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7 Proven Practices to Strengthen Release Management

This white paper will discuss key tips for improving a release process and strengthening release management. Once the following practices are in order, the process can be enabled to keep up with the pace of Agile, and reduce the risks associated with rapid deployments.

Application Release & Deployment For Dummies

This eBook will take you through the basics of application release and deployment, and provide best practices for implementation with resources for a deeper dive.

Delivering on the Promise of Predictive Control

The core business value of BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management’s (BPPM) predictive analytics is advanced risk mitigation, enabling enterprises to anticipate and remedy issues before they disturb essential processes. Using BPPM, you will avoid the costly erosion of business that comes from suboptimal performance and availability, and position your service delivery to win in today’s marketplace.

Prioritize Capacity Planning with BMC Capacity Optimization

Current trends underscore the requirement for truly global and adaptable capability for optimizing capacity across domains with full insight into business service outcomes. Learn why EMA has put BMC in the lead as the vendor with the fullest breadth and depth of its capacity optimization capabilities.

Three Ways System Downtime Affects Companies and Four Methods to Minimize It

Downtime happens and often at the worst time possible. Organizations experiencing downtime face direct and indirect costs from the loss of critical systems. This whitepaper discusses a Globalscape survey of 283 IT professionals and end users revealing the frequency of unplanned downtime, the effects on organizations, including average costs, and what IT administrators can do to minimize core system failure.

Challenging Some of the Myths About Static Code Analysis

Why Static Code Analysis? Static code analysis, or SCA, can be described as the analysis of whole-program source code without the execution of that program. A number of interpretations and even misconceptions about this technology and how it impacts or benefits you, the developer, have emerged over time. You may have heard some of them yourself.

To help tell the right story, we put this paper together to dispel some of the ‘myths’ about SCA, myths that serve mostly to distort the true value static analysis can bring to you and your software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Improving Collaboration by Adding Social Capabilities to Email

This paper looks at why email remains the primary mode of communication in business today and the fact that more and more organizations are looking at social software and other real-time communication methods to add to the email experience. Analyst firm IDC expects that organizations will use software, such as Notes and Domino 9x Social Edition which seamlessly combines email with social capabilities both on-premises and in the cloud, to complement existing tools and address the business need of getting the right data to/from the right people at the right time for the foreseeable future. Share this paper with your clients.

Applying social business: The repeatable patterns that improve business processes and provide return

A shift of power in commercial relationships from producers and sellers to buyers has changed marketplace and leadership thinking toward greater collaboration with customers, partners and employees. Fortunately, new capabilities in technology and business practices can help organizations adapt and harness these marketplace dynamics. Read this white paper for more information about seven examples of repeatable approaches for using social business practices and capabilities to impact your business, to create competitive advantage and to gain identifiable and measurable ROI.

Champions of Software as a Service: How SaaS is Fueling Powerful Competitive Advantage

The use of Software as a Service (SaaS) has skyrocketed over the last few years and shows no signs of slowing. What’s driving that demand? An IBM Center for Applied Insights study – based on input from more than 800 IT and business decision makers worldwide – offers some surprising answers. As expected, reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of their applications is the top reason companies try SaaS. However, top performers are gaining something even more critical: competitive advantage. Leading companies are leveraging SaaS in powerful and even transformative ways.

Embracing SaaS: A blueprint for IT Success

This ebook outlines compelling approaches for CIOs to establish and lead a defined SaaS strategy for their companies, in order to meet line-of-business (LoB) needs for innovation and agility. We share key success factors for CIOs that can help them and their organization.

Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of Customer Data Solutions

The MDM of customer data solutions market segment grew healthily in 2012. New acquisitions and integrations of prior acquisitions by the Leaders have continued, and several visions for linking MDM and social data have emerged. This Magic Quadrant will help you find the right vendor for your needs.

The MDM Advantage: Creating Insight from Big Data

To help enterprises create trusted insight as the volume, velocity and variety of data continue to explode, IBM offers several solutions designed to help organizations uncover previously unavailable insights and use them to support and inform decisions across the business. Combining the power of IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) with the IBM big data portfolio creates a valuable connection: big data technology can supply insights to MDM, and MDM can supply master data definitions to big data.

Dangerous File-Sharing

A new survey of over 500 corporate employees reveals the greatest threat to data security. Find out what tools your colleagues use most to share data, and how to facilitate safe file sharing through improved policies and better tools.

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Data on the Move = Business on the Move; How Strategic Secure Managed File Transfer Adds Value and Drives Business

This whitepaper describes the formal and informal file-sharing methods business employees use to perform their daily functions and explains that, from sending small text documents to multi-gigabyte video files, the right managed file transfer (MFT) solution can allow such transfers to continue without risking the security of the corporate network. The paper explains that the right MFT solution can enable business growth, enhance operational efficiency, enable compliance, reduce costs, and increase ROI. Choosing the right MFT solution requires eight considerations described in the paper, and concludes by explaining why Globalscape solutions are the choice of our customers around the world.

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The Hidden Costs of Self-Signed SSL Certificates

The total cost of ownership (TCO) of an SSL certificate is far more than just the price of the certificate. From security hardware, to management software, to data centre space and more, the costs of establishing a secure self-signing architecture can quickly add up. Not only that, but a do-it-yourself approach to SSL security may put an organisation at risk – from both technical and business perspectives – in a variety of ways. This paper explores the true TCO for self-signed SSL certificates, including a side-by-side comparison of a self-signed architecture versus working with a third-party SSL vendor. Before a company decides to use self-signed certificates, these issues deserve careful consideration.