Inside the Briefcase
In Forrester’s 40-criteria evaluation of private cloud solution vendors, we identified the nine most significant software providers — BMC Software, Cisco Systems, Citrix, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware — in the category and researched, analyzed, and scored them.
In Forrester’s 32-criteria evaluation of hybrid cloud management solution vendors, we identified 11 significant software providers — BMC Software, Citrix, CliQr Technologies, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, RightScale, Scalr, and VMware — in the category and researched, analyzed, and scored them.
This IBM® Redbooks Solution Guide describes how to use the strategies and the capabilities of IBM PureApplication® System to provide system high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR).
This IBM Redbooks publication describes and demonstrates common, prescriptive scenarios for setting up disaster recovery for common workloads using IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM DB2, and WebSphere MQ between two IBM PureApplication System racks using the features in PureApplication System V2.
This article offers a gateway of understanding into the IBM PureSystems™ family of expert integrated systems by providing a tour of the structure of the PureApplication System and virtual patterns of expertise.
This report details our findings to help infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals select the optimum private cloud solution. I&O pros can customize criteria weightings to align with their own private cloud initiative.
This report details our findings about how each vendor fulfills our criteria and where they stand in relation to each other to help infrastructure and operations (I&o) professionals select the right partner for their hybrid cloud management needs.
This paper demonstrates how to take an existing application that was built in a legacy environment, and bring that application to IBM PureApplication® Systems, using preferred practices for deployment and automation. The process is illustrated using a business scenario.
IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by migrating from open source Java EE application servers to WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Liberty.
Introduces the WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 Liberty profile solution for developing the advanced applications and gives an overview of the Liberty profile and its tools.
This SmartSelect paper discusses the development challenges companies face today and how a suitable application development platform combined with a DevOps approach to development can provide the flexibility that takes into account the needs of developers, IT, and the business.
In this white paper, you’ll learn how tools for continuous development, patterns for scaling infrastructure, resources for managing APIs, and middleware systems for deploying highly flexible application servers can help meet your goals, as well as management and market demands.
This paper will cover four imminent upheavals in end user computing that IT needs to be prepared to address in 2015 and beyond.
Understanding new threats and new technologies is central to optimizing IT security. But with their bring-your-own-device habits, tendency to job-hop, and simple human fallibility, IT users are the leading cause of security incidents.
The report, which looked closely at the habits of 148 product design firms, found that the right tools, the right talent, and a focus on eliminating waste in workflow processes are the keys to becoming a “Best-in-Class” product developer.
This highly popular ebook introduces the MSP to the business of positioning, marketing, selling and operating Managed Services.
We are entering a new era of computing. Following the programmable and tabulating systems eras, cognitive computing represents a huge leap forward. This new era brings with it fundamental differences in how systems are built and interact with humans.
Everyone’s looking to IT to create business value and innovation. But you’re short on resources. How do you pull that off? A cloud and managed services provider can help. The right vendor should show you that it can provide skills, processes and resources that exceed your in-house capabilities. Does it have what it takes to help your business transform?
Building and managing cloud resiliency solutions in-house is difficult. Many organizations prefer to work with a third-party technology provider for the development and management of cloud solutions. This whitepaper outlines how organizations today can use cloud computing in more innovative ways: to run mission-critical production workloads, to analyze big data for true business insight, and to develop and manage mobile applications.
This paper explores the implications of cloud, big data and analytics, mobile, social business and the evolving IT security landscape on data center and enterprise networks.
Everyone depends on data access. Midsized organizations are just as dependent as big companies are because so many knowledge workers these days need access to digital information to do their jobs. So, it’s not surprising to see most IT teams at midmarket organizations (100 to 999 employees) now reporting that they operate under standard SLA fulfilment ranges of less than two hours—for high-priority and normal workloads alike.
When it comes to dealing with data breaches, there is no one-size-fits-all guide. Every incident and organization is different. Even so, preparing for the evitable breach is worth the time, effort, and expense given the millions of dollars a breach could cost an organization in terms of lost data, business, and reputation. This playbook is a starting point to help an organization’s board of directors create an action plan.
In their recently released report, “Define a Road Map to Accelerate Your Security Program,” Forrester Research explains why a security road map is exactly what your organization needs.
This report details the survey results of all aspects of alert management – covering where alerts originate, how they’re categorized, and how they’re managed – and how the process can increase the likelihood of a breach being successful.
IT Briefcase Analyst ReportThis product guide allows you to quickly assess — current products in the market, deployment options, basic differences by monitoring features, the stability of suppliers and more. Read More >>>
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 on IBM Power Systems helps you improve performance, increase reliability and reduce costs. See how Power Systems helps you put your data to work.
Forrester Consulting conducted a survey to reveal what types of challenges enterprise hardware and operating systems are facing with the increasingly demanding workloads from applications and data.
Consumer mobile devices are so compelling and offer business users such a powerful medium for learning, transacting, sharing, and presenting that companies are willing to upend the “way we do things around here” to have them. Download this white paper to read about what you need to do to take your enterprise mobile.
Are you protecting the information that matters most? In this exclusive Security Leadership Series eBook, Citrix chief information security officer Stan Black and chief security strategist Kurt Roemer share best practices for security. For IT leaders, these security strategies for success are essential reading. Get started today.
Today, the market tells a slightly different story. MDM is still the preferred method for BYOD security, according to a Technavio report.
