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How to avoid compliance fines through automation and better people processes

The number of regulatory standards and security best practices infrastructure teams have to comply with, and the associated penalties for not doing so, are no laughing matter. By Jonny Stewart, Principal Product Manager, Puppet.

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Business as usual: keeping software up to scratch wherever your team is

The world is currently in the midst of the unknown. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to one of the biggest mass lockdowns in living memory, and to keep as many people safe from the virus as possible, many businesses have turned to remote working to enable staff to stay at home. However, remote working suits some job roles better than others. In the software development world, teams need to be in constant contact to coordinate their work, and project leads need to have full visibility of what everyone is working on. By Jeff Keyes, VP of Product at Plutora.

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Why managing application performance in the cloud is vital

In the digital era, it's now easier than ever to support a remote workforce as so many applications are moving to the cloud. Applications such as Office 365 are ensuring that employees can work from anywhere, which is especially important in the current environment, but this also raises issues for IT managers. By Kathie Lyons, EVP & GM of ParkView at Park Place Technologies.

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Efficient monitoring: how to realise a return on investment from container use

Containerised applications are fast becoming an established fact in the IT infrastructure of global organisations. By John Rakowski, vice president of strategy at LogicMonitor.

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People, Applications & IT: The Trifecta of Modernisation Resilience Planning

By John Young, Solution Architecture and Engineering, Sungard Availability Services.

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Seven learnings for delivering digital experiences through application performance monitoring

Digital transformation has seen application teams embrace a broad range of new technologies and associated approaches, from mobile first to cloud-native architecture. These deliver greater agility; end-user focus and more innovation than ever before. They also create significant volumes of complex data. By Conor Molloy, Senior Vice President at Riverbed Aternity International Division at Riverbed Technology.

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DataOps: A crash course

Data is the lifeblood of software development — and the biggest hurdle. Yet, far too many companies often address these hurdles last, and usually, not very effectively either. The hard truth is that you can’t achieve the “nirvana state” of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) without first automating data delivery. Figuring out how to keep your software pipeline constantly flowing with a fresh supply of high-quality, up-to-date data is crucial. By Matthew Yew, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Delphix.

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Which of Seven Sins of IT-Business Disconnect are you guilty of?

IT practitioners serve a critical role in the age of the customer, enabling organisations to win, serve, and retain business in the most efficient way possible – ideally, without any delays. In this endeavour, IT departments pride themselves on their ability to serve business end users, as they frequently meet their KPIs and are able to prove their value up to senior management. By Mark Boggia, Director of Global Partner Learning and Development, Nexthink.

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Managing IT networks: are you in or out?

As universities continue to replace old legacy systems and improve their IT infrastructures, Julian Lee, Senior Network Administrator at CoSector - University of London, discusses why outsourcing key IT provisions comes with concrete benefits.

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Mapping modern IT – build and maintain dynamic visibility across all your assets

A map is a useful tool. It can help you understand where you are, where you are planning to be and how to get there. However, it is also constrained by how you understand the world. The Hereford Mappa Mundi was state of the art when it was put together in around 1300AD – it brought together geography, Christian history and Greco-Roman myths in one place. However, to eyes used to views from space, Google Earth and 3D maps on your phone, it looks anachronistic. By Marco Rottigni, Qualys.

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The Top Reason Most IT Organisations Can’t Quickly Resolve Critical Incidents

Most organisations today are digital businesses. In other words, they rely on electronic processes to run their core business. Digital processes dramatically streamline and enable more accurate and often higher quality operations. However, they also create major disruptions when there are problems with the applications or systems running these processes – or the Internet or corporate network enabling them. In other words, they are the source of critical events that become incidents requiring IT involvement. By Vincent Geffray, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Everbridge.

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How Financial Services Businesses Can Build an Effective Data Quality Approach

Many financial services organisations today fail to implement effective data quality and risk management policies. Generally, they validate and cleanse the data they receive first before distributing it more widely. Typically, their overriding focus day-to-day is on ensuring downstream systems do not receive erroneous data. By Boyke Baboelal, Director – Data Services at Asset Control.

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Videos

Steven Brown Schneider Electric’s Global Director - Cloud & Service Provider Segment, discusses the current energy crisis, as well as the ongoing climate change challenge, in terms of how the data centre industry needs to leverage electrification as the key part of a Strategise, Digitise, Decarbonise approach - with the ultimate opportunity of creating climate positive data centres as part of a successful Net Zero strategy.
Tim Loake, VP, Infrastructure Solutions Group, UK at Dell Technologies, discusses the many ways in which the data centre industry can improve its sustainability credentials. The conversation includes some great insights into technology innovations around, liquid cooling, renewables automation and IT hardware, as well as the importance of ensuring end users are optimising the use of their existing digital infrastructure.
Pure Storage’s Wes Van Den Berg, Vice President and General Manager, UK & Ireland, discusses the findings of the company’s recent IT Sustainability Impact Survey. IT departments have a major role to play in helping organisations achieve their sustainability goals; and IT vendors have a similar responsibility to supply energy-efficient, sustainable solutions – Evergreen storage in Pure Storage’s case.
Elliott Young, CTO, Dell Technologies UK, discusses edge computing – what is or isn’t happening as of now, how it contributes to companies’ sustainability objectives and, perhaps most importantly, the huge potential it offers almost every business when it comes to optimising the performance of their applications.

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Siemon explains why high-speed cable assemblies must be considered in the data centre for support of emerging technologies.
BT Group’s Digital Unit and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have formed a new, wide-ranging strategic collaboration agreement, building on the existing partnership between the companies that already sees AWS play a key role in supporting the Group’s modernisation.
The European Space Agency (ESA), an intergovernmental organisation shaping Europe’s space capability, is working with data management experts NetApp to help store the vast amount of data collected today and over the past 30 years of space exploration. The data stored comes from the ESA’s solar system missions and from the ESA’s fleet of cosmic observers.
European businesses expect digital transformation projects to boost productivity by an average of 38% with overall Return on Investment (ROI) expected in just under five years.