5 Tips on How Your Hosting Choices Can Help You to Innovate

Making decisions about technology to support a creative environment requires original thinking. When you’re under pressure to deliver, a provider who offers an off-the-shelf answer to a difficult problem, or only partly manages your hosting when you need total support, is just not performing well enough.
Get Whitepaper

ZEROING IN – On the End-User Experience

In today’s app-centric world, poor performance is bad business. It’s your job to protect the end-user experience—but that’s a tall order without a UNIFIED VIEW of performance that puts your network and application health in crystal-clear focus.

Reasons to centralize your performance monitoring & management controls:

· Increase ROI

· Troubleshoot Faster

· Drive Change

Get Whitepaper

Evaluating Performance – Management Solutions

"Across industries, companies are looking for smarter and more efficient ways to guarantee the performance and availability of business-critical applications. Like many, you may have invested in Network Performance Management (NPM) and/or Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools to gain visibility into the health of your application delivery infrastructure. The problem with this approach however, is that APM and NPM operations are rarely integrated—meaning little collaboration or collation of data occurs between the teams operating them. When performance degradations occur, troubleshooting efforts are often lengthy and marred with finger pointing as teams look to defer blame. A better approach is needed—one that assesses network and application performance as a whole."
Get Whitepaper

10 Common Problems APM Helps You

Applications in today's distributed, cloud-based IT environment need to perform at their peak at all times. Unfortunately, most do not. And while many developers and IT professionals have Application Performance Management (APM) solutions, they often don't know how to take full advantage of the benefits. This SlashGuide gives IT professionals and developers practical advice they need to get the most out of APM.
Get Whitepaper

Unified Communications as a Service: Market Trends and Business Benefits

Today’s workforce is more diverse than ever. Companies are supporting a distributed employee base with increasing technology demands and limited resources.

So the question is how to do more with less while improving productivity? Moving your phone system to the cloud with the UC-as-a-Service model offers many features which let businesses do just that.

5 Ways UCaaS can benefit communication, collaboration and productivity:

- Flexible – Only pay for what you need and scale up or down as needed

- Hassle free - Lower cost of administration and free support down to end user

- Unify - Easily connect multiple offices, remote workers and mobile devices

- Robust business-impacting app integrations like Salesforce.com

- Free up IT resources to focus on more strategic projects

View Now

Deliver Workload Automation for the App Developer

These are exciting times for enterprise application developers, as companies challenge them to build solutions that better exploit mobile devices, cloud infrastructures, sensor networks, big data, and APIs for widely used services such as Facebook and Gmail. Application development, however, isn't all intellectual exhilaration. It has its pain points, too, such as the toil that goes into creating and modifying batch workload jobs. This paper explores how app developers can use automation to deal with batch application workflows.
Get Whitepaper

Workload Change: The 70 Percent of Your Business DevOps Forgot

Organizations that have successfully integrated workload automation (WLA) into their software development lifecycle have seen substantial benefits. So why is WLA, also referred to as job scheduling or batching processing, largely missing from the DevOps discussion? Adding WLA early in the development process ensures that the benefits of DevOps accrue for all applications, including your batch services. This paper explores the benefits in greater detail and explores possible ways to remedy the situation.
Get Whitepaper

Workload Change: The 70 Percent of Your Business DevOps Forgot

Organizations that have successfully integrated workload automation (WLA) into their software development lifecycle have seen substantial benefits. So why is WLA, also referred to as job scheduling or batching processing, largely missing from the DevOps discussion? Adding WLA early in the development process ensures that the benefits of DevOps accrue for all applications, including your batch services. This paper explores the benefits in greater detail and explores possible ways to remedy the situation.
Get Whitepaper

How to Decide Between BMC and ServiceNow for ITSSM and Beyond

Gartner clients often ask for a comparison of BMC and ServiceNow as viable strategic partners in the ITSSM tool space. Both vendors provide strong ITSSM offerings and benefit from excellent global brand recognition, but the similarities end there. Outside of ITSSM, BMC and ServiceNow are two different companies with two different strategic road maps. Choosing between BMC and ServiceNow requires IT organizations to determine how value will be gained beyond the use of their ITSSM offerings.
Get Whitepaper

Magic Quadrant for IT Service Support Management Tools

To better support the business, I&O managers often turn to IT service support management (ITSSM) tools. ITSSM tools enable IT operations organizations, specifically infrastructure and operations (I&O) managers, to better support the production environment. ITSSM tools automate the tasks and workflows associated with the management and delivery of quality IT services to the business. The vendors in this Magic Quadrant offer integrated products that address functionality from a combined perspective of people, processes and tooling. BMC was rated as a leader by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant.
Get Whitepaper

Moving Beyond the Costs and Risks of IT Friction

In a first-of-its-kind study, IDC has docu­mented the costs of business risks cre­ated when business and IT teams fail to communicate effectively. Hear how enterprises are addressing the friction associated with IT needs and the gaps and opportunities that exist between business needs and IT service delivery models.
Get Whitepaper

Delivering on Promise of Digital Transformation

Rapid shifts in the ways that technology and information are consumed and delivered— through cloud computing, big data, social networking, and smart devices—are transforming how companies compete. IT is at the center of the fray, working with business leaders to develop and execute a digital transformation strategy that capitalizes on these major new technologies. In order to lead this transformation, IT executives must focus on three areas: collaborating with business leaders to build a strategic vision, modernizing technology infrastructure, and rebuilding IT organizations to execute against new digital business goals.
Get Whitepaper

Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2012 R2 in Depth

Data deduplication has been around for years and comes in many forms. Most people think about expensive storage arrays when they talk about deduplication but that is certainly not the only type of data deduplication technology.

This white paper examines the data deduplication technology embedded in Windows Server 2012 R2 and the benefits it can bring to your environment. The discussion includes how it works and the possible scenarios for using Windows Server 2012 R2 data deduplication.

Get Whitepaper

PCI DSS Compliance in Cloud Environments

PCI DSS is a pragmatic set of best practices and security measures that any organization must follow if they accept and handle cardholder data online. The standard encompasses network security, data protection, data encryption, system security, access control, ongoing monitoring and testing and security policy development.
Get Whitepaper