BMC Discovery software provides organizations visibility into their complex IT environments to improve management of infrastructure and applications. The document summarizes research by IDC interviewing 9 organizations using BMC Discovery. Key findings include:
- Organizations achieved average annual benefits of $35,654 per 100 servers over 5 years through improved IT staff productivity, more efficient auditing, and reduced infrastructure costs. This provided a projected average 5-year ROI of 470%.
- BMC Discovery improved efficiency of IT service management teams by 14-19% by providing improved visibility, automation, and problem resolution capabilities.
- Organizations were able to make software and compliance audits 76% more cost-effective by reducing time spent preparing and lowering costs of
This paper discusses the adoption of cloud computing by many businesses and organizations. Cloud
adoption has many benefits such as reduced IT costs, and accelerated adoption of new services. However, this
accelerated adoption present challenges to effective Identity Management. Many existing Identity Management
problems exist in cloud computing, but are further complicated. Now IT professionals must think outside the
realm of the internal IT infrastructure to integrate cloud services into the organization. User
provisioning/deprovisioning, credential management, auditing/access monitoring, and federal regulation
compliance must be considered across the boundaries of the internal organization’s network. Traditional
Identity Management systems can be leveraged to solve these issues. Most cloud service providers have means
to integrate on-premise Identity Management systems and identity records into their services. This requires
bridiging and/or proxy systems for on-premise resources to interact with cloud services. Vendors such as
Microsoft andCelestix provide such systems that bridge between on-premise and the cloud. New solutions are
also being developed and adopted with a “cloud first” approach in the form of Identity as a Service (IDaaS).
This is an evolving new approach that has potential to also revolutionize how Identity Management is conducted
in organizations. Any solutions adopted to meet cloud Identity Management challenges must still comply with
organizational and federal regulation requirements.
Forrester: How Organizations Are Improving Business Resiliency with Continuou...EMC
This analyst report describes reasons why adoption of continuous availability is rapidly increasing, citing research on benefits they believe they can realize in their IT environment.
This paper discusses the adoption of cloud computing by many businesses and organizations. Cloud
adoption has many benefits such as reduced IT costs, and accelerated adoption of new services. However, this
accelerated adoption present challenges to effective Identity Management. Many existing Identity Management
problems exist in cloud computing, but are further complicated. Now IT professionals must think outside the
realm of the internal IT infrastructure to integrate cloud services into the organization. User
provisioning/deprovisioning, credential management, auditing/access monitoring, and federal regulation
compliance must be considered across the boundaries of the internal organization’s network. Traditional
Identity Management systems can be leveraged to solve these issues. Most cloud service providers have means
to integrate on-premise Identity Management systems and identity records into their services. This requires
bridiging and/or proxy systems for on-premise resources to interact with cloud services. Vendors such as
Microsoft andCelestix provide such systems that bridge between on-premise and the cloud. New solutions are
also being developed and adopted with a “cloud first” approach in the form of Identity as a Service (IDaaS).
This is an evolving new approach that has potential to also revolutionize how Identity Management is conducted
in organizations. Any solutions adopted to meet cloud Identity Management challenges must still comply with
organizational and federal regulation requirements.
Forrester: How Organizations Are Improving Business Resiliency with Continuou...EMC
This analyst report describes reasons why adoption of continuous availability is rapidly increasing, citing research on benefits they believe they can realize in their IT environment.
Many companies have started to experience the consequences of non-existent, insufficient or poorly implemented data security plans. The absence of ‘proper IT’ to serve the diversity of information management, analysis and human-centric workflow requirements that exist in the office has created a paucity of unsecured business-critical information held in spreadsheets and micro-databases beyond the governance of IT teams. For most organizations, up to 60% of business critical information is found in these unsecured office environments.
Modern IT Service Management Transformation - ITIL IndonesiaEryk Budi Pratama
Presented at Online ITIL Indonesia Webinar #5.
Content:
> Setting up the context
> Understanding holistic IT Management point of view
> IT Service Management Transformation
> Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
> IT Service Catalogue
> IT Sourcing
> Agile Incident Management
3 key considerations for IT teams at small to midsized firms.How data, security & support should influence platform decisions for tech decision makers.
Visit ReadyTalk at: http://www.readytalk.com/
Hybrid Cloud - Key Benefits & Must Have RequirementsJohn Katrick
Hybrid Cloud - Key Benefits & Must Have Requirements : Gartner says by 2020, a corporate "No-Cloud" Policy will be as rare as a "No-Internet" policy is today as per this article and specifically the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market is projected to continue to grow more than 25 percent per year through 2019. This surge in cloud adoption also represents a huge shift in cloud spending by IT organizations, directly or indirectly affecting more than $1 trillion dollars in Cloud IT purchases by 2020, according to Gartner.
Visionary business systems architect, designer & developer solves complex problems. Maximizes ROI by implementing technology-driven solutions. World-renowned as a Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) authority.
Maclear’s IT GRC Tools – Key Issues and TrendsMaclear LLC
Maclear specializes in enterprise governance, risk and compliance (eGRC) solutions. The IT GRC Solution integrates various business functions such as IT governance, policy management, risk management, compliance management, audit management, and incident management. Enables an automated and workflow driven approach to managing, communicating and implementing IT policies and procedures across the enterprise
Read More at: http://www.maclear-grc.com/
Digital innovation being demanded by every business unit is transforming IT’s role to that of the main driver of new growth initiatives, prompting a shift in perspective and strategy for CIOs that begins with a well-planned and executed approach to managing customer identities. While legacy IAM might seem like a natural starting point for meeting this challenge, customer identity and access management (CIAM) has significantly different requirements and outcomes when compared to employee-facing IAM.
Laserfiche10 highlights- how the new features can benefit your mobile and wor...Christopher Wynder
Laserfiche 10 brings a lot of additional features for information management, workflow building and mobile content access. This slide deck provides the overview of how Laserfiche 10 can benefit clients looking to automate their processes.
A proficient 5 c approach to boost the security in the saas model's technical...ijccsa
For anything that involves delivering hosted services over the internet is cloud computing.These services
are classified as: IaaS,SaaS,PaaS.This paper focuses on SaaS security measures. SaaS is a cloud based
productivity suite that helps the business people to connect and work from anywhere on any device. The
data solely dumped behind a corporate firewall and it is physically accessed by the people through VPN
system or through online.The only hurdle while adopting cloud computing is the lack of security.It is a
major issue in the cloud for data as well as application and the platform. This paper gives an efficient
approach named 5C approach for applying security under SaaSmodel.Itmainly focuses on authentication
and authorization for customer data under SaaS in the cloud. The 5C mainly uses initial user level security
in the architecture of SaaS server by integrating the Visual Guard Web Admin Console with other controls.
Many companies have started to experience the consequences of non-existent, insufficient or poorly implemented data security plans. The absence of ‘proper IT’ to serve the diversity of information management, analysis and human-centric workflow requirements that exist in the office has created a paucity of unsecured business-critical information held in spreadsheets and micro-databases beyond the governance of IT teams. For most organizations, up to 60% of business critical information is found in these unsecured office environments.
Modern IT Service Management Transformation - ITIL IndonesiaEryk Budi Pratama
Presented at Online ITIL Indonesia Webinar #5.
Content:
> Setting up the context
> Understanding holistic IT Management point of view
> IT Service Management Transformation
> Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
> IT Service Catalogue
> IT Sourcing
> Agile Incident Management
3 key considerations for IT teams at small to midsized firms.How data, security & support should influence platform decisions for tech decision makers.
Visit ReadyTalk at: http://www.readytalk.com/
Hybrid Cloud - Key Benefits & Must Have RequirementsJohn Katrick
Hybrid Cloud - Key Benefits & Must Have Requirements : Gartner says by 2020, a corporate "No-Cloud" Policy will be as rare as a "No-Internet" policy is today as per this article and specifically the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market is projected to continue to grow more than 25 percent per year through 2019. This surge in cloud adoption also represents a huge shift in cloud spending by IT organizations, directly or indirectly affecting more than $1 trillion dollars in Cloud IT purchases by 2020, according to Gartner.
Visionary business systems architect, designer & developer solves complex problems. Maximizes ROI by implementing technology-driven solutions. World-renowned as a Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) authority.
Maclear’s IT GRC Tools – Key Issues and TrendsMaclear LLC
Maclear specializes in enterprise governance, risk and compliance (eGRC) solutions. The IT GRC Solution integrates various business functions such as IT governance, policy management, risk management, compliance management, audit management, and incident management. Enables an automated and workflow driven approach to managing, communicating and implementing IT policies and procedures across the enterprise
Read More at: http://www.maclear-grc.com/
Digital innovation being demanded by every business unit is transforming IT’s role to that of the main driver of new growth initiatives, prompting a shift in perspective and strategy for CIOs that begins with a well-planned and executed approach to managing customer identities. While legacy IAM might seem like a natural starting point for meeting this challenge, customer identity and access management (CIAM) has significantly different requirements and outcomes when compared to employee-facing IAM.
Laserfiche10 highlights- how the new features can benefit your mobile and wor...Christopher Wynder
Laserfiche 10 brings a lot of additional features for information management, workflow building and mobile content access. This slide deck provides the overview of how Laserfiche 10 can benefit clients looking to automate their processes.
A proficient 5 c approach to boost the security in the saas model's technical...ijccsa
For anything that involves delivering hosted services over the internet is cloud computing.These services
are classified as: IaaS,SaaS,PaaS.This paper focuses on SaaS security measures. SaaS is a cloud based
productivity suite that helps the business people to connect and work from anywhere on any device. The
data solely dumped behind a corporate firewall and it is physically accessed by the people through VPN
system or through online.The only hurdle while adopting cloud computing is the lack of security.It is a
major issue in the cloud for data as well as application and the platform. This paper gives an efficient
approach named 5C approach for applying security under SaaSmodel.Itmainly focuses on authentication
and authorization for customer data under SaaS in the cloud. The 5C mainly uses initial user level security
in the architecture of SaaS server by integrating the Visual Guard Web Admin Console with other controls.
UX-дизайнер, ты ли это. Навыки проектировщика в стилизации интерфейсов / Илья...Ontico
Доклад предполагает общение о завершающих этапах проектирования, о месте перехода прототипа в графический дизайн. Освещение тем, акцентов, шрифтов и цвета.
Доклад будет построен вокруг разбора примеров.
Тезисно:
- Путь проектировщика в проекте. От начала и бумажных тигров, жизненных ситуаций и сценариев, вариантов использования и эскизов до самих прототипов. Про последний этап и будет весь рассказ.
- Акценты. Якорные элементы. Правильное построение визуальной иерархии в прототипе.
- Вертикальный ритм. Выбор кеглей и интерлиньяжей для построения базовых блоков. Расстояния между блоками. Построение заголовочных и третичных текстов по базовым блокам. Использование полученной сетки для определения расстояний между объектами и текстами на странице.
- Аккуратность в прототипах. Верное использование внутренних и внешних кавычек. Длинных тире, коротких, дефисов. Корректное расположение союзов и предлогов.
- Цвета. Выбор базового цвета. Выбор пары комплиментарных цветов по базовым. Подбор верных оттенков серого по базовому цвету.
Почему бизнес-процессы — это не страшно / Александр Богданов (AGIMA)Ontico
Скорость, с которой компания готова меняться, напрямую коррелирует с ее жизнеспособностью. И зачастую в такой гонке система и правила организации могут просто не успевать за прогрессом.
«Адаптируйся или умри» — говорил Дарвин, и это не только про эволюцию видов, но и про эволюцию компаний. Многие компании просто боятся вводить новые процессы, т. к. думают, что это всегда связано с кризисом или большими рисками. На самом деле, если подходить к этому процессу разумно, в этом нет ничего страшного.
Но всем ли нужны четкие бизнес-процессы, регламентированный workflow, автоматизация бизнеса и прочее?
- Зачем нужны бизнес-процессы для малого бизнеса? Каким компаниям они нужны, а каким — нет?
- Кому внедрять workflow, а кому можно пренебречь?
- Внедрение регламентов: теория и практика.
- Инструменты автоматизации: когда пора отказаться от Excel?
26 Things about Networking (that I learned from books)Jan König
I don't have thousands of Linkedin connections or Twitter followers, but I often find myself being approached by other people on how to do networking right. For me, networking is about building relationships, helping each other, not only exchanging business cards. I love reading books, so I backed the everything with some insights from great books!
This alphabet book was the final project for an "Information Design" class at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Очереди и блокировки. Теория и практика / Александр Календарев (ad1.ru)Ontico
В докладе будут описаны паттерны использования очередей и блокировок, рассказано, зачем нужны очереди и блокировки, показано на примерах использования в разных архитектурах.
Описано применение синхронных и асинхронных очередей, как построить очереди с приоритетами.
Будет сравнение разных серверов очередей: Redis, Tarantool, RabbitMQ, ZMQ, Kafka, Zookeeper, MemcacheQ и др., их преимущества и недостатки, где и какой брокер лучше использовать.
Prometheus мониторинг микросервисных приложений / Виталий ЛевченкоOntico
Prometheus, в отличие от классических систем, даёт возможность легко поднять и поддерживать мониторинг быстро меняющихся и сложно организованных систем. Я расскажу об опыте внедрения, подводных камнях и неожиданном поведении, покажу способы быстрой конфигурации всей системы, включая уведомления и дашборды.
В дополнение к классическим проблемам мониторинга монолитного приложения, микросервисы создают массу новой головной боли для мониторинга. Расположение сервисов постоянно меняется, часто появляются новые сервисы, меняются зависимости между ними, временные job'ы запускаются в случайном месте — пропадает понятие стабильной конфигурации. Пропадает понятие продакшна: в одной среде запущено множество версий одного сервиса — при деплое, для разных сегментов аудитории, для тестов и т.п. Разработчики же при виде такого счастья склонны быстро улучшать приложение, создавать много новых метрик, постоянно убивать старые и, несмотря на это, ожидать работающий мониторинг и реакции на новые проблемы.
Prometheus построен по мотивам Google Borgmon и отлично решает эти проблемы, предоставляя инструменты для автоматического и быстрого ручного обновления конфигурации. Запустился новый сервер, новый сервис, новая версия — и они уже подключены в мониторинг. Остановились — их там нет, если не нужны. Пропала неактуальная метрика — алертинг умеет с этим жить.
После этого доклада у вас будет понимание, насколько Prometheus подходит для использования в ваших системах.
In this world of concerns regarding depletion of fossil fuels, pollution control and other factors leading to threat of man kind survival a way of producing biodiesel from algae which can be a source of alternative fuel. Lots of methods and sources being used for producing biodiesel but from algae one can produce high amount of biodiesel depending on the type of species or strain selected and this way this is a viable and feasible method to produce biodiesel.....
FAIR Data in Trustworthy Data Repositories Webinar - 12-13 December 2016| www...EUDAT
| www.eudat.eu | This webinar was co-organised by DANS, EUDAT and OpenAIRE and was held on 12th and 13th December 2016.
Everybody wants to play FAIR, but how do we put the principles into practice?
There is a growing demand for quality criteria for research datasets. In this webinar we will argue that the DSA (Data Seal of Approval for data repositories) and FAIR principles get as close as possible to giving quality criteria for research data. They do not do this by trying to make value judgements about the content of datasets, but rather by qualifying the fitness for data reuse in an impartial and measurable way. By bringing the ideas of the DSA and FAIR together, we will be able to offer an operationalization that can be implemented in any certified Trustworthy Digital Repository.
In 2014 the FAIR Guiding Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) were formulated. The well-chosen FAIR acronym is highly attractive: it is one of these ideas that almost automatically get stuck in your mind once you have heard it. In a relatively short term, the FAIR data principles have been adopted by many stakeholder groups, including research funders.
The FAIR principles are remarkably similar to the underlying principles of DSA (2005): the data can be found on the Internet, are accessible (clear rights and licenses), in a usable format, reliable and are identified in a unique and persistent way so that they can be referred to. Essentially, the DSA presents quality criteria for digital repositories, whereas the FAIR principles target individual datasets.
In this webinar the two sets of principles will be discussed and compared and a tangible operationalization will be presented.
Discovery: The Backbone of Digital Enterprise ManagementMichelle Kerby
Understanding what you have in your data center and how these assets interrelate is essential for making cloud decisions, understanding security vulnerabilities, and avoiding downtime.
Assessing the Business Value of SDN Datacenter Security Solutionsxband
CTOs, CIOs, and application architects need access to datacenter facilities capable of handling the broad range of content serving, Big Data/analytics, and archiving functions associated with the systems of engagement and insight that they depend upon to better service customers and enhance business outcomes. They need to enhance their existing datacenters, they need to accelerate the building of new datacenters in new geographies, and they need to take greater advantage of advanced, sophisticated datacenters designed, built, and operated by service providers. IDC terms this business and datacenter transformation the shift to the 3rd Platform.
NFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIZATION REVIEW
Analyze the issues
Hardware
Over-running volume of data is a problem that should be addressed by data management and storage management. Data is being constantly collected but poorly analyzed which leads to excessive amounts of data occupying storage and delay in operations which inevitably affect production, sales and profits. If this remains unresolved, current data may have to be moved to external storage and recovered if needed. There is also the risk of data not being encoded into computers and thus will remain in manual state. This can be a case of redundant or extraneous data that is not yet cleaned and normalized by operations managers with the guidance of IT. This situation is known as data overload where companies actually use only a fraction of the data they capture and store. Many companies simply hoard data to make sure that they are readily available when they are needed. This negatively impacts the Corporation when assessing data relevance, accuracies and timeliness (Marr, 2016).
Software
The Largo Corporation (LC) seems to running on an enterprise resource planning system that is probably as long as 20 years old. Initially, LC has had success with the old system because they were able to establish themselves in various industries such as healthcare, media, government, etc. But due to various concerns, the Corporation is currently running on an outdated system because it is unable to provide services that keeps the Corporation a float. The LC is losing revenue and customers. Complete data without analysis is invaluable because, no information and insights can be produced that will support decisions. Customer data should lead to the best marketing and sales campaigns. The Corporation needs to recognize its weaknesses and implement changes to their software by incorporating funding for a new system that is reliable, secure, and has the ability to run on integrated systems; all of which will streamline data organization and analysis for the enterprise. (Rouse, n.d).
Network/Telecommunications
The network that was built in the 1980’s has become slow and unreliable affecting business operations. The problems caused by the old network are; lack of integration and communication between departments affecting the work flow, supply vs. demand, and inability to analyze data to carry out these operations. The Corporation should have taken into consideration the growth of the company by expanding and upgrading their networks along with their services. They should also take into consideration the number of departments, the number of users and their skill level, storage and bandwidth, and budget (Rasmussen, 2011). The current network does not allow employees to connect on their mobile devices which restricts flexibility and places limitations on productivity and portability.
Management
The responses of both IT and the business group are both juxtaposed against e ...
A consolidated data center has been an attractive alternative for CIOs to protect the IT investment as many of them have realized that centralized infrastructure and processes help optimize the shared resources and in turn bring greater ROI from their IT investments. This whitepaper explains the various benefits of data center consolidation and how CIOs can work collaboratively with service providers to build an outcome based IT framework that can deliver cost efficiencies, savings and innovation in an organization.
IT Infrastructure Management | Defination, Objectives & StrategiesGrapesTech Solutions
The rise of technology is accelerating at an unprecedented speed, and there’s no way of stopping it. Regardless of however much fear, there may be of new technology, it is the way towards progress and development. In this ever-evolving wave of technology, it is crucial to stay ahead of the curve and be aware of the tech industry news and the upcoming technology that may arise. Several tech trends are reshaping the world’s industries and challenging past traditions.
The data center impact of cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security rlw03...Diego Alberto Tamayo
Introduction
The consumerization of IT continues to have a major impact
on business. Technology forces have emerged that are
challenging organizations’ ability to respond. Cloud computing,
mobility, social business, big data and analytics and IT security
technologies are evolving very rapidly, putting an organization’s
IT agility, speed and resilience to the test. As these technologies
mature and converge, they are demanding a total reexamination
of the underlying enterprise infrastructure: its strategy and
design, its operation and its management framework.
KASHTECH AND DENODO: ROI and Economic Value of Data VirtualizationDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/3sumuL5
Join KashTech and Denodo to discover how Data Virtualization can help accelerate your time-to-value from data while reducing the costs at the same time.
Gartner has predicted that organizations using Data Virtualization will spend 40% less on data integration than those using traditional technologies. Denodo customers have experienced time-to-deliver improvements of up to 90% within their data provisioning processes and cost savings of 50% or more. As Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) said in the movie 'Jerry Maguire', "Show me the money!"
Register to attend and learn how Data Virtualization can:
- Accelerate the delivery of data to users
- Drive digital transformation initiatives
- Reduce project costs and timelines
- Quickly deliver value to your organization
ServiceNow CMDB Revealing Revolutionary Advantages for Organizational Magnifi...Aelum Consulting
ServiceNow CMDB is a dynamic, centralized repository for capturing, organizing, and visualizing configuration items (CIs) and their connections inside an organization's IT infrastructure. It gives a single, real-time picture of hardware, software, users, and dependencies, as well as detailed insights for better control, decision-making, and operational efficiency. The CMDB goes beyond typical databases, acting as a strategic asset that converts raw data into actionable insights, promoting educated IT asset management and enabling proactive reactions to changes, events, and problems.
Improve Business Efficiency with ServiceNow CMDB.pdfAelum Consulting
ServiceNow CMDB acts as a comprehensive repository that contains all of an organization's IT infrastructure's minute data. It serves as a central center for information about configurations, hardware, software, and interdependencies. This dynamic blueprint gives a thorough picture of the IT environment, allowing for better troubleshooting and informed choice-making.
Today, Federal IT faces some of the largest challenges seen in decades. Funding cuts, new & complex technologies and government mandates to virtualize, consolidate and move to the cloud have put even greater pressure on CIOs and IT staffs. As the government struggles with modernization and moves forward with such projects as VDI, Storage Virtualization, Data Center Consolidation and Cloud architecture; three of the most important things to consider are how to guarantee success, reduce risk and drive costs down. An emerging technology category, Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM), offers the unique ability deliver dramatic and comprehensive analysis of the physical, virtual and cloud components of any data center environment. The enterprise class data center has traditionally been one of the highest spend areas of Federal IT in addition to being highly complex, technically siloed, plagued with performance issues, and lacking true system-wide visibility.
As the leader in IPM, Virtual Instruments offers the industry's only real-time capability to uncover performance, health and utilization issues in the open systems storage environment. Failure to have real-time situational awareness can prevent mission success, increase operational risk and drive up costs. Beyond being an incredibly effective troubleshooting platform, our technology is helping 1/3 of the Fortune 100 (and several government agencies) cut IT costs by precisely identifying areas for optimization, performance tuning and cost savings. Our customers are able to stop over-spending & over-provisioning their storage environments, decrease SAN switch ports, and gain highly efficient & cost effective performance for the most mission critical applications.
5 Reasons Why IT Managed Services in Washington, DC, Are the Best.pdfBerryHughes
With managed IT assistance, many companies could survive. There are several traps for big to small organizations to avoid that IT may fix, like dedicating too many resources to time-consuming jobs and not providing adequate support services as a firm expands.
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