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CIO Research Study: American CIOs Shift Focus from Cost Cutting to Value Creation

A new IDG Research study finds that US and Latin American CIOs believe that Big Data and cloud are spurring competitiveness and productivity gains, with security an essential - a given. Study results are placed in the context of global findings that explore IT in transition.

CIO Research Infographic: American CIOs Shift Focus from Cost Cutting to Value Creation

IDG's CIO research asked more than 1,500 global CIOs for their insights on Big Data, Cloud, and Security, using both online surveys and in-depth interviews. See IDC's compelling findings in this infographic about American CIOs insights.

Business Analytics in the cloud: Driving business innovation through cloud computing and analytics solutions

Read this whitepaper to learn how businesses take advantage of the power of the cloud to build strong analytically oriented teams, adopt new ways to use information and jump ahead of their competition.

Ziff Davis: Maximizing Performance and Minimizing Cost with Interactive Business Intelligence

Ziff Davis explains why organizations don't need to move their entire data holdings in-memory in order to provide faster performance to their users. A platform that allows flexibility in how much memory to use - and what to put in-memory-is a viable and cost-effective alternative.

Wintergreen Research, Inc White Paper: The Economics of Software Testing: Service Virtualization

"Read the paper from Winter Research, Inc sharing details on the "Dramatic savings brought by IBM Rational automated test solutions". Learn about the positive ROI from an increased ability minimizing the cost and time to identify errors."

Preventing security risks in real time

The growth of cloud, mobility, social business and big data mean that botnets, credit card theft, cyber criminals and other external threats pose increasing risk to business continuity, financial stability and brand reputation. Read the white paper, "Preventing security risks in real time", to learn how this new reality is forcing the evolution of organizations' defenses to become more intelligent-using global analytics to scale visibility across broad data sets, both diverse and complementary, in real time.

Virtualizing disaster recovery using cloud computing

Nobody likes to think about disaster recovery. But even with a flat IT budget, you need to have seamless failover and failback of critical business applications. Read this white paper to learn how cloud-based business resilience can provide cost effective alternatives to traditional disaster recovery.

The case for cloud based disaster recovery

In an around-the clock business world, you need nearly instantaneous failover and failback of your critical applications. Otherwise, you risk business losses and brand damage in the event of disruption or disaster. But how can you improve your existing disaster recovery operations? Read this brochure to learn how the power of cloud technologies can help you increase recovery speed, reliability and scalability.

Develop an intelligent disaster recovery solution with cloud technologies

If you are unhappy with the state of your current disaster recovery operations, IBM is offering a must read Q and A. In this interview, IBM cloud experts share their insights on how cloud computing can provide nearly instantaneous failover and failback of critical business applications. This type of speedy recovery keeps your organization running in the event of disaster or disruption, limiting the risk of business losses and brand damage. You'll also learn about the value of IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery, and how it can benefit organizations ranging from large enterprises to small businesses.

IBM Ready Pack for Cloud: Helping SMBs Manage Growth and Costs

Virtualized infrastructure deployment has become an integral discussion within most dynamic IT environments, where shrinking budgets and overtaxed IT staff members are the norm, regardless of organizational size and complexity. A private cloud is a combination of virtualization and management software, physical servers, storage and networking hardware. Physical resources in the cloud are virtualized into pools of shared resources that IT can use to deliver capacity on demand to the business. The IBM Ready Pack for Cloud enables small and medium businesses (SMBs) to achieve operational efficiencies and faster time to market. This solution empowers small IT staff to rapidly deliver a virtualization infrastructure, manage multiple workloads across the cloud, and increase overall business efficiencies.

Top 8 Identity & Access Management Challenges with Your Saas Applications

With the exploding adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, enterprise IT is fundamentally changing. While on-demand services provide tremendous ROI, they also introduce new challenges that must be overcome to truly capitalize on their potential. Identity management problems such as controlling who is granted access to which applications and data and how to control access to these applications leveraging on premise directories such as Active Directory, have become increasingly important. Single Sign-On and user management solutions that are optimized for the cloud are necessary to help address these challenges. This whitepaper presents the eight biggest identity and access management (IAM) challenges associated with adopting and deploying cloud and SaaS applications, and discusses best practices for addressing each of them.

Private Clouds Will Use Hybrid Infrastructure- The Role Of Mainframes In Cloud: To Meet The Full Range Of Reliability And Security Needs

This paper looks at the requirements of the next generation of applications moving to the cloud. The paper discusses cloud customers' desire for a greater infrastructure choice and openness to hybrid infrastructures. The paper concluded shtt hybrid cloud infrastructures are inevitable, particularly for private environments. Hybrid clouds deliver higher values with high compute density, yielding strong cost efficiency for applicable workloads.

How Cloud Changes the Game for Line of Business Managers in Midsized Companies

In this paper, we explore midsize business challenges from the perspective, not of the IT department, but of the line of business managers they support. Using real-life use cases, we show how cloud services-and in particular, the IBM Smart Cloud offerings-can help midsize business managers reach their goals and transform the business.

IDC Brief: Cloud Computing in the Midmarket: Assessing the options.

Read this analyst brief from IDC to learn about public, private and hybrid cloud models and how your organization can take advantage of them. The paper also looks at how you can integrate cloud solutions into existing IT and offers some principles for measuring the success of your cloud solutions.

Become a social business in the cloud IBM SmartCloud for Social Business collaboration services

Help create business value by becoming a social business in the cloud. IBM SmartCloud for Social Business social collaboration services provide integrated email, social business capabilities and third-party applications to help deepen relationships, drive operational effectiveness and optimize workforces.