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How a Cloud Phone System Benefits Multi-Site Businesses?

When a business spans more than one location, the cost and complexity of maintaining the phone system can present major challenges. In many cases, whether as the result of organic growth or acquisitions, IT has inherited a patchwork of disparate hardware, solutions, and providers. Managing and supporting all of this—both from an IT and an accounting perspective—can be time-consuming, frustrating, and even unnerving.

5 Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting a Business Phone System

The phone allows your business to flourish. It’s your lifeline to the outside world and is critical to the image you project to customers. It’s your connection to your customers and millions of prospective customers who will reach out to you. That is why selecting the right phone system is important. You need to be sure that the system you choose is reliable and adaptable to the changing needs of your growing business. There’s no need to waste time with trial and error when you can learn from other businesses like yours. To help, we’ve compiled five common mistakes people make when selecting a business phone system; and, more importantly, how you can avoid making these mistakes.

Ovum SWOT Assessment: CA Release Automation

Chandranshu writes that downstream software lifecycle processes, e.g. release automation, are getting increased attention due to trends like continuous delivery and continuous deployment. He says that release automation helps organizations avoid production issues caused by erroneous releases.

CA Release Automation can help organizations move towards continuous delivery, he says, and organizations considering DevOps adoption should shortlist it. Its tight integration with CA Service Virtualization, he adds, makes for a compelling offering for those looking to speed up application delivery.

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.

DevOps: Enterprise Organizations Newest Best Practices

The research shows DevOps delivers 18% faster time-to-market and 19% better app quality/performance.

The application economy is motivating leaders to make critical changes across IT and the business, one of the most significant being the adoption of DevOps. For enterprise IT organizations who need to accelerate delivery of apps and provide customers with higher-quality software, faster, DevOps–with its focus on collaboration across IT domains from development to delivery–is increasingly the answer.

Building a Shortcut Between Innovation and Business Value

Struggling with delivering new capabilities to the market in a timely manner? Start your DevOps journey now and learn how implementing Continuous Delivery solution can be the ultimate competitive differentiator for your business.

Read this executive brief to learn:

How to bring innovation and business value together more rapidly How to improve Communication and collaboration between development and operations teams How to improve quality and increase visibility to the application deployment process.

DevOps Perspectives: Ideas, insight and direction from DevOps leaders

To support digital transformation imperatives, organizations are increasingly exploring DevOps style approaches for the continuous delivery of high quality software. Unfortunately, however, many enterprises remain burdened with accumulated technical debt and legacy wasteful practices – waste that can quickly inhibit the flow of value to customers and the business. Lean thinking provides organizations with a framework by which to quickly identify all forms of waste impacting the flow of value, which DevOps practitioners can apply in a software development context to quickly pinpoint and eliminate 8 elements of waste across people, process and technology dimensions.

This paper presents the 8 elements of waste framework, strategies needed to identify and eliminate waste, and the metrics needed to measure effectiveness.

DevOps Perspectives: IT luminaries discuss the major issues impacting DevOps today

Industry leaders share insights on DevOps and big data, ITIL, testing and more. Once again, we have spent time talking to leading community figures such as Dave Farley (“Continuous Delivery” author) to discuss the major issues impacting DevOps today.

This latest issue features comments from 10 experts and covers many hot topics such as:

• Enterprise DevOps transformation

• DevOps and big data

• DevOps and ITIL

• Shadow IT vs DevOps

• 6 Habits of Effective DevOps Practitioners

• DevOps and Testing

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.

Improve IT Agility and Efficiency: Analytics Deliver New Insights into Operational Big Data

EMA is very much aligned with the directions that IBM is taking in its IT operations analytics strategy and product portfolio. While there is room for improvement, EMA remains optimistic that Netcool Operations Insight is the next step in a continuing set of leadership moves by the company.

APM SaaS and Analytics Step Up to Meet the Needs of Modern Applications, Mobile Users, and Hybrid Cloud Architectures

This IDC Technology Spotlight report examines the critical role that SaaS and analytics are playing in the transformation of the APM market. The paper also considers the impact that IBM's recently introduced Performance Management (SaaS) and IT Operations Analytics offerings will have on the APM market.

Application Performance Management Is Critical To Business Success

This Application Performance Management Forrester Research study captures insight into the benefits and challenges with today’s IT monitoring solutions as well as the types of monitoring features that will help meet application performance and availability expectations.

IT Analytics is Crucial to Make Trustworthy Business Technology Decisions

Technology Adoption Analyst whitepaper by Forrester. This IBM-commissioned profile of IT operations decision-makers at enterprise companies in the US, UK and Germany evaluates IT operations analytics adoption, benefits, and challenges based on Forrester’s own market data and a custom study of the same audience.

Automating the Application Release Process: Build vs. Buy

As application complexity continues to increase and the demand to improve time to market continues to grow, organizations are increasingly embracing Application Release Automation to help them maintain a competitive advantage. This white paper will help you understand how an Application Release Automation solution can help you save valuable resources and streamline your application deployment process and avoid many of the pitfalls customers have experience in attempting to develop and maintaining in-house scripts.

DevOps Practitioner Series: “Waste Not Want Not”

To support digital transformation imperatives, organizations are increasingly exploring DevOps style approaches for the continuous delivery of high quality software. Unfortunately, however, many enterprises remain burdened with accumulated technical debt and legacy wasteful practices – waste that can quickly inhibit the flow of value to customers and the business. Lean thinking provides organizations with a framework by which to quickly identify all forms of waste impacting the flow of value, which DevOps practitioners can apply in a software development context to quickly pinpoint and eliminate 8 elements of waste across people, process and technology dimensions. This paper presents the 8 elements of waste framework, strategies needed to identify and eliminate waste, and the metrics needed to measure effectiveness.