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Move to Mobility Faster Utilizing Managed Service Providers

Mobility is driving benefits in organizations, but the road to becoming a mobile company is not easy. This leaves companies looking to the outside for help, and Managed Service Providers are able to deliver mobility to organizations that lack the necessary skills and resources.

Nucleus Research – Technology Value Matrix – Second Half 2014

This 2H-2014 Value Matrix by Nucleus Research evaluates all major BI vendors and their ability to deliver value based on usability, functionality and projects 6-month trends for each vendor to identify best-of-breed capabilities in various dimensions that have evolved in the marketplace.

Analytics For All: The Time Has Come

Learn why IBM developed Watson Analytics, the differences between Watson Analytics and Watson and more in this IBM point of view paper.

Achieve Faster Business Results with IBM Platform Computing Cloud Services

IBM Platform Computing cloud services offer a comprehensive set of capabilities to address your high-performance computing needs and fuel your organization’s growth. Learn more about four versatile cloud services that are available for deployment as part of a public or hybrid cloud.

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Best Practice Security in a Cloud Enabled World

This report explores that security in a fast-paced technology-infused world cries for an “invest once and deploy everywhere” approach. For this to be realized, security must be planned in advance and built-in, yet still be fluidly adaptable to circumstances, and singularly controllable.

IBM FlashSystem: Powering the Future of IT

This high-level white paper explains how supporting cloud, analytics, mobile, social, and data security compute requirements while at the same time exploiting the opportunities they offer demands the power of high performance, agile, and cost efficient FlashSystem storage.

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APIs Fueling the Connected Car Opportunity

The connected car offers manufacturers and dealers ways to deliver a better consumer experience post purchase and will prove strategic to developing consumer loyalty in the long term. Today’s connectivity technologies empower the automotive sector to deliver increased value via a number of innovative features, including:

• The ability to remotely start or unlock a vehicle

• Real-time diagnostic information to prevent minor issues from turning major

• Connection with insurance companies, to take advantage of “good driver” discounts

• Integration with car part suppliers in order to better manage inventory

API Monetization: How to Unlock the Value of Your APIs

It should come as no surprise that exposing business data outside of the enterprise creates a range of new security and management challenges. API Management solutions make it simple for even the most security-conscious organization to open their information assets without impacting data security or the performance of backend systems. So in the end, you can focus not on the risks of API monetization, but rather, on the rewards.

Five Simple Strategies for Securing Your APIs

APIs empower organizations to integrate applications using Web technology. The API-based approach to integration is exploding in popularity because it builds on well-understood techniques and leverages existing infrastructure.

APIs in Mobile Apps: Delivering the Right Balance Between App Security and Usability

In order to take full advantage of the app opportunity, businesses must open up their traditional boundaries and connect valuable and sensitive data to the outside mobile world—it’s what today’s consumers expect.

From home, the office or on the road, people want the convenience of being able to login to their email, check their credit card balances, buy new clothes, book travel, share links with social networks, copy images into reports, upload files to the cloud and more. While businesses work feverishly to answer the demand, they need to be aware of the extreme security threat involved in enabling these mobile initiatives.

APIs Guide for Extending Your ESB/SOA Environment to Mobile, Cloud and IoT

Every enterprise has a wide variety of IT requirements where integration is needed. The rapid proliferation and adoption of cloud and mobile technologies has accentuated the financial impact of these needs. In response, the integration space has matured to include feature-rich stacks from enterprise integration vendors that provide full, multi-layer platforms in the form of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) or SOA suite. But with these very broad capabilities comes complexity—multi-layer stacks can be difficult and costly to install, debug, administer and secure.

Securing Multiple Domains with SSL

As the backbone of web security, secure sockets layer (SSL) technology is a must for securing sensitive data passing over the Internet — whether that's e-commerce traffic, remote access to internal servers, or other secure communications. Usually, one SSL certificate secures just one domain name or URL; however, some common situations are better handled with a type of certificate that allows multiple domains to be secured with just one certificate.

Read this guide to learn about typical situations where multiple domain certificates are the ideal solution, how multiple domain certificates work, and how to select the right multi-domain certificate for your needs.

Introduction to Web Analytics for E-Commerce: How to Track Activity to Optimize Your Web Site

Analytics can be a powerful tool, so now is a great time to learn more about web metrics. Use this guide to understand the basics of what web analytics are and why they’re important, what metrics you should track, and how you can use this information to optimize your site and encourage customers to visit often and buy more.

Creating an E-commerce Web Site: A Do-It-Yourself Guide

In this guide, you'll learn about what goes into creating your own do-it-yourself (DIY) e-commerce web site, from picking the right tools and services you’ll need to create your web pages, to selecting the best hosting provider and payment solution to fit your business, to figuring out the best security for your site.

Geek Guide: Apache Web Servers and SSL Authentication

Congratulations! You’ve decided to set up a Web site. The site might be for your personal use, for sharing family pictures, for a blog, for an SaaS application, or any number of other possibilities. In all of those cases, people will access your site using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). HTTP has evolved and improved through the years, but one thing about it hasn’t changed—the fact that all of the traffic sent on an HTTP connection is unencrypted.

The bottom line is that whether you want or need to do so, adding HTTPS to a site you’re running isn’t very hard to do. In this Geek Guide, I walk through what SSL/TLS is (and isn’t), how you can create or buy a certificate, how to install that certificate into an Apache server and then how to configure Apache such that a subset of URLs on your system are covered by SSL.