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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Don’t go Public with your Private Cloud

Have you always wondered about those “corner of the booth” discussions experts have with themselves when it comes to Cloud? What if it was with experts whom have had thousands of real-world cloud deployments under their belt and more than 15 years of experience managing public, private, hybrid and multi-clouds? Now’s your chance! Join Jeff DeVerter, Chief Technologist for Microsoft Technologies at Rackspace in a “corner of the booth” discussion with three (3) industry expert’s including a SharePoint MVP, chatting on how to keep your private cloud private. There are many reasons companies make the decision to deploy their applications on private cloud with security leading the way for making that decision. With this in mind, it’s vitally important that the deployment of private cloud stay secure. The experts will key in on choosing the right cloud infrastructure for your initial cloud deployment, the required security for your applications to be deployed with, and importance of a comprehensive cloud management strategy that insures success.
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Case Studies In Advanced Network Threat Protection: Scale Your Network To Find What Hides Within

Join our conversation on how to leverage threat intelligence to protect against advanced threats. In our webinar Case Studies in Advanced Threat Network Protection, we will dive into how customers are using the latest research and insights backed by ATLAS threat intelligence to protect valuable IT assets.

We will discuss how a solution-based approach, leveraging Arbor Spectrum combined with NETSCOUT packet flow switches, allows you to aggregate and see everything within your network.
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Streamline application innovation with APM

For years, application performance management (APM) played an important but largely background role. With the evolution of a digital world where innovation and customer engagement rule, APM is now firmly in the spotlight.

View the IBM webcast featuring Cameron Haight from Gartner, Inc., to learn how APM has evolved alongside DevOps and agile practices.

  • Streamline the innovation process with APM.
  • Evaluate APM tools.
  • Apply APM across the full DevOps tool chain, from development to production.
  • Accelerate product releases across hybrid cloud environments with APM.

You’ll also hear from Arun Biligiri, IBM's APM leader, as he discusses how IBM is leveraging its leadership in hybrid cloud and cognitive capabilities to deliver a DevOps-centric APM solution.

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Embracing Enterprise Mobility: Three Steps to Secure Access

Mobility has changed the very nature of information technology. Users demand connectivity for a growing number and increasing variety of devices from laptop to smartphone, tablet and beyond. However, mobility presents challenges for securing users, networks and data. This Battlecard will provide key criteria to consider in each of the three phases of mobile security:
  • 1. Beginning the mobile journey: Basics of securing devices and users
  • 2. Encryption and the enterprise – what and how to raise your security profile
  • 3. Providing full network access: Embracing mobility as part of an overall IT strategy
Where are you on your self-actualization scale for mobile?  This Battlecard, sponsored by IBM MaaS360 will help you prepare for secure access whether for must email, document sharing, or real-time interaction with peers and secure systems.
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How to Access Big Data & Unstructured Content in Your Applications

Nearly 80 percent of content is living outside of a structured data environment. Information-driven software solutions need a way to unlock unstructured files like Word, PowerPoint and PDF, pull out the hidden and visible content that’s inside, and incorporate the data into their systems in a variety of different ways and formats. However, extracting data from various internal and external sources is often a tedious and time-consuming process that can’t keep pace with ever-changing requirements of business. Plus, many vendors cannot extract data from web sites that use AJAX, JavaScript, Flash, and PDFs forcing developers to write custom scripts or modify existing scripts.

In this webcast you will learn how to:
  • Identify, extract and transform every document, email, legacy, archive and container format you need
  • Render, manipulate and view content in high definition
  • Preview all kind of formats on Mobile devices
  • Eliminate manual scripting to access the business data from disparate sources
  • Perform automated database look ups and online checks from websites without using APIs
  • Collect data in a structured type ready for internal applications or databases
Particularly interesting for software vendors!
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Mobility vs. Security: Balancing Accessibility and Efficiency against Threats Internal and External

In today’s application economy, IT and business units are focused on increasing employee effectiveness and driving customer loyalty with a broad range of new ‘mobile-first’ applications. Having ‘an app for that’ offers many benefits – consumer-like experiences, increased use of enterprise applications, support for mobile workforce and a global customer base, to name just a few. But with each new mobile app – and mobile user – comes another attack surface and possible source of data loss or regulatory infraction. What now?

Attend this Slashdot webinar to hear our expert panel discuss the challenges facing IT, developers and DevOps teams today, and what enterprises of all sizes should be doing to ensure their applications and users aren’t at risk. Attendees will hear:

  • How MDM is evolving, and what that means to users and IT
  • Methods of controlling devices that access your network and apps – simply
  • Why provisioning matters, and how to accelerate onboarding and retiring of users and devices
  • How to give users secure corporate access while retaining their existing mobile experience
  • Why content is king – and how to collaborate securely no matter how large the group
  • How to give access behind the firewall – without messy configuration settings or VPNs.

Don’t wait – register now for this timely webinar and bring your questions for the experts to address during the Q&A following the presentation.

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Lessons Learned Deploying Microsoft Private Cloud at Scale

Have you started down the path to architecting and deploying a Microsoft Private Cloud using Microsoft Server with Hyper-V and Windows Azure Pack?

Have you selected which applications would be best suited for Private Cloud? Do you understand the implications of scale as your application grows?

Watch as industry experts discuss strategies for overcoming design, deployment, and monitoring challenges in a Microsoft Cloud Platform environment. They examine real-life situations in which Rackspace architected and deployed Microsoft Private Cloud at scale, across multiple geographies. You'll get first-hand what Red Hat has learned along the way, such as how to approach the integration of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) functionality, designing resilient architectures and failover, as well as building for scale. At the end you will hear about the future of Microsoft Cloud Platform with the advent of Microsoft Azure Stack. Register to watch the webcast now.
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