In this webinar Black Duck Software (www.blackducksoftware.com), together with representatives of SAP, will review the benefits open source offers to development organizations, the management challenges it presents, and approaches for addressing those challenges.

Over the past decade, a powerful new approach to development - open source software - has risen to prominence, dramatically increasing the opportunity to re-use existing software.

"Agile" software development is an increasingly popular development process for producing software in a flexible and iterative manner that can deliver value to the enterprise faster, reduce project risk and allow adaptation to changes more quickly.

This paper is for IT development executives looking to gain control of open source software as part of a multi-source development process. You can gain significant management control over open source software use in your development organization. Today, many IT executives, enterprise architects, and development managers in leading companies have gained management control over the externally-sourced software used by their application development groups. Download this free paper to discover how.

IDC Analyst Report: A New Breed of Servers for Digital Transformation Most organizations today are on a digital transformation journey and a server infrastructure is a critical component of that journey. Read the IDC Analyst Report �A New Breed of Servers for Digital Transformation" to find out: � A roadmap for servers in three stages - from running simple stateless web applications to adopting open source DBMSs to cloud to predictive modeling � How you can take advantage of OpenPOWER-based infrastructure from a price/performance perspective � Ways to lower your IT spend and increase your workloads with minimal investment

To achieve efficiencies in today�s turbulent economic climate, government entities need to integrate legacy applications with modern systems and web services. Orchestration between multiple systems across various departments and municipalities is needed to deliver quality public services. At the same time, public sector agencies face aggressive timelines and budget constraints, changing constituent needs, and open source policies. Learn how utilizing a lightweight, standalone Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) enables government entities to meet these key challenges and deliver vital public goods while cutting costs. Evalute important decisions: Achieving efficiencies in today�s turbulent budgetary environment Time to Delivery and Budget Constraints Constituent Needs and Public Value Open Source Policies & Initiatives The Software Architecture for Government Learn to deliver projects within tight schedules and fiscal constraints - download now.

This paper provides guidance to organizations interested in researching Oracle�s SPARC M7 and Oracle Solaris 11 security features and capabilities. It will also provide a high level overview of some of the noteworthy features that these two product offerings bring to the market. We will review industry best practices in information security as it relates to these Oracle products in the context of a secure implementation. This paper is not meant to be an in depth technical paper, position paper, or security implementation guide. It will instead endeavor to deliver a foundational level of knowledge of the SPARC M7 processor and server technology and the function set within Oracle Solaris 11 that are primarily relevant to information security as it is currently understood. The information used to compose this paper was collected from a variety of open sources, interviews with Oracle subject matter experts, and reviews of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) documentation and specificatio

Ready, set, collaborate, automate � a mindset change for strengthening security. Industry research suggests there is significant interest in making DevOps more secure. In fact, Gartner reports "by 2021, DevSecOps practices will be embedded in 80% of rapid development teams, up from 15% in 2017." To help you effectively integrate security into your organization�s DevOps practice, Tenable encourages you to read the Gartner report, �10 Things to Get Right for Successful DevSecOps.� Loaded with specific detailed recommendations, the report covers topics including: - Integrating security and compliance testing seamlessly into DevOps processes - Scanning for known vulnerabilities and miscon�gurations in all open-source and third-party components - Scaling infosec into DevOps by using a security champion model

Includes 5 tips for bridging the DevOps InfoSec gap. Across industries, in the public and private sector alike, the benefits of DevOps are undeniable: speed to market, improved service delivery and cost savings. At the same time, DevOps can create security blind spots that impact an entire enterprise. To understand why this happens and learn how you can bridge the gap between security and development, read: Information Security in the DevOps Age: Aligning Conflicting Imperatives. Topics covered include: - Rethinking the role of security - Shifting security left by focusing on code quality and prevention - Blind spots in containers and open source components - 5 tips for bridging the DevOps infosec gap Written by CyberScoop, this paper offers practical advice for DevOps and InfoSec professionals who want to realize the benefits of accelerated software development without jeopardizing enterprise security.

This whitepaper describes the various forms that cloud computing can take and how different types of technology relate to each other.

An IDC executive report examines the future of cloud computing, focusing on design goals that support portability of applications and data, which will certainly avoid expensive and time-consuming fixes.

Learn how your organization can deliver self-service application provisioning, flexible and standardized application deployments, and integrated management, without losing control or radically change existing management and development processes.

Learn how CloudForms fully delivers on your requirements to increase business agility, efficiency, innovation, and simplified IT management.

The Red Hat Cloud Quickstart consulting engagement leverages Red Hat's Cloud Foundations Reference Architecture Edition One to speed up assessing the viability of a cloud environment for your enterprise, and, if chosen, it can demonstrate a tangible implementation of a private cloud for testing purposes.

Do you have an effective cloud governance plan? This whitepaper guides you through best practices for ensuring your applications and data can safely move between clouds - whether they are private, public or hybrid.

Organizations around the world are benefiting from public clouds. But, when production applications or critical data is involved, it's important to extend on-premise governance to your public or hybrid cloud resources. Effective cloud governance is possible.

Virtualization and cloud computing are sometimes discussed interchangeably. But gaining the full benefits of cloud computing requires approaches and processes that often aren't in place where ad hoc virtualization is the norm. Join us and learn how to make a smooth transition.

Linux has long since staked its claim to the cloud. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with its consistency, stability, scalability, and support, is in a class of its own. Offering an outstanding environment for application deployment and the economy and innovation of open source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux also provides the reliability you need.

Traditional security measures such as network firewalls are no longer enough to keep an enterprise secure. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux, security mechanisms are incorporated and applied at the core of every solution, and security is extended to include all the open source packages that make up Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As a result, customers experience a higher quality of service.

Interested in leveraging automation technologies and a cloud architecture to make developers more productive? Learn how PaaS can benefit your organization to help you streamline your application development, allow you to use existing infrastructure and improve operational efficiencies. Begin charting your path to PaaS with OpenShift Enterprise.

Growing business demand for new applications has put a strain on IT organizations leading to the need for an effective PaaS to accelerate app development processes. Explore PaaS market trends, benefits and an in-depth look at OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat in this IDC Technology Spotlight.

Looking to PaaS to accelerate application service delivery by automating and streamlining application development, deployment and scaling? PaaS offers many benefits and choosing the right PaaS is key to getting those benefits, so make sure you have considered everything. Get the PaaS Executive Checklist to learn PaaS key considerations.

Struggling to keep up with increasing application demand? Platform as a Service (PaaS) can streamline application development processes and make resource management easy with auto-scaling and consistent integration. Learn how OpenShift Enterprise can help architects standardize development processes, while letting developers focus on their code.

OpenStack is an open source cloud system software project that has broad participation from the IT Industry. IDC evaluates the current situation and provides a future outlook evaluating the deployment and support model and addressing OpenStack enterprise features and support.

Technology has become the heart and soul of every business. The hardware boundaries of IT have exploded beyond data centers, with mobile devices in the hands of both employees and customers alike. Application options have blossomed, from traditional to open source to software-as-a-service. Business has become global, bringing with it a demand for round-the-clock agility. Employees expect that the applications they use at work should be as easy to use as the Web apps they use at home. Integration remains difficult, because it�s sometimes impossible to know what will happen when someone tries to pluck one strand out of the pile. IT workload and system complexity will only get more challenging, bringing the need for disintermediation through service automation.