Enterprise applications are changing. Traditionally, they could take years to write and they could live for decades. They were monoliths that had to be protected against failure at all costs. The decades of research and development that went into technologies such as failover clustering was ultimately in service of protecting the running state of this
If you’re like most organizations, your users and even your CEO are demanding “a cloud like Amazon” where they can instantly spin up servers through a self-service portal. And you may have given them something that looks like that. However, delivering a portal with scripted provisioning in a first-generation “cloud” isn’t going to deliver the
We wanted to show how SSL technology can help a start-up build its business online. So in the tradition of a Harvard Business School case study, we created a fictional company that uses real Symantec technology to tell the story. “Selling gadgets online was an obvious move,” says Gadget World1 founder Peter Hunter, “and there
Web-based marketing is widespread amongst companies of all sizes, at the same time, online advertising is undergoing significant changes. As a result, many web managers have become frustrated as previously successful Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and online advertising techniques no longer generate the returns they used to in terms of increasing website visitors and conversion
Would you be so confident about the security of your money if your bank accidentally disclosed the details of half the accounts it held? The problem is that many businesses simply don’t realise the risk that their website poses to their business and just how vulnerable their sites are without proper security and monitoring.
The smart phone. The laptop. The tablet computer and the e-reader. These mobile devices are sparking what IDC terms a technological “hyper disruption”—a massive platform shift that occurs only four or five times a century. Cisco estimates that the number of mobile-connected devices now exceeds the earth’s population.
We see the evidence of the mobile transformation all around us. Approximately ten times more smartphones and tablets are sold every day than babies are born. The average person checks their smartphone 150 times a day, or nearly once every six minutes. And the market for wearable devices is projected to grow at least fivefold
IBM Institute for Business Value IBM Global Business Services, through the IBM Institute for Business Value, develops fact-based strategic insights for senior executives around critical public and private sector issues. This executive report is based on an in-depth study by the Institute’s research team. It is part of an ongoing commitment by IBM Global Business
Putting mobile first: best practices of mobile technology leaders is an IBM study that investigates the approaches organizations are using to support the transformational shift to mobile. The information for the study came from a global survey of 361 IT executives from seven countries, conducted by IBM in early 2013.
Today, billions of devices, sensors and chips—many of them simple, everyday objects—can communicate with us and with each other. Hospitals can monitor and regulate pacemakers long distance, factories can automatically address production line issues, and hotels can adjust temperature and lighting according to a guest’s preferences, for example.