Financial services organizations around the world are modernizing IT to drive top-line growth and streamline compliance burdens. From multinational brokerage houses to local branch banks, digital transformation initiatives are moving financial institutions toward more secure, agile, and cost-effective infrastructure and applications, empowering workers and improving customer experiences.
Did you know 57 percent of organizations have exceeded their cloud budget at some point? Two-thirds of those by more than 20 percent? Multiple factors like skills gaps and poor strategic planning are key contributing factors. Our latest survey of more than 200 IT leaders provides insights into the issues hindering cloud adoption as well as solutions you can implement to drive your own success.
When deployed effectively, the public cloud is a powerful and disruptive model. It brings positive operational transformation and greater competitiveness. But poor implementation is equally disruptive. Gartner predicts that by 2020, 60% of IT infrastructure and 70% of software and IT services spending will be in the cloud. Yet 96% of IT decision makers acknowledged a skills gap in their organizations with regards to cloud. With over 500 successful cloud migrations we created this guide to outline, in detail, best practices around moving from CapEx to OpEx, considerations for your first workload, securing your cloud and more.
In order to keep pace with the growth of business mobility without falling prey to its potential risks, IT must be able to efficiently address complex issues ranging from service provisioning, device procurement, and security oversight. Why? Information workers need access to often sensitive information across a wide range of business applications and devices from wherever they are. In other words, security and privacy policies that doesn’t impede end-user productivity will empower workers and boost their performance.
Both public and private organizations acknowledge that managing the PC life cycle becomes more complicated and expensive as the variety of PC devices and employee workstyles increase. In order to be fully productive, different groups of employees have different needs in terms of end-user device hardware, software, and configuration. Dell and Intel® commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by leveraging Intel® Core™ vPro processors and Dell’s ProDeploy Plus and ProSupport Plus services.
For the majority of organizations, digital business means pivoting to a culture of organizational agility, where the rapid pace of demand can only be satisfied by faster and more flexible development and delivery models. As most organizations do not have the luxury of completely rebuilding their technology foundation or immediately adopting new practices and mindsets, they are embracing gradual yet fundamental shifts in culture, processes, and technology to support greater velocity and agility. Learn 8 steps to guide your journey to cloud-native application development, including Red Hat® customer success stories.
“The Business Value of Red Hat Integration Products” IDC whitepaper, six organizations discuss the benefits and value they’ve found in using Red Hat® Fuse for rapid app integration.
By integrating with Red Hat Fuse, these organizations achieved:
Generally speaking, the utility industry has been somewhat sluggish in its application of technology to streamline operations and productivity. However, this attitude has been shifting in recent years as companies are becoming more attuned to the significance of meeting customer expectations. In this Playbook, you will learn:
If your company would like to learn more about digitizing operations, download our new playbook today.
With hosted IT, the ideal solution takes into account the client needs and the methods for best servicing those needs. When cloud and dedicated servers are mixed to produce the proper system, clients not only receive a superior experience, they often receive it at a lower cost. GigeNET walks you through our methodology for providing you the best system for your needs.
Understanding the fundamental differences of today’s IT is critical to the success and growth of your business. GigeNET, a 20-year industry veteran, walks you through each service, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, so you can make an informed decision.
Building robust, functional, attractive applications and components that perform well on all devices and platforms is a time consuming and costly undertaking. Developers need a comprehensive solution that includes a fully supported, pre-built component library to build applications quickly and efficiently, so that businesses can get their apps to market faster and with better usability. In many cases, commercial component libraries used in conjunction with open source frameworks offer the best of both worlds.
Learn top considerations for choosing your technology stack as it relates to developing enterprise-grade web applications today.
In this illustrated white paper, you’ll learn how Bitnami’s flagship product, Stacksmith, modernizes your DevOps pipeline by automating the packaging of your applications for today's cloud and container platforms, and continuously maintain them so they stay up-to-date and secure.
Learn Stacksmith’s benefits for developers, IT ops, IT security, and DevOps teams, and how Bitnami Stacksmith is the simplest way to package applications and assets for today's cloud and container platforms, and automate the ongoing maintenance of these applications so they remain up-to-date and secure.
What is Stacksmith?
Bitnami Stacksmith is a single, standardized packaging and maintenance tool that generates deploy-ready, cloud-native assets in multiple formats for multiple cloud vendor platforms. Stacksmith provides two primary functions:
Stacksmith’s automated packaging takes your assets – application code, configuration policies, and scripts - incorporates the platform dependencies, maps the cloud platform service integrations you specify (ie. Database), optimizes the results for your chosen platform(s), and delivers everything you will need to successfully deploy.
Stacksmith also simplifies the ongoing maintenance of your assets by continuously monitoring private repositories (for code, script or config policy updates) and trusted sites (for system package updates and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)), and providing manual (click ‘update’) and automated (supports continuous updating) methods for you to re-package your applications, ensuring they stay up-to-date and secure.
Bitnami now offers Stacksmith in three tiers:
Let’s face it. Not all small business owners are thrilled with the idea of moving their workloads to the cloud. They’ve invested a lot of money in their on-premises solutions and they really don’t see the need to change their infrastructure. They also have legitimate concerns about network security, downtime and availability. So, how do you convince them that it’s time to upgrade to a cloud platform like Microsoft Azure?
By presenting good arguments. We’ve prepared a simple guide that will help you get started. But first, we’d like to take a closer look at Microsoft Azure and the booming market for Infrastructure-as-a-Service.
In the eBook, Marketing Specialist Marc Gordon will give you four essential steps to selling happiness to your customers. With more than 25 years of experience in helping businesses grow, Gordon says you do not have to knock yourself out to get loyal customers. Just do the right things to keep them happy.