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5 Tips on How Your Hosting Choices Can Help You to Innovate

Making decisions about technology to support a creative environment requires original thinking. When you’re under pressure to deliver, a provider who offers an off-the-shelf answer to a difficult problem, or only partly manages your hosting when you need total support, is just not performing well enough.

Preparing for the 2014 Holiday Shopping Season

With 93% of people doing at least some of their holiday-season shopping with online merchants, e-tailers of every kind need to get their websites in gear and ensure their customers feel confident shopping on their site. Whether it’s shopping online, instore pick-up, or even browsing and wish lists, customers are offering you an unprecedented amount of data and sales this season. But fail to keep your customers safe with good website security, and all you’ll get is a lump of coal in your stocking.

10 Common Problems APM Helps You

Applications in today's distributed, cloud-based IT environment need to perform at their peak at all times. Unfortunately, most do not. And while many developers and IT professionals have Application Performance Management (APM) solutions, they often don't know how to take full advantage of the benefits. This SlashGuide gives IT professionals and developers practical advice they need to get the most out of APM.

Integrate Big Data into Business Processes and Enterprise Systems

In the paper, “Integrate Big Data into Your Business Processes and Enterprise Systems” you’ll learn how to drive maximum value with an enterprise approach to Big Data. Topics discussed include:

• How to ensure that your Big Data projects will drive clearly defined business value

• The operational challenges each Big Data initiative must address

• The importance of using an enterprise approach for Hadoop batch processing

Workload Change: The 70 Percent of Your Business DevOps Forgot

Organizations that have successfully integrated workload automation (WLA) into their software development lifecycle have seen substantial benefits. So why is WLA, also referred to as job scheduling or batching processing, largely missing from the DevOps discussion? Adding WLA early in the development process ensures that the benefits of DevOps accrue for all applications, including your batch services. This paper explores the benefits in greater detail and explores possible ways to remedy the situation.

Integração de Big Data em Processos Comerciais e Sistemas Empresariais

No artigo, “Integração de Big Data em Processos Comerciais e Sistemas Empresariais” você aprenderá a como agregar valor máximo a sua empresa junto com Big Data. Tópicos discutidos são:

• Como garantir que seus projetos de Big Data conduzirão os valores definidos do seu negócio claramente

• Os desafios operacionais que cada iniciativa de Big Data deve abordar

• A importância da utilização de uma abordagem empresarial para processos batch em Hadoop

Integration von Big Data in Geschäftsprozesse und Unternehmenssysteme

Integrieren Sie Ihrer Big Data Initiativen in Ihre Unternehmensweiten Geschäftsprozesse. Gerne machen wir Sie damit vertraut, wie sie mit Control-M für Hadoop die Anwendungsentwicklung beschleunigen und die Unternehmensintegration vereinfachen können.

Besprochene Themen schließen folgende Punkte ein:

• Wie kann sichergestellt werden, dass Sie aus ihren Big Data Initiativen den gewünschten Mehrwert erhalten.

• Wie können Sie mit Ihren Big Data initiativen sich den administrativen Herausforderungen & Bedürfnissen stellen und mögliche Konfrontationen erfolgreich meistern.

• Wie können Sie mit einem Enterprise Scheduler für Hadoop, weitere Automationsinseln vermeiden.

IBM POWER8: Performance and Cost Advantages in Business Intelligence Analytics

Big Data Analytics Solutions IBM Power Systems help today's enterprises deliver actionable insights faster with optimized solutions that process structured and unstructured data at massive scale.

The New Currency of Business: Getting Big Value out of Big Data

Today, data is the new currency of business. But many organizations have yet to make the most of data insights that drive better outcomes. This e-book describes how businesses can manage information with greater efficiency, speed and continuity.

Edison Group: Capitalizing on smarter and faster insight with Flash

This paper discusses how migrating IBM DB2 components to the IBM FlashSystem 820/840 or the Flash Adapter 90 will enhance the performance of database-centric applications such as IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight. Flash will help reduce bottlenecks, optimize applications and boost performance.

Ten Ways to Boost Performance in Midsize Organizations

With the growing demand for faster business applications and the rapid spread of technology trends like Big Data, computing performance has never been more important. The challenges for midsize businesses are even greater. With fewer resources, IT teams in midmarket organizations need to be able to deliver mission-critical applications at full-horsepower to employees. They also need to be able to do more with less -- more computing power with fewer servers, smaller teams and leaner budgets. This IT Managers' Journal delivers 10 ways IT managers and data center professionals in midsize organizations can deliver more computing power to meet the promises they have made. Download this exclusive IT Managers' Journal and learn how to get more out of your data centers today.

Deliver Workload Automation for the App Developer

These are exciting times for enterprise application developers, as companies challenge them to build solutions that better exploit mobile devices, cloud infrastructures, sensor networks, big data, and APIs for widely used services such as Facebook and Gmail. Application development, however, isn't all intellectual exhilaration. It has its pain points, too, such as the toil that goes into creating and modifying batch workload jobs. This paper explores how app developers can use automation to deal with batch application workflows.

Workload Automation – From Application Development to Digital

This paper, "Workload Automation – From Application Development to Digital Service Delivery," describes how a workload automation solution can eliminate the manual processes developers now use to define batch workflows and communicate them to schedulers.By extending the use of workload automation to developers, organizations can implement applications faster, slash costs, and increase service quality.

Integrate Big Data into Business Processes and Enterprise Systems

In the paper, “Integrate Big Data into Your Business Processes and Enterprise Systems” you’ll learn how to drive maximum value with an enterprise approach to Big Data. Topics discussed include:

• How to ensure that your Big Data projects will drive clearly defined business value

• The operational challenges each Big Data initiative must address

• The importance of using an enterprise approach for Hadoop batch processing

Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2012 R2 in Depth

Data deduplication has been around for years and comes in many forms. Most people think about expensive storage arrays when they talk about deduplication but that is certainly not the only type of data deduplication technology.

This white paper examines the data deduplication technology embedded in Windows Server 2012 R2 and the benefits it can bring to your environment. The discussion includes how it works and the possible scenarios for using Windows Server 2012 R2 data deduplication.