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  • Application Driven Cloud Optimization

    Applications now make or break businesses, with customers interacting through digital and mobile experiences. In today’s multi-cloud world and container architectures, enterprises are challenged to manage application resourcing with existing IT staff and skills. In this white paper, follow the path of industry leaders who deliver always-on application performance in Azure environments.

  • Debunking the myths of hybrid cloud adoption

    IT departments are better prepared to support changing business requirements with flexible hybrid cloud provisioning and management platforms. Microsoft and Red Hat enterprise customers have a proven foundation to support the development of their own open source strategy. Download this analyst paper to learn how.

  • Advance business with a hybrid environment from Red Hat and Microsoft

    By unifying disparate IT environments, hybrid cloud technologies can help you achieve greater business agility, efficiency, and competitive advantage. Even so, implementing a hybrid infrastructure strategy can take time. Choosing and integrating the right combination of technologies is critical. Red Hat and Microsoft offer open hybrid cloud solutions that help you adapt your IT and business operations at your pace and in line with your needs. Learn more.

  • Boost agility with hybrid cloud and containers e-book

    Complex, hard-to-manage environments and manual processes cause IT operations teams struggle to provide resources and services at the speed that developers demand. Ops teams need to maintain infrastructure control, security, and reliability but do not want to become a bottleneck.To overcome these challenges, you need a streamlined, agile, scalable, and fast IT environment. This e-book provides guidance on how to modernize IT with hybrid cloud, multicloud, containers, and Kubernetes. Learn more.

  • Deploy a container based hybrid cloud with Red Hat and Microsoft

    Together, Red Hat and Microsoft provide a production-ready, containerized environment with a hybrid cloud foundation. Using Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform with Microsoft Azure gives you access to a global network of some of the world’s largest datacenters that integrates seamlessly with your on-premise datacenter. Find out more.

  • Container Storage for Dummies

    Many organizations are discovering that traditional storage methods can be the bottleneck that slows their agility and scalability. This has led to the development of containers, built to permit applications to scale rapidly, be more reliable, and offer better performance than more conventional means or methods. Read the e-book to learn how container-native storage is the key to your organization running more efficiently and cost‐effectively. Learn more.

  • Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud

    Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud combines Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage into a single, prepackaged software offering for hyperconverged telecommunications environments. Learn more.

  • Managing Kubernetes Performance at Scale

    In this report, Eva Tuczai, Advanced Engineer Engagement Manager and Asena Hertz, Product Marketing Director, of Turbonomic, share field-tested experience for Kubernetes day 2 operations and beyond.

  • Microsoft Azure IaaS Solution

    In this O’Reilly eBook, Eric Wright, Technology Evangelist at Turbonomic, leads systems administrators and architects though terms, design patterns, and examples of how to deploy Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions for compute, network, and storage. Learn more.

  • Introduction to AWS IaaS Solutions

    In this O’Reilly eBook, Eric Wright, Technology Evangelist at Turbonomic, introduces systems administrators, systems architects and newcomers to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to core offerings on the AWS platform. Read now.

  • Cloud Operations Technology Optimizes Mission Critical Workloads

    Read this white paper to learn how cloud operations technology provides a single pane of glass management tool for hybrid IT delivering visibility and control over cloud resources, and avoiding cloud sprawl.

  • Protect Your IT Estate from Software Vulnerabilities

    Managing software vulnerabilities in today’s threat environment can be overwhelming. You need to carefully configure and test every patch before you roll it out – otherwise, you risk disrupting critical systems and hampering user productivity. The only way to keep your IT estate safe is to prioritize patching based on business risk, which requires broad and deep insight into the vulnerabilities themselves. Find out more!

  • The Definitive Framework for Application Rationalization

    To optimize technology operating costs and free-up funds to drive innovation, it’s critical for IT organizations to identify waste and eliminate it. A good place to start is often in the application portfolio, where it’s commonplace to have redundant apps which overlap in function and deliver minimal to no business value. Learn more!

  • Responsible Password Protection By Securing Passwords in Active Directory

    Securing Passwords in Active Directory. Industry analyst firm, Enterprise Management Associates, outlines the evolving requirements for password protection, best practices for preventing password vulnerabilities, and how organizations can enable responsible password security.

  • Automate Password Policy Enforcement & NIST Password Guidelines

    Enable password policy enforcement and daily exposed password screening. With fully automated weak password filtering, password similarity blocking, and a custom password dictionary; organizations can adopt NIST password guidelines and secure passwords in Active Directory.

  • 6 Best Practices for Strategic IT Finance

    Download this guide for six best practices to help you overcome your greatest IT finance challenges. Discover how to better align IT plans to changing business priorities and more! Get the guide!

  • The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Executing Rolling IT Forecasts

    Download this cheat sheet to find out how to accurately forecast future IT spend and how to avoid the five reasons rolling forecasts fail. Get the cheat sheet now!

  • Hiding in Plain Sight: How to Fund Innovation Using Money You Already Have

    CIOs are under constant pressure to deliver innovation and efficiency, and at a lower cost to boot. Fortunately, when it comes to enterprise IT spend, chances are the necessary resources to drive improvements are already there, hidden in budget padding. All you need are the right tools to identify and exploit them. Learn more.

  • 6 Best Practices for Optimizing IT Investment to Fuel Innovation

    Optimizing technology investment isn’t about cutting costs — it’s about investing the right amount necessary to deliver the value required by the business, while at the same time looking for low-risk opportunities to fund innovation initiatives. But to be effective in optimization efforts, you need an efficient and repeatable approach. This guide shows you the way.

  • Standard IT Cost Model - The ATUM® Poster

    The Apptio TBM Unified Model® (ATUM®) standardizes the financial information necessary for IT leaders to manage their technology business. Use this poster as a resource to establish better alignment between IT, Finance, and other business units by using common language around IT costs and confidently manage the business of IT with the backing of peer-derived best practices. Get the poster!