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The 3-Stage Journey to the All-Flash Cloud

CIOs and other leading IT decision makers are striving to deliver cloud economics and agility from their on-premises infrastructures. Using all-flash storage is a key step in building a modern cloud data center. This white paper will guide you through the steps required to make this journey successfully. It discusses the benefits of all-flash storage and workloads that benefit the most from both flash and cloud services. Readers will learn which workloads to target first, how to achieve greater consolidation, and how to automate their all-flash cloud.

Flash Storage Buyer’s Guide

Even if you haven't deployed flash in your infrastructure yet, chances are, in the next year it's likely to happen. To help you get started, we developed a comprehensive, vendor-neutral Flash Storage Buyer's Guide. The purpose of this guide is to provide a basis for evaluating and selecting the best flash storage solution for your business.

This buyer’s guide covers:

What you need to know about flash memory
The different classes of all-flash storage
Buying criteria for all-flash storage
How all-flash can simplify storage operations

eBook: Enterprise DBAs on Flash – Real Stories

Tech pros seek insights and share unvarnished opinions in independent forums all over the web. That’s where this Real Stories project & research started. This report is drawn entirely from Pure Storage Real Users’ words, observations and experiences. All Stories are used with permission.

eBook: Deliver Better Oracle Application Performance

Applications owners can now deploy nearly cost-free real-world Oracle database test & QA database environments for their developers by deploying applications on the Pure Storage FlashArray. This prevents problems from entering production environments and unleashes sustainable business agility.

Optimizing the Software-Defined Wide Area Network

In an era of business that demands unrivaled agility, most organizations are stuck on networks that are still hardware-bound, router-heavy, and hard-coded. Fortunately, the software-defined movement is ushering in a whole new way to manage enterprise WANs. Read this white paper from CIO.com and Riverbed to explore the business drivers behind SD-WAN. See what benefits SD-WAN can deliver your organization, and gain some insights into overcoming the potential obstacles of adopting an SD-WAN to unlock its full potential.

IDC – SD-WAN – Guidance on WAN Transformation

Digital transformation on the 3rd Platform continues to present unprecedented opportunities and challenges for enterprise networks and the IT professionals who operate them. Indeed, the requirements associated with cloud computing have already reverberated through datacenter networking, with software-defined networking (SDN) arising as an architectural approach that provided the network with the agility and responsiveness that it lacked previously but has come to require. Now, the focus is turning to how the WAN must change to accommodate the requirements of cloud applications and services. Fortunately, technologies such as hybrid WAN and software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) are coming to the rescue, giving enterprise IT the means to allow the WAN to meet these challenges directly.

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.

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

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.

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

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 3^rd 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

DOWNLOAD THE IDC TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT WHITEPAPER

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.

The Business Value of IBM Networking Services

In this study, IDC found that companies are achieving significant value through their investment in IBM Networking Services and that they will earn an average return on investment (ROI) of 322% over five years.

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Next Generation Network Agility: Software Defined Networking

An IBM infographic highlighting the drivers behind software defined networking (SDN), the advantages for business and the importance of enterprise readiness.