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.
Get Whitepaper

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.
Get Whitepaper

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?
Get Whitepaper

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.
Get Whitepaper

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.
Get Whitepaper

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.
Get Whitepaper

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.
Get Whitepaper

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!

Get Whitepaper

HP Performance Center Software

HP Performance Center software is an enterprise-class performance engineering software, designed to facilitate standardisation, centralisation, global collaboration, and management of a performance engineering center of excellence.
Get Whitepaper

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.

Get Whitepaper

Crossing the DevOps Chasm 

Enterprises that depend heavily on IT to deliver services to customers are constantly driven by market pressures to better develop and release new software features to meet growing demands. Facilitating the collaboration between development and IT operations and bringing application to market faster with high quality are crucial to today’s business success.

This solution brief provides insights into the DevOps movement, why it matters and how you can cross the chasm to achieve better collaboration to deliver business value rapidly. You’ll learn how CA Technologies solutions for DevOps bring your portfolio of IT technology forward in a cadence of faster, more predictable releases, letting you confirm the results of each phase of the software life cycle toward positive business outcomes.

Get Whitepaper

Modern, High Velocity Application Delivery

Today’s organizations are challenged to be the first to market with ‘The Next Big Thing’. They must innovate with new and unique services to satisfy customer demands and differentiate themselves in the marketplace. Software drives that innovation and has turned every organization into a software organization.

This Executive Brief describes how the efficient collaboration between the development and IT operations teams can bring high-quality applications to market as quickly as possible.

The CA Application Delivery suite helps organizations achieve collaborative DevOps through innovative technology tools used to:

Accelerate application development by removing constraints with CA LISA® Service Virtualization. Expedite release time with CA LISA® Release Automation. Improve application testing and quality with CA LISA® Pathfinder.

Get Whitepaper

Service Virtualization For Dummies

Discover service virtualization and how it fits into the big picture of software quality. In this book, Service Virtualization For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition written by industry analysts Marcia Kaufman and Judith Hurwitz, learn how to deliver higher quality software by increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your testing processes while reducing testing downtime and testing cost.
Get Whitepaper