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Agile Integration for Enterprise Architecture ebook

As applications and services become more central to business strategy, and as distributed methodologies like agile and DevOps change the way teams operate, it is critical for IT leaders to find a way to integrate their backend systems, legacy systems, and teams in an agile, adaptable way. This e-book details an architecture called agile integration, consisting of three technology pillars—distributed integration, containers, and APIs—to deliver flexibility, scalability, and reusability.

How Utilities and Related Services Can Use Technology to Improve Operations and Save Money

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:

Why many utilities are using mobile automated workflow tools to improve processes and save money.
About how one Monterey, Calif.-based company experienced explosive growth after adopting custom-built mobile technology.
The latest statistics and real-world examples related to how digital tools are helping utilities reap an array of benefits.
How one single-source provider in the energy sector recently reduced its number of employee safety incidents thanks to the implementation of digital technologies.

If your company would like to learn more about digitizing operations, download our new playbook today.

Right Sizing: The right mix of servers can save businesses 40% off their monthly costs

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.

Colocation, Dedicated Servers, or Cloud; understand the differences and determine which one best suits your company’s 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.

Choosing Web Application Libraries In an Open Source World

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.

Bitnami Stacksmith

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:

Automated packaging

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.

Ongoing maintenance

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:

Stacksmith Public - for individuals with open source projects and those using open source software. Free of charge.
Stacksmith Team – for groups to get applications packaged and in production, or get from VMs to containers, in a programmatic and cost-effective way. Starting at $800 per month.
Stacksmith Enterprise - for large organizations that require single-tenant delivery and directory integration. Contact us for pricing.

The MSP’s 10-Point Guide to Success

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.

4 Great Ways to Make Your Customers Happy

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.

IT Glue 2018 Global MSP

2018 marks the first year of the IT Glue Global MSP Benchmark Report, and we received an absolutely fantastic response. So thank you!

This exclusive whitepaper, rich in business intelligence, represents a synthesis of your responses and our analysis. To that end, we've extracted critical insights as to what works and what doesn't in the MSP business.

In the Global MSP Benchmark Report, we introduce the concept of the Golden Quintile. In a world where only 20% of small businesses are successfully sold, it's critical that you know what a desirable acquisition looks like, in case you ever want to stop working.

Agile Integration for Enterprise Architecture ebook

As applications and services become more central to business strategy, and as distributed methodologies like agile and DevOps change the way teams operate, it is critical for IT leaders to find a way to integrate their backend systems, legacy systems, and teams in an agile, adaptable way. This e-book details an architecture called agile integration, consisting of three technology pillars—distributed integration, containers, and APIs-to deliver flexibility, scalability, and reusability.

IDC – Business Value of JBoss Fuse WP

“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:

An average three-year ROI of 520%.
A payback time of six months.
5.5x more apps integrated per year.
31% better app performance.

The path to cloud-native applications

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.

Become a high-growth manufacturer

High-growth companies are powered by people who understand what it takes to get set for growth—individuals with the vision and drive to take their business to the next level. We call these people the Grow Getters.

Grow Getters know what growth looks like for their business and how to achieve it. They invest where it counts and have an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that gives them the essential visibility and agility needed to act for growth.

Discover the 10 characteristics that set the Grow Getters apart from their competitors…

Cloud ERP for Job Shops and Manufacturers

In the face of growing competition and a challenging business climate, many job shops and manufacturers are looking for ways to reduce costs, streamline operations, and improve the bottom line. Implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is a proven solution for running a business efficiently and effectively. Yet, a large percentage of manufacturers have held back from implementing an ERP system due to high initial costs, long implementation times, and competing demands for time and resources.

This paper describes how the Software as a Service (SaaS) model (more commonly known as ‘the cloud’) delivers financial, implementation, and operational benefits to job shops and manufacturers. It also details cloud deployed Epicor ERP meets the needs of job shops and manufacturers. Job shops and manufacturers can leverage Epicor ERP—and cloud technology to ‘punch above their weight’—increasing effectiveness.

Elevate your Game: Take Data Security to the Next Level

Five benefits of supercharging your data security and compliance efforts with a security-specific big data lake

This paper describes the roadblocks that organizations may face as they seek to take their data security and compliance efforts to the next level while juggling multiple priorities, including:

The administrative demands imposed by the management of huge volumes of data.
The need to retain those volumes of data over longer time horizons.
The need to maintain or improve performance/speed of reporting.
The need to provide direct access to data (“free” the data) to users with many different roles and responsibilities.
The need to enrich audit data with other types of related security and compliance data while also performing complex analytics on this data to reveal new risks and/or insights.

The pages that follow will explore how organizations can take steps to address the hurdles above, and in doing so, reach new levels of efficiency and sophistication in data security and compliance management.