Give Legacy Code New Life With Modern COBOL AppDev: Exposing COBOL processes as REST based services

With billions of lines of COBOL in use, this business language powers a large percentage of every ATM, government, and many other business transactions. Many businesses are looking for new ways to utilize decades of solid business logic without having to replace a mission critical application.

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by Micro Focus and presented by SourceForge to learn how organizations around the world are utilizing existing .NET and Java development teams to integrate and modernize COBOL applications. Attendees will learn:

  • What tools can be used to ‘free’ business logic from legacy code
  • Exposing COBOL processes as REST base services
  • Using COBOL as a .NET or JVM language

Don’t wait – register now for these TechBytes to get started.

About the Presenter:
Michael Bleistein, Principal Architect, at Micro Focus, is a 25-year veteran when it comes to COBOL. Currently he specializes in modernization through .NET, Java, and SOA using Visual COBOL, helping customers understand Micro Focus solutions and how they can be used to combat their business problems.

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IT for SMB: Strategies for 2017 and Beyond (Part 3)

As the pace of IT change accelerates, so too does the growth of SMBs in business today. In fact, SMBs have added twice the number of new jobs in the workforce as larger enterprises have since the 1990s.

As a result, SMBs need different ways to take advantage of the latest IT technology trends, and must rely on partners to help them achieve the same kind of results as enterprise customers.

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by Insight and presented by Slashdot Media to learn how small to medium businesses like yours are addressing three key technology areas:

  • Cloud Computing Strategy
  • Information and asset security
  • The Internet of Things (IoT)

During our three-part series, Insight’s Cloud Expert, Johnny Young will share strategies for success in these and other mission critical technology areas. Register now and see all three parts!

About the presenter:
Johnny Young, Inside Sales Manager – Insight Cloud and Services Strategy, works with our sales teams and their clients to help them embrace and recognize the benefits that Insight’s Cloud and Services offerings can bring to their businesses. By getting to the “WHY” of what drives clients to use technology to improve their organizations, Johnny is able to engage in discussions to help uncover, organize and prioritize the challenges clients face, and then help them to move past them.

Leveraging over 25 years in technology sales and marketing, Johnny has a background in Semiconductors, RFID, Enterprise Software, Cloud Solutions, and Services. This enables him to help clients across a variety of segments to see and overcome business obstacles from a number of angles. His coaching and management style is to enable sales teams with a solution selling approach, helping them focus the conversations on solving business problems versus peddling products.

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IT for SMB: Strategies for 2017 and Beyond (Part 2)

As the pace of IT change accelerates, so too does the growth of SMBs in business today. In fact, SMBs have added twice the number of new jobs in the workforce as larger enterprises have since the 1990s.

As a result, SMBs need different ways to take advantage of the latest IT technology trends, and must rely on partners to help them achieve the same kind of results as enterprise customers.

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by Insight and presented by Slashdot Media to learn how small to medium businesses like yours are addressing three key technology areas:

  • Cloud Computing Strategy
  • Information and asset security
  • The Internet of Things (IoT)

During our three-part series, Insight’s Cloud Expert, Johnny Young will share strategies for success in these and other mission critical technology areas. Register now and see all three parts!

About the presenter:
Johnny Young, Inside Sales Manager – Insight Cloud and Services Strategy, works with our sales teams and their clients to help them embrace and recognize the benefits that Insight’s Cloud and Services offerings can bring to their businesses. By getting to the “WHY” of what drives clients to use technology to improve their organizations, Johnny is able to engage in discussions to help uncover, organize and prioritize the challenges clients face, and then help them to move past them.

Leveraging over 25 years in technology sales and marketing, Johnny has a background in Semiconductors, RFID, Enterprise Software, Cloud Solutions, and Services. This enables him to help clients across a variety of segments to see and overcome business obstacles from a number of angles. His coaching and management style is to enable sales teams with a solution selling approach, helping them focus the conversations on solving business problems versus peddling products.

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IT for SMB: Strategies for 2017 and Beyond (Part 1)

As the pace of IT change accelerates, so too does the growth of SMBs in business today. In fact, SMBs have added twice the number of new jobs in the workforce as larger enterprises have since the 1990s.

As a result, SMBs need different ways to take advantage of the latest IT technology trends, and must rely on partners to help them achieve the same kind of results as enterprise customers.

Attend this TechBytes series sponsored by Insight and presented by Slashdot Media to learn how small to medium businesses like yours are addressing three key technology areas:

  • Cloud Computing Strategy
  • Information and asset security
  • The Internet of Things (IoT)

During our three-part series, Insight’s Cloud Expert, Johnny Young will share strategies for success in these and other mission critical technology areas. Register now and see all three parts!

About the presenter:
Johnny Young, Inside Sales Manager – Insight Cloud and Services Strategy, works with our sales teams and their clients to help them embrace and recognize the benefits that Insight’s Cloud and Services offerings can bring to their businesses. By getting to the “WHY” of what drives clients to use technology to improve their organizations, Johnny is able to engage in discussions to help uncover, organize and prioritize the challenges clients face, and then help them to move past them.

Leveraging over 25 years in technology sales and marketing, Johnny has a background in Semiconductors, RFID, Enterprise Software, Cloud Solutions, and Services. This enables him to help clients across a variety of segments to see and overcome business obstacles from a number of angles. His coaching and management style is to enable sales teams with a solution selling approach, helping them focus the conversations on solving business problems versus peddling products.

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Benefits of Using Bitdefender Video Testimonial

Migrate 20,000 endpoints in just 90 days! That was the daunting task facing Safe Systems, a leading MSP that needed to strengthen their endpoint security. After looking at many alternatives, they decided to upgrade to Bitdefender. Check out their story.
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Re-architecting Enterprise Applications for the Cloud

Today, almost everyone talks about moving to the cloud. But a question people rarely raise is: Which specific cloud types are most appropriate for a given company? And it's not immediately clear which kinds of application re-architecting are required for a successful cloud computing implementation. Building applications in the cloud is always easier than moving enterprise apps in the cloud, but which ones need re-architecting?

Join renowned Microsoft experts Jeff DeVerter and Kent Kingery, both of Rackspace, as they discuss a repeatable evolutionary pattern for moving enterprise apps to the cloud. They'll cover several applications, along with real-world use cases where enterprises have leveraged the cloud as a change agent and catalyst to transform their interactions with customers.

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Real World Use Cases on Azure and Microsoft Hybrid Cloud

Have you decided to move to the cloud, but asking yourself where should we locate our cloud resources? Better yet, what workloads should I move and when? Do I have the expertise to migrate my workloads to the cloud and then manage it without disrupting my IT environment?

Join our featured speakers, Rackspace and 10th Magnitude, on a round table discussion on the concepts of cloud form factors leading to hybrid cloud, the advantages of using hybrid cloud technologies, and a look at how the Microsoft Azure platform enables efficient and effective hybrid cloud computing. See how organizations are reducing complexity and management costs by leveraging managed hosting in hybrid cloud environments through real-world use cases.

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Refactoring Enterprise Apps for Azure

Today, thousands of applications are being ported to the cloud, and enterprises are faced with making decisions about how to treat each application. Should you lift and shift, partially refactor, or completely refactor your apps when porting to the cloud?

Join our panel of featured speakers from Rackspace and 10th Magnitude for an in-depth discussion centered on real world cloud transformation examples. See how organizations like yours are adapting their applications for Microsoft Azure to drive up performance, drive down cost and operate at cloud scale.

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Azure Security and Identity Management Best Practices

Defend against today's security threats by moving beyond yesterday's tools and protections, including passwords and firewalls. Discover what Rackspace Security experts know is key in keeping your organization's environment, business and bottom line, safe.

Watch our free on-demand webinar, Azure Security and Identity Management Best Practices, and learn how to:

  • Develop an identity and authentication cloud strategy
  • Use Azure as your base Infrastructure
  • Develop a core set of VM Best Practices
  • Leverage Security Managed Services for Security Operations & Compliance Assistance

Join us, and leverage our expertise to utilize best practices built up over years of implementing and managing thousands of cloud customers across multiple cloud platforms.

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Taking COBOL into the Cloud: A #HowTo Technical Video

Discover how easy it is to deploy your COBOL batch applications to the Azure using Visual COBOL, modern technologies and smart practices. Michael Bleistein demonstrates a step-by-step approach for COBOL deployment to the Cloud. To learn more on how you can take your first steps into the cloud, visit: www.microfocus.com/cloud
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Get More from Azure from Riverbed

How good is your visibility into app performance on Azure? Nearly two-thirds (64%) of organizations use a fragmented approach to technology monitoring. As a result, this fragmented visibility causes IT teams to spend as much as half their time firefighting performance problems – instead of innovating for the benefit of the business. Join the webinar to learn current best practices for gaining clear visibility into cloud performance.

This webinar will address these questions:

  • Are your end users happy with their SaaS app performance ?
  • Do you have the right toolset for monitoring performance of cloud-based apps?
  • What are the best practices to mitigate performance issues from the cloud?
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Accelerate Office 365 Performance & Enhance Visibility

Do you need to accelerate Office 365 performance? Astonishingly, IT teams learn about more than 60% of performance issues from end-users. This is because performance visibility is so thoroughly compromised by the growing complexity involved in delivering cloud apps over multiple networks to ever-growing numbers of end users. This webinar explores the complexity of cloud delivery and best practices for optimizing application performance and, ultimately, end user experience.

Learn how to:

  • Reduce latency issues for SaaS apps
  • Accelerate and secure corporate data over the Internet
  • Decrease bandwidth use by up to 97%
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Why you should care about Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS): An Expert’s perspective

There’s a lot of discussion going on lately about identity. In fact, it’s a very hot topic among most of the organizations today. However, identity is not a new topic, there are just better technologies available to manage identity and more companies providing identity solutions. Azure Active Directory is a comprehensive identity and access management cloud solution that provides a robust set of capabilities to manage your users and groups.

Join our featured speaker from Rackspace, Benjamin Villanueva, a Microsoft Certified Master in Directory Services, and a Microsoft Certified Solutions Master in Directory Services as we discuss and answer some burning questions that many of you may have:

  • How do I manage identities in the public cloud with Azure Active Directory?
  • What are the benefits of identity-as-a-service?
  • How do I streamline my existing Azure Active Directory implementation?
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