Applications Whitepapers

A Guide to REST and API Design

In his 1966 book “The Psychology of Science,” American psychologist Abraham Maslow tackled the idea that those in the field of psychology needed to approach treatment from multiple perspectives, to take on new ideas, and not just continue using the same theories and techniques created by Freud and his followers so many years ago. Acknowledging that changing your point

The Drive to Unify Enterprise IT Monitoring

These tech-enabled, highly connected buyers are using many different platforms to research, shop, and work, forcing IT leaders to create differentiated customer experiences and support new technologies, such as client mobility and cloud services. At the same time, the growing use of agile development techniques and the move towards an “app economy” are accelerating the

Getting Big Value out of Big Data: The Update

Every 2 days the world generates as much data as it had through all of history up to the year 2003. By 2020, the world will have generated an astonishing 40 zettabytes, or 40 trillion gigabytes, of digital content. “Data is the new natural resource,” says Ginni Rometty, IBM Chairman, President and CEO. Enterprises are

How VMware Keeps Your Business-Critical Applications Up and Running

Every business relies on applications that are critical to its daily function. Prior to the availability of virtualization technologies, companies were forced to run these businesscritical applications on physical systems. Even after the emergence of virtualization, some companies continued to rely on physical infrastructures, believing this practice would provide the greatest stability, uptime, and performance.

Disaster Recovery: Any Way You Want It

Historically, disaster recovery (DR) solutions have been expensive, complex, and unreliable. To complicate matters, IT managers deal with a broad array of applications with different service level agreements (SLAs) and requirements, making it difficult to cover all elements within their disaster recovery plans. Today, all of this is changing. This brief provides insights into disaster

Understanding Real-time Log Analytics

Practically everything with a digital heartbeat leaves a trail. If you know where to look, nearly every bit of hardware and software in your enterprise generates a log file, which is a record of its status or activities. This machine-generated log file is stored in a file system temporarily and it can be dispatched via

Drilling Down Further

Ideally, enterprises need to anticipate problems in the virtual infrastructure before they occur, but unexpected events do happen. You can mitigate this somewhat with real-time alerts, but in reality, this is only one component.

Building Your BCDR Strategy: A Blueprint for a Safe Voyage

The business has entrusted IT – and you – with revenue targets, employees’ productivity, and the company’s reputation. Now you must manage all of the hardware, networks, business data, and internal and customer-facing applications to propel your company to its business goals successfully and reliably. But the seas are choppy and the weather is unpredictable.