Software-defined Storage, an SSG-NOW Outlook Report

Software-defined storage is more than just a new term for old features. While it could be said that storage has always been defined by software, which is true to a degree, specialized hardware for the physical storage has been required since the earliest computers. With more and more flavors of purpose-built hardware coming to market, the urgency to centrally control them becomes more pronounced.
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Workload Automation – From Application Development to Digital

This paper, "Workload Automation – From Application Development to Digital Service Delivery," describes how a workload automation solution can eliminate the manual processes developers now use to define batch workflows and communicate them to schedulers.By extending the use of workload automation to developers, organizations can implement applications faster, slash costs, and increase service quality.
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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.
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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.
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Building and Supporting High-Performance Applications

Over the past few years, IT has undergone a subtle transition due to the increasing importance of applications. Many top executives say that digital transformation will become critical to their organizations within the next two years.As a result, the number of digital business processes is skyrocketing. Download this paper and learn how automation and self-service can increase efficiency and productivity, while improving the flow of business processes from multiple applications.
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ROI Calculator for IBM Rational Developer for i

Estimate the return on investment you can expect with IBM® Rational® Developer for i. Rational Developer for i provides integrated development and debugging tools to help development teams create and maintain IBM i® applications on IBM Power Systems™. This software also enables you to simplify and accelerate code development and maintenance.
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The Evolution to Modern Development

Application development in the modern enterprise environment is growing increasingly complex and fast-paced. The Rational Developer for System z family of tools helps organizations address new paradigms and business expectations. Read this IBM Systems Magazine article to understand the evolution of modern mainframe development.
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From Idea to Production in Minutes: IBM DevOps for Bluemix Short-circuits Development Headaches

IBM DevOps for Bluemix provides an integrated set of DevOps services in the IBM Bluemix PaaS, for individuals and teams building mobile and cloud applications (‘systems of engagement’) that enable teams to shrink the application delivery cycle time, and consistently deliver software with speed, quality and accuracy. This session provides an overview of IBM DevOps services on Bluemix, focusing on quickly getting started with new projects and collaborative development with agile tracking and planning.
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PaaS Built for Development: IBM Bluemix Solves a Range of Infrastructure and Middleware Challenges

IBM's new Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, IBM Bluemix, delivers the speed and flexibility of the cloud to allow developers to more quickly compose and build enterprise-grade applications for by providing access to IBM's vast software portfolio as composable services. This powerful PaaS/services combination, built on open standards and taking advantage of Cloud Foundry, enables developers to avoid vendor lock-in while leveraging their existing application development assets and skills, which is essential for building hybrid clouds.

IBM is providing developers an open, flexible cloud environment connecting the enterprise and born-on-the-web developers using their choice of tools, whether IBM, third-party, or open technologies, in a scalable environment. This session provides an overview of IBM Bluemix capabilities.

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