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The Value of Digital Transformation in Financial Institutions

According to a 2020 survey done by Boston Consulting Group, 75% of executives regard digital transformation as an urgent priority in light of the recent COVID-19 crisis and 65% said that they were considering increasing their investment to that end. Standardized and automated threat detection and IT incident response across siloed operational risk groups is required to have the agility, reliability, and efficiency to establish organizational resiliency in financial institutions.

Time For Change: Managing A Successful Future Of Work

A successful return-to-work strategy involves transparency, flexibility, responsiveness, and support of employee wellness. Leaders at every level of an organization must recognize and communicate with distressed employees and respond to signs of trouble. This not only fosters a positive workplace for the employee to return to but has impacting effects on business itself. Higher retention rates and lower levels of stress often equate to highly productive business operations.

High Performance Kubernetes Platform For Stateful Workloads

Enterprises need high-performance storage for their stateful applications. Their needs vary from running Relational and NoSQL Databases to Big Data to AI/ML workloads. They want near bare metal like performance along with scale. In this white paper, we compare Robin Platform with open source GlusterFS and our analysis show that Robin platform provides near bare-metal performance and could scale well to meet the needs of Big Data and AI/ML applications.

Application Aware Storage For GKE and OpenShift

As more and more enterprises move to Kubernetes for their cloud-native needs, they are looking for high-performance storage options for their stateful and data-intensive workloads. Beyond a seamless workflow to provision storage, they are also looking for complete data lifecycle management features as a part of their storage platform. Robin Storage is a perfect candidate for this need. With their application awareness, high performance and scale, Robin Storage is well suited to meet enterprise cloud-native storage needs.

Taming Hybrid Cloud Complexity: One Platform for Monitoring Your IT Universe

The transition to the cloud continues unabated, along with the dramatic increase in operational complexity. Unfortunately, legacy monitoring tools only compound this complexity. This white paper examines how today's hybrid cloud infrastructures pose unprecedented challenges and require modern management approaches.

3 Ways to Improve DataPower Performance

IBM DataPower Gateway is the latest variant of DataPower and helps organizations meet the security and integration needs of a digital business in a single multi-channel gateway. It provides security, control, integration and optimized access to a full range of mobile, web, application programming interface (API), serviceoriented architecture (SOA), B2B and cloud workloads.

Build Vs. Buy Discussion

This a complex question with deep implications that touch many areas of the business including the executive team, finance, procurement and Human Resources. In this short webinar we will discuss some of the areas that must be considered and provide you with some strategic ideas to improve your business. This presentation is gleaned from the hundreds of man-years of experience our experts have had in answering this exact question.

CapOps: Capacity Operations

Download this whitepaper to understand the rise of capacity operations (CapOps), an online, operational discipline with the mandate of "continuous resource optimization." By refocusing on the new, more dynamic capabilities of cloud and container infrastructure, CapOps enables organizations to once again ensure that there are sufficient resources to meet the demands of applications (without allocating too much), filling a gap left by the evolution of DevOps and FinOps practices.

Maximizing Your Reserved Instances (RIs) in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud The Definitive Guide

Public cloud providers have introduced reserved capacity commitments as a way to take control of your cloud costs. These are branded RIs in AWS, Azure calls them Reserved VM Instances, and Google Cloud has a similar concept of Committed Use Discounts. With the hundreds of different instance types available and not knowing your workload's exact requirements, how can you possibly take advantage of the benefits of RIs?