Application Testing Strategies in the IBM z/OS Environment [ Source: IBM ]

May 2013- The IBM z/OS mainframe environment has earned a reputation for superior application performance, availability and data security while managing extremely large volumes of application data. To maintain a competitive advantage, organizations that manage their mission-critical operations on the IBM System z platform must continually look for improvements in technology, processes and best practices.

The Business Analyst's Guide to Hadoop [ Source: Hortonworks and Alteryx ]

May 2013- Rapidly emerging as a transformative technology framework for storing and processing massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, Apache Hadoop plays a central role in Big Data. However, most Big Data strategies stall with IT challenges. In order to harness Big Data for competitive advantage, organizations must enable more than a handful of scarce IT specialists and expensive data scientists to access the information.

By making Big Data usable by business decision-makers and ...

Business Analytics for Midsize Businesses: Challenges and Benefits [ Source: IBM ]

May 2013- Business intelligence derived from sophisticated analytics has given large companies an edge for years. It helps them be more competitive, make information �]based decisions faster and better, improves operational efficiencies, and boosts the bottom line.

Midsize businesses are increasingly eager to reap similar benefits.Business intelligence derived from sophisticated analytics has given large companies an edge for years. It helps them be more competitive, make information--�]based decisions faster and better, improves operational ...

Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View [ Source: VMware ]

April 2013- IDC performed an in-depth analysis for this white paper, providing a quantitative measurement of the business value, defined as the expected ROI, associated with the use of VMware View as a platform for the targeted deployment of a centralized virtual desktop architecture.

It further provides a quantification of the value associated with the features and how they work, plus an overview of the quantifiable, functional and organizational benefits of centralized virtual desktops.

Managing Data through Replication [ Source: Dell ]

March 2013- Data is growing - and quickly. So how do you effectively manage and protect it? CIOs and other IT entities are looking for ways to secure their rapidly expanding data and ensure its availability during times of emergency and importance. Data replication may be the way. This issue brief explores the ins and outs of data replication?how it works, what it offers and its appeal to IT professionals.

A realidade sobre gerenciamento de segurança e big data [ Source: EMC ]

February 2013- Esse é um excelente momento, embora desafiador, para ser profissional de segurança. As ameaças à segurança estão se tornando mais agressivas e vorazes. Os governos e os órgãos do setor estão se tornando mais precisos em relação à conformidade. Combinado a ambientes de TI exponencialmente mais complexos, o gerenciamento de segurança está ficando cada vez mais ...

The Challenge of Effective Master Data Management: Reliable Data Improves the Bottom Line and Reduces Risk [ Source: IBM ]

November 2012- Master data is a collection of data objects defined uniformly across organizational processes, enabling consistency and accuracy by serving as the single source. This document helps you to initially think about how master data plays an important role in your company and what to do to start maximizing its use for business value.

Application Consolidation: Consolidating and retiring applications: Effective Management Can Reduce Costs and Modernize IT [ Source: IBM ]

November 2012- Information, an essential asset in virtually all organizations, requires careful attention and robust processes to ensure it can reliably support business decision-making. Information arising from multiple sources must be integrated and governed to ensure it is a trusted source and in compliance with internal policies and external regulations and legislature. The process of the integration and governance of information provides a framework that incorporates acquisition, organization, control and use of information to create and enhance ...

Making Your Enterprise Ready for Optimized Decision-Making [ Source: IBM ]

November 2012- IBM Analytical Decision Management revolutionizes how organizations make decisions by optimizing and automating high-volume, operational decisions at the point of impact to drive better business outcomes. In this technical white paper, learn about the architecture, deisgn and execution environments for this leading-edge technology, as well as recommendations on how to manage an implementation of this decision management solution.

Leveraging Data for Internal and External Threat Detection [ Source: IBM ]

November 2012- In this technical white paper from IBM, learn how predictive analytics can be used to detect internal and external threats to your organization. You will learn how techniques including cluster analysis, anomly detection, time series analysis, social network analysis, predictive models and scoring can be used to detect suspicious activity in real-time so your orgnization can take action to minimize risk and increase positive outcomes. As a final step, you will learn how automating model ...

Kettering Health Network and their use of P4800 and VDI [ Source: HP/Intel® Xeon® Processors ]

February 2013- Learn how Kettering Health Network uses HP Client Virtualization with Vmware View so staff can reclaim 62,500 staff hours a year for patient care instead of computer systems.

To make this client virtualization solution possible, Kettering is using Vmware View on HP Converged Infrastructure technologies.

Complete Storage and Data Protection Architecture for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V [ Source: HP ]

November 2012- In this white paper, HP and Veeam Software outline an end-to-end storage and data protection architecture optimized for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Core components of the architecture are HP LeftHand Storage, HP StoreOnce Backup, and Veeam Backup & Replication software.

WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Concepts, Planning, and Design Guide [ Source: IBM ]

November 2012- This IBM Redbooks publication provides information about the concepts, planning, and design of IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 environments. The target audience of this book is IT architects and consultants who want more information about the planning and design of application-serving environments, from small to large, and complex implementations.

This book addresses the packaging and features in WebSphere Application Server V8.5, and highlights the most common implementation topologies. It provides information about planning ...