ESG believes businesses are looking for a better way to protect data and manage it without going broke or getting lost in the process. Solutions that once closed the gap are now falling short. Learn how EMC is filling the gaps through smart acquisitions and integrations that address customer needs. Read the paper.

Integration is the lifeblood of today’s digital economy, and middleware is the software layer connecting different applications, services, devices, data sources, and business entities. This Ovum Decision Matrix (ODM) is a comprehensive evaluation to help enterprise IT leaders, including chief information officers (CIOs), enterprise/integration architects, integration competency center (ICC)/integration center of excellence (CoE) directors, and digital transformation leaders select a middleware-as-aservice (MWaaS) suite best suited to their specific hybrid integration requirements.

Data is the lifeblood of business. And in the era of digital business, the organizations that utilize data most effectively are also the most successful. Whether structured, unstructured or semi-structured, rapidly increasing data quantities must be brought into organizations, stored and put to work to enable business strategies. Data integration tools play a critical role in extracting data from a variety of sources and making it available for enterprise applications, business intelligence (BI), machine learning (ML) and other purposes. Many organization seek to enhance the value of data for line-of-business managers by enabling self-service access. This is increasingly important as large volumes of unstructured data from Internet-of-Things (IOT) devices are presenting organizations with opportunities for game-changing insights from big data analytics. A new survey of 369 IT professionals, from managers to directors and VPs of IT, by BizTechInsights on behalf of IBM reveals the challe

New survey reveals the challenges organizations face in integrating data and their priorities for improving data integration.

With the explosion of unstructured content, the data warehouse is under siege. In this paper, Dr. Barry Devlin discusses data and content as two ends of a continuum, and explores the depth of integration required for meaningful business value.

Current methods for accessing complex, distributed information delay decisions and, even worse, provide incomplete insight. This paper details the impact of Unified Information Access (UIA) in improving the agility of information-driven business processes by bridging information silos to unite content and data in one index to power solutions and applications that offer more complete insight.

The HX Data Platform uses a self-healing architecture that implements data replication for high availability, remediates hardware failures, and alerts your IT administrators so that problems can be resolved quickly and your business can continue to operate. Space-efficient, pointerbased snapshots facilitate backup operations, and native replication supports cross-site protection. Data-at-rest encryption protects data from security risks and threats. Integration with leading enterprise backup systems allows you to extend your preferred data protection tools to your hyperconverged environment.

Your data center struggles with competing requirements from your lines of business and the finance, security and IT departments. While some executives want to lower cost and increase efficiency, others want business growth and responsiveness. But today, most data center teams are just trying to keep up with application service levels, complex workflows, and sprawling infrastructure and support costs.

Cherwell Service Management™ software empowers IT organizations to easily manage their infrastructure at a fraction of the cost and complexity associated with traditional, legacy IT service management software. Designed with a metadata-driven approach, the Cherwell Service Management platform can easily be configured to meet process and integration requirements without writing or touching a single line of code. Furthermore, configurations will never break during version upgrades.

Around-the-clock global operations, data growth, and server virtualization all together can complicate protection and recovery strategies. They affect when and how often you can perform backups, increase the time required to back up, and ultimately affect your ability to successfully restore. These challenges can force lower standards for recovery objectives, such as reducing the frequency of backup jobs or protecting fewer applications, both of which can introduce risk. High-speed snapshot technologies and application integration can go a long way toward meeting these needs, and they have quickly become essential elements of a complete protection strategy. But snapshot copies have often been managed separately from traditional backup processes. Features like cataloging for search and retrieval as well as tape creation usually require separate management and do not fully leverage snapshot capabilities. To eliminate complexity and accelerate protection and recovery, you need a solution

Executives, managers and information workers have all come to respect the role that data management plays in the success of their organizations. But organizations don’t always do a good job of communicating and encouraging better ways of managing information. In this e-book you will find easy to digest resources on the value and importance of data preparation, data governance, data integration, data quality, data federation, streaming data, and master data management.

Ventana’s benchmark research on big data integration will help you become familiar with the tools and technologies you need to help your organization succeed with big data.

This TDWI Best Practices report explains the benefits that Hadoop and Hadoop-based products can bring to organizations today, both for big data analytics and as complements to existing BI and data warehousing technologies.

Impact that situation awareness can have on extended supply chain operations w/focus on logistics companies

Focus on creating consistent terminology in order to generate insights from the digital data encircling employees, partners, processes and customers.

Discussion of four key stages that drive supply chain operations.

Impact of using a blockchain approach on manufacturing systems/contracts

Blockchain and smart contracts

Five business imperatives that manufacturers need to focus on to drive growth

Charting a course to becoming best-in-class

Understanding the four stages of supply chain maturity

Additional insight on Forbes Research that ends with four “How To Get Started” steps.

Impact of using a blockchain approach to establish trust in global supply chains

Impact of using a blockchain approach to drive business model innovation.

Digital’s impact on transportation, cities and logistics systems.