In Forrester’s evaluation of the emerging market for enterprise container platform (ECP) software suites, the eight most significant providers in the category (Docker, IBM, Mesosphere, Pivotal, Platform9, Rancher Labs, Red Hat, and SUSE) are identified and evaluated. This report details findings about how well each vendor scored against 10 criteria and where they stand in ...

Digital transformation is a strategic change for businesses. It allows companies to pivot their core services as competitive pressures change, or as new regulations emerge, and to roll out updates as soon as a vulnerability is discovered. However, there is no common definition of digital transformation aside from “changing things.” The term digital transformation is ...

“The Automated Enterprise” e-book shows the important role IT automation plays in business today. IT automation helps your business better serve your customers, so you can be successful as you: – Optimize resources by automating complex and manual processes – Accelerate service delivery while providing IT operations teams with control and visibility across a dynamic ...

This IDC InfoBrief summarizes the findings of a global study to assess how enterprise IT infrastructure architecture strategies are evolving due ot the impact of cloud computing, DevOps and digital transformation initiatives. Download the IDC InfoBrief to learn why open source ranks #1 in IT modernization solutions.

In this Harvard Business Review whitepaper, 16 CIOs in market-leading organizations reveal how they’ve transformed in the face of disruption to become the beneficiaries of change—and not the victims of it.

The cloud-native approach describes a way of modernising existing applications and building new applications based on cloud principles, using services and adopting processes optimised for the agility and automation of cloud computing. This e-book examines why companies are adopting a cloud-native application approach and covers the strengths and weaknesses of different cloud native technologies. Subscribe ...

This e-book examines the stages of “Digital Darwinism” and helps you determine how your organization should evolve to effectively control your digital transformation taking your technology “elephant” and design it to be agile, process-driven, and adaptive. Digital transformation Digital transformation is a strategic change for businesses. It allows companies to pivot their core services as ...

Developing software using microservice design is the hot new approach. Microservices promise implementation flexibility, graceful scaling, faster delivery, and higher resiliency. But comprehensive microservice architectures are too complex for most enterprise AD&D teams, so developers are finding pragmatic and incremental ways to gain the benefits of microservice design via new programming models and platform frameworks. ...

Red Hat OpenShift is an application container platform that helps development and IT operations teams modernize existing enterprise applications and deliver new applications by accelerating development and delivery processes . Red Hat OpenShift offers development and operations teams a common platform and set of tools as a foundation for building, deploying, and managing containerized applications ...

As applications and services become more central to business strategy, and as distributed methodologies like agile and DevOps change the way teams operate, it is critical for IT leaders to find a way to integrate their backend systems, legacy systems, and teams in an agile, adaptable way. This e-book details agile integration architecture, consisting of ...