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Assess Your Software Asset Management Maturity Level and Develop a Plan for Improvement

Managing the software licensing landscape within most companies is a complex task, which is made more complicated by the sheer number of contracts to be managed (hundreds, if not thousands) as well as the different types of licenses that must be administered. Industry trends such as virtualization, cloud, and increased flexibility in software licensing have added to this challenge, ensuring that the complexities associated with understanding and managing software assets continue to increase.

Ovum SWOT Assessment: CA Release Automation

Chandranshu writes that downstream software lifecycle processes, e.g. release automation, are getting increased attention due to trends like continuous delivery and continuous deployment. He says that release automation helps organizations avoid production issues caused by erroneous releases.

CA Release Automation can help organizations move towards continuous delivery, he says, and organizations considering DevOps adoption should shortlist it. Its tight integration with CA Service Virtualization, he adds, makes for a compelling offering for those looking to speed up application delivery.

Staying Agile with Big Data

Like any major technology project, organizations implementing Big Data projects face challenges with aligning business cases, selecting the right technology solutions, and mobilizing the right skillsets. Big data projects add some unique challenges to the mix. With growing awareness of the value of data, organizations must innovate rapidly in the use of that data to preserve competitive edge. And, as they implement solutions, they must contend with a technology base that is becoming a rapidly moving target.

Choosing the Right Storage Platform for Splunk Enterprise

To help businesses easily and cost-effectively realize the benefits of operational analytics, Red Hat has integrated Splunk® Enterprise, an industry-leading platform for delivering real-time operational intelligence, with Red Hat® Gluster Storage, a software-defined storage platform for files, objects, and machine-to-machine data. Using these products together helps enterprise solve the cost and scale problems of explosive analytic data growth.

RED HAT CEPH STORAGE: An Open, Software-defined Storage Platform for the Cloud

Red Hat® Ceph Storage is a massively scalable, open, software-defined storage platform that:

• Is designed for cloud infrastructures and web-scale object storage. Combines the most stable version of Ceph with a Ceph management platform, deployment tools, and support services.

• Provides the tools to flexibly, automatically, and cost-effectively manage petabyte-scale data deployments in the enterprise.

• Manages cloud data so enterprises can focus on managing their businesses.

SWOT Assessment: Flexera Software, FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises 2014

In today's economic climate, there is significant pressure on CIOs to control costs and reduce risks while finding ways to fund new business initiatives. Software is a strategic asset that is typically under-managed in most organizations. It should therefore be a priority for CIOs to find ways to automate and optimize software asset management in order to uncover cost savings and minimize license liability risk.

IDC MaturityScape: Software License Optimization

This study provides organizations with a framework of stages, critical measures, outcomes, and actions required for the effective management of software license assets for the purposes of spend optimization. IDC's Software License Optimization MaturityScape can be used to assess current competencies and maturity and identify steps for improvement as well as help identify the critical people, process, and technology strategies that help drive effective software license optimization.

A Guide for the IT Professional

Globally there are circa 9.1 million instances of Windows Server 2003 still in operation. On 14 July 2015, support for Windows Server 2003 (WS2003) and Small Business Server 2003 (SBS) comes to an end.

While refreshing infrastructure is often seen as a chore, on this occasion moving away from WS2003 could result in significant benefits for your organization – so don’t put off the inevitable!

Seven ways to fail: the business risk of inadequate testing

Network conditions affect the performance of applications in many ways. Research suggests that 70% of mobile transaction response time is spent on the network. This reality intensifies the need for comprehensive testing of software before applications go into production. Unfortunately, some common approaches to performance testing suffer from critical weaknesses that leave your business at risk.

Develop and test faster by virtualising constrained application components

Today’s consumers have grown up with the expectation that their digital experience is mobile, always-on, and easily enhanced. Consequently, we face a new style of IT that forces everyone involved in building, validating, and delivering applications to find new solutions for decreasing time to market, reducing defects in production, shortening software development cycle times, and enabling constrained testing teams to increase test coverage.

HP Performance Center Software

HP Performance Center software is an enterprise-class performance engineering software, designed to facilitate standardisation, centralisation, global collaboration, and management of a performance engineering center of excellence.

HP Network Virtualisation for Mobile

HP Network Virtualisation for Mobile is the only network virtualisation solution designed specifically for the unique requirements of mobile app testing. This field-proven HP solution reduces the risk of poor mobile performance and helps your organisation test, validate, and optimise the performance of your mobile apps before deployment.

HP StormRunner Load

HP StormRunner Load is a Software-as-a-Service solution for web and mobile application performance testing. HP StormRunner Load (also referred to as ”SaaS”) has self-service administration and enables project and agile teams to plan and execute performance testing and analysis of web and mobile applications.

HP LoadRunner software

HP LoadRunner software is the industry-standard software for performance engineering. Generate real-life loads. Identify and diagnose problems. Deploy with confidence.

Five Star Performance

In today’s digitally driven business climate, high-quality application performance is essential to the success of your business. You cannot afford to go live with poorly performing applications or software updates that anger and alienate your customers, partners, and employees. This reality drives the need for an aggressive approach to testing software that includes the virtualisation of users, services, and networks to create realistic test conditions and accurate results.