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Nintendo’s Limelight Solution

Families and children around the world love Nintendo. They are fans of the state-of-the-art game consoles such as the new Wii U and they enjoy the variety of exciting game classics from Mario Bros. to Princess Zelda. And, thanks to the educational value of the content, Nintendo captures the hearts of audiences both young and old.

So what is Nintendo’s secret sauce? They understand what it means to create meaningful connections with fans by managing their digital content across devices and by leveraging the power of video. Nintendo provides authentic and homogenous high performance gaming and entertainment experiences to fans on their game consoles and on their branded websites.

Stream On: Case Study

StreamOn is one of Canada’s oldest and most established streaming companies. The company began in 2002 as the result of a need to develop a plug and play, seamless streaming solution for the OK Radio Group’s 10-radio stations. StreamOn currently serves a growing customer base of over 300 radio stations in North, Central and South America, along with the Caribbean, Africa, and the South Pacific.

Building a Better Game Experience

As the video game market has grown, it has become increasingly competitive. Traditional console and PC games are now competing against smartphone and tablet titles as the mobile segment explodes in popularity. But gamers have limited time playing, on average, only 1-2 hours per day2. In order to capture mindshare, and a share of the $100 billion gaming wallet, game developers and studios must expand their titles to become more of an experience. Although they must provide a top quality story-line with easy-to-use controls, they must also extend that game experience into new channels and new platforms if they hope to remain top-of-mind with gamers.

Software Download: The Challenge for Game Developers

Digital distribution is the fastest growing method to sell games, upgrade and fix game software, and push out new enhancements to existing games. For example, Steam, one of the largest game distribution sites in the world, distributes over 3000 games to more than 100 million active users while supporting 5-8 million players simultaneously. The percentage of video gamers choosing digital distribution over DVDs grew from 40% in 2012 to over 50% in 2013, according to the Entertainment Software Association, and this number will keep climbing.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Face the Facts of Compliance: Close Security Loopholes Faster with BMC Intelligent Compliance

The old ways of implementing security and compliance mandates are no longer acceptable and the risk of high profile breaches has never been greater. Read this white paper and learn new ways to close security loopholes, speed remediation, and reduce the time and effort required to remain compliant. Get started now on your road to achieve a state of continuous compliance.

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.

Key Considerations of Delivering Intelligent Compliance

In this interactive multimedia research, read about compliance trends and hear IDC analyst Sean Pike discuss the benefits of Intelligent Compliance. Learn how to identify gaps in your compliance strategy, reduce costs and resolve tough challenges.

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.