Software Download: The Challenge for Game Developers

Digital distribution is the fastest growing method to sell games, upgrade and fix game software, and push out new enhancements to existing games. For example, Steam, one of the largest game distribution sites in the world, distributes over 3000 games to more than 100 million active users while supporting 5-8 million players simultaneously. The percentage of video gamers choosing digital distribution over DVDs grew from 40% in 2012 to over 50% in 2013, according to the Entertainment Software Association, and this number will keep climbing.
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Using JMSL in Hadoop MapReduce Applications

The prototypical Hadoop MapReduce application has at least one Mapper class, one Reducer class, and one driver class. The Mapper class reads the input data and creates intermediate data. The Reducer class accumulates intermediate information and emits a combined result. The Driver class extends the Hadoop class Configured and implements the Hadoop Tool interface, and is used to configure and execute the job.
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Is your Database Ready for the Era of Big Data?

You need a database designed to control both the infrastructure and personnel costs that form the IT budget. The next generation of IBM DB2 helps organizations get more value from their big data to improve their IT economics. Major innovations provide out-of-the-box performance gains that go beyond the limitations of in-memory-only systems to support decision making at the speed of business.
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Data Center Design Best Practices Technical Brief

Written for Data Center Managers interested in optimal data center design to save time and money, the Data Center Selection and Design Best Practices technical brief outlines the top 5 design best practices honed by years of experience from a leading data center services provider. Creating and maintaining data centers is a complex exercise that balances power, cooling, space, cost, and planning for the future. Explore the best practices to use when designing a data center or selecting a colo provider.
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Structure Research On-Demand Webinar: 5 Ways to Future-Proof Your Data Center

Future-proofing your data center is an ongoing process—often by the time you finish updating technology to accommodate current needs, it’s already outdated. How do you keep up? In the webinar "Data Center Trends for 2020 and Beyond"; Michael Levy from CenturyLink, and Jabez Tan from Structure Research examine the future of the data center and share 5 predictions on how it will evolve over the next five years and beyond so you can be prepared for the changes ahead. View the webinar now.
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Build vs Buy tool

How Much Capital Can You Save? The decision to build or buy your next data center is complex - involving a variety of inputs from construction, lease, and labor costs, to forecasting future needs. That's no easy task for IT heads of infrastructure, which is why this simple tool was developed. Create a personalized cost savings analysis and see the potential savings you can achieve when you choose to manage your business, not your data center. Calculate now.
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2015 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report

Understand the business impact of DDoS attack trends from the Imperva Incapsula Q2 2015 DDoS Trends Report. DDoS attacks against network infrastructures continue to grow in size and duration (over 20 percent of attacks last more than five days). Those aimed at applications are both lengthy (up to eight days) and likely to repeat.

Download the report and learn what to expect and how you can protect your website from such attacks.
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Computer Manufacturer Swaps Out Guardium to Save 70% in Operating Costs

One of the largest computer technology companies in the world replaced their IBM Guardium deployment with Imperva SecureSphere, to audit and protect their database environment. This case study explains how this organization switched to SecureSphere and reduced operating costs by over 70%, saving the company $1.9M a year in recurring labor and support costs.
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API Monetization: How to Unlock the Value of Your APIs

It should come as no surprise that exposing business data outside of the enterprise creates a range of new security and management challenges. API Management solutions make it simple for even the most security-conscious organization to open their information assets without impacting data security or the performance of backend systems. So in the end, you can focus not on the risks of API monetization, but rather, on the rewards.
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APIs Guide for Extending Your ESB/SOA Environment to Mobile, Cloud and IoT

Every enterprise has a wide variety of IT requirements where integration is needed. The rapid proliferation and adoption of cloud and mobile technologies has accentuated the financial impact of these needs. In response, the integration space has matured to include feature-rich stacks from enterprise integration vendors that provide full, multi-layer platforms in the form of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) or SOA suite. But with these very broad capabilities comes complexity—multi-layer stacks can be difficult and costly to install, debug, administer and secure.
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メインフレーム運用コスト削減の新しい手法

IT予算を有効に活用するコストを削減する有効な方法の一つは、今のサービス提供に影響を及ぼさずメインフレームのソフトウェア月額使用料を制御することです。このeBookでは、メインフレーム環境にあるワークロードの処理時間や場所をインテリジェントに最適化することで効率を上げてコストを削減するソリューションを紹介しています。

下記を実現する方法を学びます：
  • ビジネスへの影響を考慮し、資源の使用についてインテリジェントな意思決定を推進
  • キャパシティの有効活用を促進し、4時間平均のピークを削減
  • サブシステムの配置を最適化し、余分なDB2やIMSを排除
  • サービスに影響を及ぼさずに月額使用料を20%から30%削減
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