The AIX Community Survey, now in its fifth consecutive year, goes in-depth with IT teams to gain a unique perspective into how this platform is being used today and how teams envision using it in the future. Over the years, the respondents of the survey have expanded to include a variety of industries, geographies, and titles within IT. More than 100 IT professionals in North America, EMEA, and APAC participated in this year’s survey, and this input enables all of us to understand the role of AIX with new clarity.

Our years of experience shows that organizations waste 30% of their hybrid IT spend, on average. This article identifies the five key components of a cost optimization strategy and how to be successful with each of them.

In this white paper, the root cause of the deviations from the expected results are explained and an improved scheme is proposed for getting more accurate estimates.

With organizations collecting more customer, transactional, and relational data than ever before, data volumes are beginning to expand past their system’s processing capacity. But big data doesn’t have to be alarming. Go beyond the hype and conquer your IBM i data.

CHALLENGES : Virtualization and increasingly complex agile computing environments are creating difficulties for IT financial controllers and for IT Financial Management (ITFM). Virtualization breaks the long-standing direct, one-to-one correlation between cost-allocated physical hardware and the IT services it supports. Increasingly dynamic, multi-layered applications have made it more difficult...

This guide features an easy-to-follow explanation of NIST 800-171's purpose and requirements. You’ll also get a checklist to help you evaluate your current security measures and where you need to focus your compliance efforts.

Bad data is common throughout many organizations—and the costs can be far-reaching. This white paper explores the common causes of inaccurate and incomplete business data, as well as how businesses can identify and mitigate these problems.

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...

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...