To provide insight into the current environment for startups, and how emerging growth companies can best manage growth and risk, six prominent venture capitalists weigh in on the subject.

WORLD’S MOST SECURE AND MANAGEABLE NOTEBOOKS AND TABLETS BUILT TO WITHSTAND THE HARSHEST ENVIRONMENTS.

Hyperconverged Infrastructure is clearly the future of the data centre - enabling enterprises to drive IT modernisation to help manufacturing companies continuously innovate in an ever-changing, rapidly evolving, technology-led environment. The combination of reliable data centre hardware from Lenovo and powerful platform from Nutanix creates a compelling offering for enterprises to intelligently transform their IT infrastructure. Read how hyperconverged Infrastructure can help drive Intelligent transformation in manufacturing in this story by Mashable India.

This eBook offers a practical hands-on guide to “Day One” challenges of deploying, managing and monitoring PostgreSQL. With the ongoing shift towards open-source database solutions, it’s no surprise that PostgreSQL is the fastest growing database. While it’s tempting to simply compare the licensing costs of proprietary systems against that of open source, it is both a misleading and incorrect approach when evaluating the potential for return on investment of a database technology migration. An effective monitoring and logging strategy is critical for maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of database environments. The second section of this eBook provides a detailed analysis of all aspects of monitoring and logging PostgreSQL: ? Monitoring KPIs ? Metrics and stats ? Monitoring tools ? Passive monitoring versus active notifications

This eBook offers a practical hands-on guide to deploying, managing and scaling PostgreSQL in various environments, in the public cloud and on-premises. With the ongoing shift towards open-source database solutions, it’s no surprise that PostgreSQL is the fastest growing database. While it’s tempting to simply compare the licensing costs of proprietary systems against that of open source, it is both a misleading and incorrect approach when evaluating the potential for return on investment of a database technology migration. The eBook provides a detailed analysis of planning, day-one, and day-two challenges of PostgreSQL deployments, in the context of potential operating environments: ? Public cloud ? Private cloud ? Private DC (bare metal / VM)

For most companies, the Human Resources department has a long history of guarding sensitive employee data. Rows of beige file cabinets line a back closet where only those with a key and knowledge of the filing system have access to the personal information of countless employees. The greatest risk to this data has always been fire or water damage, but that’s quickly changing with the emergence of online data storage.

This paper describes the benefits, features and best practices using a XIV in a SAP environment.

In this Customer Solution Profile a Fortune five organization put the IBM XIV storage system through its paces in their Microsoft Exchange 2003 environment.

In this white paper, we describe the XIV snapshot architecture and explain its underlying advantages in terms of performance, ease of use, flexibility and reliability.

"Discover why ninety-four percent of organizations surveyed are already modifying, overhauling, or reassessing their network infrastructure to facilitate application delivery in hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. Read this e-book to learn why you should re-architect your network infrastructure to optimize application delivery: 1. Ensure end-to-end network visibility for your operations 2. Gain real-time analytics for application optimization and uptime 3. Scale your application infrastructure according to workload demand Read the e-book today to find out all six must-haves for application delivery in the cloud."

A range of application security tools was developed to support the efforts to secure the enterprise from the threat posed by insecure applications. But in the ever-changing landscape of application security, how does an organization choose the right set of tools to mitigate the risks their applications pose to their environment? Equally important, how, when, and by whom are these tools used most effectively?

In order to provide high quality, cost effective business services in complex, distributed environments, improved IT management strategies are required. Business Service Management (BSM) is a strategic approach to managing IT services in support of improved business performance.

Managing service delivery in todayís complex and dynamic business environments demands new and different approaches from IT. The explosive growth and the rate of change of information has brought particularly daunting challenges for IT that have contributed to incredibly complex underlying infrastructures. To get a true picture of all of the components necessary to support an IT or Business Service, you must access and bring together data that resides in disparate data silos throughout the enterprise.

Business Service Management (BSM) is of growing importance in the IT world. By managing IT systems according to the business services they support - like order entry, online sales, shipping, or customer service - IT is able to deliver on real business goals like providing competitive advantage, improving customer satisfaction, driving revenue growth, and increasing shareholder value.

A recent survey of CIOs found that over 75% want to develop an overall information strategy in the next three years, yet over 85% are not close to implementing an enterprise-wide content management strategy. Meanwhile, data runs rampant, slows systems, and impacts performance. Hard-copy documents multiply, become damaged, or simply disappear.

Since Adobe debuted the PDF file format in the early 1990s, it has become the defacto standard for electronic documents in many markets. While engineers, publishers, and printers push the format to its technical limits with rich media and 3-D content, the general office worker comprises the PDF-using majority.

What is "Zero Waste?" While it means different things to different customers, it universally represents a commitment to reducing waste and recycling as much as possible. At Waste Management, environmental stewardship is linked inextricably to business performance. This 80-page report details how to maximize value from waste using sustainable processes.

Studies show that life-cycle waste management planning can reduce environmental impact on landfills, drive economic value, and even cultivate sustainable, social behaviors. Read this report to learn the top 5 ways to leverage waste management services.

This white paper will provide a road map to the most effective strategies and technologies to protect data and provide fast recovery should data be lost or corrupted due to accident or malicious action.

Achieving effective and efficient high availability protection for larger IBM i environments requires careful thought and clear understanding of the technology options. This white paper describes what you need to know in order to make an informed decision about IBM i high availability strategies so that your business requirements for Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) are not compromised

This white paper provides a road map to the most effective strategies and technologies to protect data in AIX environments and provide fast recovery should data be lost or corrupted due to accident or malicious action. The paper also outlines the benefits of continuous data protection (CDP) technologies for AIX.

For the Smart Homes of this century, the paper gives a few hints on energy management and thereby reducing bills along with an eco-friendly environment.

ARM® TrustZone® along with Trusted Execution Environments provide a secure, integrated and convenient way to manage sensitive and valuable assets on a mobile device. It adjusts the device to the user, not vice versa, and thus opens a whole new

The face of corporate learning has changed. It is no longer possible to develop your human capital with a single approach. Today’s corporate environment calls for out-of-the-box thinking, incorporating the advantages of many types of learning to benefit your company’s single biggest investment — your people. Evaluating the ever-growing corporate learning solutions that are available enables you to obtain full benefit from your learning programs by selecting the range of learning resources that best match your strategic corporate goals. This handy guide will help you navigate the growing number of learning solutions and equip you with 8 must-ask questions as you develop a learning program.

It is the Leaders challenge to create the circumstances that stimulate improved performance and execution from the people within their organization. The key question for business leaders is not "why" high performance but rather "how"?