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Good Apps, Bad Apps – The ROI of Creating Exceptional Mobile Moments

Since smartphones launched in 2007, their number has surpassed the 1.5 billion mark — equivalent to nearly one-quarter of the world’s population. The convenience and control afforded by the smartphone and its cousin, the tablet, have changed what we expect and want in mobile: experiences driven by our individual context that delight us as employees and consumers. Forrester calls this the “mobile mind shift.” Successful applications build relationships with customers, while unsuccessful applications waste resources and turn customers away. It has never been more critical for companies to get it right the first time. Download this paper to learn about the key findings from Forrester's August 2014 mobile app study.

Rethinking Data Integration

Deriving value from analytics requires organizations to prepare data for use, but today’s explosion of data volumes, types and sources makes this challenging. Moreover, information must be placed in an operational context to be acted upon. Because current integration methods cannot address all these needs, the results often are inflexible systems and data sprawl. Now, though, data preparation tools are available that enable virtualized access to multiple data sources, making it possible to deliver information promptly and in the appropriate contexts.

Integrate Your Business With Middleware

Being successful in today’s business climate requires the ability to provide the right services and the right information at the right time. Companies that can quickly modify and integrate applications and data are better able to create rich composite services and drive process efficiency. Modernizing application infrastructure holds the key to ensuring IT departments can deliver the flexibility and process automation needed to support efficient business operation.

The Forrester Wave™: Hybrid2 Integration

In Forrester’s 51-criteria evaluation of hybrid² integration vendors, we identified the 14 most significant middleware providers. Instead of exploring only single products, we researched the functionality and interoperability of all relevant products from each vendor to understand their fit for hybrid scenarios between the cloud and on-premises as well as across the different traditional on-premises integration capabilities. This report details our findings about how well each vendor fulfills our criteria and where they stand in relation to each other to help CIOs select the right partner for their hybrid² integration endeavors.

Turn Data Into Actionable Information

Making the right business decisions requires the capability to access the right information at the right time. Companies that can tap into the massive and growing volumes of data available to them can expect to make better informed decisions. Modernizing application infrastructure can help IT departments to federate data so that it can be analyzed quickly for business success.

Enterprise Integration Design Patterns

The design patterns defined in this deck are based on the book "Enterprise Integration Patterns" which documents the authors combined experience in the integration space and created this notation, which has since been adopted as the standard for describing messaging solutions.

Inktank Ceph Enterprise

Inktank’s mission is to transform storage with Ceph®, the massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage system that radically improves the economics and management of data management. Launched by leading Ceph developers, Inktank’s mission is to help enterprises use Ceph to break free of expensive and proprietary storage systems to decrease their storage costs, increase their operational flexibility, and effectively manage their rapidly growing data.

Inktank provides best-in-class professional services and support offerings to enterprises, service providers, and cloud platforms. By delivering enterprise-grade Ceph products and services, Inktank helps enterprises manage their storage in ways pioneered by Google and Amazon.

Inktank Helps Dreamhost Deliver Cloud Storage with Ceph

DreamHost®, a global web and cloud hosting company, prides themselves on providing a quality customer experience backed by the absolute best technology in the industry. They are continuously looking for ways to diversify their offerings, improve reliability, and deliver the best overall service possible. Through their fifteen-year history, DreamHost has grown to over 5000 servers, over 170 employees, and more than 1.2 million domains.

Inktank: CRUSH ALGORITHM

Ceph is in the Linux kernel and has been integrated with the leading open source cloud management platforms. Key to Ceph’s design is the autonomous, self-healing, and intelligent Object Storage Daemon (OSD). Storage clients and OSDs both use the Controlled, Replication, Under, Scalable, Hashing (CRUSH) algorithm to efficiently compute information about data containers on demand, instead of having to depend on a central lookup table.

CRUSH provides a better data management mechanism than older approaches and enables massive scale by cleanly distributing the work to all the clients and OSDs in the cluster. CRUSH uses intelligent data replication to ensure resiliency, which is better suited to hyper-scale storage. Let’s take a deeper look at how CRUSH works to enable modern cloud storage infrastructures.

Unified Storage for Openstack

Unlike every other storage solution for OpenStack, Ceph uniquely combines object and block into one complete storage powerhouse for all your OpenStack needs. Ceph is a total replacement for Swift with such distinctive features as intelligent nodes and a revolutionary deterministic placement algorithm, as well as a fully integrated network block device for Cinder.

Ceph’s fully distributed storage cluster and block device decouple compute from storage in OpenStack, allowing mobility of virtual machines (VMs) across your cluster. Ceph’s block device also provides copy-on-write cloning, which enables you to quickly create a thousand VMs from one master image, requiring only enough space to store their subsequent changes.

Ceph®, The Future of Storage

Ceph®, The Future of Storage™, is a massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage system that runs on commodity hardware. Ceph has been developed from the ground up to deliver object, block, and file system storage in one self-managing, self-healing platform with no single point of failure. With its highly scalable, software defined storage architecture, Ceph is an ideal replacement for legacy storage systems and provides a unified solution for cloud computing environments. Ceph is the foundation of Red Hat’s Inktank Ceph Enterprise™ and the brainchild of Inktank® founder and CTO Sage Weil.

Ceph Storage for Dell OpenStack™ Virtual Infrastructures

Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud operating models are today's dominant strategy for deploying large infrastructures. As such vast scale, every cost is examined and optimized. Many deployments take advantage of free open source software to reduce costs, choosing cohesive cloud frameworks like OpenStack™ to avoid building everything from scratch. OpenStack is a cloud operating system designed to enable anyone to build powerful cloud infrastructures on an open, extensible platform.

Discover How Mail Express Solves 2 of Your Biggest IT Headaches

Email. It can be the source of some of IT's biggest headaches. As it eats up storage and bandwidth, it also opens up holes in your IT security plan. But there is good news. Mail Express can easily solve your most troublesome headaches surrounding email and it can reduce costs, too! Get all the answers instantly when you download our Mail Express whitepaper.

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Mobilize your Corporate Content and Apps

In this white paper, you will learn how to:

- Enable secure mobile access to corporate data without an on-device VPN
- Mobilixe SharePoint, Windows File Share and al your intranet sites
- Protect sensitive corporate data with robust security polices and DLP controls
- Provide mobile access without requiring changes to your network or firewall security configuration
- Allow users to collaborate at anytime, anywhere, from their personal devices

Read on to learn more about how you can give your employees access to resources behind the firewall while securing your data with authorization, encryption and containerization policies.

Unlock Greater Value from DCIM with Asset Intelligence

"The data center is getting bigger and more complex and so too is the asset inventory. Every new asset has an impact on the day–to–day operations of the data center – from power consumption and problem resolution to capacity planning and change management. To achieve – and maintain – operational excellence, organizations don’t just need to know the location of their data center assets, they need to know if they are over-heating, under–performing or sitting idle."