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
A recent finding by IDG in 2011 found that over 70 percent of customers surveyed are either already deploying a dual virtualization vendor strategy, or have concrete plans to do so1. With the maturation of the virtualization market and the emergence of alternative virtualization platforms, VMware customers are recognizing the advantages of deploying Red Hat
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provides an abstraction that makes developers more productive by helping them focus on creating applications rather than dealing with infrastructures. This is important as information and its associated processing has become central to more businesses, even those in industries that haven’t been historically thought of as dependent on information technology. And that makes
Security of a wireless network still ranks as one of the largest concerns of IT professionals planning to roll out an enterprise wireless LAN. Many people erroneously believe that a wireless LAN is inherently insecure. This is largely due to security flaws in early Wi-Fi protocols like WEP (Wired Equivalency Protocol), more recent vulnerabilities found
There is a growing recognition that the best-connected business wins and that the network is the key to gaining real competitive advantage. To enable the always-on application access and connectivity that business now demands, you need a rock-solid network foundation. Organizations can no longer afford to dismiss their networks as simply “the plumbing.” How organizations
With current IT management dictating that more and more resources move from the local area network (LAN) to the wide area network (WAN), enterprise dependency on WAN is on the rise. Thus, the criticality of WAN management in the enterprise is increasing. Business-critical applications, from real-time voice and video to data storage, are being moved