The State of Digital Downloads

The way we interact with the world is transforming, thanks to the devices we use every day—tablets, smartphones, computers, and gaming consoles. No longer do we look to analog sources of information and entertainment. We are increasingly beholden to a blossoming digital world through which we acquire information, express ourselves, and interact with each other. The result is a growing relationship with those devices. From sun-up to sundown, they keep us connected to the digital content and applications that have begun to define our lives.
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8 Tips for Winning the IT Asset Management Challenge

Tracking and managing physical and virtual assets using separate systems of record is a time-consuming, labor-intensive, error-prone chore.

Read Eight Tips for Winning the IT Asset Management Challenge and find out how consolidating multiple solutions into a single system of record with ServiceNow enables you to:

• Accurately track assets
• Automate key reports to gain better visibility into asset ownership and utilization
• Create self-service portals and automated workflows
• Improve the user experience while reducing IT overhead

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DevOps and the Cost of Downtime

DevOps is hot, and likely top of mind for you executives – bringing many technical and business benefits to LOB leaders, the C-suite and IT delivery organizations. But when you ask stakeholders to change what they’ve done successfully for years, you must monetize the benefits and ROI for them, and make the organization change real. This IDC Report highlights how communicating DevOps business value is critical to securing additional funding and accelerating the rate and course of change in an enterprise.
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Scaled Agile Information Kit

Scaled agile practices deliver on the promise of scaling development methods to the enterprise through a unified approach and addressing the requirements of complex constructs and additional stakeholders of today’s organizations. Just ask Nationwide Insurance, which is leveraging scaled agile practices. Learn more about scaled agile and Nationwide’s success, and you’ll discover how to:

- Utilize a foundational framework and public knowledge base of proven lean and agile practices at enterprise scale
- Reproduce benefits achieved by four real-world companies
-Follow Nationwide’s example in slashing downtime and dramatically improving code quality in just three years

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Static Code Analysis in an Agile World

To keep pace with ever-increasing customer demands on software functionality and time-to-market expectations, software developers have had to evolve the way they develop code to be both faster and higher quality. As part of this trend, the Waterfall method of software development began to give way in the late 1990s to a more lightweight method of software development: Agile.
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Using JMSL in Hadoop MapReduce Applications

The prototypical Hadoop MapReduce application has at least one Mapper class, one Reducer class, and one driver class. The Mapper class reads the input data and creates intermediate data. The Reducer class accumulates intermediate information and emits a combined result. The Driver class extends the Hadoop class Configured and implements the Hadoop Tool interface, and is used to configure and execute the job.
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Total Mobility: The Positive Impact of Flexible Working Made Clear for IT managers

For IT managers, the real impact of the shift to remote working lies in the effect on day-to-day activities. Ultimately, this will involve the selection, integration and adoption of new technology. But before it gets to this stage, there is an important role for IT managers in understanding why people choose to ‘work from anywhere’, where they would like to work, and what benefits they are expecting.
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Enterprise Cloud Management: Drive Business Value by Balancing Speed, Cost and Risk

Is managing your cloud long term becoming a challenge? See how top global companies are optimizing the business value of their clouds and ensuring long-term success.

Read this eBook and learn how to:
  • Drive efficiencies through automation and process integration
  • Maintain platform flexibility and support complex, production-class public, private and hybrid environments
  • Improve compliance and governance
  • Reduce complexity and build a cloud that grows with your business needs
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Public Cloud Capacity with Enterprise Control

Now you can leverage the full agility, scalability, and cost efficiency of public clouds while ensuring long-term security and compliance throughout the enterprise. Avoid vendor lock-in and gain the flexibility you need.

Read this eBook and find out how to take advantage of the benefits of a public cloud while overcoming the challenges and risks it can involve.
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Enterprise Mobility Trends 2014 – Going Beyond Enterprise Mobility Management

For IT managers, the real impact of the shift to remote working lies in the effect on day-to-day activities. Ultimately, this will involve the selection, integration and adoption of new technology. But before it gets to this stage, there is an important role for IT managers in understanding why people choose to ‘work from anywhere’, where they would like to work, and what benefits they are expecting.
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The State of Digital Downloads

The way we interact with the world is transforming, thanks to the devices we use every day—tablets, smartphones, computers, and gaming consoles. No longer do we look to analog sources of information and entertainment. We are increasingly beholden to a blossoming digital world through which we acquire information, express ourselves, and interact with each other. The result is a growing relationship with those devices. From sun-up to sundown, they keep us connected to the digital content and applications that have begun to define our lives.
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4 Ways to Innovate IT Service Management

Find out how IT Service Management (ITSM) can bring order and relief to an overwhelmed IT department, giving the team more time to focus on big-picture initiatives and help drive the whole business faster.

In this Salesforce eBook, they share 4 elements of IT service management that are critical to IT empowerment including:
  • Self-service options
  • Low-friction communication
  • Reporting and dashboards
  • A future-ready platform
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EMA Analyst Report: Optimizing Cloud for Visibility, Control, and Performance with ADDM

Complex hybrid environments can make it difficult to track interdependencies, increasing the risk of disrupting critical business services. In this white paper by EMA, you’ll learn how application discovery and dependency mapping can help you:
  • Meet granular targets for availability, cost, and time-to-revenue for cloud services.
  • Accelerate mean time to repair (MTTR) while communicating better with stakeholders.
  • Manage even the most complex hybrid environments more efficiently and effectively.
  • Understand the impact of proposed changes and potential security risks to guide decision-making.
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