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The Value of IT Automation, Featuring Research from Gartner

At Puppet, we’ve been looking at the state of DevOps practices for several years and helping organizations achieve higher levels of efficiency.

We’ve learned a lot about the impact of DevOps at varying stages of IT automation maturity.

As DevOps has moved from theory to implementation for more organizations, a host of DevOps myths have blocked adoption in many organizations.

This publication debunks these myths so your organization can automate, innovate, and get ahead.

Download this publication, featuring research from Gartner, to discover:

Why DevOps is applicable to legacy environments, traditional enterprises and hierarchical organizations.
Practices that underpin DevOps, from version control to automated testing to infrastructure as code.
How companies like Walmart, Staples, Ambit Energy and Infusionsoft have embraced DevOps and IT automation.

Get Started with DevOps: A Guide for IT Managers

If you’re managing an IT team, you may be turning to DevOps as the path to faster delivery of software.

DevOps can help your team become more efficient — and your organization more competitive — but you’ll need to be able to communicate to your team why things are changing, and how their usual working practices are likely to alter.

Download this guide to explore:

How to align DevOps with your organization’s goals.
What change might look like — for operations, development and the organization at large.
Why security is a great icebreaker.
The importance of focusing on the team over individual DevOps specialists.
How to embrace agile ways of working, along with infrastructure as code, code review, continuous integration and unit testing.

Forrester Report: Improve Cybersecurity with DevOps

Have you considered that applications are your competitive advantage— and help you compete for customers?

The faster you’re able to deliver applications, the better you can compete.

Given this reality, many application development and delivery pros are wisely turning to DevOps to deliver applications faster — and more reliably.

Yet, rapid delivery leaves some IT leaders nervous about quality and cybersecurity. Does faster delivery equate to haphazard decisions and compromised cybersecurity?

Done right, DevOps can actually improve cybersecurity, not compromise it. DevOps helps build in quality from the start, allowing you to gather and act on feedback earlier, catch security flaws sooner in the delivery cycle, and respond faster to compromises.

This July 2015 Forrester Report explores:

Why consistent, automated DevOps processes are essential to closing vulnerabilities and limiting exposure.
Practices, such as infrastructure as code and automated provisioning, for closing holes as soon as patches are available.
How DevOps and security professionals can work together to adopt DevSecOps.

Ptak Associates Report: BMC’s NGT = DB2 Utilities for the 21st Century

In this analyst report, you’ll learn how the operational demands of the digital age will require next generation DB2 management technology that can optimize infrastructure performance and deliver excellent response to customers.
Read the report to:

Learn about the operational challenges of dynamic databases
Explore how next generation technology can enhance data management
See how BMC can cut DB2 management costs while improving application availability

Ptak Case Study: BMC Automated Mainframe Cost Management Saves Money and Lowers MLC Costs for Insurance Company

Learn how one company is paying less for MLC—without getting less from its mainframe. Every mainframe customer faces a 4% increase in MLC costs this year—but they’re not all taking it lying down. In this case study prepared by Ptak Associates, you’ll learn how a major insurer lowered the amount it pays for MLC software without sacrificing service delivery.

Reducing peak MSUs
Eliminating end-of-year true-up amounts
Negotiating better MLC agreements

New Approaches to Cut Mainframe Operating Expenses

To get more from your IT budget, you need to get mainframe MLC costs under control - without sacrificing service delivery. This eBook presents tools and solutions to help you intelligently optimize when and where workloads run to improve efficiency and lower costs.

You'll learn how to:

Make intelligent decisions about utilization with full visibility into business impact
Recover underutilized capacity and reduce your rolling peaks
Optimize where your subsystems run to eliminate excess DB2 and IMS instances
Lower monthly license charges by up to 20 - 30 percent

“Optimizing Monthly License Charge Costs To Better Leverage Your Mainframe”, A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC, February 2016

BMC commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct an in-depth study of IT and senior corporate managers in US enterprises with more than 1,000 employees to evaluate mainframe strategies and how they impact mainframe operating costs. Forrester found that by optimizing mainframe Monthly License Charge (MLC) costs, these companies have lowered operational costs and increased automation, which improved their productivity. Learn about four recommendations to help you save.

Adapt to Digital Business with Single System Image (SSI) Monitoring Capabilities for Mainframes

Meet the demand for performance and availability with simpler mainframe monitoring.

Finding and resolving issues is critical to keep revenue-generating digital services running their best. In this paper, you’ll learn how to achieve a single, simpler view across your mainframe environment before performance and availability issues impact your business.

Read the white paper to:

Improve the efficiency and productivity of mainframe staff
Maintain performance despite growing complexity
Shrink MTTR, reduce system outages and lower TCO

Deliver Better Results for Mainframe Cost Reduction Initiatives

In this white paper, you’ll learn how you can leverage BMC’s mainframe cost optimization solution to avoid unnecessary MLC expenses and risks while focusing on projects that offer the greatest opportunity to deliver the highest ROI. What you’ll find in this white paper:

Understand why past cost reductions failed to deliver expected savings
Learn how to identify projects with the best chance of success
Discover how to save significantly on MLC costs
See how to avoid unnecessary changes to applications

Security Visibility: 10 Things to Ask Your Vendor

Know before you buy. Ask the right questions of your packet visibility vendor for security systems.

If your organization needs traffic aggregation or packet optimization to bolster visibility to security solutions, there are 10 key questions you should ask when evaluating a solution.

Review this checklist to ensure your security systems get the packets required, and only the ones needed, to get the most out of your investment.

Advancing Security Maturity with Packet Visibility

Cybersecurity is a constant battle to stay ahead. The Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (C2M2) outlines a process to move your security posture to the next level.

In our C2M2 Security White Paper, learn how to advance your security maturity with security visibility. We cover:

deployment case studies
enabling fail-safe active security
active inline security systems in series

Read about how to advance your cybersecurity maturity with security visibility, delivered by packet flow switching technology.

Tool Chaining Use Case

Service assurance and security may not seem symbiotic. But they can be.

The challenge with deploying security tools in line is that they may become a single point of failure, affecting network availability and performance. Yet top analyst, insurance companies and compliance are calling for these devices to provide proactive protection. There is a simple and elegant solution. One that allows complete control of active inline tools with baked in service assurance.

Download and read our Tool Chaining use case and learn how you can have complete control of data, as it flows into security systems. NGFWs, IDS, IPS, sandboxing or whatever tool you want no longer has to be another bump in the wire. Read how to place these solutions in a virtual chain, while removing concerns about single points of failure.

Secure service assurance, all wrapped in a performance bow.

Optimizing DB Storage Performance for Dummies

One of the most effective ways to address database performance and cost challenges is to modernize the underlying hardware infrastructure. Innovations such as flash storage, converged infrastructure architectures, and sophisticated data management platforms can have a major impact. Learn more in our free eBook: Optimizing Database Storage Performance for Dummies.

Integrating Flash Storage with Enterprise Applications

Enterprise applications are the lifeblood of IT. We rely on them for everything from optimizing manufacturing to tracking customer satisfaction. This paper examines the criteria for selecting flash storage in support of enterprise applications and makes recommendations based on the strengths of each flash system. Explore how to align enterprise application performance, management, and growth with business priorities through the use of connected flash storage systems.

Complete OpenStack Storage

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage are a perfect fit for enterprises deploying OpenStack.