Buyer’s Guide to Enterprise Collaboration Solutions

The nature of work keeps evolving. Once, work meant being in the office interacting with colleagues, face-to-face, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Now work happens across corporate boundaries — anywhere, anytime, with people around the world. In the past, work tools comprised only a desk, phone, and computer. Now, work tools include multiple computers and mobile devices — both your own and the ones your company provides. Users don’t just use their own devices for work purposes, they are also turning to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers to fill in functional gaps and boost their productivity.
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Coverity Scan Open Source Report 2014

Managing software security and development risk in today’s evolving market is a difficult yet crucial requirement—one that many organizations are not effectively addressing, as evidenced by the latest headlines disclosing a series of data breaches of personal information.

The 2014 Coverity Scan Open Source Report details the changing landscape of open source and commercial software development, including how established development practices are slowly improving the state of software—and how they can be improved so that companies and individuals can write clean, effective software while minimizing the risk of becoming tomorrow’s headline.

Learn more about these changing dynamics within the open source community and discover how security and quality continue to improve.

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Flash Storage For Dummies, NetApp Special Edition

Flash Storage for Dummies, NetApp 2nd Special Edition, describes the many uses and benefits of flash storage technology in the enterprise. From flash-accelerated storage to all-flash arrays, flash technology improves performance and increases reliability in storage infrastructures. The book examines various elements of flash storage: how it evolved, and why you should consider it for your storage infrastructure. The book explores key differences in NetApp’s flash storage solutions: NetApp Flash Cache, Flash Pool, all-flash FAS, and the EF-Series. You’ll also learn five strategies for using Flash in your next storage project. In that classic For Dummies style, you’ll get some useful tips on how to best incorporate flash in your IT environment.
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ESG Brief: Enhancing Database Environments with NetApp Storage

Organizations of all kinds rely on their relational databases for both transaction processing and analytics, but many still have challenges in meeting their goals of high availability, security, and performance. Whether planning for a major upgrade of existing databases or considering a net new project, enterprise solution architects should realize that the storage capabilities will matter. NetApp’s systems, software, and services offer a number of advantages as a foundation for better operational results.
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ESG White Paper: Driving Business Value from Flash-optimized Storage

NetApp closely ties its product development and portfolio to match its customers' real-world application needs; to support tangible business-level value. NetApp has a full portfolio of products that support customer needs ranging from brute horsepower to data management-rich sophistication. Read about driving business value from flash-optimized storage.
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Evaluator Group: Investing Strategically in All Flash Arrays

For customers looking to implement flash for primary data center storage, NetApp's All Flash FAS systems offer some significant advantages over competitive offerings. Customer can deploy All Flash FAS arrays for specific applications now and later extend them to private and hybrid cloud-based applications as enterprise IT's longer term strategy dictates. Read this technology insight paper on investing strategically in all flash arrays.
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Redefining networks for CAMSS

Cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security place new demands on enterprise LAN, WLAN and data center networks. Read this paper to learn what those demands are and how IBM can help address them.
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Software-defined Storage solves performance problems

Big Data, Cloud Computing, Social Media, Mobile Business: These trends have spurred on exponential volumes of data that now need to be recorded, processed and analysed. High performance applications are required to assist, but also storage systems need to offer sufficient performance to efficiently store and back up the data they generate, guaranteeing high availability and overall administration. Traditional hard drive- storage arrays quickly reach their limits here. As a result, alternative paths are sought to work around these limits. This paper provides an overview of storage technologies available today and their advantages and disadvantages.
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Software-defined Storage simplifies the management process

Software-defined storage (SDS) is initiating a paradigm shift in the field of computer storage: We are moving away from providing hardware-based storage functions and services towards a software-orientated alternative. As a result, systems management can be automated and centralised, therefore its functions can be shared on all systems throughout the infrastructure, irrespective of the specific device or manufacturer. Below is an overview of the added value that can be achieved with regard to data management by switching to SDS and its invaluable functions and tools.
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Une solution SDS simplifie le processus de gestion du stockage

Le terme « software-defined » sert souvent à décrire le stockage. Il est pratiquement impossible de trouver aujourd’hui un grand fournisseur qui ne qualifie pas ainsi ses produits. Toutefois, en quoi consiste exactement le stockage SDS, quels sont les avantages pour l’entreprise qui le met en oeuvre et dans quelle mesure convient-il de s’y intéresser ?
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