The pace and scale of digital business innovation is increasing. Organizations are trying to optimize resources, speed development, and adapt faster to market changes. However, this places an extra burden on IT operations teams, who are now asked to move faster, yet manage increasingly complex IT environments. Automation can help. Read this e-book to learn ...

IDC conducted a global study to assess how enterprise IT management and automation strategies are evolving due to the impact of cloud computing, DevOps, and digital transformation initiatives. Read this IDC info brief to learn more about DevOps, including its impact on individual application and IT operations, and how integrated, automated management is critical to ...

This IDC white paper considers the challenge customers face today in balancing investments in existing infrastructure with goals of improving efficiency and modernising their data centre. Simultaneously, customers need to embrace new technology development and deployment techniques that offer the promise of substantial improvements in developer productivity, operational agility, and less expensive life-cycle management. We ...

Organisations increasingly require their IT organisations to lead efforts to embrace digital transformation and compete effectively with the broader digital transformation occurring around them. This means that IT organisations must use an IT infrastructure that offers scale, reliability, and performance and flexibility for their business applications. However, the imperative to match IT infrastructure resources to ...

Innovation is a hallmark of the technology industry. Change can be perceived as disruptive and costly, but it is nonetheless necessary if organisations are to remain competitive and avoid obsolescence in an ever-changing world. Organisations need to embrace change in a way that balances the needs of existing, business-critical infrastructure and services while empowering and ...

Migrating existing applications into containers provides better manageability and greater portability. This e-book outlines specific, technical recommendations and guidelines for container migration, ranging from image build procedures to production best practices. Also included are technical checklists for architecture, security, and performance. Subscribe to the Daily Tech Insider Newsletter Stay up to date on the latest ...

Many organizations are discovering that traditional storage methods can be the bottleneck that slows their agility and scalability. This has led to the development of containers, built to permit applications to scale rapidly, be more reliable, and offer better performance than more conventional means or methods. Read the e-book to learn how container-native storage is ...

Agile integration — combining integration technologies, Agile delivery techniques, and cloud-native platforms to improve speed and security of software delivery — is a critical foundation for successful digital transformation. For this study, we assessed the differences between successful and less successful Agile integration and app delivery strategies, why some firms can change their business faster, ...

The path to cloud-native applications varies by organization. Simply creating microservices does not lead to the service quality and delivery frequency required by digital business. And just adopting tools that support agile development or IT automation will not lead to the increased velocity of cloud-native approaches. Rather, success is achieved from a combination of practices, ...

Improved cost efficiency, improved application development efficiency, and improved application downtime are major themes related to customer adoption of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP). In addition, choosing an open source platform as part of a larger developer commitment to open source is also important, especially for organizations moving off of mainframes. Compatibility ...