Slashdot Media Library of White Papers and Media

Forrester report: 2016 Cloud Predictions

The next stage of IT will focus on expanding cloud use cases and infrastructure and operations (I&O;) professionals’ attitudes around automation and relinquishing some control. Read this Forrester brief to learn the 11 key developments coming to the world of cloud in 2016 and specific recommendations for I&O; leaders.

Forrester: A Clear Multi-Cloud Strategy Delivers Business Value

This Forrester brief discusses how IT teams can address today’s challenge of multicloud and of developing an effective strategy to understand and manage the diverse cloud resources upon which their businesses increasingly depend.

451 Research: Accelerating the Adoption of Multi-Cloud Strategy

The adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud is rapidly expanding, especially within enterprises. As IT evolves from productivity enhancer to transformative business differentiator, and as organizations embrace new models of IT consumption, the role of enterprise IT departments is changing. Forward-looking IT groups are becoming internal service brokers to their organizations and they are adopting a multi-cloud approach to enable an IT-as-a-service model.

The open road to cloud benefits: Cloud Orchestration Infographic

View this infographic to understand how to overcome the roadblocks in creating your ideal mix of traditional IT and cloud services.

The Low Cost, Modern Business Phone/Fax Solution: SoundCurve

SoundCurve is at the forefront of providing IP Business Phone services to small business with our fully managed PBX service. Up to 60% savings will catch your eye - our hands on, fully managed service will remove the frustration and wasted time spent learning how to use a complicated new website. Thousands of businesses have come to us with large bills and nightmare customer service stories and ended up our business partners and friends.

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Inside the Business VoIP Revolution

The business phone solution marketplace has reached a tipping point where companies seeking a new system are more likely to consider a cloud-hosted VoIP system over a traditional system.

At the heart of the revolution is the convergence of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology and cloud hosting that allow next-generation calling features, integrated mobile access, and efficiencies that often keep costs lower than traditional solutions.

Let’s explore how businesses like yours are doing more with cloud-based phone technology – and take a comparative look inside the Business VoIP Revolution.

Inside the Business VoIP Revolution

The business phone solution marketplace has reached a tipping point where companies seeking a new system are more likely to consider a cloud-hosted VoIP system over a traditional system.

At the heart of the revolution is the convergence of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology and cloud hosting that allow next-generation calling features, integrated mobile access, and efficiencies that often keep costs lower than traditional solutions.

Let’s explore how businesses like yours are doing more with cloud-based phone technology – and take a comparative look inside the Business VoIP Revolution.

Analytics and Business Intelligence: Achieving User-Driven Results

Businesses are wallowing in data from an increasing number of sources – both internal and external. However, turning data into actionable information becomes harder as both IT and business users try to keep up with the data deluge.

This Battlecard looks at the evolution in analytics and business intelligence solutions today, especially the bifurcation into Traditional BI vs. Exploratory Analytics, why BOTH are important, and lists three key factors that users – both business and IT – must consider when evaluating a BI solution.

Key points will include:

How User Experience Matters
BI and Hybrid IT: Cloud, On-Premises and Both
Supporting Self-Service: The Data Scientist in the Software

True Hyperconvergence Checklist

An infographic breaking down the question "what exactly is hyperconvergence?"

Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Dummies

In this small book, Scott D. Lowe discusses the trends that are leading modern IT to hyperconverged infrastructure. He also discusses both the technical and business benefits that come from implementing a data center based on hyperconverged infrastructure.

10 Ways Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solves Your Data Center Challenges

An infographic answering the question "how does hyperconvergence deliver the best of both worlds?"

Day In The Life of an IT Manager

This eBook is designed to help forward-looking IT Managers envision a different way of working —where simplicity replaces complexity. We’ll look at what makes managing today’s IT environments so challenging—increasing complexity, poor visibility and constraints on budgets and space. Then we’ll help you visualize a new way of working that greatly simplifies the challenges of managing data, infrastructure and operations. Imagine way of working in which you have the time to really help your company improve the way it does business, and save you money.

State of Hyperconvergence EMEA (Report)

ActualTech Media surveyed over 500 technology professionals and members of organizational management in order to gauge people’s understanding of hyperconvergence, as well as how the market is adopting such solutions. We also sought to understand how well expectations are meeting reality when it comes to hyperconverged infrastructure.

The 3 D’s of DevOps: Develop, Deploy and Deliver – DELIVER

Uptime isn’t everything; it’s the only thing. With recent IDC research demonstrating the average cost of a critical application failure at between $500K and $1M, the need to keep downtime at bay is clear. Unfortunately, the average number of deployments is expected to double over the next two years putting additional pressure on keeping application running.

This Battlecard looks at how DevOps-led project not only accelerate delivery and deployment, but also can have a positive, serious impact on application quality and uptime. It demonstrates how IBM DevOps tools enhance security and compliance, and what businesses should do today to eliminate downtime as part of a continuous application delivery process.

The 3 D’s of DevOps: Develop, Deploy and Deliver – DELIVER

Uptime isn’t everything; it’s the only thing. With recent IDC research demonstrating the average cost of a critical application failure at between $500K and $1M, the need to keep downtime at bay is clear. Unfortunately, the average number of deployments is expected to double over the next two years putting additional pressure on keeping application running.

This Battlecard looks at how DevOps-led project not only accelerate delivery and deployment, but also can have a positive, serious impact on application quality and uptime. It demonstrates how IBM DevOps tools enhance security and compliance, and what businesses should do today to eliminate downtime as part of a continuous application delivery process.