The State of Digital Downloads

The way we interact with the world is transforming, thanks to the devices we use every day—tablets, smartphones, computers, and gaming consoles. No longer do we look to analog sources of information and entertainment. We are increasingly beholden to a blossoming digital world through which we acquire information, express ourselves, and interact with each other. The result is a growing relationship with those devices. From sun-up to sundown, they keep us connected to the digital content and applications that have begun to define our lives.
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DevOps and the Cost of Downtime

DevOps is hot, and likely top of mind for you executives – bringing many technical and business benefits to LOB leaders, the C-suite and IT delivery organizations. But when you ask stakeholders to change what they’ve done successfully for years, you must monetize the benefits and ROI for them, and make the organization change real. This IDC Report highlights how communicating DevOps business value is critical to securing additional funding and accelerating the rate and course of change in an enterprise.
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Scaled Agile Information Kit

Scaled agile practices deliver on the promise of scaling development methods to the enterprise through a unified approach and addressing the requirements of complex constructs and additional stakeholders of today’s organizations. Just ask Nationwide Insurance, which is leveraging scaled agile practices. Learn more about scaled agile and Nationwide’s success, and you’ll discover how to:

- Utilize a foundational framework and public knowledge base of proven lean and agile practices at enterprise scale
- Reproduce benefits achieved by four real-world companies
-Follow Nationwide’s example in slashing downtime and dramatically improving code quality in just three years

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Static Code Analysis in an Agile World

To keep pace with ever-increasing customer demands on software functionality and time-to-market expectations, software developers have had to evolve the way they develop code to be both faster and higher quality. As part of this trend, the Waterfall method of software development began to give way in the late 1990s to a more lightweight method of software development: Agile.
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TotalView for OpenPOWER, CUDA, and OpenMP

This talk from ScicomP 2015 helps you debug numerical simulations better by reviewing best debugging practices for CUDA and OpenACC-accelerated applications and discussing the development of OpenMP-specific tracing and debugging interfaces (including the OMPD interface for performance analysis).
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Using JMSL in Hadoop MapReduce Applications

The prototypical Hadoop MapReduce application has at least one Mapper class, one Reducer class, and one driver class. The Mapper class reads the input data and creates intermediate data. The Reducer class accumulates intermediate information and emits a combined result. The Driver class extends the Hadoop class Configured and implements the Hadoop Tool interface, and is used to configure and execute the job.
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Total Mobility: The Positive Impact of Flexible Working Made Clear for IT managers

For IT managers, the real impact of the shift to remote working lies in the effect on day-to-day activities. Ultimately, this will involve the selection, integration and adoption of new technology. But before it gets to this stage, there is an important role for IT managers in understanding why people choose to ‘work from anywhere’, where they would like to work, and what benefits they are expecting.
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Enterprise Mobility Trends 2014 – Going Beyond Enterprise Mobility Management

For IT managers, the real impact of the shift to remote working lies in the effect on day-to-day activities. Ultimately, this will involve the selection, integration and adoption of new technology. But before it gets to this stage, there is an important role for IT managers in understanding why people choose to ‘work from anywhere’, where they would like to work, and what benefits they are expecting.
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4 Ways to Innovate IT Service Management

Find out how IT Service Management (ITSM) can bring order and relief to an overwhelmed IT department, giving the team more time to focus on big-picture initiatives and help drive the whole business faster.

In this Salesforce eBook, they share 4 elements of IT service management that are critical to IT empowerment including:
  • Self-service options
  • Low-friction communication
  • Reporting and dashboards
  • A future-ready platform
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EMA Analyst Report: Optimizing Cloud for Visibility, Control, and Performance with ADDM

Complex hybrid environments can make it difficult to track interdependencies, increasing the risk of disrupting critical business services. In this white paper by EMA, you’ll learn how application discovery and dependency mapping can help you:
  • Meet granular targets for availability, cost, and time-to-revenue for cloud services.
  • Accelerate mean time to repair (MTTR) while communicating better with stakeholders.
  • Manage even the most complex hybrid environments more efficiently and effectively.
  • Understand the impact of proposed changes and potential security risks to guide decision-making.
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Deliver a Better Service Management User Experience

The role of enterprise service management technology has changed. For many years the focus has been on improving IT efficiency through process automation and industrialized IT. While this approach has many benefits, it doesn’t go far enough to address the needs of the modern digital business. User experience and productivity are the new measures of success.

This white paper explores the three key elements for modernizing service management through engaging user experiences.
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Faster, More Accurate Decisions with IT Operations Analytics

The rise of the digital enterprise has created an explosion of valuable, yet unharnessed data for IT organizations. Traditional IT tools and processes, founded on the notion of control and management, are unable to support the speed and agility requirements of the digital enterprise. IT organizations must reengineer their approach from traditional analytics and reporting to adaptive, real-time digital service analytics.
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What Can BMC TrueSight IT Data Analytics Do for You?

The services IT provides for the business today are delivered through a growing, complex web of technologies and the analysis performance and availability data is critical to identifying and resolving issues quickly. Find out how BMC TrueSight IT Data Analytics can help you identify and resolve issues faster by leveraging both monitoring and log data so you can avoid performance issues and improve quality of service while also enhancing IT staff productivity.
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How to Effectively Manage Capacity Management in the Cloud

To realize the full benefits of the cloud, being able to choose a cloud that fits your needs and supports your organization’s cloud workloads in real-time is critical. In this on-demand webinar, you will hear about the results of a Forrester Consulting study with 432 IT practitioners that shows why capacity management is essential to your cloud transformation strategy and provides guidance on how you can get started.
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Capacity Management for Hybrid Environments

Gain real-time visibility into IT capacity under even the most dynamic business demands. In this analyst commentary, find out how BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization helps you:
  • Manage current and anticipated usage in a single holistic view
  • Time the delivery of services for optimal cost efficiency
  • Reserve capacity for planned initiatives to speed time-to-value
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