Building apps in containers: 5 things to share with your manager checklist

It can be difficult to bring new solutions to your boss. You’re bumping up against budget, security, and the task of maintaining existing systems, and management is just trying to keep things up and running. Here are 5 key points to bring to your boss about developing applications and microservices using containers and enterprise Kubernetes to increase your rate of innovation and competitiveness.

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Ford Motor Company case study

Ford Motor Company seeks to provide mobility solutions at accessible prices to its customers, including dealerships and parts distributors who sell to a variety of retail and commercial consumers.To speed delivery and simplify maintenance, the company sought to create a container-based application platform to modernize its legacy stateful applications and optimize its hardware use. With this platform, based on Red Hat OpenShift and supported by Red Hat and Sysdig technology, Ford has improved developer productivity, enhanced its security and compliance approach, and optimized its hardware use to improve operating costs. Now, the company can focus on exploring new ways to innovate, from big data to machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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Moving legacy applications to containers

Legacy applications are not typically considered for public cloud deployments because of security, regulatory, data locality, or performance concerns. Containers make many of the services offered by public cloud providers possible and help increase automation.Migrating legacy applications to containers removes barriers to modernization. Red Hat® OpenShift® helps organizations complete this migration, letting them respond better to changing business demands. Read this brief to learn more.

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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes Infographic

Red Hat® Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes offers end-to-end management visibility and control to manage your cluster and application life cycle, along with security and compliance of your entire Kubernetes domain across multiple data centers and public clouds. Check out this data sheet to learn more.

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eBook: Mastering Data to Drive Medical Device Innovation to 2030

In this introductory section, we discuss the current landscape of the medical device industry and the forces taking shape today that will drive growth into 2030 and beyond. From new technology to shifting patients’ experiences, we’ll explore how a wide range of issues are affecting product development and innovation, as well as the impact of digitization and data when it comes to device regulations and operations.

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HBR Study: Critical success factors to achieve a better enterprise data strategy in a multi-cloud environment

Harvard Business Review Analytic Services survey points to challenges threatening to interrupt innovation.

As technology has become more powerful, more affordable, and more accessible, we are witnessing customers making breakthroughs and discoveries at a pace that was previously unimaginable. At the same time, we’ve identified new challenges emerging that threaten to interrupt that innovation.

Enterprise IT is simply not meeting business demands and users are prioritizing speed over security, accuracy, and maximum impact.

    We sponsored research by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services to survey global executives to answer the following questions:
  • Can enterprises access all their data efficiently and at scale?
  • How are organizations managing a complex ecosystem of public, hybrid, and on-premises environments?
  • Do companies have a data strategy that’s working?

Download the report for insight into these questions and more as well as to assess where your organization falls in comparison.

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Whitepaper – Your Roadmap to Government IT Modernization

Today, government IT teams are expected to deliver more services with fewer resources. Consequently, many agencies have prioritized legacy modernization, interoperability and shared service models as a means towards increasing IT delivery capacity.

But those approaches are easier talked about than executed. As agencies embark on legacy modernization, it becomes imperative to open up the existing technology so that new innovations can be delivered as needed in a secure way.

In this guide, produced in partnership with Govloop, we will discuss

  • A five-play roadmap to help those in government get a better sense of where to start on modernization projects.
  • An overview of the Information Technology Modernization Fund (ITMF).
  • Featured government success stories highlighting their modernization projects.
  • The IT Modernization Lifecycle, based on the recent report by the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council.

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Leverage Open-Source Benefits With The Assurance of Hitachi Vantara

To drive big data innovation, Hitachi Vantara offers two flavors of Pentaho : Pentaho Enterprise Edition, which is commercially supported, and Pentaho Community Edition, our contribution to the open source movement. Both offerings are built on the same core platform. However, there are major differences between the two, which impact how best to integrate Pentaho into your big data strategy, including features, packaging and support services.

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Six Keys to Maximizing Big Data Benefits and Project Success

Big data is about changing the status quo for established organizations and fueling the growth of new and disruptive businesses. Big data projects focus on enabling analysis of and interaction with new types and combinations of data at a far greater scale than has been possible with traditional enterprise business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing systems.

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Bundespolizei Advances Germany’s Public Safety

Bundespolizei is part of Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior and employs 41,000 citizens. Bundespolizei oversees air control, air safety, rail patrol, border patrol, crime reduction throughout Germany and patrol of their waters. In addition to their responsibilities within Germany, they work worldwide with other police agencies within the European Union and neighboring countries.

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GDPR Impact Series 2018

2018 sees the long-awaited General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enter into enforcement starting May 25th. It is a once-in-a-lifetime change to the legal basis on which individuals share their data with organizations.

Research company DataIQ recently examined how consumers expect their data to be used and whether they intend to exercise their new rights, as well as into what organizations intend to do to bring their data-driven practices into line with the Regulations. Download the report now to:

  • Understand the consumer perspective on data collection, consent, context, and control
  • Learn key strategies for the business/marketer’s processes, top opportunities, and challenges in adjusting to the new Regulation
  • Identify any mis-alignments between the two sides’ views of the data exchange and their root causes

Whether you view data as the new oil or as the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution, its relevance in today’s world is hard to deny. By laying the groundwork now, businesses will be able to embrace the opportunities presented by GDPR, and this research takes us one step closer to a more comprehensive understanding of how to truly put the customer and their expectations at the center of everything a brand does.

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Should you opt for a Cisco Enterprise Agreement to manage your software

Cisco is changing the way organizations procure and manage Cisco software through a new licensing model: the Cisco Enterprise Agreement (Cisco EA).

Choosing a Cisco EA provides simplicity, flexibility and cost savings. That's because it consolidates all your maintenance contracts and licenses in a single contract and offers license portability, upfront savings, on-demand deployment capabilities and more. You can also receive vouchers for services to optimize deployments and drive end-user adoption.

There are many benefits, so we've boiled it all down to give you the most important highlights.

What difference could a Cisco EA make to your business?

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Buyer’s Guide – Cisco Enterprise Agreements

You maybe aware that Cisco has introduced a new solution to manage license agreements: the Cisco Enterprise Agreement (Cisco EA).

This simple agreement model offers a number of benefits for procuring and managing your Cisco software suite (network,collaboration and security):

  • Get upfront savings and protected pricing for 3 to 5 years;
  • Consolidate all your maintenance contracts and licenses in a single contract;
  • Easily manage and deploy licenses through one simple portal;
  • Access free services to optimize deployments and enable adoption through Softchoice's Cisco Lifecycle Advisor program.

We have created a comprehensive a Buyer's Guide to provide more details on the advantages of a Cisco Enterprise Agreement.

Learn how the program works in 6 easy steps and get ready for the next level of Cisco licensing.

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