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Embedded Analytics 101 – What it is and Why You should Care

Embedded analytics is the technology that integrates analytic capabilities into software applications. When implemented successfully, embedded analytics can bring to life the data collected by your applications and provide a superior user experience.

APIs Fueling the Connected Car Opportunity

The connected car offers manufacturers and dealers ways to deliver a better consumer experience post purchase and will prove strategic to developing consumer loyalty in the long term. Today’s connectivity technologies empower the automotive sector to deliver increased value via a number of innovative features, including:

• The ability to remotely start or unlock a vehicle

• Real-time diagnostic information to prevent minor issues from turning major

• Connection with insurance companies, to take advantage of “good driver” discounts

• Integration with car part suppliers in order to better manage inventory

Five Simple Strategies for Securing Your APIs

APIs empower organizations to integrate applications using Web technology. The API-based approach to integration is exploding in popularity because it builds on well-understood techniques and leverages existing infrastructure.

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.

Driving Business Value from Flash-optimized Storage

Solid- state flash storage is one of today's most important "old yet new" IT technologies. It's old in the sense that some form of solid-state memory has been around since the 1970s. Flash technology arose in the 1980s, and modern flash drives within enterprise storage subsystems arrived on the market back in 2008, with various types of flash-card packaging being the latest turn of the technology crank.

Flash storage is new because the ongoing advances in performance, density, and other factors are still continuing to help flash take over an increasing number of performance-sensitive workloads from conventional spinning-desk arrays.

Your Website Health Check – Get in Shape

More than half a billion (552 million) identities were exposed in 2013 as a result of data breaches. If your website is weak enough to let in a hacker, not only could you face the wrath of angry customers, but you could also be exposed to regulatory fines and damaging media coverage.

It’s as simple as this: resolve to keep your site fit and healthy or get out of the game.

Project Management Best Practices

Project management is a juggling act, with too many balls in the air at once. Anyone can learn to draw a Gantt chart, but effective project managers also rely on the savvy that comes from experience. Whether you are a rookie or a veteran PM, these tips, from people who’ve already done their tours of duty in the project management trenches, will help you drive project success in an unpredictable world.

You’ll learn 21 solid survival tips in the following categories:

1. Lay the foundation

2. Plan the project

3. Estimate the work

4. Track your progress

5. Learn for the future

Download this Whitepaper

Tactical buying as a transformational cost lever in high-tech: Surprising opportunities and savings

While Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) remain under relentless pressure to show sustainable savings, most procurement organizations overlook the bottom of the spend food chain. Tactical buying is an opportunity for procurement organizations to transform the way they approach lower-end spend for game-changing results. Building these capabilities and realizing the value of tactical procurement is made possible by advanced “target operating models,” which are a combination of targeted Human Resources (HR) and organizational design practices, advanced metrics, appropriately used sophisticated analytics and focused, process-driven technology.

IDC Paper: Attributes of SAN Storage Required for Business Critical Workloads

Organisationen erwarten von ihren IT-Abteilungen , um ein SAN-Speicher -Infrastruktur, die schnellere Einführung von Anwendungen und Diensten , kontinuierlichen und schnellen Zugriff auf Daten in den wichtigsten Anwendungen und effiziente Skala auf Unternehmensdaten Wachstum ohne vergleichbare Wachstum der IT-Ausgaben befassen unterstützen kann liefern . Diese IDC White Paper einen Überblick über die wichtigsten SAN Storage-Funktionen erforderlich, um solche Herausforderungen und die NetApp SAN Storage-Portfolio -Angebote , die am besten Adresse Ihre Bedürfnisse.

ESG Lab Validation: NetApp EF560 All Flash Array for Oracle: Enterprise Storage for Latency-Sensitive Databases

IT managers, line-of-business stakeholders and senior executives continue to look for ways to improve resource utilization and ROI in IT. Challenges with database environments and supporting infrastructures include managing data growth and database size, meeting database performance requirements, and deploying new database technologies and applications. This ESG Lab Report test the real world performance, reliability, availability, and serviceability of NetApp EF-Series all flash arrays in Oracle database environments.

Flash Storage für DUMMIES

Flash Storage für Dummies beschreibt die vielen Einsatzmöglichkeiten und Vorteile der Flash-Speichertechnologie im Unternehmen.

Flash Storage für Dummies in der 2. NetApp Special Edition befasst sich mit der Fülle von Einsatzbereichen und Vorteilen von Flash Storage-Technologie in Unternehmen. Mit der Flash-Technologie lassen sich von Storage mit Flash- Beschleunigung bis zu rein Flash-basierten Arrays Performance und Zuverlässigkeit von Storage-Infrastrukturen steigern. Zudem werden die Stromkosten im Rechenzentrum sowie die Kosten für die Räumlichkeiten verringert. Das vorliegende Whitepaper enthält eine Fülle von Informationen, praktisch zusammengefasst in vier kurzen Kapiteln mit sämtlichen Informationen, die Sie benötigen:

- Flash Storage-Technologie – was und warum

- Flash Storage-Technologie – wo und wie

- Die Vorteile der Flash Storage-Technologie

- Zehn (okay, fünf) Strategien für den Einsatz von Flash in Ihrem nächsten Storage-Projekt

Die zentrale Bedeutung hardwareoptimierter Plattformen für geschäftskritische Applikationen

Von IT-Abteilungen wird erwartet, mit weniger Ressourcen mehr zu leisten. Sie versuchen, diesen Anforderungen gerecht zu werden, indem sie neuere (und oftmals mit Unterbrechungen verbundene) Technologien einbinden.

In ihrem Streben, den Wandel hin zu datenorientierten Unternehmen zu vollziehen, neuere Technologien einzuführen und aus Wettbewerbsgründen weiterhin in geschäftskritische Applikationen zu investieren, stehen moderne Unternehmen verschiedenen Herausforderungen gegenüber. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht IDC in diesem Whitepaper den Bedarf an hardwareoptimierten Plattformen wie der NetApp FAS8080 EX.

Best Practices to Make BYOD Simple and Secure

A guide to selecting technologies and developing policies for BYOD.

Enterprise Mobility Management: Embracing BYOD through Secure App and Data Delivery

The transformation of computing through mobility, consumerisation, bring-your-own device (BYOD) and flex-work offers powerful benefits for today’s organisations – but it poses significant challenges for IT.

What Would CIOs do to Redefine IT?

Have you ever wondered what CIOs would do if they could start their IT departments from scratch? CenturyLink posed that very question to a group of IT leaders at a CIO roundtable it sponsored in the UK. The answers varied and were often surprising. However, unlike past CIOs, their answers were not about building infrastructure and the ownership of the underlying IT assets. Discover the top 5 priorities these leaders say are key in today’s business environment. Read this engaging whitepaper to get a glimpse of what these strategic IT and business leaders would do. It offers insights that will help you redefine your IT strategy and deliver the technology leadership your business demands.