Choosing a partner for enterprise cloud production workloads

Many IT professionals cite loss of control as a barrier to using third-party partners for enterprise cloud construction and management. Read the white paper to learn how IBM SmartCloud Services help knock down this barrier by offering the cost-savings and convenience of a third-party cloud with a web portal that gives you control of cloud activities. You’ll also find out how IBM cloud solutions can help your organization enhance business processes, create new revenue streams and boost competitive advantage.
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Cyber Security Intelligence Index

An effective cyber security strategy calls for the latest intelligence on the kinds of attacks that are occurring, who is committing them, and how often they are happening. A new IBM report offers expert insight into a range of security statistics, based on monitoring tens of billions of security events that occurred at 3,700 organizations around the world.
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The Business Value of Managed Services

Businesses around the world are looking for ways to innovate, improve customer relationships and drive down costs. But it can be challenging to find the right people and resources to support those corporate initiatives. Managed services from IBM can help.
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Study: The Total Economic Impact of Google Apps

Employees can work faster and IT spending can decrease when companies switch to Google Apps, says a commissioned study by Forrester Consulting. Going Google can make teams 20% more efficient and yields an estimated ROI of 329%.

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Quadmark Case Study

Switching to Google Apps halved Quadmark's IT admin costs while achieving 10% time savings per employee. The global consulting firm now spends 80% less time training new hires on email and collaboration tools. Find out more.

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Edison Group – The Business and Economic Advantages of SmartCloud Entry for Power Systems

Companies worldwide are embracing private clouds, not only because they support new, highly efficient and secure data solutions, but also to drive new competitive organizational strategies. This white paper provides an assessment of the business value of implementing IBM SmartCloud Entry for Power Systems versus comparable private cloud solutions from VMware on Intel. It discusses the benefits of private cloud solutions, including reduced labor and hardware/software costs, ease of implementation and adoption, scalability, organizational flexibility, security, improved efficiency, as well as allocation of and access to IT resources.
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Power Boost Your Big Data Analytics Strategy

In this far-reaching research based on analysis of over 31,000 BDA environments SIL examined the real-world impact on businesses that deploy big data analytics on a variety of platforms, including IBM’s Power, x86, competitive UNIX and a group of miscellaneous platforms. The metrics used to analyze the differences in platforms were both objective and subjective. The objective metrics include reported data points on costs, run times, resource usages, security and so on. The subjective metrics include responses on various levels and sources of customer satisfaction. Since BDA adoption is highly correlated to the success that a customer has seen in the initial stages of deployment, all of the metrics, i.e., cost, risk and satisfaction, are based on a perception of initial success. The research revealed that the platform you chose for BDA does make a huge difference. Read this report, not only to gain insights into BDA, but also to learn more about how a platform like IBM Power Systems can descrease risk, increase security, reduce costs and maximize your BDA strategy.
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Stop Guessing, Start Measuring: How to Use Mobile Analytics to Deliver the Best App ROI

Where the business performance of their mobile app portfolios are concerned, most companies are flying blind. While traditional application portfolios are held to all kinds of ROI measure, the investment plan for mobile apps – increasingly the more crucial bet – is made by guesswork and dart-throwing.

This interactive e-book investigates how mobile is driving the need for app and portfolio measures unlike any we saw in the days of web. Good mobile analytics must deliver leading indicators of user experience to drive business investment. Includes the five mobile analytics no organization should be without.

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APIs & MBaaS: How to Extend Your Enterprise Architecture for a Mobile World

“Mobile,” as Forrester Research observes, “is pushing aging web architectures to the brink.” A good mobile architectural tier requires:


• Elastic scalability
• Prebuilt, mobile-optimized APIs
• A robust capability for building custom APIs
• Seamless synchronization
• Security & governance

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Three Principles of the Mobile Era or Mastering the Mobile Shift: Three Keys to the New Enterprise

Companies positioned to win the Age of Mobile have grasped the following principles:

• Apps are different from applications
• APIs are the lifeblood of mobility
• Analytics eliminate the guesswork in mobile success

In this whitepaper, you will learn the tools, technologies and strategies that are necessary for a mobile-ready IT to master the three keys to the new enterprise. Read on to see why 70% of Fortune 100 companies use Appcelerator for their mobile projects.

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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
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