Taking the Risk out of IT Operations: Increasing Service Levels AND ROI

Today, consumerization of IT drives user expectations for new apps, richer analytics and support for every device under the sun, IT teams are under increasing pressure to deliver better than “five nines” for virtually every application imaginable, and to do so under a data deluge that shows no signs of abating. And the need is real; The Ponemon Institute estimates the average outage lasts about 90 minutes and costs $450,000!

Attend this TechBytes series, presented by Slashdot Media and sponsored by IBM to learn how enterprises of all kinds are taking advantage of the latest in middleware tools to increase business agility, accelerate decision-making, and embrace hybrid environments to meet increasing user demand while reducing operating costs overall. Attendees will learn:

  • How to leverage analytics to increase efficiency while improving reliability
  • Benefits of becoming proactive rather than firefighting application performance issues
  • How to apply cognitive predictive analytics to stop costly IT outages before they start.
  • Where to start when beginning to leverage ITSM in your environment
  • Why Telcos and other companies providing “dial-tone” reliability are utilizing advanced analytics tools in their ITSM portfolio to ensure uptime for even the most dynamic network infrastructure

Register now to hear expert speakers discuss how operations insight, analytics, and automation can work together to give your CIO peace of mind and keep your users happy.

About the presenter:

Joakim Tenlen has over 17 years of experience in the Operations Management space. In his current role as an Offering Manager at IBM, Joakim is responsible for Netcool Operations Insight. He formerly was Product Manager for Tivoli’s Service Assurance portfolio, setting overall direction with the Network and Service Assurance team.

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Thriving in a Hybrid IT Environment: Turning Data into Insight into Action

Today, consumerization of IT drives user expectations for new apps, richer analytics and support for every device under the sun, IT teams are under increasing pressure to deliver better than “five nines” for virtually every application imaginable, and to do so under a data deluge that shows no signs of abating. And the need is real; The Ponemon Institute estimates the average outage lasts about 90 minutes and costs $450,000!

Attend this TechBytes series, presented by Slashdot Media and sponsored by IBM to learn how enterprises of all kinds are taking advantage of the latest in middleware tools to increase business agility, accelerate decision-making, and embrace hybrid environments to meet increasing user demand while reducing operating costs overall. Attendees will learn:

  • How to leverage analytics to increase efficiency while improving reliability
  • Benefits of becoming proactive rather than firefighting application performance issues
  • How to apply cognitive predictive analytics to stop costly IT outages before they start.
  • Where to start when beginning to leverage ITSM in your environment
  • Why Telcos and other companies providing “dial-tone” reliability are utilizing advanced analytics tools in their ITSM portfolio to ensure uptime for even the most dynamic network infrastructure

Register now to hear expert speakers discuss how operations insight, analytics, and automation can work together to give your CIO peace of mind and keep your users happy.

About the presenter:

Denny O’Brien is the Program Director for IBM Operations Analytics offering management, where he leads the end-to-end business for IBM's IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) offerings portfolio. He leads design and delivery of market strategy and business enablement for these critical offerings. Denny joined IBM from Tivoli, where he held a series of strategic development, program management, and marketing roles. Denny received his BA in technical communication from East Carolina University.

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How New Cloud Strategies Drive Productivity and Savings for the App Economy

Today’s dynamic business climate is increasingly application-powered, and as a result the need for code to address change is accelerating. Even businesses that have already adopted agile development and deployment processes and DevOps strategies are struggling with many challenges including:

  • Requirement for significant IT involvement to deliver functionality
  • The increasing challenge of “multi-speed” IT and connecting front-end and back-end systems, exacerbated by application and data siloes
  • Application development, testing and QA backlogs due to increasing user demands driven by consumerization of IT

to name just a few. Attend this TechBytes video series sponsored by IBM to learn how organizations of all types and sizes are now addressing these myriad challenges by adopting new development and execution platforms that accelerate the entire application lifecycle while creating substantial savings. These bite-sized webinars will cover the latest market conditions in the application development arena, with a particular focus on mobile; dive into the greatest challenges facing development and deployment teams today, and present strategies and tactics that can reduce workload, deliver more, faster, while getting more out of your IT dollar.

About the Presenter:

Soloman Barghouthi is IBM's Application Platform and Cloud Specialist and a Senior Technical Staff Member. Over the years he has held several development, architecture, and leadership positions in the WebSphere Application Server product. Soloman holds many patents and has published numerous papers and videos covering a wide range of technology topics. From his involvement over many years in the development of enterprise software, he has a deep understanding of all aspects of producing software from inception to market.

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The Modernization Imperative: Developing and Deploying in our Hybrid IT World

Today’s dynamic business climate is increasingly application-powered, and as a result the need for code to address change is accelerating. Even businesses that have already adopted agile development and deployment processes and DevOps strategies are struggling with many challenges including:

  • Requirement for significant IT involvement to deliver functionality
  • The increasing challenge of “multi-speed” IT and connecting front-end and back-end systems, exacerbated by application and data siloes
  • Application development, testing and QA backlogs due to increasing user demands driven by consumerization of IT

to name just a few. Attend this TechBytes video series sponsored by IBM to learn how organizations of all types and sizes are now addressing these myriad challenges by adopting new development and execution platforms that accelerate the entire application lifecycle while creating substantial savings. These bite-sized webinars will cover the latest market conditions in the application development arena, with a particular focus on mobile; dive into the greatest challenges facing development and deployment teams today, and present strategies and tactics that can reduce workload, deliver more, faster, while getting more out of your IT dollar.

About the Presenter:

Soloman Barghouthi is IBM's Application Platform and Cloud Specialist and a Senior Technical Staff Member. Over the years he has held several development, architecture, and leadership positions in the WebSphere Application Server product. Soloman holds many patents and has published numerous papers and videos covering a wide range of technology topics. From his involvement over many years in the development of enterprise software, he has a deep understanding of all aspects of producing software from inception to market.

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Why Virtualization Just Doesn’t Matter (Part 3)

Chances are you’ve already virtualized many – if not most – of your server workloads to get the most out of every IT hardware dollar. But as more companies adopt hybrid cloud and container based technologies, what role will virtualization play?

Is virtualization the new ‘checkbox’ for IT deployments, how does the evolution of virtualization, infrastructure and usage models impact your IT environment?

At this 3 part TechBytes series we will cover

  • What role virtualization will provide in future systems?
  • How virtualization is evolving and what it means to you
  • What you should do now to plan for coming changes and new demands

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Why Virtualization Just Doesn’t Matter (Part 2)

Chances are you’ve already virtualized many – if not most – of your server workloads to get the most out of every IT hardware dollar. But as more companies adopt hybrid cloud and container based technologies, what role will virtualization play?

Is virtualization the new ‘checkbox’ for IT deployments, how does the evolution of virtualization, infrastructure and usage models impact your IT environment?

At this 3 part TechBytes series we will cover

  • What role virtualization will provide in future systems?
  • How virtualization is evolving and what it means to you
  • What you should do now to plan for coming changes and new demands

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Why Virtualization Just Doesn’t Matter (Part 1)

Chances are you’ve already virtualized many – if not most – of your server workloads to get the most out of every IT hardware dollar. But as more companies adopt hybrid cloud and container based technologies, what role will virtualization play?

Is virtualization the new ‘checkbox’ for IT deployments, how does the evolution of virtualization, infrastructure and usage models impact your IT environment?

At this 3 part TechBytes series we will cover

  • What role virtualization will provide in future systems?
  • How virtualization is evolving and what it means to you
  • What you should do now to plan for coming changes and new demands

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Modernizing and migrating applications for government agencies

Government agencies want to migrate and modernize their applications. This might be as straight forward as migrating from a proprietary application server to an open source Java™ application server, or the modernization of a monolith application into a more modular microservice-driven application. Choosing the right infrastructure to host these migrated or modernized applications is a looming question for clients.

Join this webinar as Red Hat discusses pathways to:

  • Reduce Oracle and IBM maintenance bills by migrating application servers and messaging technology to Red Hat® JBoss® Middleware.
  • Migrate applications to cloud providers like Amazon and Microsoft using the same secure platforms already in your datacenter.
  • Understand the correct migration path for your Linux® containers and microservices.
  • Containerizing applications.

Speakers:
Zohaib Khan, app migration practice lead and PaaS Community of Practice manager, Red Hat
Jason Corey, middleware sales manager, Public Sector, Red Hat

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Machine Learning with Spark

Organizations of all kinds need data scientists. Accordingly, as part of its commitment to data science, IBM is making available technology, almost 10 years in incubation, designed to help organizations apply machine learning through Apache Spark. Doing so can bring significant benefits to the analytics industry as companies increasingly make space for machine learning in the enterprise.

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Mobile Security from Platform to Device: What you Need to Know Now

By next year over half of all US companies will formally support BYOD, bringing on the challenge of securing data and applications on devices that may often be in the hands malicious users, or worse – teenagers looking to win a game of Pokémon Go with mom’s work iPhone. And, thanks to the consumerization of IT, mobile users increasingly expect the same smooth user experience with business applications that is provided by popular games and consumer applications.

Fortunately, increased mobility and the bring your own device explosion don’t always add up to increased security challenges and UI/UX struggles. This Tech Byte series will look at the most important considerations when planning a mobile strategy – from application development platform to security and governance to user interface guidelines, and present best practices that businesses of all kinds can use to help ensure a successful shift towards a mobile-first enterprise.

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Mobility, Cloud, and the Enterprise: Mobile Application Strategies for Today

By next year over half of all US companies will formally support BYOD, bringing on the challenge of securing data and applications on devices that may often be in the hands malicious users, or worse – teenagers looking to win a game of Pokémon Go with mom’s work iPhone. And, thanks to the consumerization of IT, mobile users increasingly expect the same smooth user experience with business applications that is provided by popular games and consumer applications.

Fortunately, increased mobility and the bring your own device explosion don’t always add up to increased security challenges and UI/UX struggles. This Tech Byte series will look at the most important considerations when planning a mobile strategy – from application development platform to security and governance to user interface guidelines, and present best practices that businesses of all kinds can use to help ensure a successful shift towards a mobile-first enterprise.

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Tech Shorts: Tool Chaining

Support multiple layers of defense without risk to network performance or network uptime

Network security is no longer an insurance policy protecting from a highly unlikely event. Security breaches are the new norm.

This has resulted in a flood of new network security solutions to defend against the constant wave of advanced threats. Managing the network traffic that goes into your security appliances, as well as the systems themselves, is a critical function that ensures network success.

In our brief 5 min Tech Short, see how Security Tool Chaining lets you:

  • Optimize and filter data before it enters your security appliance
  • Get the right traffic to each system
  • Ensure network performance without sacrificing network protection

The solution is simple, it's elegant and it is here today.

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All-Flash Systems for Oracle

Would you like to accelerate your database application development by up to 50%? It’s easy with NetApp® all-flash technology. Watch this two-minute video to learn how flash storage can help you respond faster to change and keep pace with the dynamic demands of your business.
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Analyst Webinar ‐ Building the Connected Experience

In this webinar you will learn from Forrester about Wi-Fi trends in 2016 that include:

• How Cloud Networking is becoming the new standard for network management

• The evolution of Wi-Fi, from basic connectivity to systems of personalized engagement and business intelligence

• The importance of having an application platform that leverages your wireless network

• Examples from customers that are using their networks to transform their business

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