IT is driving innovation. If you can’t deliver software fast, your organisation can’t deliver. Yet one of the biggest barriers to innovation is complexity. To overcome this obstacle many organisations are looking to automation. This paper explores how IT organisations can expand automation to the enterprise and bring new levels of control, security and delegation ...

The pace and scale of modern business innovation is increasing. IT operations teams manage ever-changing, complex IT architectures built on multiple platforms and complicated technology stacks, but many organisations struggle to deploy a modern infrastructure due to the maintenance cost and management complexity of their existing systems. They are now asked to move faster, manage ...

Modern, enterprise scale IT environments will continue to become more and more complex and dense as enterprises migrate towards multi-cloud, container and micro-service based architectures. Simultaneously, every aspect of the business is becoming digital and directly dependent on high levels of infrastructure availability, security and application performance. IT operations and DevOps teams require robust, consistent ...

Change is unavoidable, especially for the technology-driven enterprise. No matter your industry, users demand new, ground-breaking solutions and you’re challenged to deliver – ahead of your competition. Cloud technology provides new levels of flexibility, agility and scalability while streamlining the adoption of modern practices such as continuous deployment, virtualization and containerization. The open source approach ...

The success of public cloud came from new workload enablement, which provided a unique economic model that lowered the financial barrier for workloads with variability. However, existing workloads required significant additional spending to ready for cloud. For several years, enterprises have described their cloud strategies as hybrid — using a mix of cloud and non-cloud ...

In today’s hybrid IT environment, workloads are deployed across various cloud infrastructures along with traditional IT environments. Containers are one solution to the problem of getting software to run reliably when migrating from one environment to another. As they are small, containers start up almost instantly. Faster start-up times contribute to less downtime, resulting in ...

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Many employees choose to work from home. After all, who wouldn’t want to be devoid of time-consuming commutes and workplace gossip, and also face fewer interruptions from colleagues and better control of their work-life balance–and best yet–work in pajamas all day? Whether you are an employee looking for remote work, or an executive managing a ...

The sophistication, frequency, and consequences of cyberattacks continue to evolve and grow. Private companies and public agencies alike must adapt their security techniques, strengthen end-user training, and embrace new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) powered defenses. This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet and TechRepublic special feature, looks at how companies ...

Slack is a cloud-based collaboration tool, which helps teams communicate. In the most basic sense, Slack is an email replacement, though it operates more like group messaging or Internet Relay Chat (IRC). The goal of Slack is to increase productivity by simplifying communication, while putting Slack in the middle of your communication workflow. How do ...