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5 steps to simplify APM for business-wide results

Application downtime is just one of many costs associated with a fragmented application performance management (APM) strategy. Managing today’s more complex and interdependent mission-critical applications is a growing challenge with even larger business implications. Learn the 5 steps to simplify Application Performance Management.

Asset and service management for smarter transportation

This white paper reviews the trends and issues facing the many segments of the transportation industry from an enterprise asset management perspective. These include the rolling stock and vehicles managed by freight and logistic companies, private fleets, public fleets and public transit.

Asset management for local government

This white paper discusses how IBM Maximo Asset Management solutions for local government provide a consolidated, trusted platform for simple and effective management of all asset types.

The Ten Commandments of Bring Your Own Device

You've Seen Some of the Commandments - But Finding the BYOD Promised Land Requires All Ten End users are demanding their own devices in the workplace making IT the shepherds of a potentially unruly flock. The good news is IT can embrace BYOD with security and confidence given the right preparation and technology. Whether you're supporting iOS, Android, BlackBerry or Windows, the rules of BYOD don't change. Download today to see all the tenets of implementing an effective BYOD program in your organization.

Maintaining continuous compliance – a new best-practice approach

To achieve continuous compliance with internal policies and external regulations, organizations need to replace traditional processes with a new best practice approach and new innovative technology, such as that provided by IBM Endpoint Manager.

From audit compliance to app stores, accelerate your move to software asset management

With comprehensive software asset management, organizations can prepare for audits and ultimately implement an automated, self-service enterprise “app” store to simplify, streamline, and better control software requests, approvals, deployment and licensing.

Seven Steps for Choosing a Software Configuration Management System

Have you been tasked with finding a software configuration management system for your team? We’ve put together seven steps to help you analyze your needs, choose a vendor effectively, and start off brilliantly.

Continuous Delivery is Reshaping the Future of ALM

Continuous delivery equals competitive advantage releasing software many times a day may sound like science fiction, but it’s reality for a growing number of firms. Continuous delivery is a shift to assembly of components and services, and a new DevOps compact provide the means to pivot away from the frustrations of the past to become the enabler of new, exciting digital customer experiences.

Continuous Delivery: Five Habits of Highly Successful Practitioners

Continuous Delivery is a development discipline in which software can be released to production at any time. It’s about building a development and release pipeline where early feedback, automated build and test, and incremental deployments into production can dramatically speed up release cycles. Indeed, you accelerate your time to market -- providing a continuous flow of “release candidates” for business acceptance -- without sacrificing quality.

Continuous Delivery in Practice

Continuous Delivery allows you to get new features and capabilities to market quickly and reliably— both highly desirable outcomes. But to achieve these outcomes, you need processes and controls that make sure your continuous delivery reaches its full potential.

Continuous Delivery: The New Normal

Continuous Delivery is an emerging software development methodology that automates and improves software delivery. By building the capability to rapidly, reliably, and repeatedly push out enhancements and bug fixes to customers at low risk and with minimal manual overhead, software development organizations can respond to business needs faster and improve satisfaction for business stakeholders and end users alike.

eBook: Security For a Faster World

Cybercrime is becoming increasingly sophisticated, and it often surpasses the security capabilities of even large corporations. This eBook presents a maturity model that will help you determine how secure you really are, explores five questions every CIO should be able to answer, and outlines a new approach based on intelligence gathering and research that can keep you ahead of the cybercriminals.

Big Security for Big Data

In order to meet current security problems, a new paradigm shift needs to occur. Businesses need the ability to secure data, collect it, and aggregate into an intelligent format, so that real-time alerting and reporting can take place. The first step is to establish complete visibility so that you can monitor your data and those who access it. Next, you need to understand the context, so that you can focus on assets that are critical to your business. Finally, you need to utilize the intelligence gathered so that you can harden your attack surface and stop attacks before data is exfiltrated. This white paper will give you the information you need to get started.

Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Endpoint Backup

This research provides detailed stack ranking of seven endpoint backup products against 11 critical capabilities and across two use cases. This can help IT leaders narrow their enterprise endpoint backup product shortlists.

Top 10 Endpoint Backup Mistakes

Backing up and protecting sensitive corporate data has become more challenging because of several trends: exponential data growth, the rise in endpoints, BYOD, and SaaS applications. Avoid the following ten endpoint backup mistakes to ensure that your critical corporate data is protected and end user productivity is improved.