Version Everything for Outstanding DevOps Performance

Over the last five years, the DevOps movement has brought Development and Operations teams together to meet the common goal of releasing better-quality software faster.

A key to DevOps success is the adoption of and adherence to a much advocated best practice: version everything.

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Development Testing For Java Applications

Learn how the Coverity Development Testing Platform can be used in conjunction with open source solutions to help you fix more of the quality and security issues in your Java code that matter, with your existing resources and a unified process across the enterprise.
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Development Testing for C# Applications

Static analysis shouldn’t be about finding loads of coding style or standard issues. It should be focused on finding the most critical defects. Although traditional byte code analysis solutions such as FxCop are useful, they can miss critical, crash causing defects - plus produce a large set of coding style issues, which can slow down the development team. Learn how the Coverity Development Testing Platform can help you:

• Find and fix resource leaks, concurrency problems and null references within Visual Studio

• Eliminate defects such as inconsistent indention issues and copy paste errors that can only be found by understanding the intent of the programmer through source code analysis

• Understand the impact of change to better prioritize and focus your automated testing efforts

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The Great Security Divide

How do you get your development team to collaborate with you to achieve more secure software? Learn some of the common pitfalls to avoid as you work on building a long term, more strategic relationship with development.
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The Great Security Divide

How do you get your development team to collaborate with you to achieve more secure software? Learn some of the common pitfalls to avoid as you work on building a long term, more strategic relationship with development.
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Hyper-V Backup and Storage Best Practices

Although nearly every enterprise backup application being sold today supports virtualization, software support alone is not enough. The key to creating reliable backups of your virtualization infrastructure is to adhere to the established best practices for backing up your hypervisor. This paper discusses some best practices for Hyper-V backups.
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Get Your Big Data into Production at the Speed of Business

In this paper, learn how a proven workload automation solution can help you shorten development time and get Hadoop applications into production more quickly. By replacing scripting with the standard functions provided by a workload automation system, you can also deliver an application that is simpler, more reliable, and easier to debug once in production.
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Why Should Organizations Bother with Software License Optimization?

Flexera Software is the established global leader in Software License Optimization solutions focused on software governance, compliance risk mitigation, and cost control. Our products and services allow you to stop worrying about software audits and compliance – while helping you to optimize your software estate and focus on getting more value from those assets. Is this something you should look at?
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Staying Agile with Big Data

Like any major technology project, organizations implementing Big Data projects face challenges with aligning business cases, selecting the right technology solutions, and mobilizing the right skillsets. Big data projects add some unique challenges to the mix. With growing awareness of the value of data, organizations must innovate rapidly in the use of that data to preserve competitive edge. And, as they implement solutions, they must contend with a technology base that is becoming a rapidly moving target.
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Choosing the Right Storage Platform for Splunk Enterprise

To help businesses easily and cost-effectively realize the benefits of operational analytics, Red Hat has integrated Splunk® Enterprise, an industry-leading platform for delivering real-time operational intelligence, with Red Hat® Gluster Storage, a software-defined storage platform for files, objects, and machine-to-machine data. Using these products together helps enterprise solve the cost and scale problems of explosive analytic data growth.
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SWOT Assessment: Flexera Software, FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises 2014

In today's economic climate, there is significant pressure on CIOs to control costs and reduce risks while finding ways to fund new business initiatives. Software is a strategic asset that is typically under-managed in most organizations. It should therefore be a priority for CIOs to find ways to automate and optimize software asset management in order to uncover cost savings and minimize license liability risk.
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IDC MaturityScape: Software License Optimization

This study provides organizations with a framework of stages, critical measures, outcomes, and actions required for the effective management of software license assets for the purposes of spend optimization. IDC's Software License Optimization MaturityScape can be used to assess current competencies and maturity and identify steps for improvement as well as help identify the critical people, process, and technology strategies that help drive effective software license optimization.
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A Guide for the IT Professional

Globally there are circa 9.1 million instances of Windows Server 2003 still in operation. On 14 July 2015, support for Windows Server 2003 (WS2003) and Small Business Server 2003 (SBS) comes to an end.

While refreshing infrastructure is often seen as a chore, on this occasion moving away from WS2003 could result in significant benefits for your organization – so don’t put off the inevitable!

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