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Gartner Magic Quadrant 2016

Mobile apps are at the front line of the digital revolution, and MADPs are becoming the main driver accelerating digital transformation in businesses. We evaluate the major vendors and key trends in this space to help IT leaders select platforms that best match their business and technical needs.

If you’d like to learn more about the report and its findings use the form to get in touch.

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information & Event Management (SIEM)

Gartner, Inc. has positioned IBM as a leader in providing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) software in the newly published Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM Technology. Read the Gartner report to learn why IBM is positioned as a leader, the strenghts of IBM QRadar for security intelligence & analytics and market trends and vendor evaluation criteria.

Your Phone System in the Cloud

Jive Voice—our cloud-based phone system—gives you a professional boost. Enjoy our suite of Hosted VoIP features, including unlimited voicemail boxes, auto attendants, and local and long-distance calling. Focus on your priorities, not your tech.

IT Resilience: Building Fault Tolerant Architectures

The Axcient IT Resilience eBook teaches IT leaders a new approach to building enterprise resilience. Learn how to build an IT architecture that leverages the perfect balance of on-premises and cloud infrastructure to deliver more high-performing, resilient, and agile IT at lower costs.

PureApp Software on VersaStack for simple, accelerated app delivery

The pace of business continues to accelerate, with customers expecting new and better application services delivered quickly. IBM®PureApplication® Software on VersaStack™ allows organizations to easily develop and deliver applications faster. Weeks of manual effort, documentation and ongoing maintenance are replaced by less than a few hours to deploy IBM recommended highly available golden topology in a repeatable fashion.
Read this IBM Solutions Brief to find out how PureApplication Software:

simplifies and accelerates application delivery with VersaStack
provides the fastest and simplest way to deploy enterprise applications and middleware onto cloud environments
provides workload deployment and cloud management capabilities on new or existing VersaStack deployments

Back to the Future with the API Economy

With this survey-based research, ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) analysts set out to assess the API economy from multiple dimensions.

Examining both the “consumer” and “provider” sides of the equation, the study explores the challenges of API usage in today’s production environments.

This white paper summarizes the survey findings on the deployment, management, and governance-related challenges of delivering API-driven services.

Complete the form on this page to view the summary today.

Total Economic Impact of IBM Security Network Protection (XGS), Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) Study

Read this Forrester report to learn how to:

1) Increase network security, performance, and availability
2) Reduce costs and protect your investment with Flexible Performance Licensing
3) Evaluate the potential return on investment (ROI) your organization may realize with XGS

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Flood Control: Overcoming Data Lake Challenges

These days, business leaders know their data contains valuable insights that could help their organizations become more successful. This is particularly true of unstructured data that doesn't reside in traditional data warehouses. Data lakes bring together disparate data to generate new insights, but their size and complexity can make them difficult to manage. Download this whitepaper to learn how new tools can help businesses control these complicated environments.

Managing Big Data Workflows For Dummies

Stay ahead of the competition by learning how to use big data workflow automation and overcome big data implementation hurdles. Manage big data workflows to increase the value of enterprise data.

This guide will help you:

Know which big data technologies are most appropriate for your organization
Know where to get the latest information on big data and data science, including the industry's most cutting-edge conferences, books, blogs, and thought leaders to follow
Identify great hires when filling your big data staffing requirements
Put big data automation to work for your organization. Download the Managing Big Data Workflows For Dummies guide today.

Hadoop Adoption Drivers and Challenges

Gartner's Hadoop adoption study results show that investment remains tentative in the face of sizable challenges around business value and skills. This analysis helps information leaders get past the market hype to rationalize their Hadoop adoption strategies.

Strengthening networks and endpoints with behavior-based protection

Discover how to use behavior-based protection strategies to help disrupt mutating threats in real time, looking at how integrated, intelligent solutions from IBM can detect and help prevent attacks - from the network perimeter to remote endpoints.

Nucleus ROI Study

A large telecommunications company deployed BMC Control-M to provide greater stability that would support automation in its billing department. Nucleus found that with high levels of success in automating billing processes, the team was able to further leverage BMC Control-M in additional departments to support new capabilities, providing benefits including increased employee productivity and the avoidance of new hires.

EMA Radar™ for Workload Automation (WLA)

Hybrid cloud, DevOps, big data and digitalization are driving a need for more sophisticated workload automation, which underpins the consistent delivery of traditional and cutting edge workloads. Modern workloads require more sophistication; data is collected from a greater variety of sources, and the success or failure of job streams can be directly exposed to both business users and customers. Significant enhancements in workload automation (WLA) tools have been added in recent years to address these trends. This Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) RADAR report identifies the thirteen leading WLA platforms and empirically compares and grades them against a broad range of measurements to determine overall product strengths and cost efficiencies.

Workload Automation: Accelerate Digital Services Delivery

Managing Hadoop batch processing may consume a significant portion of application developers’ time and effort, which drives up application development times and costs. This paper from BMC discusses the obstacles IT organizations face in developing and managing Hadoop jobs and workflows and how a workload automation solution can remove these barriers.

Reduce Audit Risk and Lower Costs with Data Center Discovery

To fulfill the strategic role expected of IT in the modern digital enterprise, it’s essential to take a holistic approach to asset management with full visibility into dependencies.

By applying discovery and dependency automation at scale to gain complete information into assets, configurations, and dependencies, IT can:

Respond to audits more quickly and accurately
Eliminate waste in the software budget
Make better decisions about data center consolidation and the cloud