VM Backup: Veeam vs. Legacy Backup Tools

Veeam® Backup & Replication™ isn’t the only way to back up your Modern Data Center™…but it is the best way.

While many legacy backup tools can now perform image-based backups of virtual machines (VMs), only Veeam fully leverages the virtual environment to reduce the cost and increase the value of backup—not just a little, but a lot.

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How a Cloud Phone System Uniquely Supports your Mobile Workforce?

What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning? According to a recent study, 84% of smartphone owners check their phones as soon as the alarm clock rings. As society becomes increasingly hooked on being connected anytime and anywhere, the notion of ‘work’ as a place to go from 9 to 5 is changing. For many people, the work environment is now fluid— constrained only by the number of reception bars on their wireless devices. In fact, Gartner predicts that the bring your own device (BYOD) trend will result in a 200 – 300% increase in mobile workers in 2014.
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Integration von Big Data in Geschäftsprozesse und Unternehmenssysteme

Integrieren Sie Ihre Big Data Initiativen in die unternehmensweiten Geschäftsprozesse. Control-M für Hadoop beschleuinigt die Anwendungsentwicklung und vereinfacht gleichzeitig die Prozessintegration in Ihr Unternehmen.

Folgende Themenschwerpunkte werden behandelt:
  • Wie können Sie mit einem Enterprise Scheduler für Hadoop, weitere Automationsinseln vermeiden
  • 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
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Workload Automation: Accelerate Digital Services Delivery

Managing Hadoop batch processing may consume a significant portion of application developers’ time and effort, which drives up application development times and costs. This paper from BMC discusses the obstacles IT organizations face in developing and managing Hadoop jobs and workflows and how a workload automation solution can remove these barriers.
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Why Big Data is a Big Deal

This CIO eBook explores how to deploy Hadoop applications faster and easier with a workload automation solution that simplifies and automates Hadoop batch processing and connected enterprise workflows.

Read the eBook to learn:
  • The role—and challenges—of Hadoop in Big Data application development
  • Six considerations for a Hadoop proof-of-concept initiative
  • How to connect Hadoop to other enterprise data sources and applications
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Assess Your Software Asset Management Maturity Level and Develop a Plan for Improvement

Managing the software licensing landscape within most companies is a complex task, which is made more complicated by the sheer number of contracts to be managed (hundreds, if not thousands) as well as the different types of licenses that must be administered. Industry trends such as virtualization, cloud, and increased flexibility in software licensing have added to this challenge, ensuring that the complexities associated with understanding and managing software assets continue to increase.
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RED HAT CEPH STORAGE: An Open, Software-defined Storage Platform for the Cloud

Red Hat® Ceph Storage is a massively scalable, open, software-defined storage platform that:

• Is designed for cloud infrastructures and web-scale object storage. Combines the most stable version of Ceph with a Ceph management platform, deployment tools, and support services.

• Provides the tools to flexibly, automatically, and cost-effectively manage petabyte-scale data deployments in the enterprise.

• Manages cloud data so enterprises can focus on managing their businesses.

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SWOT Assessment: Flexera Software, FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises 2014

In today's economic climate, there is significant pressure on CIOs to control costs and reduce risks while finding ways to fund new business initiatives. Software is a strategic asset that is typically under-managed in most organizations. It should therefore be a priority for CIOs to find ways to automate and optimize software asset management in order to uncover cost savings and minimize license liability risk.
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The Digital Transformation Journey: Key Technology Considerations

In the Application Economy, speed, innovation, and quality, have become table stakes. If you can’t meet your customers’ expectations, they will surely find a competitor who can. Whether your organization is in one of the sectors facing the most intense digital competition (like insurance, banking, telecommunications or retail), or a more traditional industry, how rapidly and successfully you embrace a software-driven digital transformation strategy will likely have a profound effect on your organization’s long term viability.

In this Whitepaper, learn how the Application Economy is driving Digital Transformation in companies, and how you can position your organization for success.
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Visualisations 101

Visualisations, if done right, can do just that. They have the ability to tell a story through the images displayed by guiding users toward a conclusion about their data and empowering them to make a decision based on that.

You wouldn’t write a book without a riveting plotline, would you? So don’t leave your data out in the cold without a story to back it up. But where do you start? How does storytelling work through visualisations?

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Why Continuous Deployment is critical to your digital transformation strategy

The application economy poses several challenges to a digital transformation strategy. To truly capitalize on the opportunity, organizations like yours have to think bigger than small-scale augmentations or throwing more resources at the problem. Such “solutions” might work in isolated cases, but they’ll never move the needle enough or drive competitive differentiation. With Continuous Deployment, you can transform and accelerate the SDLC, so complex deployments occur in hours or minutes, not weeks or days.
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Meeting Market Demands for Delivery of Innovative, New Application Services

In today’s fast-moving, ultra-competitive business landscape, the days of enterprises spending months—or even years—building, testing and releasing an application, service or new set of capabilities to the market are over. Customers, technology users and the market as a whole are more nimble than ever before, and their demands for innovative new functionality have grown in concert. In other words, customers are no longer content to wait for the next big release—nor are they willing to deal with glitches and defects when it arrives. In this brief you will learn how an enterprise release automation solution can help your organization simplify and accelerate your application delivery processes.

This whitepaper is in Portuguese.

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Dysfunction Junction: A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Started with DevOps

There has been growing buzz about DevOps. DevOps is a methodology that unites the often separate functions of software development (Dev) and production and operations (Ops) into a single, integrated, and continuous process. DevOps is about breaking down the barriers between Dev and Ops. It leverages people, processes, and technology to stimulate collaboration and innovation across the entire software development and release process.

Dev and Ops should always be part of an integrated process, but that’s not always as easy as it sounds. You may be stuck in what we call “Dysfunction Junction.” Read this eBooklet to learn about the pitfalls of DevOps, how you can avoid them, and how to get started on your DevOps journey.

This whitepaper is in Portuguese.

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