Empower Your Business with Continuous Communications

Enterprise conferencing and collaboration technologies today stand at an exciting crossroads. Solutions that were once considered consumer technologies are moving into the enterprise. Never has this trend been more pronounced than now, as consumerization of IT and mobile device proliferation increasingly break down the walls between business and consumer use. As a result, enterprise solutions must become increasingly simpler to deploy and more intuitive to use. At the same time they must deliver a secure and seamless communications experience. As the worlds of consumer and business communications blend, walking the line between the two has become top of mind for users and IT decision makers alike. Businesses must capitalize on these tectonic shifts in user preferences by deploying agile communications that today's mobile users need in order to collaborate effectively wherever they are.
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Managing Digital Transformation in a Boundaryless World

During the past few years, the phrase “Moving to the Cloud” has evolved from a marketing message to a mature business and technology strategy aimed at creating a more agile business, institution or government.

Launching a digital transformation involves a lot of planning. The entire executive team needs to define what “digital” means to your business or institution. Part of this discussion needs to include the realization that business now extends far beyond what happens within your four walls. Thanks to a number of different technologies, business knows no bounds.

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HPCC Systems: The End-to-End Data Lake Management Solution

Today, most organizations recognize that data is key to the ability to innovate and remain competitive in a rapidly changing business landscape. A key challenge: That’s largely because it’s difficult, time-consuming and often expensive to add new data and access paths to relational data stores. The problem is becoming increasingly acute as businesses use more unstructured information that relational databases simply weren’t designed to handle, such as data from Internet of Things devices, the Web, and social media.

To overcome this challenge, many organizations — including some of the world’s largest companies — are successfully using a proven alternative approach: a data lake. Data lakes support datasets that are extremely large, complex and diverse, and they easily accommodate new data sources such as IoT. They allow IT groups to quickly create new applications that support changing business needs, unlocking the power of complex data for all users within the organization. They also scale much more easily and cost-effectively than relational databases. As a result, data lakes enable greater responsiveness to business groups and external customers, reduced costs, and greater scalability.

As datasets become larger and more complex, it’s impossible to quickly respond to changing business needs using traditional relational data store such as data warehouse.
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IBM Integrated Analytics System: Do Data Science Faster

In the last few years we have seen a rapid evolution of data. The need to embrace the growing volume, velocity and variety of data from new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) has been accelerated. The ability to explore, store, and manage your data and therefore drive new levels of analytics and decision-making can make the difference between being an industry leader and being left behind by the competition. The solution you choose must be able to:

  • Harness exponential data growth as well as semi-structured and unstructured data.
  • Aggregate disparate data across your organization,whether on-premises or in the cloud.
  • Support the analytics needs of your data scientists, line of business owners and developers.
  • Minimize difficulties in developing and deploying even the most advanced analytics workloads.
  • Provide the flexibility and elasticity of a cloud option but be housed in your data center for optimal security and compliance.

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Understanding Network TAPs – The First Step to Visibility

A network TAP is a simple device that connects directly to the cabling infrastructure to split or copy packets for use in analysis, security or general network management. Although the term “Tap” predates the networking industry by decades, the IT industry has generally adopted the term to mean Test Access Point. Thus, TAP is considered an acronym.

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Definitive Guide to Next-Generation Network Packet Brokers

Packets arrive, Packets seen, Packets conquered. Find out how next-generation network packet brokers offer powerful visibility and insights into network traffic while reducing risk, complexity and costs.

Download the new Definitive Guide™ to Next-Generation Network Packet Brokers and discover the immediate benefits of shifting your infrastructure strategy to include NGNPBs. You’ll experience expanded feature sets that simplify your architecture, realize the true ROI of your security tools and give you visibility into critical security threats.

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How to prepare for your cloud migration

Cloud migration is consistently one of the top priorities of technology leaders across the world today, but many are overwhelmed by trying to plan their cloud migration, struggling to prioritize workloads and unsure of the cost implications..

Download this white paper to discover the 5 key steps for cloud migration based on the best practices of today’s most successful IT leaders:

  • Baseline TCO resources (cloud, on-premises, hybrid)
  • Map current on-premises resources to cloud offerings
  • Evaluate and prioritize migration strategy
  • Calculate migration costs
  • Define success metrics

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API for Dummies Handbook (Third Edition)

APIs are a hot topic, energetically debated by business people, IT managers, and developers alike. Most of the excitement in the public space is about open public APIs. To some degree, not having a public API today is like not having a website in the late 1990s. Yet for many enterprises, public APIs are really the least of their business concerns. More important concerns include building omni-channel solutions, innovating faster than the competition, becoming a mobile enterprise, or operating in a hybrid cloud environment.

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Central Role of Messaging Middleware in Cloud and Digital Transformation Initiatives

Highly decentralized computing is the new normal for most organizations, and digital transformation (DX) initiatives are changing application architectures to event driven to support real-time and near-real-time response cycles. In this environment, enterprises are increasingly turning to messaging middleware to meet the combined requirements of complexity, speed, reliability, and security to connect the digital world of applications and data.

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Business Phone Solution Buyer’s Guide

This Buyers Guide helps business owners select the right phone system for their business by asking important and revealing questions, including:

  • Traditional Service or Business VoIP Service?
  • Which Calling Features are Most Important?
  • Does the System Support Mobility?
  • How Much Should I Expect to Pay?
  • How Will My Phone System Grow with My Business?
  • What If I Need Customer or Technical Support?
  • What Makes a System Reliable?
  • Is My Information Secure?
  • How Long Does it Take to Set Up a New Phone System?
  • What About Onboarding and Training?
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