Empowering the Workforce

It’s no secret that social, mobile and collaborative technologies have changed the way people interact. More than ever, individuals expect their business applications to resemble the user experience of their personal applications. A modern approach to IT service management (ITSM) can help both sides of the service desk work smarter, faster, and more easily. Gain expert insight to meet the needs and expectations of the modern workforce. Download the white paper today.

Learn the four key elements for today’s ITSM, including:

  • Full mobility on any device
  • Consumer-style self-service
  • Embedded social collaboration
  • User-centric design
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Forbes Insights: The State of IT Service Management 2017

As the pace of digital business accelerates, companies need their IT organizations to focus on innovation, not in-the-trenches maintenance. BMC and Forbes Insights conducted a global survey of more than 250 senior-level executives to examine the state of IT service management today—and its role in digital transformation.

We found that increasing investments in ITSM leads to wide and varied benefits for digital transformation, including increased transparency into systems, greater flexibility, enhanced development productivity, and a better ability to add new services. And the impact isn’t limited to digital transformation—ITSM also plays a role in cloud computing, mobility, and big data. Indeed, for companies of all types and industries, ITSM has become a core enabler of the initiatives that drive competitive advantage.

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Anticipate IT Trends: Building S3 Native Applications with IBM Cloud Object Storage

Today’s IT environment is in a state of hyper-change, rapidly adopting new tools and technologies to support enterprise data demands. As mobile devices have led to the internet of things (IoT), so too has the huge amounts of data we capture led to the need for advanced analytics and Big Data tools.

But how can an organization’s infrastructure keep pace with the nearly 50% per year growth of enterprise storage, and the resulting petabytes of information needed to keep it all?

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by IBM and presented by Slashdot Media to hear industry experts discuss how advances in Cloud Object Storage (COS) technology are impacting the way businesses like yours thrive in a hybrid environment. Topics to be covered will include:

  • Utilizing Containers with COS for today’s evolving workloads
  • IoT, Spark Clusters and COS: Streamlining Big Data Solutions
  • Building S3 Native Applications with COS

Register now for this TechBytes series before you spend another dime on storage.

About the presenter:
Andrew Baptiste is the Chief Software Architect for IBM Cloud Object Storage and a Distinguished engineer - one of the company's most prestigious technical designations. He is a Master Inventor and has over 100 issued and pending patents related to dispersed and cloud storage. He has been with Cleversafe since 2007 prior to the IBM acquisition. He plays a key role in the development of the IBM Cloud, specifically leading scalable dispersed storage capabilities. Andrew holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Bachelor's degree in C.S. from the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana.

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Anticipate IT Trends: IoT, Spark Clusters and IBM Cloud Object Storage: Streamlining Big Data Solutions

Today’s IT environment is in a state of hyper-change, rapidly adopting new tools and technologies to support enterprise data demands. As mobile devices have led to the internet of things (IoT), so too has the huge amounts of data we capture led to the need for advanced analytics and Big Data tools.

But how can an organization’s infrastructure keep pace with the nearly 50% per year growth of enterprise storage, and the resulting petabytes of information needed to keep it all?

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by IBM and presented by Slashdot Media to hear industry experts discuss how advances in Cloud Object Storage (COS) technology are impacting the way businesses like yours thrive in a hybrid environment. Topics to be covered will include:

  • Utilizing Containers with COS for today’s evolving workloads
  • IoT, Spark Clusters and COS: Streamlining Big Data Solutions
  • Building Amazon S3 Native Applications with COS

Register now for this TechBytes series before you spend another dime on storage.

About the presenter:
Wesley Leggette is responsible for Architecture and Development Enablement for IBM Cloud Object Storage. He is a Master Inventor and has over 150 issued and pending patents relating to dispersed and cloud storage. He has been with Cleversafe since 2006 prior to the IBM acquisition. He plays a key role in integrating IBM Cloud Object Storage into the IBM Cloud experience. Wesley holds a Bachelor's degree in C.S. from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois.

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Anticipate IT Trends: Utilizing Containers with IBM Cloud Object Storage for today’s evolving workloads

Today’s IT environment is in a state of hyper-change, rapidly adopting new tools and technologies to support enterprise data demands. As mobile devices have led to the internet of things (IoT), so too has the huge amounts of data we capture led to the need for advanced analytics and Big Data tools.

But how can an organization’s infrastructure keep pace with the nearly 50% per year growth of enterprise storage, and the resulting petabytes of information needed to keep it all?

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by IBM and presented by Slashdot Media to hear industry experts discuss how advances in Cloud Object Storage (COS) technology are impacting the way businesses like yours thrive in a hybrid environment. Topics to be covered will include:

  • Utilizing Containers with COS for today’s evolving workloads
  • IoT, Spark Clusters and COS: Streamlining Big Data Solutions
  • Building Amazon S3 Native Applications with COS

Register now for this TechBytes series before you spend another dime on storage.

About the presenters:
Nicholas Lange is the Technical Content Lead for IBM Cloud Object Storage and is responsible for documentation and developer advocacy. He works closely with teams across IBM Cloud providing high quality tutorials, sample code, and reference material to developers and data scientists working with object storage. His professional background in management consulting, complex systems modeling, and design research helps him communicate solutions to a diverse user base of researchers, developers, and business professionals. Nicholas holds a MS in Sustainable Systems from the University of Michigan and a BFA in Lighting Design from DePaul University.

Christopher M Luciano is an Advisory Software Developer for IBM Digital Business Group; working full-time on Kubernetes. Prior to IBM DGB, Christopher was the lead on the Watson container runtime squad. He has previously spoken at Pittsburgh based meetup (Code and Supply) on infrastructure and software operations. Christopher has 3 terrific cats and one hyper dog.

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The CSP Bible: Your Ultimate Handbook to the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Program

How much do you really know about the CSP? Ever since Microsoft introduced it in 2014, resellers have been told that the CSP will help them develop better relationships with their customers and increase their profits. But a lot of MSPs are wondering how it really works. They’d like to know which products they can sell under the CSP and which services they have to provide their customers. Can they work with Microsoft as a Direct Partner or, would it be easier to join forces with a CSP distributor as an Indirect Reseller? These are valid questions and it’s important you understand these points before you seriously consider this program. Our free eBook will put you on the right track.

Here are some of the topics we’ll cover:

  • Which products you can sell under the CSP
  • The difference between CSP Direct and Indirect
  • A reseller’s responsibilities under the Direct and Indirect business models
  • Four Keys to Success as a CSP reseller

Download your guide here.

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Your Guide to Surviving The End of Microsoft’s Advisor Program

Microsoft has pulled the plug on its advisor program

That's right. As of June 20, you won't be earning any commissions for reselling Office 365 as a Microsoft Advisor. And, you won't earn a single cent for managing Microsoft cloud subscriptions for your clients. Have you thought about what this means for your cloud business?

Here's what you'll learn:

  • How you can maintain your revenue
  • How easy it is to transfer your Office 365 clients
  • Why you should consider moving to the CSP Program
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Supercharging Your Enterprise Cloud Performance: Real World Customer Performance Example

Hyperconverged Performance Analysis for Real World Enterprise Applications

Enterprises want the simplicity and scalability of public cloud, with predictable costs for business-critical applications while also meeting high-performance SLAs for on-premises infrastructure. Hyperconverged technologies fit the defined evaluation criteria well, however needs have moved beyond cost-savings and simplicity to include performance, scalability and reliability, aspects of performance analysis that are particularly difficult to measure when shared resources are used throughout the platform.

Attend this TechBytes series presented by Slashdot Media and sponsored by Nutanix to learn about:

  • Hyperconverged buying criteria, and the role “hero” performance numbers should play in influencing buying decisions
  • The impact of hyperconverged infrastructure on achievable, real-world business-critical application performance, scalability and reliability
  • Hear from Nutanix customers on their business-critical performance expectations and achievements

Don’t wait – register now for this complimentary event series and learn what you need to know to deliver maximum performance for all your applications types.

About the presenters:
Marc Trouard-Riolle, Product Marketing Manager at Nutanix, wants to live in a world where business IT is freed from the shackles of vendor lock-in, with simple, scalable infrastructure and management, aligned with business objectives. Previously Marc has worked in the financial, insurance and legal verticals, in a variety of technical pre/post sales and consultancy roles. Native to London, England, Marc now lives in California with his wife and two children.

Benjamin Metcalf is the Systems Administrator for Faith Technologies. He has spent most of his adult life making sure the customers are always happy, and the last 12 years in Information Technology are no exception. He has earned several industry standard certifications in several different technologies. He has worked with several Fortune 100 companies in Wisconsin doing several types of deployment that spread across several different technologies. He started down the road of hyper-convergence that changed the way he thought about datacenters and implemented new systems, and it has also allowed him to test more workloads in much bigger spaces than originally were thought possible. He implemented Nutanix in 2016, and has been running and testing workloads on the environment since its implementation.

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Supercharging Your Enterprise Cloud Performance: Enterprise Application Performance Analysis

Hyperconverged Performance Analysis for Real World Enterprise Applications

Enterprises want the simplicity and scalability of public cloud, with predictable costs for business-critical applications while also meeting high-performance SLAs for on-premises infrastructure. Hyperconverged technologies fit the defined evaluation criteria well, however needs have moved beyond cost-savings and simplicity to include performance, scalability and reliability, aspects of performance analysis that are particularly difficult to measure when shared resources are used throughout the platform.

Attend this TechBytes series presented by Slashdot Media and sponsored by Nutanix to learn about:

  • Hyperconverged buying criteria, and the role “hero” performance numbers should play in influencing buying decisions
  • The impact of hyperconverged infrastructure on achievable, real-world business-critical application performance, scalability and reliability
  • Hear from Nutanix customers on their business-critical performance expectations and achievements

Don’t wait – register now for this complimentary event series and learn what you need to know to deliver maximum performance for all your applications types.

About the presenter:
Andy Daniel is a Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer at Nutanix, where he focuses on all-flash platforms, data efficiency, and performance. Prior to Nutanix, Andy was Principal Architect at PernixData. Throughout his career as a consultant, he's worked on a variety of mission-critical storage and virtualization projects for the world’s largest organizations. He is a vExpert, co-author of VMware vSphere 5 Administration Instant Reference, and has extensive experience in virtualization, datacenter networking, and storage.

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Supercharging Your Enterprise Cloud Performance: Understanding Performance Evaluation Criteria

Hyperconverged Performance Analysis for Real World Enterprise Applications

Enterprises want the simplicity and scalability of public cloud, with predictable costs for business-critical applications while also meeting high-performance SLAs for on-premises infrastructure. Hyperconverged technologies fit the defined evaluation criteria well, however needs have moved beyond cost-savings and simplicity to include performance, scalability and reliability, aspects of performance analysis that are particularly difficult to measure when shared resources are used throughout the platform.

Attend this TechBytes series presented by Slashdot Media and sponsored by Nutanix to learn about:

  • Hyperconverged buying criteria, and the role “hero” performance numbers should play in influencing buying decisions
  • The impact of hyperconverged infrastructure on achievable, real-world business-critical application performance, scalability and reliability
  • Hear from Nutanix customers on their business-critical performance expectations and achievements

Don’t wait – register now for this complimentary event series and learn what you need to know to deliver maximum performance for all your applications types.

About the presenter:
Marc Trouard-Riolle, Product Marketing Manager at Nutanix, wants to live in a world where business IT is freed from the shackles of vendor lock-in, with simple, scalable infrastructure and management, aligned with business objectives. Previously Marc has worked in the financial, insurance and legal verticals, in a variety of technical pre/post sales and consultancy roles. Native to London, England, Marc now lives in California with his wife and two children.

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Simplifying Remote and Branch Office (ROBO) IT with Nutanix Part 3: ROBO for Real – A Nutanix User Perspective

Managing remote and branch office IT can be a challenge for organizations of any size. Now, thanks to turnkey infrastructure from Nutanix, businesses can consolidate ROBO servers and storage onto a single Enterprise Cloud platform that can be deployed in just 30 to 60 minutes.

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by Nutanix to hear hyperconverged and Enterprise Cloud experts discuss how to eliminate the complexity of managing multiple remote sites with point products, while lowering overall IT costs. View this 3-part web series to learn how investing in the right ROBO solution can simplify IT with central management & control while maintaining optimal application experience and availability for branch office users.

Viewers will learn about:

  • Building lean, low-cost hyperconverged ROBO sites
  • Managing multiple ROBO sites centrally and with a single management interface
  • Seeing a live demonstration of how remote sites are managed with Nutanix Prism
  • Solving disaster recovery challenges cost effectively with localized backup, to the datacenter, or cloud
  • A real-world customer perspective on experiences with Nutanix ROBO solutions

Don’t wait – register now to view this TechBytes series and start on your path to ROBO IT simplification.

About the presenters:

Rachna Srivastava manages solutions marketing for a range of solutions, including ROBO at Nutanix. She has over 15 years of IT industry experience in networking, virtualization, cloud, and L4-L7 services across product management and marketing positions both in startups and large organizations. She brings an innovative approach to solving customer pain points with a strong track record of creating market-leading products.

Steve Bunch has worked in Corporate IT for over 10 years mainly focused on IT Architecture and BC/DR for a large manufacturing company with sites across the world. Steve recently joined Nutanix as a Systems Engineer covering Indiana after being a long time Nutanix customer. Steve has deep experience deploying Nutanix running business critical application utilizing Nutanix Metro Clusters and ROBO deployments.

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Simplifying Remote and Branch Office (ROBO) IT with Nutanix Part 2: Smooth Operations – Demonstration of Remote Site Management with Prism

Managing remote and branch office IT can be a challenge for organizations of any size. Now, thanks to turnkey infrastructure from Nutanix, businesses can consolidate ROBO servers and storage onto a single Enterprise Cloud platform that can be deployed in just 30 to 60 minutes.

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by Nutanix to hear hyperconverged and Enterprise Cloud experts discuss how to eliminate the complexity of managing multiple remote sites with point products, while lowering overall IT costs. View this 3-part web series to learn how investing in the right ROBO solution can simplify IT with central management & control while maintaining optimal application experience and availability for branch office users.

Viewers will learn about:

  • Building lean, low-cost hyperconverged ROBO sites
  • Managing multiple ROBO sites centrally and with a single management interface
  • Seeing a live demonstration of how remote sites are managed with Nutanix Prism
  • Solving disaster recovery challenges cost effectively with localized backup, to the datacenter, or cloud
  • A real-world customer perspective on experiences with Nutanix ROBO solutions

Don’t wait – register now to view this TechBytes series and start on your path to ROBO IT simplification.

About the presenter

Dwayne Lessner is a technical marketing engineer on the product marketing team at Nutanix, Inc. In this role, Dwayne helps design, test, and build solutions on top of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform. Dwayne has worked in healthcare and oil and gas for over ten years in various roles. A strong background in server and desktop virtualization has given Dwayne the opportunity to work with many different applications frameworks and architecture. Dwayne has been a speaker at BriForum and various VMUG events and conferences and Co-Author of “Desktops as a Service: Building the Model”.

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Simplifying Remote and Branch Office (ROBO) IT with Nutanix Part 1: The Art of Freeing up Time

Managing remote and branch office IT can be a challenge for organizations of any size. Now, thanks to turnkey infrastructure from Nutanix, businesses can consolidate ROBO servers and storage onto a single Enterprise Cloud platform that can be deployed in just 30 to 60 minutes.

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by Nutanix to hear hyperconverged and Enterprise Cloud experts discuss how to eliminate the complexity of managing multiple remote sites with point products, while lowering overall IT costs. View this 3-part web series to learn how investing in the right ROBO solution can simplify IT with central management & control while maintaining optimal application experience and availability for branch office users.

Viewers will learn about:

  • Building lean, low-cost hyperconverged ROBO sites
  • Managing multiple ROBO sites centrally and with a single management interface
  • Seeing a live demonstration of how remote sites are managed with Nutanix Prism
  • Solving disaster recovery challenges cost effectively with localized backup, to the datacenter, or cloud
  • A real-world customer perspective on experiences with Nutanix ROBO solutions

Don’t wait – register now to view this TechBytes series and start on your path to ROBO IT simplification.

About the presenter

Dwayne Lessner is a technical marketing engineer on the product marketing team at Nutanix, Inc. In this role, Dwayne helps design, test, and build solutions on top of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform. Dwayne has worked in healthcare and oil and gas for over ten years in various roles. A strong background in server and desktop virtualization has given Dwayne the opportunity to work with many different applications frameworks and architecture. Dwayne has been a speaker at BriForum and various VMUG events and conferences and Co-Author of “Desktops as a Service: Building the Model”.

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Gartner Magic Quadrant 2016

Mobile apps are at the front line of the digital revolution, and MADPs are becoming the main driver accelerating digital transformation in businesses. We evaluate the major vendors and key trends in this space to help IT leaders select platforms that best match their business and technical needs.

If you’d like to learn more about the report and its findings use the form to get in touch.
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Forrester report: 2016 Cloud Predictions

The next stage of IT will focus on expanding cloud use cases and infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals’ attitudes around automation and relinquishing some control. Read this Forrester brief to learn the 11 key developments coming to the world of cloud in 2016 and specific recommendations for I&O leaders.
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