Planning For Big Data, Preparing For Business Analytics

Ziff Davis recently surveyed 302 IT professionals to gain insight into their big data and analytics strategies. The survey revealed that many organizations were struggling to move from planning phases to execution and suggested a number of possible pain points around big data initiatives.
Get Whitepaper

A Smarter Approach: Inside IBM Business Analytics Solutions for Mid-Size Businesses

IBM is at the forefront of bringing big data to midsize businesses. With business analytics software solutions that are robust, easy to use, and accessible to all users across an organization, you place the right tools in the hands of users who need it the most. Learn how IBM can help any business take a smarter approach to analytics and data-driven management with easy to use and powerful solutions built around IBM Cognos® and IBM SPSS software.
Get Whitepaper

Turning Big Data into Business INSIGHTS

Ziff Davis recently surveyed over 300 IT professionals on the state of big data and analytics initiatives in their organizations. The results tell a compelling story: while most IT pros understand the value of big data, actually operationalizing their analytics strategies to deliver usable insights to their organizations remains a challenge.
Get Whitepaper

Strategic IT Survey Results: Big Data

Ziff Davis asked its diverse audience of IT professionals and decision makers to provide their insights on these questions and help us get a better picture of the state of analytics among real companies. Ziff Davis conducted a broad, big data analytics survey, asking readers questions relating to the current status of their data initiatives, their infrastructure to support analytics, and much more.
Get Whitepaper

Buyer’s Checklist: Mobile Application Platforms

To build and run quality mobile applications, you need an enterprise-strength platform that addresses the broader backend integration issues including security and data access management. You need a platform that can scale app development and management across your organization; that can accelerate backend integration, simplify ongoing maintenance and enable you to build once and deploy across virtually any device.
Get Whitepaper

Build more robust native mobile applications with IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation

Developers are responding to the demand and high expectations for mobile apps by building native mobile apps. This approach can be more costly because you have to develop code for each platform. The benefit, however, is native mobile apps can use the full capability of the mobile device. Read the white paper and start improving your organization’s ability to deliver more effective native mobile apps
Get Whitepaper

Enabling Faster, More Consistent Business Decisions in Enterprise Applications

At the risk of stating the exceptionally obvious: Without storage, we would have no digital data. From being very much—and so-named at the time—a peripheral to early batch-based and CPU-focused IT effort, storage is now front and center in contemporary IT. This paper reviews the increasingly popular OpenStack cloud platform and the abilities that IBM storage solutions provide to enable and enhance OpenStack deployments. But before addressing those specifics, it is useful to remind ourselves of the “whys and wherefores” of cloud computing.
Get Whitepaper

Entry scale-out systems that put data to work

The latest generation of IBM Power Systems, with POWER8 technology, is the first family of systems built with innovations that transform the power of big data and analytics, mobile, and cloud into competitive advantages in ways never before possible, putting data to work for you.
Get Whitepaper

Accelerate IT Operations with Cloud

Today’s CIOs are in a challenging situation: according to IDC, up to 70% of their IT budget is spent on systems maintenance and operations, yet business leaders across the enterprise are continuously bringing requests for new and more competitive systems and improved functionality.
Get Whitepaper

VMware vSphere Backups: What are you Missing?

Backups used to be easy. Just check the time stamp or the archive bit. If it changed, then back up the file.

Suddenly virtualization became popular, as did server applications. The unstructured data inside files and folders found itself sharing the datacenter with all manner of applications and databases. Virtual machines (VMs) joined physical machines as the method of delivering IT services.

Get Whitepaper

Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2012 R2 in Depth

Data deduplication has been around for years and comes in many forms. Most people think about expensive storage arrays when they talk about deduplication but that is certainly not the only type of data deduplication technology.

This white paper examines the data deduplication technology embedded in Windows Server 2012 R2 and the benefits it can bring to your environment. The discussion includes how it works and the possible scenarios for using Windows Server 2012 R2 data deduplication.

Get Whitepaper