Mastering the Fundamentals of AWS Cost Efficiency

Are you spending too much on AWS?

The costs of running your AWS infrastructure can add up quickly if left unchecked. Without the right strategy, companies can wind up leaving a lot of savings on the table. Having worked with with some of the biggest AWS spenders in the world, Apptio Cloudability has identified notable trends in the way successful companies monitor, manage and mitigate their AWS costs.

This e-book will teach you:

  • The basics of AWS cost visibility
  • How to optimize usage efficiency
  • How to develop a Reserved Instance purchasing strategy
  • How to build a cycle and culture of continuous cloud cost management

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7 Killers of CIO Credibility

How do leading CIOs get acknowledged as a trusted adviser to the business? They avoid the top 7 credibility killers.

CIOs that define their relevance with uptime stats and SLAs lack credibility with their C-suite peers. Justifying your presence with operational metrics identifies you as the face of just another cost center—with no value-add to a business conversation.

Seats in the C-suite belong to leaders who measure their impact on the bottom line—if CIOs don’t quantify their value in language non-techies understand, they won’t be invited to the table.

Download this eBook to learn the 7 killers of CIO credibility and what you can do to avoid them.

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TBM for the​ New IT Operating Model

Today’s digital enterprises can no longer rely on yesterday’s traditional IT-centric operating model, which emphasized IT services over business capabilities. The new paradigm embraces cloud and Agile, continuous delivery, and greater efficiency. IT must become a strategic partner to the business, with technology investments that support key business objectives and spur innovation.

Technology Business Management delivers on those requirements. Developed and utilized by hundreds of CIOs, CTOs, and CFOs of Fortune 500 companies, it’s a proven data-driven discipline that defines the tools, processes, data, and people needed to manage the business of technology.

Download the eBook to learn:

  • How your IT operating model needs to evolve
  • The key attributes your digital enterprise needs in a new model
  • How Apptio’s TBM solutions empower you to manage the business of IT and fund innovation

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Overcome the challenges of protecting data that is here, there and everywhere

When it comes to cloud environments, whether in the public cloud or a privately hosted or hybrid environment, data security and protection controls must protect sensitive data—and support constantly growing government and industry compliance requirements. Read this ebook to learn how data security and protection technologies should operate in multiple environments (physical, cloud and hybrid) at the same time.

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Agile Integration Architecture eBook

Agile Integration Architecture: The Handbook for all of your lightweight integration needs. In this book you will learn:

  • The impact of digital transformation on integration.
  • Exploring agile integration architecture in detail.
  • Moving forward with an agile integration architecture.

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11 Step Guide to Purchasing a Digital Asset Management System

When you’ve decided you need a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, you’re faced with the prospect of comparing multiple systems until you find the right solution for the right price. This may seem like a daunting task, but it shouldn’t be. We'll help you through the process in 11 easy steps.

What you'll learn from this ebook:

  • What features do I really need?
  • What technical questions do I need to ask?
  • What does a good demo look like?
  • How do I build a strong business case for investment?

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Overcome the challenges of protecting data that is here, there and everywhere

When it comes to cloud environments, whether in the public cloud or a privately hosted or hybrid environment, data security and protection controls must protect sensitive data—and support constantly growing government and industry compliance requirements. Read this ebook to learn how data security and protection technologies should operate in multiple environments (physical, cloud and hybrid) at the same time.

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Scale, simplify, and secure your digital workspace

On its own, Citrix SD-WAN is a powerful tool that can help you secure, scale and simplify branch networking with a high-performance workspace. But did you know that since Citrix is a Microsoft Virtual WAN preferred partner, SD-WAN customers can experience even faster onboarding to workloads in Azure? And that's just the beginning.

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Citrix Managed Desktops

Technology is Complex. Desktops-as-a-Service is not.

Your Windows desktop and Microsoft productivity applications are the technology lifeblood of your business.

It’s where you run your business and how your employees get work done. From communicating with customers and processing orders to managing finances and working on your most sensitive documents—Microsoft is front and center.

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eBook – Prescription for Disruption

Healthcare organizations across the care continuum, from hospitals and health systems, to health insurers, to life sciences companies, must digitally transform in order to address legislative and market disruption.

Driving digital transformation in healthcare requires connectivity across an ever-increasing number of applications, data and devices. Because of this, connectivity has emerged as a bottleneck that slows the development of new applications and the adoption of new technologies.

In response, leading healthcare organizations have adopted API-led connectivity, which eliminates this connectivity bottleneck and enables 2-5X IT project delivery.

Download this eBook to learn:

  • How leading healthcare organizations like Sutter Health, Premera Blue Cross and Hologic are leveraging API-led connectivity to accelerate IT project delivery speed.
  • How APIs can be used to address the unique business and IT challenges faced by health systems, health insurers and life sciences companies.
  • How MuleSoft’s out-of-the-box API designs, implementations and connectors can accelerate the adoption of API-led connectivity.

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eBook – Transform your digital retail experience

The world of retail is changing dramatically. Retailers used to have anonymous, transactional relationships with their customers; but now both retailers and customers want a deeper relationship. The retailers that win today are the ones that use technology to build those personal customer experiences and transform their digital retail experience. However, it isn’t always easy to implement new solutions with existing systems.

Read this eBook to discover:

  • Why existing approaches are not sufficient for the pace of digital transformation that retail demands.
  • How to drive technology change in your organization, creating a greater capability to innovate and transforming the digital retail experience for your customers.
  • How to adopt an API-led approach to integration that packages underlying connectivity and orchestration services as easily discoverable and reusable building blocks.

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eBook – Building the Connected Retail Experience

“Today’s shoppers expect more than a transactional relationship with retailers; they want a seamless and personalized journey that reflects the context of how they shop across devices and channels. The key to success lies in connecting in-store software with online systems so retailers can provide an uninterrupted experience wherever customers shop.” - Ross Mason, Founder of MuleSoft.

Driving digital transformation in retail requires connectivity across an ever-increasing number of applications, data and devices. Because of this, connectivity has emerged as a bottleneck that slows the development of new applications and the adoption of new technologies to meet customer demands.

In response, leading retail and CPG companies have adopted API-led connectivity, which eliminates this connectivity bottleneck and enables a 2-5x faster IT project delivery across the value chain.

Download this eBook to learn:

  • How leading retailers like Buffalo Wild Wings, TAL Apparel and PetSmart are leveraging API-led connectivity to accelerate IT project delivery speed.
  • How APIs can be used to address the unique business and IT challenges faced by retailers.
  • How MuleSoft’s out-of-the-box API designs, implementations and connectors can accelerate the adoption of API-led connectivity.

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eBook – 7 Ways APIs, Microservices, and DevOps

Organizations are increasingly looking for ways to better compete in the market by releasing products and/or services more quickly. This has left us with a variety of technology buzzwords, from APIs and microservices to DevOps, all promising great gain.

It’s worth asking: which are worth the cost and time to implement? And what are the advantages of APIs, microservices and DevOps?

Read this e-book to learn about the advantages of APIs, microservices and DevOps, all of which can help organizations increase their capacity for change. Topics covered include:

  • The API economy and how it is igniting a cultural shift in businesses.
  • How APIs and microservices are not only becoming the norm in enterprises, but are also changing the role of IT.
  • Why DevOps and APIs deliver greater advantages and business value together, than they deliver individually.

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