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The era of hybrid environments is here: Is your data refined and ready?

This e-book describes how a data refinery can make trusted data available quickly and easily to people and systems across your organization. It includes simple steps you can take to start exploring - and implementing - this strategy for handling the challenges of hybrid data environments.

Move IT from the Back Room to the Boardroom

Business Strategy, more than ever, depends on the execution and delivery of smart technology enabled services. IT management is being challenged to align their capabilities to that strategy and lead the technology charge. Often however, there exists a gap between the capabilities IT departments possess and the demands of the business. These gaps generally fall into 3 categories: lack of qualified staff, lack of essential tools, and lack of necessary skills. This informative interactive eBook will help you understand the gaps that are holding your IT department back and provide insights into how best to address them. Only by quickly aligning its capabilities to the needs of the business will IT deliver the technology leadership the business and markets demand.

The Forrester Wave: Data Governance Tools, Q2 2014

The Forrester Wave: Data Governance Tools, Q2 2014, IBM has been named a leader and has earned the highest scores for both strategy and market presence. Review the analysis to learn about the five key data governance domains.

The Total Economic Impact of IBM Information Integration and Governance Solutions: Forrester Report

IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by leveraging IBM InfoSphere Information Integration and Governance (IIG) solutions.

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Managed File Transfer Buyers Guide

Is your Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution falling flat? The right MFT solution will enable your enterprise to maximize security and compliance, while maintaining system uptime. Our MFT Buyers Guide walks you through what you should look for in a provider and also offers you a checklist of items that your chosen MFT solution should provide.

Enterprise Mobility Management 101

Enterprise mobility management safeguards an organization’s data and network security, while supporting employee productivity. Minimize organizational risks by implementing a BYOD policy and using supporting technologies to enable employee productivity.

Managed File Transfer: Can your business thrive without it?

The right managed file transfer solution for your enterprise will deliver bottom-line results and peace of mind. Our whitepaper will show you what an effectively designed and deployed Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution will do for your enterprise. Discover how the right MFT solution will enhance business growth, enhance operational efficiency, enable compliance, reduce costs, and improve ROI.

Build Exceptional Customer Experiences with IT Agility

It’s clear that digital plays a significant role in shaping how customers engage with brands – but barriers exist that prevent organizations from delivering best-in-class digital experiences to their customers. A recent Forrester Consulting survey of CIOs and CMOs revealed that IT organizations focusing on infrastructure operations and “keeping the lights on” are a barrier to achieving business success, and organizations must collaborate with marketing in order to deliver IT agility. Learn how IT organizations can pivot from infrastructure maintenance to business innovation by downloading this Forrester survey report.

Profiting from the Transition to Physical + Digital Solutions

Technology trends impacting network equipment providers include increasing software intellectual property (IP) component in physical products, mainstreaming of virtualization technology, the ability to decouple software from hardware and an increasing desire for service providers and enterprises to transition from using custom hardware to generic, commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware powered by software.

The Third Industrial Revolution: Intelligent Devices, Software, and the Internet of Things

The first industrial revolution ushered in a global transformation as the means of production transitioned from human labor to machine driven automation. The second industrial revolution accelerated change through the growth of the railroads, iron and steel production, manufacturing automation, the use of steam power, oil, electricity, and electrical communications.

Testing SAP Solutions For Dummies

In this eBook, we share how IBM software and solutions can help an organization manage quality and begin testing SAP solutions and the integrations they depend on earlier, continuously, while testing smarter.

Gear Up For Modern Service Delivery

Just as industrialization modernized the production of goods, automation applied to the modern service delivery life cycle can increase the speed and quality of service releases, which you can tailor to the right cadence of your business. Use new and newly repurposed tools to automate the full life cycle.

Version Everything for Outstanding DevOps Performance

Over the last five years, the DevOps movement has brought Development and Operations teams together to meet the common goal of releasing better-quality software faster.

A key to DevOps success is the adoption of and adherence to a much advocated best practice: version everything.

Why the Hybrid Cloud Makes Sense

In a previous era, it was possible for a CIO to confine almost all of the technology operations of his company within the walls of a data center that was directly managed, and likely owned, by that company.

But today, the data center is just one component of the hybrid cloud, an architecture that combines elements of private clouds, public clouds, and on-premise data centers. Enterprises are increasingly choosing this cloud architecture in order to maximize the performance of mission-critical applications, which benefit from the security and reliability of the private cloud and on-premise data centers, as well as the scalability and flexibility of the public cloud. The hybrid cloud helps companies manage the processing of applications from big data to payroll, service mobile and fixed users, and speed content to its consumers.

Big Data Analytics Infographic

IT infrastructure is key to a successful analytics solution implementation. Efficient storage is required not only to house data but to fully enable the extraction of actionable insights at the point of impact.