Organizations in the global industrial products industry face significant challenges: cost pressures, increased regulations, disruptive technologies and the increasingly costly delivery of raw resources. High volatility in commodity prices has put severe pressure on company margins and can quickly expose inefficient operations.

In our 27-criterion evaluation of global internetof-things (IoT) services for connected business operations providers, we identified the 14 most significant ones — Accenture, Atos, Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, Dimension Data, EY, HCL Technologies, IBM, Infosys, KPMG, PwC, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Wipro — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals make the right choice.

Infinidat has developed a storage platform that provides unique simplicity, efficiency, reliability, and extensibility that enhances the business value of large-scale OpenStack environments. The InfiniBox® platform is a pre-integrated solution that scales to multiple petabytes of effective capacity in a single 42U rack. The platform’s innovative combination of DRAM, flash, and capacity-optimized disk, delivers tuning-free, high performance for consolidated mixed workloads, including object/Swift, file/Manila, and block/Cinder. These factors combine to cut direct and indirect costs associated with large-scale OpenStack infrastructures, even versus “build-it-yourself” solutions. InfiniBox delivers seven nines (99.99999%) of availability without resorting to expensive replicas or slow erasure codes for data protection. Operations teams appreciate our delivery model designed to easily drop into workflows at all levels of the stack, including native Cinder integration, Ansible automation pl

Application Delivery Controllers understand applications and optimize server performance - offloading compute-intensive tasks that prevent servers from quickly delivering applications. Learn how ADCs have taken over where load balancers left off.

If your organization's servers run applications that are critical to your business, chances are that you'd benefit from an application delivery solution. Today's Web applications can be delivered to users anywhere in the world and the devices used to access Web applications have become quite diverse.

While having the right tech is key to delivering great experiences, an equally important part of the equation is having the right people, processes and org structures. Three best practices to design your org for successful experience delivery: 1. Cultivate the right skills and find the right talent for customer obsession 2. Set up org structures that encourage cross channel collaboration 3. Embrace the possibility of using external support to address the challenges of change management

The proliferation of communications channels has set expectations around cost and productivity benefits. Unified Communications (UC) is proffered as a way of helping bring them all together, but companies struggle to justify the business case for it. Against this background, how important is UC as an approach to streamlining communications, and how can businesses exploit it?

As organizations have improved service delivery, they have also turned their focus to presenting business value more positively. These organizations are beginning to develop true BSM systems in two ways: by understanding the metrics that successful businesses employ to determine the value of IT, and by linking these metrics and associated business services to IT infrastructure components.

Managing service delivery in todayís complex and dynamic business environments demands new and different approaches from IT. The explosive growth and the rate of change of information has brought particularly daunting challenges for IT that have contributed to incredibly complex underlying infrastructures. To get a true picture of all of the components necessary to support an IT or Business Service, you must access and bring together data that resides in disparate data silos throughout the enterprise.

ITIL provides a framework of customizable best practice initiatives that help organizations consistently deliver high-quality IT services. Effective ITIL implementation adds value to the IT infrastructure and improves business and service delivery.

As IT evolves towards a more business-aligned position, it must seek out new ways of working that support more effective operations, service creation, and service delivery. These include technologies, processes, and a culture that supports higher levels of accountability, as well as more dynamic responsiveness to business needs.

Effective workload automation that provides complete management level visibility into real-time events impacting the delivery of IT services is needed by the data center more than ever before. The traditional job scheduling approach, with an uncoordinated set of tools that often requires reactive manual intervention to minimize service disruptions, is failing more than ever due to todays complex world of IT with its multiple platforms, applications and virtualized resources.

For many organizations, managing and delivering the knowledge contained within documents is difficult or impossible due to technological disparity. Conventional approaches to knowledge management work within the constraints of disparate platforms, applications, and output devices, and fail to address technological disparity.

This paper outlines the seven essential buying criteria that every decision-maker needs to consider when making a decision on a video delivery provider. These buying criteria are shared across the gamut of small, video-centric startups and established, familiar media giants.

In this article, we explain the components of Whole Site Acceleration, how they work together, and how this emerging model for content delivery and acceleration differs from legacy approaches.

The company wanted a high-performing CDN partner that understood and supported AdBrite's vision and provided the same transparency in its services.

The company needed a different CDN and website acceleration solution to provide its users with the level of responsiveness to changing stock market conditions that they depend on - and that Seeking Alpha demanded of itself.

"Dell and its partners provide a range of solutions that enable their customers to transform the capabilities of the workforce. Dell commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic ImpactTM (TEI) study and examine the potential benefits and costs enterprises may realize by deploying three key Workforce Enablement Solutions, namely: › Best device experience: a hardware policy combining the choice of a range of Dell PCs, tablets, and peripherals with rapid configuration and delivery. › Unified endpoint management (UEM): an integrated approach to managing mobile devices, PCs. and other workstation technologies. In this case study, implementations of Workspace ONE, VMware’s UEM solution, have been assessed. › Enterprise collaboration: includes capabilities such as messaging, conferencing, document sharing, and business use of social media. In this case study the collaboration elements of Microsoft Office 365, namely OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Skype for Business, and Yammer

"Dell and its partners provide a range of solutions that enable their customers to transform the capabilities of the workforce. Dell commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic ImpactTM (TEI) study and examine the potential benefits and costs enterprises may realize by deploying three key Workforce Enablement Solutions, namely: › Best device experience: a hardware policy combining the choice of a range of Dell PCs, tablets, and peripherals with rapid configuration and delivery. › Unified endpoint management (UEM): an integrated approach to managing mobile devices, PCs. and other workstation technologies. In this case study, implementations of Workspace ONE, VMware’s UEM solution, have been assessed. › Enterprise collaboration: includes capabilities such as messaging, conferencing, document sharing, and business use of social media. In this case study the collaboration elements of Microsoft Office 365, namely OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Skype for Business, and Yammer

"Dell and its partners provide a range of solutions that enable their customers to transform the capabilities of the workforce. Dell commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic ImpactTM (TEI) study and examine the potential benefits and costs enterprises may realize by deploying three key Workforce Enablement Solutions, namely: › Best device experience: a hardware policy combining the choice of a range of Dell PCs, tablets, and peripherals with rapid configuration and delivery. › Unified endpoint management (UEM): an integrated approach to managing mobile devices, PCs. and other workstation technologies. In this case study, implementations of Workspace ONE, VMware’s UEM solution, have been assessed. › Enterprise collaboration: includes capabilities such as messaging, conferencing, document sharing, and business use of social media. In this case study the collaboration elements of Microsoft Office 365, namely OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Skype for Business, and Yammer

"Dell and its partners provide a range of solutions that enable their customers to transform the capabilities of the workforce. Dell commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic ImpactTM (TEI) study and examine the potential benefits and costs enterprises may realize by deploying three key Workforce Enablement Solutions, namely: › Best device experience: a hardware policy combining the choice of a range of Dell PCs, tablets, and peripherals with rapid configuration and delivery. › Unified endpoint management (UEM): an integrated approach to managing mobile devices, PCs. and other workstation technologies. In this case study, implementations of Workspace ONE, VMware’s UEM solution, have been assessed. › Enterprise collaboration: includes capabilities such as messaging, conferencing, document sharing, and business use of social media. In this case study the collaboration elements of Microsoft Office 365, namely OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Skype for Business, and Yammer

"Dell and its partners provide a range of solutions that enable their customers to transform the capabilities of the workforce. Dell commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic ImpactTM (TEI) study and examine the potential benefits and costs enterprises may realize by deploying three key Workforce Enablement Solutions, namely: › Best device experience: a hardware policy combining the choice of a range of Dell PCs, tablets, and peripherals with rapid configuration and delivery. › Unified endpoint management (UEM): an integrated approach to managing mobile devices, PCs. and other workstation technologies. In this case study, implementations of Workspace ONE, VMware’s UEM solution, have been assessed. › Enterprise collaboration: includes capabilities such as messaging, conferencing, document sharing, and business use of social media. In this case study the collaboration elements of Microsoft Office 365, namely OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Skype for Business, and Yammer

"Dell and its partners provide a range of solutions that enable their customers to transform the capabilities of the workforce. Dell commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic ImpactTM (TEI) study and examine the potential benefits and costs enterprises may realize by deploying three key Workforce Enablement Solutions, namely: › Best device experience: a hardware policy combining the choice of a range of Dell PCs, tablets, and peripherals with rapid configuration and delivery. › Unified endpoint management (UEM): an integrated approach to managing mobile devices, PCs. and other workstation technologies. In this case study, implementations of Workspace ONE, VMware’s UEM solution, have been assessed. › Enterprise collaboration: includes capabilities such as messaging, conferencing, document sharing, and business use of social media. In this case study the collaboration elements of Microsoft Office 365, namely OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Skype for Business, and Yammer

When it comes to the threat landscape, it’s important to take a look in the rearview mirror once in a while. As with driving, not only do you get a good look at what’s behind you, but you can often spot what’s coming up quick, set to overtake you. That’s the spirit of this threat report. We’ve picked out five key stories from the last year or so, not just because they were big events, but because we think these threats, or similar ones, could very well appear in the near future. Take modular threats like Emotet and VPNFilter, for example. These are threats that can deliver an on-demand menu of attacks and threats, depending on which device is infected or the intended goal of the attacker. We saw plenty of such modular threats in recent history, and wouldn’t be surprised if we see more in the future. Email remains the darling delivery method of attackers, with threats from cryptomining to Emotet using it to spread. It’s also highly likely that other threats, such as unauthorized M

Service virtualization tools simulate software components so end-to-end testing can proceed even when dependent components are not available. That means teams can perform integration tests sooner and more often, accelerating the delivery of high-quality, thoroughly tested applications.