This paper reviews the increasingly popular OpenStack cloud platform and the abilities that IBM storage solutions provide to enable and enhance OpenStack deployments. But before addressing those specifics, it is useful to remind ourselves of the “whys and wherefores” of cloud computing.
Analytics across the ecosystem
Analytics is a key enabler for life sciences and healthcare organizations to create better outcomes for patients, customers and other stakeholders across the entire healthcare ecosystem. While almost two-thirds of organizations across the healthcare ecosystem have analytics strategies in place, our research shows that only a fifth are driving analytics adoption across the enterprise. The key barriers are a lack of data management capabilities and skilled analysts, as well as poor organizational change management. To find out more download this white paper.
Mitigating IT Risk for Financial Risk Analytics
Financial Risk Analytics has evolved beyond a secondary regulatory and cost-focused perspective, to become a core part of businesses. Today, Risk Analytics provides a competitive edge by enabling businesses to efficiently use capital and manage risk exposures with higher confidence to make better informed and timelier business decisions. To learn more down this white paper.
IBM: The Optimal Storage Platform for Big Data
There is a lot of hype around the potential of big data. Organizations are hoping to achieve new innovations in products and services with big data and analytics driving more concrete insights about their customers and their own business operations. To learn more download this white paper.
Hadoop for Dummies
Welcome to Hadoop For Dummies! Today, organizations in every industry are being showered with imposing quantities of new information. Along with traditional
sources, many more data channels and categories now exist. To learn more about Hadoop download this guide.
Top 5 Challenges for Hadoop MapReduce in the enterprise
Reporting and analysis drives businesses in making the best possible decisions. The source of all these decisions is the data. We explain the top 5 challenged for Hadoop MapReduce in the enterprise. Learn more by downloading this white paper.
The hidden costs of open source
Clusters based on open source software and the Linux® operating system have come to dominate high performance computing (HPC). This is due in part to their superior performance, cost effectiveness and flexibility. To learn more download this white paper.
IBM Spectrum Scale Introduction
This paper outlines the features available today in Spectrum Scale that organizations can use to manage file data. This functionality includes core Spectrum Scale concepts such as striped data storage, cluster configuration options such as direct storage access and network-based block I/O, storage automation technologies such as information lifecycle management (ILM) tools, and more.
Big Data Analytics: Building A Strong Foundation
Big data isn’t about technology; it’s about business outcomes and performance. Therefore, it’s essential that you have a reasonable assurance that your business needs and demands will be met— before investing your first dime. The logical starting point for any new initiative should stem from a set of business needs, questions or opportunities that have measurable results, such as improved customer satisfaction, increased profit margins or faster decision making.
Software Defined Storage for Dummies
Software defined storage is a relatively new concept in the computing and storage industry and can refer to many different technologies and implementations. Software defined storage is part of a larger industry trend that includes software defined networking (SDN) and software defined data centers (SDDC). This chapter explains exactly what software defined storage is.