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  • The Speed of Change: How Fast Are You?

    How fast is your IT? You need speed and adaptability to adjust as big changes in the global economy and our daily lives keep coming. Disruption is the status quo, and the “new normal” is not yet defined. Are you prepared for what’s next? What are IT organizations saying about it all?

  • Account Fraud Takeover - How to Protect Your Customers and Business

    Account takeover fraud results in more than financial losses. A successful attack is stressful and frustrating for the customer – a negative experience that can put customer loyalty at risk. Fraudsters’ weapons and methods are evolving. Download this guide to learn how to block account takeover by enhancing your current fraud solutions with technologies such as risk analytics with machine learning.

  • Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Watson Assistant

    IBM recently commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a study that evaluated the financial impact of IBM Watson Assistant on organizations. Learn how IBM Watson Assistant can cut costs, drive revenue, and free precious resources for higher value work – all while improving customer NPS.

  • Gartner Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines

    Watson Discovery, IBM's AI powered search capability, doesn't just extract information; it crawls complex business documents and serves up answers with context, both on-demand and proactively via a simple natural language search, giving businesses insights impossible to derive otherwise. Clients across a variety of industries have seen positive results leveraging Watson Discovery; Australian energy company, Woodside, has experienced a 75% decrease in time employees spend searching for expert knowledge.

  • O'Reilly Kubernetes Patterns - Reusuable Elements for Designing Cloud-Native Applications

    The way developers design, build, and run software has changed significantly with the evolution of microservices and containers. These modern architectures use new primitives that require a different set of practices than most developers, tech leads, and architects are accustomed to. With this focused guide, Bilgin Ibryam and Roland Huß from Red Hat provide common reusable elements, patterns, principles, and practices for designing and implementing cloud-native applications on Kubernetes.

  • Eight Steps to Cloud-Native Application Development

    Download this whitepaper to learn the cloud-native app development journey and the eight steps to cloud-native application success.

  • An Introduction to Enterprise Kubernetes

    Containers are transforming the way we think about application architecture and the speed at which teams can deliver on business requirements. They promise application portability across hybrid cloud environments and allow developers to focus on building a great product, without the distraction of underlying infrastructure or execution details.

  • Hands-On Enterprise Java Microservices with Eclipse MicroProfile

    An effective guide to designing, building, and deploying enterprise Java microservices with Eclipse MicroProfile.

  • Golden Records are Key to Solid Data Quality

    Learn why golden records are the key to solid data quality and why your approach to achieving the single customer view (SCV) is equally important in this whitepaper by noted SQL Server MVP Stephen Wynkoop.

  • Best practices for migrating to containerized applications

    Migrating existing applications into containers provides better manageability and greater portability. This e-book outlines specific, technical recommendations and guidelines for container migration, ranging from image build procedures to production best practices. Also included are technical checklists for architecture, security, and performance.

  • A developer's guide to lift-and-shift cloud migration

    With the growing adoption of cloud models, many organizations are seeking ways to move to cloud-native development. New applications can be developed entirely using cloud models and services, exploiting microservices, autonomous development teams, agile and continuous deployment, and containerized and orchestrated cloud deployments. Unfortunately, completely rewriting all legacy applications is seldom feasible due to the required time and cost. This guide covers the "lift-and-shift" modernization model, a first step to cloud-native development.

  • Teaching an Elephant to Dance

    Your organization’s current—and future—digital transformation is based on your culture and technology choices. It is an evolutionary process, and the stages of change and the final result look different for each organization. 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 teaching it to be agile, process-driven, and adaptive.