Efficient Networks are Built on Information You want great performance, high availability, and cost-effective operation. To get it, you need fast access to comprehensive, real-time information about your: • Hardware and software: What devices are on your network and how they’re connected • Wired, wireless, physical, and virtual infrastructures: All the infrastructure factors that affect
The best way to find and fix issues that affect the performance and availability of applications is by fully unifying application and systems monitoring. Find early, Fix early!
Network monitoring systems are a must-have for organizations of all sizes. When evaluating alternative solutions, focus is often placed on comparing features and ease of use, but understanding the total cost of the alternatives is very important. The core licensing structure, whether it is device-based, port- or interface-based, or measurement-based, can have a big impact
Governments, corporations and NGOs around the world face a serious trust deficit. Although high-profile institutions have weathered the storm of negative public opinion since the 2008 financial crisis, the 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that a tide of skepticism is sweeping through most of the world’s biggest economies. At the same time, social networks are
Organize Your Social Business. Revolutionize Your Communications. Social media is moving beyond being the sole domain of the passionate, but often over-worked, corporate social advocate. It is gaining the ear of the C-Suite with nearly 40 percent of CEOs placing social media on their personal agendas1. A recent study by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services2
The bottom line—success or failure often depends upon one thing: Whose product or service is of the highest quality. The quest for business transformation through innovation and increasing reliance on software to deliver that innovation, while at the same time reducing risk and cost, mandates a more rigorous approach to managing software quality. Complexity is
Applications are evolving at an ever-faster pace. These applications are not discrete islands; they build on a complex, interconnected set of components that includes disparate technologies, developers, deployment topologies and organizations. Developers must deliver high-quality applications while limiting their testing expenses. In this challenging environment, a combination of automated integration testing and test virtualization can
Welcome to Service Virtualization For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition. Service virtualization helps companies create more efficient testing environments by eliminating many of the roadblocks that testing teams typically encounter. While testing teams want to test early in the application development process, it’s hard to make this plan a reality based on the increasing complexity of
Over the past decade, B2B customers have become socially empowered, highly informed decision makers. While it’s common knowledge that consumers are using social media to find deals, research products and make recommendations, the widespread use of social media among business purchasers is less appreciated. In fact, social media (along with search) is giving B2B customers
Choosing how to build a hybrid cloud is perhaps the most strategic decision IT leaders will make this decade. It’s a choice that will determine their organization’s competitiveness, flexibility, and IT economics for the next ten years. That’s because, done right, a cloud delivers strategic advantages to the business by redir-ecting resources from lights-on to