Remote or cloud-based storage solutions have been around for many years. The pendulum between local onsite storage (and control) and cloud-based storage services has swung several times over the course of storage technology development. Storage location and control has changed with the dominance of mainframes, client/servers, and PCs, and the changes in price and capabilities
The ability to integrate systems and share data across the enterprise is a common datacenter need. “Integration bus” is a common term that describes the technology used for middlewarebased integration. Integration bus needs can vary in complexity, data volume, and required performance. Red Hat offers multiple products that can help customers develop and deploy middleware
Business applications are no longer isolated to the back office. Today, these applications are at the forefront of the way businesses interact with customers, suppliers, and partners. As customer expectations change, these applications must change at a rapid pace. This puts enormous pressure on the software development team to keep up with demand. The development
The ability to integrate systems and share data across the enterprise is a common datacenter need. Shared data needs to be transported between endpoints, and in today’s connected world we assume the capability to reliably move data is ever-present. That is a compliment to messaging platforms like Red Hat® JBoss® A-MQ. Messaging gets data from
The technology foundation for both JBoss Enterprise Middleware from Red Hat and Oracle Fusion Middleware is the application platform. Red Hat and Oracle offer their application platforms, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Oracle WebLogic Server (respectively), as standalone technology. Application platforms are also the basis of other enterprise technologies such as enterprise service bus, business
Reputational risk and IT in the insurance industry: How security and business continuity can shape the reputation and value of your company is an IBM study that investigates how organizations around the world are managing their reputations in today’s digital era, where IT is an integral part of the organization and IT failures can result
The IBM Global Reputational Risk and IT Study is one of the largest studies ever conducted to examine the relationship between IT and reputational risk. The initial group of 427 respondents participated in a survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit on behalf of IBM. An additional 175 respondents participated in the study online at
Almost from the beginning of widespread adoption of computers, organizations realized that disaster recovery was a necessary component of their information technology (IT) plans. Business data had to be backed up, and key processes like order entry, billing, payroll and procurement needed to continue even if an organization’s data center was disabled due to a
IBM Managed Security Services continuously monitors tens of billions of events per day for more than 3,700 clients in over 130 countries. This report is based on the cyber security event data we collected between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013 in the course of monitoring client security devices as well as data derived
As the world becomes more digitized and interconnected, the door to emerging security leaks has opened wider. Today, there are billions of RFID tags for items including products, passports, buildings and animals. With more than two billion Internet users and cellular phone subscriptions now exceeding five billion, nearly one in three people worldwide surfs the