the future design, deployment, and support of your wireless LAN infrastructure?

Join us on Thursday, 21 January 2016 to explore the possibilities and chart Wi-Fi’s evolutionary path to determine where best to place your bets in 2016 and beyond.

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