Forrester: The Future of the WAN is Software-Defined

IT leaders are adopting hybrid WAN topologies to increase capacity and reliability while balancing cost and performance requirements. However, these hybrid architectures are often too complex, rigid, and fragile. As a result, many organizations are challenging the status quo of traditional networking. Read this Technology Adoption Profile from Forrester to learn why 90% of network managers are looking to evolve their WAN, and see why new approaches such as SD-WAN are required to compete in today's digital age.
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Enterprise Applications on Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Invisible Infrastructure for Enterprise Applications

Is your datacenter infrastructure team facing performance, availability and scalability challenges? Are your application’s infrastructure needs complex and expensive? Are you wondering about the infrastructure needs for the next generation of database applications? Learn a fundamentally different approach to meeting enterprise application needs that is sure to set you apart from the pack!

Read this eBook to learn about:

  • Common infrastructure challenges
  • Requirements for enterprise applications
  • Hyperconvergence and web-scale concepts
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8 Reasons to Rethink Virtualization in Your Datacenter

Although server virtualization has become an integral part of today’s data center, the underlying architecture has remained a separate component of the infrastructure stack, despite technology advances and evolving user expectations.

But now the time has come for virtualization to become integrated as a core feature into the rest of the infrastructure.

This white paper details an infrastructure platform delivering enterprise-class storage, compute, and virtualization services for any app. Access now and you’ll learn eight benefits of integrating virtualization in your data center infrastructure.

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Enterprise Cloud For Dummies

WHAT IS THE ENTERPRISE CLOUD?

More and more leading organizations are going beyond hyperconvergence and turning to an enterprise cloud strategy to bring the agility, simplicity, and pay-as-you-grow economics of public clouds to their datacenters. This book will help you understand what the enterprise cloud is and how it can help you propel your organization into the future.

Download and learn how you can:

  • Prepare your organization for the new era of IT infrastructure
  • Get the frictionless benefits of public clouds without sacrificing the control of on-prem infrastructure
  • Leverage new best practices for enterprise storage, virtualization, and cloud technologies
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IDC Technology Assessment Report – Hitachi Content Platform: End-to-End Portfolio for the 3rd Platform

According to a new IDC Technology Assessment report, Hitachi Content Platform: End-to-End Portfolio for the 3rd Platform, businesses are undergoing a fundamental transformation as they actively adopt and manage the four pillars of the 3rd Platform (social, mobile, cloud, and big data).

This 3rd platform of data is a critical concern of IT organizations that being urgently addressed. The data management explosion presents serious risks to the performance of legacy infrastructure, to the point of access disruption and data loss. That’s why IT organizations are reviewing object-based storage (OBS) solutions to lead a complete mobile storage transition and augment their current systems, including content delivery, sync and share, analytics, and backup.

Author: Amita Potnis, Research Manager, File and Object-based Storage Solutions

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IBM is a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ – Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions, Q2 2016

Do you want to do Hadoop in the cloud? Explore the The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions, Q2 2016 report to understand how to evaluate Hadoop cloud solution vendors across 37-criteria.

The report explains the benefits for Hadoop cloud deployments including economizing the analysis of more data using cheaper infrastructure, enabling faster advanced analytics, scaling to unlimited resources in minutes, providing a self-service analytics platform, and simplifying big data deployment. Come away armed with how to evaluate IBM BigInsights on Cloud and other vendors across several dimensions including current offering, strategy and market presence. The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions, Q2 2016 report details how elasticity, automation and pay-as-you-go features are driving enterprise adoption of Hadoop in the cloud.

IBM differentiates BigInsights with end-to-end advanced analytics, and also has among the highest scores in the Cloud Platform Integration, data security, data management, partnerships and solution configuration criteria. Learn more about how to get started with Hadoop in the cloud with IBM.

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How to Build a Predictive Analytics Model to Foresee Flight Delays

This tutorial describes how data scientists and developers can build an application to predict flight delays. The app uses machine learning (Spark MLlib), fueled by publicly available airplane flight data and enriched with weather data, to predict flight delays due to weather conditions. In the event that a delay is likely, the app can also help determine the degree to which the flight will be delayed. To build the app, you will learn how to use a Get-Build-Analyze methodology and the IBM® Analytics for Apache® Spark™ service, which includes an interactive Jupyter Notebook. Learn how to:

  • Collect data from various sources, including weather and flight patterns.
  • Build the data collected, and test a predictive model.
  • Analyze the data for business advantage, and quantify the impact of weather on flight delays.

Get started building this flight prediction application, and gain inspiration for your next data science projects.

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The Top 3 Monitoring Challenges IT Faces

The distributed nature of the modern technology world is exciting, promising—and really, really hard to keep track of. Instead of monolithic hardware and software stacks in a data center, technology resources exist—ideally—wherever and however they’re most effective.

That means that cloud applications can be delivered from many different locations to many different users, and that various pieces of the infrastructure could be hosted or delivered by as many outside providers. And the applications multiply quickly, as do the servers and memory storing this constantly created new information.

Download this free guide to learn three of the biggest challenges IT is facing and what can be done to solve them.

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5 Steps of Moving Apps to the Cloud

Business applications are headed to the cloud in record numbers, bringing users and IT teams into a new model of accessing services and resources. It’s a big switch from traditional apps, both for users and for their IT support teams.

This guide provides five key steps to help you prepare up-front and keep the control you need throughout the move to the cloud.

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How to Uncover Your SaaS App Problems

SaaS is now the standard for companies implementing business applications or services. But what's actually happening with those applications' performance and their related user experiences has remained a mystery to many of the IT teams tasked with monitoring them.

Traditional tools for application monitoring aren't made for SaaS applications, but there are other ways you can gain insight into all your apps, whether on-premises or off.

This free guide will walk you through a few key steps to get to the root of how your SaaS applications are performing.

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Making IT Relevant Again

One of the main drivers of large, global enterprises is the increased use of SaaS applications. These applications are cheaper than on-premises solutions and can be ramped up faster, but have yielded three key impacts on high-transaction businesses—increasing bandwidth demands, loss of IT control and the need for more effective monitoring tools.

In this whitepaper, we will discuss the IT challenges inherent to tech-dependent, high-transaction, multi-location organizations and the key to making IT relevant again—a comprehensive application performance monitoring (APM) solution.
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Gartner Names MuleSoft a Leader – Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service

MuleSoft Positioned as a Leader 3 Years in a Row

Read this complimentary copy of the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for iPaaS, and find out why MuleSoft was named a Leader based on completeness of vision and the ability to execute.

  • Expert perspectives on the iPaaS vendor landscape
  • Critical analysis of key differentiators
  • Latest developments in integration technology
  • Industry benchmarks and trends
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