Workload Automation – From Application Development to Digital Service Delivery

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.
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The Business Context of of Aligning IT with the Organization

This paper provides a general business overview for organizations that are seeking advice on how to align IT within the organization. In a dynamic and globalized economy, where IT has its own agenda, interesting business and marketplace factors have emerged thanks to C-level studies, unraveling how both CIOs and CEOs are now targeting similar objectives. Never before have organizations found themselves in a more instrumented, integrated, and intelligent world as today, where challenges must have extraordinary solutions.
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DataStax Enterprise Reference Architecture

This white paper outlines reference architectures for deploying Apache Cassandra™ and DataStax Enterprise (DSE) within an organization and establishes a starting point for users contemplating hardware choices to host DataStax solutions. This paper also provides guidance for system architects and system administrators during the planning stages of development, test and production environments, whether in-house or at a private or public data center. It explores common scenarios and configuration options for various deployments.
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DataStax Enterprise – Powered by Apache Cassandra™

DataStax Enterprise (DSE), built on Apache Cassandra™, delivers what modern businesses need to compete in today’s high-speed, always-on data economy. Within-memory computing capabilities, enterprise-level security, fast and powerful built-in analytics and enterprise search, visual management, and expert support, DataStax Enterprise is the best database choice for online applications that require fast performance with no downtime.
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Smarter quality management: The fast track to competitive advantage

Organizations creating software are grappling not only with today’s tough economic climate, but also with increased complexity in their processes and supply chains. Many factors serve to complicate software delivery, but competition lies at the heart of this complexity. Effective quality management creates opportunities to deliver key business benefits, such as improved market share, higher customer satisfaction, and increased brand equity. But top quality in the completed product cannot serve as the single guiding principle by which products are produced and delivered. Time to market is also key; costs and risk factors must also be part of the balancing act. Get these things wrong, and you may face un-sustainable costs, missed windows of opportunity, un happy customers, even a massive recall or the complete failure of a system at a critical moment. Get these things right, and you can achieve a positive operational return on investment from efficiencies gained in development activities.
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Boost IT Visibility and Business Value With Service Catalog

Decision makers at many organizations question the investments made in IT. This is often because they don't fully understand the value delivered by IT service management (ITSM) or by compliance with recommended best practices such as those defined by the IT Infrastructure Library or ITIL®. This often pressures CIOs to demonstrate the value of IT to the business. Learn how creating a great service catalog can help alleviate these pressures and why many consider it to be fundamental to any IT improvement initiative.
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Powering Transformation – The IT Revolution is Now

The IT Revolution is happening and the time for change is now - don't settle for inflexible systems built on legacy technology. Download the white paper to find out how next-gen IT solutions are flexible, intuitive, social and powerful - and how IT in the cloud will help your organization not only keep up with today's complex IT ecosystem, but manage it more efficiently than ever before.
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Customer-Centric Cloud Provisioning

Looking to increase your organization’s competitive agility, IT's value to the business, and end-user satisfaction and productivity? Have your administrators been overwhelmed managing huge numbers of virtual machines? Do you want to leverage public and private cloud technologies to address these challenges but struggle to understand what this means? Instead of asking what cloud means to you think about what cloud means to your customers. Download this white paper and learn why understanding your customers and these expectations is key in understanding how to deliver on them.
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Lessons from Successful Mobile Initiatives

Whether you have embraced it or not, mobile is already part of your business. To remain relevant, IT must reinvent itself and become more of a technology advisor and less of a technology traffic cop. Download this white paper and learn how progressive organizations everywhere use mobile technology to reduce support costs, improve service quality and eliminate expense leaks.
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Deployment Automation Basics

Discover the benefits of deployment automation and how to maximize your automation investments!

IT organizations have been finding it increasingly difficult to deploy more quickly without adding more people and incurring additional risks. Only until recently have there been more viable automated deployment options to offer an alternative to the slow and error prone process of manual deployment.

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  • The limitations of manual deployment, namely its inconsistency, lack of visibility, and proneness to error
  • The benefits of deployment of automation
  • The base set of features that an automated system should provide
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Rational Application Portfolio Management ROI Tool

CIOs and IT Executives are being asked to "do more with less". With a complex and poorly understood application portfolio at hand a large percentage of IT funds are consumed, it leaves these CIOs and IT Executives challenged to find the funds needed for creating real value in form of innovation and enabling new business opportunities. Organizations spend too much (up to 90%) of funds on maintaining and operating an expanding application portfolio.
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