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Visibility in the Modern Data Center with Brocade SLX Insight Architecture

As organizations continue to transform their business and adapt to new digital workloads, IT operations teams struggle to keep pace with the volume and variety of digital data going across their networks.

Visibility is critical, and in order to meet customer and end-user service and application expectations and remain competitive, organizations need to provide service and application assurance, improve operational efficiencies, and enable new monetisation opportunities. They need comprehensive visibility into the operational state of the network and into the traffic that is transiting the network without compromising day-to-day operations and performance.

Brocade Workflow Composer Network Automation Platform

To unleash new levels of business innovation and competitive advantage, customers are embracing digital transformation. Success depends on building an agile business. In the digital era, IT agility is key to business agility. However, IT infrastructure is only as agile as its least agile component.

The lack of network automation and the inability of the network to align with IT operations and tool chains today is the single biggest inhibitor to an organisation’s ability to capitalise on digitalisation. In fact, 75 percent of CIOs say the network is an issue in achieving their organization’s goals.

Take The Fast Lane To SDDC

Read this eBook to understand how you can accelerate your journey with Brocade and VMware

You’ve virtualized your compute and storage. So what’s next? To complete the journey to a software-defined data center you must modernize your network. This eBook explains how integrated solutions from Brocade and VMware will deliver:

Seamless integration of the physical and virtual infrastructure
Full network visibility across all environments
Competitive advantage thanks to improved performance and agility

Building Agile Data Centers

IT and application architectures have changed significantly in the past decade as cloud, big data, and mobile computing have disrupted business processes and applications. Cloud computing offers a particularly attractive value proposition: It gives organizations of all sizes the ability to leverage IT resources as needed.

When data center investment is a concern or IT is an enabler but not a core business, cloud-based services can allow organizations to scale effectively via hosted applications, or infrastructure-as-a-service. Organizations also are building their own next-generation data center infrastructure in order to benefit from the cost-efficiencies, flexibility, and scale that a cloud provides.

Office 365 Provisioning Demo

Microsoft is making a massive push to the cloud. As a result, Office 365 is taking off. But in its complexity, Office 365 is unlike any other cloud app. Often this causes impactful deployment delays. Instead of relying on legacy tools Microsoft gives away, learn to remove the identity barriers for your Office 365 migration while building a foundation from which to launch your entire future cloud strategy.

This on-demand webinar discusses:

The basic identity management requirements for an Office 365 deployment
Microsoft’s existing identity management tools
The role of identity management in building a diverse cloud strategy

Okta Directory Integration – An Architectural Overview

This May 2016 Forrester report explores a landscape in which organizations in every industry are moving from cloud adoption to cloud creation and participation.

For most companies, Active Directory (AD) or LDAP and plays the central role in coordinating identity and access management policies. Directory integration typically serves as a "source of truth" for user identities, and it provides access control to on-premises resources such as networks, file servers, and web applications. A byproduct of the transition to cloud applications is the proliferation of separate user stores; each cloud application typically is rolled out independently and therefore has its own unique database of user credentials.

Read this whitepaper to learn how Okta eliminates the pitfalls that come with trying to build and manage multiple on-premises active directory integrations yourself.

Why Choose Okta vs. ADFS?

You're moving towards Office 365 and you want true single sign-on for users. You also want to ensure authentication is directly tied back to the policies and user status in Active Directory. With Okta's lightweight agent, you can minimize your on-prem footprint as you move to the cloud. Zero servers and on-prem software to deploy, update and manage means lower TCO.

Office 365 Adoption: Identity and Mobility Management Challenges

Microsoft made a massive push to the cloud in 2014, and as a result Office 365 is taking off. We’re seeing it in how Okta customers are using Okta to connect to Office 365 in increasing numbers. However, Office 365 is unlike any other cloud app in its complexity, and it is best for IT to plan and deploy solutions around identity and mobility management in concert with their Office 365 rollout to get maximum user adoption.

Solved: Common Database Challenges

Want to join your peers in database storage nirvana? Learn how many organizations have benefited from the Dell EMC All-Flash portfolio, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors—and how it can help you solve the most common database storage challenges: Time-to-market, consolidation, and complexity.

Intel Inside®. New Possibilities Outside.

Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Get the Benefits of All Flash, Simplified

Looking for an All-Flash platform that’s simple, modern, flexible, and offers a low TCO? Dell EMC’s Unity platform, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, is easy to setup and manage, offers affordable flash optimization, and creates an efficient way to enjoy cloud-enabled storage management. Get the details in this infographic, then check out the All-Flash Storage Simulator.

Intel Inside®. New Possibilities Outside.

Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Welcome to Your Modern Data Center, Transformed by All-Flash

Review real-world case studies for transforming workloads using storage solutions reinvented to unlock innovation and agility. And learn what the world’s #1 all-flash storage array, Dell EMC XtremIO, can do for you.

Intel Inside®. Powerful Data Center Outside.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

It Happened in a Flash (Taking a Look at Data Storage: SSD vs. HDD)

How do solid-state drives really match up to hard disk drives? This Infographic illustrates a side-by-side comparison that quantifies how the differences extend beyond cost per GB. See how SSD and HDDs stack up against each other with facts on reliability, capacity, latency, transfer rates, IOPS, and power consumption.

Intel Inside®. New Possibilities Outside.

Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Identifying the Right Solution for your business

The biggest challenges around cloud adoption aren't the technologies involved but rather involve finding the people that can effectively leverage those technologies to provide the best outcome for an organization. Learn how to implement a cheaper and faster cloud by understanding:

The challenges of a hybrid, managed and DIY cloud
How cloud providers are better at detecting attacks
DIY versus managed hosted clouds

Challenges of building and operating a Microsoft Private Cloud

A Microsoft Private Cloud enables businesses to balance the benefits of cloud computing with the benefits of a private data center. Building and maintaining a Microsoft® Cloud Platform environment can be challenging, though, and most organizations don’t have the resources to effectively manage the environment. This white paper examines how businesses can address those challenges and leverage the benefits of a Microsoft Private Cloud by using Rackspace to host and manage their Microsoft Cloud Platform environment.

IoT Upsets Application Development

Before IoT, applications worked using a "request and response" design where information flows in one direction. Now with the emergence of IoT, applications need to be able to flow data both ways and be able to learn from the incoming data to make improvements on-the-fly.

This report will provide you with insight into how applications must now be developed to cater to an IoT world and how you can incorporate machine learning to facilitate IoT data interpretation.