Data Management

This report documents hands-on testing of an EMC data protection solution for virtual environments using Avamar Virtual Edition with a Data Domain system

This white paper discusses the concept of shared data scale-out clusters, as well as how they deliver continuous availability and why they are important for delivering scalable transaction processing support.

This white paper is written for SAP customers evaluating their infrastructure choices, discussing database technology evolution and options available.

This ebook presents six reasons why you should consider a database change, including opinions from industry analysts and real-world customer experiences. Read on to learn more.

Today's data-driven organization is faced with magnified urgency around data volume, user needs and compressed decision time frames. In order to address these challenges, while maintaining an effective analytical culture, many organizations are exploring cloud-based environments coupled with powerful business intelligence (BI) and analytical technology to accelerate decisions and enhance performance.

Cloud-based data warehousing as-a-service, built for analytics

This white paper describes how IBM’s Pure Data System for Analytics delivers speed and simplicity to help organizations become more responsive and agile in today’s increasingly mobile and data-driven market.

Big Data has generated much interest and attention in the media of late. Indeed, several authors have recently raised the question of whether Big Data approaches, such as Hadoop, will pronounce the death sentence on the conventional data warehouse. In this survey we investigate the current state of the data warehouse and examine its recent challenger in the form of Big Data solutions as an alternative. Is the new technology really complementary or is the reign of the data warehouse nearing an end?

In an environment where data is the most critical natural resource, speed-of-thought insights from information and analytics are a critical competitive imperative.

The use of analytics will define the successful midmarket business of the next decade, just as it will define the successful larger organization in this information age. The past decade has seen rapid change in the business climates with an explosion of global competition and economic uncertainty. Despite this, many midmarket companies have thrived by using their size and agility as a competitive advantage. Certainly they have fewer resources than large corporations who are able to invest large sums in IT. However, small yachts can turn and adjust their course much quicker than large cruise ships. The same came be said for midmarket companies. The most successful organizations are ones that can react the quickest to changes in the market place. Midmarket companies can take advantage of their smaller size by being more agile and quicker to change, or even reinvent themselve

This e-book highlights the benefits of Hadoop across several industries and explores how IBM® Biglnsights for Apache™ Hadoop® combines open source Hadoop with enterprise-grade management and analytic capabilities.

When meeting the needs of a growing infrastructure, do you build or buy? This video illustrates how using the Oracle Database Appliance, which contains the server, software, networking and storage, is easy to deploy and maintain compared to a traditional build scenario, while also being an affordable high availability database solution.

Once you know that a document oriented database is the best database for your application, you will have to decide where and how you'll deploy the software and its associated infrastructure. Download this white paper for an outline of the deployment options available when you select IBM® Cloudant® as your JSON store.

This White Paper will: • Outline the challenges of cooling evolving IT infrastructure • Explain close-coupled cooling, available solutions, and the advantages compared to conventional perimeter systems • Recommend a plan of action to identify and solve cooling issues in your environment

Organizations that invest in proprietary applications and data for competitive advantage in their industries only succeed by making those investments available to employees, customers, and partners that drive revenue and opportunity. Securing those investments requires a fresh perspective as the types of devices accessing the cloud datacenter are changing rapidly and new workloads, such as VDI desktops, are appearing more regularly alongside server workloads. These changes alter the potential attacks and potential threats to datacenters whose security primarily stands firm at the perimeter, however, within the data center the security is weak.

This report provides a guide to some of the opportunities that are available for using machine learning in business, and how to overcome some of the key challenges of incorporating machine learning into an analytics strategy. We will discuss the momentum of machine learning in the current analytics landscape, the growing number of modern applications for machine learning, as well as the organizational and technological challenges businesses face when adopting machine learning. We will also look at how two specific organizations are exploiting the opportunities and overcoming the challenges of machine learning as they’ve embarked on their own analytic evolution.

Our objective in this Checklist Report is to share best practices that will position the reader to take advantage of a cloud-based data warehousing solution.

The data-driven organization is the new benchmark for success. Firms that harness data to dictate strategic and tactical decisions companywide make more informed business plans, better optimize operations, improve customer interactions, and provide competitive edge. To achieve these benefits, organizations increasingly see data refinement - transforming raw data from various sources into relevant and actionable information and delivering it through self - service access to any user who needs it - as the path toward success by helping break though immature processes and legacy systems. However, data refinement only functions as well as the strategies and approaches behind it. Organizations that do not understand the right way to embrace refinement will fail to catch up to competitors that have mastered the correct approach.

The modern EMC Unity™ represents the ultimate in storage simplicity and value in the mid-tier all flash storage market by harnessing the power of an all-flash design to combine with radical simplicity. Unity’s all flash design comes with built-in data protection, cloud-based management, and all inclusive software to deliver the best flash economics – price, density, and TCO.

The modern EMC Unity™ represents the ultimate in storage simplicity and value in the mid-tier hybrid storage market by harnessing the power of a flash-based architecture to combine with radical simplicity. Unity’s hybrid flash design comes with built-in data protection, cloud-based management, and all inclusive software to deliver the best hybrid economics – price, density, and TCO.

This report documents hands-on testing and validation of an EMC data protection solution for virtual environments using Avamar Virtual Edition with a Data Domain system, with a focus on the ease of integration, efficiency, scalability, and backup/restore performance.

This white paper discusses features, planning considerations, options and best practice recommendations for installing and using EMC CloudBoost as part of an overall data protection solution.

This paper examines the barriers to adoption from an IT and end-user perspective, and shows how self-service analytics in general – and SAS Visual Analytics in particular – can eliminate these barriers. Self-service analytics empowers users to truly exploit the wealth of data available to them, while ensuring that the IT organization maintains governance and control over that data.

Reliable Transportation For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, shows you what you need to know about what it takes to keep a fleet operating efficiently while keeping maintenance expenses in check. In other words, this book provides information and ideas about what you can do to have a reliable fleet operation that doesn’t break the bank with either unforeseen breakdowns or out-of-control maintenance expenditures.

Emerging tax legislation and regulatory changes have proven a challenge to tax departments over the past couple years. How can your tax department come out on top? Explore what’s driving the game-changing shifts within direct tax and how a tax technology strategy enables exceptional tax management, propelling both your department and organization forward. Download the free white paper today.