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Getting Started with Your Cloud Migration

By Keith Digby
You’ve decided to migrate to the cloud, but what migration strategy will keep your costs down and be most efficient? You have two main strategies for moving workloads to the cloud: Refactoring or Lift and Shift. Refactoring requires more time on the front end to optimize workloads prior to migrating. Lift and Shift moves eligible workloads right away,...
Infrastructure Management
Article

Eight Steps Toward a Secure Hybrid Cloud Environment

Fri, 03/16/2018
Protect your data and your company from internal and external threats by ensuring that your security policies on-premises and in the cloud are aligned with this checklist.
Infrastructure and Data Protection
Compliance
Article

With Public Cloud OS Instances Growing, Security Challenges Grow, Too

Tue, 03/13/2018
“Some cloud vendors tout that systems deployed within their framework require little or no administration: You create an image with the software and applications that you want it to provide services for, spin it up in a management console, and Voila! you have an entirely new system online; with minimal cost, no hassle, little work. However, even...
Data Protection
IT Infrastructure Protection
Article

Perspectives on the Changing Linux Ecosystem

Tue, 03/13/2018
Media Text In the early 1990s the Open Software Foundation formed a committee to select and standardize a new Management Platform Toolset for and from the UNIX ecosystem. After much...
Vulnerability Management
On-Demand Webinar

How to Improve Your Organization's IT Maturity

By Per Bauer
IT Maturity is often associated with increased efficiency and reduced risk, two forces that will drive valuable improvements. But without a full understanding of the business objectives and how IT needs to be aligned with those full optimization is not possible. The IT Service Optimization Maturity Model will allow you to gradually improve without losing track of any important aspect.
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

Q&A with a Capacity Management Expert, Part Two

Tue, 03/06/2018
Listen to this on-demand webinar to answer questions like: Is capacity management still relevant in the cloud? Why do large companies still struggle with capacity management? Does capacity management support or hinder DevOps?
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

What is Capacity Management?

By Tom Huntington
Capacity management is the practice of ensuring you have enough IT resources to meet business demands (without overspending). But your IT environment is a lot more complex than it used to be...
Infrastructure Management
Guide

Download "IBM i Encryption: How to Protect Your Database"

Learn your options for encrypting IBM i data. Sensitive information needs to be kept secret. That’s an indisputable fact for modern organizations, where sensitive information can include customers’ personally identifiable information, customer lists, and intellectual property. Encryption is widely recognized as the most effective way to ensure private...
IBM i Cybersecurity
On-Demand Webinar

How to Drive Business Value with Capacity Management

By Per Bauer
Today’s businesses—and IT environments—are complex. Technology is changing rapidly, which makes it all the more difficult to manage. You may have considered capacity management to right-size your IT environment. But you might be wondering, “What do I get out of this?” Find out how capacity management will have an impact on your bottom line (and beyond).
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

How to Control Your Cloud Deployment

By Per Bauer
Watch this on-demand webinar to learn why cloud deployments are more expensive than expected, what is contributing tot he high cost of cloud and how to gain control and optimize your cloud deployment.
Infrastructure Management
Guide

DevOps Development: Keeping the Lights On

Overview: The DevOps methodology embodies two core philosophies: decreasing the lead time of software deployment and the automation of delivery and testing. DevOps emerged as a practical response to the agile development movement, in contrast with traditional, phase-based or “waterfall” development, which is inefficient and labor-intensive. Traditional methods should be phased out, and companies...
Infrastructure Management
Guide

Essentials for Privileged Access Management

Learn how you can effectively and efficiently control privileged UNIX and Linux accounts from accessing data or executing any application by using centralized access management.
IBM i Cybersecurity
Guide

Controlling SSH for Security and Compliance

SSH is nearly ubiquitous in today’s enterprises, and is the predominant tool for managing unix and linux servers, and the applications and data that they host. Poor practices around the deployment and management of the SSH infrastructure could easily leave your enterprise vulnerable to a breach. Are you in control? SSH, Secure Shell protocol, is now nineteen years old and broadly deployed across...
Data Protection
Compliance
IT Infrastructure Protection
Article

Sudo or SuDon't: Manage Your Privileged Command Execution and Sudo Policies

Mon, 03/13/2017
System admins need root level authority at all times, system operations staff needs periodic database and application account authority, and security admins needing to protect the environment are some of the few of the challenges of managing privilege in the enterprise server infrastructure. Read this article to learn more about Sudo alternatives.
Vulnerability Management
Offensive Security
Article

Managing IT Access Privileges

Mon, 03/13/2017
THE UNSOLVED PROBLEM Secure, private, effective use of computers by a company (including hosted, cloud and other services as well as the company’s own systems) relies on managing access privileges. The problem isn’t unique to computers. Office buildings, hotels, apartments and college dorms, for example, typically have “master keys” (or smart ID...
Vulnerability Management
Article

Solving Healthcare Security Concerns

Mon, 03/13/2017
According to a recent KPMG report, four-fifths of executives at healthcare providers and payers say their information technology has been compromised by cyberattacks. That same report presents how the increased risk to healthcare organizations relates to the richness and uniqueness of the information that health plans, doctors and hospitals handle. Apart from typical financial fraud, there is also...
Vulnerability Management
Article

New Approaches to the SWIFT and PCI-DSS Framework

Mon, 03/13/2017
THE WORLD OF COMPLIANCE At the official start of summertime 2016 in Britain we are starting to consume the labour of last autumn, five gallons of alcoholic homemade cider (yum!) made from eight apple varieties grown in mine and my neighbors’ gardens. I’m very VERY careful sterilizing glassware, containers, and buckets: there was this unfortunate...
Infrastructure and Data Protection
Article

Pros and Cons for Puppet's Configuration Management & Security

Mon, 03/13/2017
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY I was at the Red Hat Summit in Boston at the end of June. We had a lot of activity at our exhibitor stand, and a lot of discussions being passed on to me by our sales team I continued to have the same conversation again and again over the three days. This seems to be the year people have finished bedding down Puppet...
Vulnerability Management