Agile Computing: The Time is Right for DevOps

Can your organization rapidly deliver quality applications? For 60% of your peers, the answer is no. In this research report from CA Technologies and IDG, read how many IT leaders are finding help through the DevOps movement: a discipline with the mission to improve IT service delivery agility and quality.
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Meeting Market Demands for Delivery of Innovative, New Application Services

In today’s fast-moving, ultra-competitive business landscape, the days of enterprises spending months—or even years—building, testing and releasing an application, service or new set of capabilities to the market are over. This is because customers, technology users and the market as a whole are more nimble than ever before, and their demands for innovative new functionality have grown in concert. In other words, customers are no longer content to wait for the next big release—nor are they willing to deal with glitches and defects when it arrives. In response to this change in the marketplace, many enterprises have begun focusing on ways they can accelerate their application release life cycle without sacrificing quality and cost—while establishing shorter feedback loops with the market and their customers.
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Application Release Automation with Zero Touch Deployment™

Today’s agile organizations pose operations teams with a tremendous challenge: to deploy new releases to production immediately after development and testing is completed. To ensure that applications are deployed successfully, an automatic and transparent process is required. We refer to this process as Zero Touch Deployment™. This article reviews two approaches to Zero Touch Deployment—a script-based solution and a release automation platform. The article discusses how each can solve the key technological and organizational challenges faced by agile organizations when they set out to implement an automatic deployment system. The article begins by recounting the business and technological contexts that drive agile organizations to seek deployment automation solutions.
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Requirements for an Application Release Automation Platform

Why do we need an Application Release Deployment solution? The IT world is evolving at a rapid pace. Data center and homegrown applications are increasingly complex, application changes are rising in volume and frequency, and operations are deploying across multiple environments and infrastructure models (physical, virtual and cloud). In order to keep up with increasing business demands, development teams are adopting agile methodologies, and QA is employing automated testing. This white paper discusses why application release and deployment automation platforms are becoming increasingly vital for IT operations in global enterprises and explores the specific requirements of such a platform in order for it to prove beneficial, and effective, and offer a substantial return on investment.
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Security in a Faster Forward World: Respond to the Threat Landscape Using a Web Site Protection Services

The online security threat landscape has dramatically evolved – starting at the network layer and moving to applications. The range of possible attack vectors continues to expand with no end in sight. As organizations increasingly move their operations online, they need a Web site protection service that can safeguard their Web sites and applications, business or customer data, and brand image. Download this white paper to learn how you can leverage the Akamai Intelligent Platform to protect your organizations’ Web presence.
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Nucleus Research: Assessing Akamai Kona Security Solutions

To be successful in a Web economy, companies need to balance the demand for innovation and rapid time to market with the need to keep data and applications secure. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) and Web application attacks can have a significant negative impact on Web application data and security, business operations, and company reputation. This paper assesses Akamai Kona Security Solutions. Download it now to better understand the offering and how it can further bolster your Web defenses.
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Securosis: Quick Wins with Website Protection Services

When searching for any quick win your job is to balance security, functionality, and time to deploy. When considering a website protection service you need to focus on application, platform, and availability defenses. Website Protection Services can offer a quick way to deploy protection without investing in significant infrastructure and hard-to- find application security skills.
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Securosis: Defending Against Application Denial of Service Attacks

Application Denial of Service (AppDoS) attacks introduce another level of complexity to keeping critical web applications available and operational. Defending against AppDoS requires a multi-faceted approach that typically starts with a mechanism to filter attack traffic. It also requires significant collaboration between development, operations, and security. Download this Securosis white paper to get tips & recommendations on how to defend against these attacks.
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Ovum: Tackling the DDoS Threat to Banking in 2014

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against financial institutions have undergone significant evolution over the past year, with politically motivated “hacktivists” emerging as a new source of attacks alongside the more traditional hackers seeking financial gain. With these new developments, banks need to address threats by taking a multilayered approach to DDoS mitigation. Download this Ovum white paper to learn more & see recommended defenses.
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10 Key Considerations Before Investing in Web Security

With the rise in the scale and severity of Web attacks, it’s important to carefully develop your Web security strategy. Web attacks can affect a big impact on your business – from a drain on resources, all the way to lost revenue. Therefore it is important to carefully evaluate your needs & the options available. Download this paper to see 10 key considerations you should consider before investing in web security solutions.
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NetFlow™ Tips and Tricks

One of the biggest factors impacting your network performance is network traffic and bandwidth usage. With more personal devices hogging enterprise network bandwidth, network managers are deploying new policies to maintain the quality of service. Although there are multiple ways to manage your network, flow-based network monitoring is the most sought after approach to managing todays’ networks. Download this white paper to gain a better understanding of these technologies and how network administrations can take advantage of the flow technology that is built into routers and switches.
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Rightsizing Your Network Performance Management Solutions

As networking has matured, the focus of engineering and operations has shifted from connectivity to optimization, and from availability to performance. Rising interest in understanding the broader operations picture has also transformed the demands of management tools and technologies. In parallel, there has been no break in the long-standing mantra for doing more with less – both in terms of monetary and human resources. These shifts are prompting re-evaluations of monitoring strategies and products in organizations of all sizes. This ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) white paper examines the importance of finding extensible, cost-effective network performance management solutions that fit deployment needs beyond the NOC to extend value into the datacenter, and thus deliver greater Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) benefits.
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Flash Storage eBook: How to improve data center economics

In business timing is everything, especially for business-critical applications. Delays in delivering critical data and processing can significantly increase business and financial risks. IBM’s new eBook FlashAhead discusses these challenges and offers up the all-flash storage system as a solution.
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Ten ways to save money with IBM data protection

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager solutions can help organizations save money while addressing their data storage challenges by providing data reduction, unified recovery management, capacity-based licensing, scalability, high performance, data life-cycle management, and high reliability.
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