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Security Visibility at Scale for Dummies

As security threats grow in scope and volume, network architects and business leaders increasingly face the need to ensure complete and timely security visibility down to the packet level. This book shows you how architecting a modern security visibility network infrastructure can help your business adapt to new threats, lengthen the usefulness of your current security system investments, and enhance uptime and availability to drive business assurance.

Inside…

See the entire threat landscape
Understand security visibility basics
Create deep packet flow visibility
Support both inline and out-of-band systems
Optimize packet flows
Explore security visibility use cases
Ask the right questions about visibility

The CIO Guide to Autonomic IT

Given the ever-increasing criticality of IT to the business, the CIO that cannot deliver predictable performance, while minimizing cost will be replaced. Yet a number of trends are increasing the complexity of solving this problem. Moreover, organizations today vary in their level of IT maturity. The ability to adopt new technologies and processes, pressure from the business, as well as the beliefs and aspirations of CIOs all play a role in how and why organizations mature.

This document describes five stages of IT maturity for CIOs to understand where their organization is today and where they can aspire to reach:

Aware: Collect and review performance and cost metrics
Proactive: Proactively make changes to assure performance and control cost
Automated Management: Continuously assure performance within cost constraints
Demand Aligned: Auto scale apps and infrastructure based on real-time demand
SLA Delivery: Deliver differentiated service levels within cost and constraints

Adopting an autonomic IT approach requires a change in mindset across the organization. But whatever their stage of IT maturity, CIOs and their organizations can benefit. This document is your roadmap.

Capacity Management in the Modern Data Center

Capacity management as an operational discipline has existed since the advent of server-based computing, dating back to the age of the mainframe. Commercial tools to support this discipline have existed for more than 30 years with each successive generation of server platform creating its own unique requirements.

The introduction of virtualization in particular introduced the Intelligent Workload Management (IWM) problem where capacity management was no longer a sufficient solution to assuring application performance. In particular, traditional capacity management solutions suffer from a few shortcomings.

This whitepaper explores the traditional methods of managing capacity in the data center, the new approach IT must adopt to stay competitive and how you can assure application performance while scaling your infrastructure.

Public Cloud Guide: New Clouds, Same Challenges

A growing number of IT leaders are transforming IT’s unfortunate reputation as a cost-center into one of a competitive advantage. In doing so they acknowledged that IT cannot be a gate-keeper. Their teams must enable applications teams to deliver on business needs—or they’ll be replaced. The public cloud promises many things, but there remain three key elements to consider as you transform IT: Performance, Cost, and Agility.

This white paper is for leaders of Operations, Engineering, or Infrastructure teams who are creating or executing an IT roadmap. It discusses the challenges that must be recognized and questions that must be considered in order to succeed in this new cloud era.

Making data simple for the Cognitive Era

Learn how to integrate all types of data and enable artificial intelligence–powered decision-making.

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Data Science: Providing Knowledge and Insights to Your Organization

This paper is the second of a four-part series for IBM. It will discuss how the CIO’s organization can advance the priorities of the business by creating an environment that enables data science productivity, frees data scientists from non-analytical activities and provides technological solutions that promote a sense of community for these valuable resources.

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Business Benefits of Hosted Unified Communications

What happens when the unexpected happens?

Whether you have a hosted VoIP system or a premises-based PBX, life is full of “what ifs.” What if we lose power or connectivity? What if all our equipment is destroyed overnight? What if our IT guy hits the lottery and quits on the spot?

Unfortunately, no business is immune to disruptions like these. But regardless of what type of phone system you have, there are steps you can take to proactively address these concerns.

In this whitepaper, Business Benefits of Hosted Unified Communications, you’ll find out how hosted VoIP mitigates these problems.

Hosted UC: The Total Cost Of Ownership

When you’re shopping around for a new Unified Communications solution and the quotes are rolling in, it can be difficult to make a true apples-to-apples comparison between them. For example, you’ll have an up-front capital expenditure if you purchase a premises-based UC system, but you’ll have a monthly access fee if you go with a hosted UC service. The best way to level the playing field is to look at the TCO – total cost of ownership.

Download this whitepaper, Hosted UC: The Total Cost Of Ownership, to compare the true costs of hosted and premises-based UC solutions.

Coloque os projetos de Big Data em produção na velocidade do negócio

As empresas dependem da TI para oferecer os serviços digitais que impulsionam o crescimento e a inovação. Os CIOs também se deparam com a constante demanda dos executivos de negócios executivos para alavancar novas tendências em busca de vantagens competitivas. Em ambos os casos, o desafio é que o departamento de TI adote novas tecnologias o mais rápido possível, de uma maneira que ajude a acelerar o tempo de lançamento para novos serviços. Em se tratando de grande volume de dados, isso ainda é um esforço para muitas organizações. Apesar das previsões entusiasmadas e do claro potencial, relativamente poucos projetos Hadoop realmente chegaram até a produção, em parte por causa da complexidade do ecossistema. A automação pode ajudar o departamento de TI a superar essa complexidade, tornando possível cumprir a promessa de big data e criar os serviços digitais necessários ao negócio quando são necessários.

Este artigo explora os desafios que atrasam muitos projetos Hadoop e como eles podem ser superados através da automação nas etapas de instalação, desenvolvimento e produção.

A automação do fluxo de trabalho do Hadoop aumenta a eficiência e a vantagem competitiva

Em agosto de 2015, a BMC solicitou à Forrester Consulting que conduzisse um estudo de como os clientes estão usando o Hadoop em suas organizações. Depois, para explorar melhor essa tendência, a Forrester desenvolveu uma hipótese de que uma iniciativa bem-sucedida de Hadoop não pode ser conduzida isoladamente, mas requer um esforço integrado que cresce e se estende pela empresa. E, uma vez que o processamento em lotes é uma parte importante do fluxo de trabalho do Hadoop, a automação do fluxo de trabalho e o agendamento de tarefas devem ser considerados no início de um projeto de Hadoop, em vez de em uma fase posterior.

Operações de TI eficientes exigem a automação da carga de trabalho

Em maio de 2016, a BMC contratou a Forrester Consulting para avaliar como as empresas estão utilizando as ferramentas de script e agendamento de tarefas para aumentar a eficiência geral da TI e dar suporte aos fluxos de trabalho de negócios. Depois, para explorar mais a fundo essa tendência, a Forrester testou uma hipótese que afirmava que a mudança dos scripts manuais e do agendamento de tarefas ad hoc para uma automação de tarefas empresarial e controlada aumentaria a eficiência operacional da TI.

La automatización de las cargas de trabajo es un requisito de las operaciones de TI eficaces

En mayo de 2016, BMC encargó a Forrester Consulting la realización de un estudio para determinar cómo se utilizan las herramientas de scripts y programación de tareas en las empresas, para mejorar la eficacia global de la organización de TI y dar cabida a los flujos de trabajo empresariales. Forrester, con objeto de profundizar más en el estudio, puso a prueba la hipótesis de que abandonar los scripts manuales y la programación ad hoc y utilizar la automatización de las tareas, controlada y en toda la empresa, contribuirá a aumentar la eficacia operativa de TI.

Connexion de Hadoop à l’entreprise

L'écosystème Apache® Hadoop® s'est développé plus rapidement que les outils et le savoir nécessaire pour l'exploiter. De ce fait, de nombreux programmes de Big Data d'entreprise se sont enlisés. Les développeurs s'efforcent de concrétiser la promesse du Big Date en une réalité tangible. Des douzaines d'outils disponibles contribuent à la difficulté car ils ne sont pas interopérables avec les systèmes d'entreprise existants et nécessitent des compétences spécialisées.

Les entreprises doivent clarifier leur feuille de route pour faire leur choix parmi le labyrinthe constitué par les outils propriétaires et créer des workflows de Big Date et les mettre en production. BMC Control-M Application Integrator est un outil de conception d'automatisation des charges de travail qui permet aux entreprises d'apporter rapidement une valeur ajoutée à partir du Big Data en créant de nouveaux services automatisés.

Conecte Hadoop a la empresa

El ecosistema Hadoop® de Apache® ha crecido más rápidamente que las herramientas y los conocimientos disponibles para aprovecharlo. La consecuencia es que muchos programas de big data de empresas se han estancado. Los desarrolladores se esfuerzan en hacer que las promesas de los big data se conviertan en una realidad práctica. Hay multitud de herramientas que aumentan el problema, porque no son compatibles con los sistemas anteriores de la empresa y para manejarlas hacen falta conocimientos especializados.

Las organizaciones necesitan una guía clara para superar el laberinto de las herramientas propias, crear flujos de trabajo de big data y ponerlos en funcionamiento. BMC Control-M Application Integrator es una herramienta de diseño de automatización de la carga de trabajo con la que se puede obtener rápidamente valor a partir de los big data mediante la creación de nuevos servicios automatizados.

Die Workflow Automatisierung in Hadoop steigert die Effizienz und erhöht den Wettbewerbsvorteil

Entdecken Sie die zentrale Stellung der Workload-Automatisierung in den Big Data-Strategien moderner Unternehmen

Die in IT- und Unternehmensleitungen durchgeführte umfassende Umfrage von Forrester bietet wichtige Einblicke in Big Data-Strategien, einschließlich der Vorteile von Workload-Automatisierung für eine schnellere Datenverarbeitung, mehr Effizienz und geringere Fehleranfälligkeit. Informationen zu:

Wie und warum Unternehmen Hadoop-Workloads automatisieren
Welche Automatisierungs-Tools und -Methoden immer beliebter werden
Erfolgsbewertung von Hadoop-Initiativen
Entwickeln von Modellen und Anwendungsfällen für Hadoop-Bereitstellungen

Wenden Sie die Ergebnisse aus dem Artikel von Forrester Consulting zu Thought Leadership an, um alle Vorteile von Big Data für Ihr Unternehmen zu nutzen. Laden Sie die Studie noch heute herunter.