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| | Hurry: Information On Demand 2013 Early-Bird discount ends September 13 We’re expecting more than 13,000 customers, Business Partners and IBMers at Information On Demand, November 3-7 in Las Vegas – make sure you’re one of them! And make sure you take advantage of the US$300 savings when you register by September 13. Explore all the technical, business and leadership content with the Session Preview Tool. Don’t wait – register now and save |
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| | Reinvent work with the right platform for social business – virtual event Sept. 18 Join IBM social business experts and Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business – and get a deeper understanding of how the latest in social, mobile and cloud technologies will help your organization work smarter than ever before, and be in a position to drive innovation! Virtual doors open at 9:45 a.m. ET – register now |
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| | Test-drive an ‘easy on-ramp to application performance management with room to grow’ New IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management (APM) Entry Edition provides a cost-effective, easy-to-consume entry point to APM – and a step-wise growth path to SmartCloud APM Standard Edition. Read an Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) white paper on SmartCloud APM Entry Edition (PDF, 1.5MB). Learn more – and try the free ‘continuous beta’ |
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| | Use IBM PureSystems and Worklight to create and deploy mobile applications faster Learn how the IBM Mobile Application Platform Pattern simplifies deployment and management of the IBM Worklight® server for PureApplication™ System – and saves critical time and resources by connecting your mobile application to external resources. Watch on YouTube |
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| | Agile in the Embedded World – download the complimentary e-book The agile approach is unique in that if focuses on the important aspects of the development process: the people and the artifacts – hardware and software. Learn how agile can be adapted to the embedded developer’s needs, and how it can improve the embedded systems development lifecycle. Register and read the e-book |
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| | IBM strengthens security portfolio by acquiring Trusteer Trusteer provides software that helps companies fight financial fraud and advanced security threats. IBM will also open a cybersecurity lab in Israel, staffed by over 200 IBM and Trusteer experts, that will focus on mobile and application security, counter-fraud, and malware detection. Learn about Trusteer at the Security Intelligence blog. Learn more about the acquisition |
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| | Deploy your mission-critical applications in a private cloud – read the white paper This paper outlines the advantages of using your existing mainframes together with distributed systems to deliver high-performance, high-availability, mission-critical cloud applications – creating a next-generation private cloud with the security, reliability and quality of service required for the workloads that drive your business. Register and download the white paper |
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| | New release: IBM Cognos TM1 V10.2 – now available on-premises or in the cloud Transform your entire planning cycle – from target setting and budgeting to reporting, analysis and forecasting. New capabilities include collaborative real-time planning, forecasting and analysis using integrated scorecards, and support for iPad and other mobile devices. Hear more about IBM Cognos® TM1® at the IBM Virtual Finance Forum 2013 on September 17. Learn about all the new features |
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| | Just three weeks left until IBM InterConnect 2013, Oct. 9-11 in Singapore – will you be there? Be on hand when Ginny Rometty, Chairman, President and CEO of IBM, shares her vision for the New Era of Smart. Hear world-known IBM clients such as ING, Toshiba, and DBS share their real-world experiences with today’s hottest technologies. And learn and network with thousands of business and IT leaders from around the world. Download 5 Reasons You Need to Attend InterConnect 2013 (PDF, 300KB). Register for InterConnect TODAY |
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| | Put real-time analytic processing at your fingertips – at no charge New IBM InfoSphere® Streams Quick Start Edition lets you experiment with stream computing in your own unique, non-production environment, without data or time limits – and at no charge. See how immediate analysis of huge volumes of rapidly changing data in motion improves decision-making. Learn more, download and get started |
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| | Differentiate your company through expertise and knowledge sharing – attend the webcast Hear how social technologies for unlocking and sharing knowledge – across employees, partners and customers – can help your company drive more business, improve its market position, attract and retain the best available talent, and keep valuable knowledge from leaving the organization. Attend live on September 25 |
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| | Protect data created in virtual environments – read the solution brief IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager for Virtual Environments, along with Tivoli Storage FlashCopy® Manager for VMware, let you back up and restore data residing on virtual machines – without disruption to a virtual environment’s applications and operations. Download the brief (PDF, 1MB) |
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| | DataPower XC10 elastic caching helps Sprint keep pace with its customers Using the IBM WebSphere® DataPower® XC10 appliance, Sprint is able to quickly scale to support additional demand, without purchasing additional hardware – and while driving transactional response times down to 16 milliseconds. Watch on YouTube |
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| | IBM ranked as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms Gartner has positioned IBM as a Leader as measured by completeness of vision and execution ability of IBM Worklight, IBM’s mobile application development platform and a key component of the IBM MobileFirst portfolio. Download the report |
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| | 10 Security Essentials Every CIO Needs to Know Is strong security even possible in this hyper-connected era? Kristin Lovejoy, General Manager of the IBM Security Services Division, offers CIOs an ‘executive guide to embracing innovation with confidence,’ on the IBM Security Intelligence Blog. Read it now |
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| | Get started with WebSphere Java Batch on z/OS – get the complimentary e-book IBM WebSphere Application Server for z/OS® V8.5 includes all the Java® batch capabilities of WebSphere Compute Grid, fully integrated into the product. And the Java Batch Runtime Quick Start Guide provides step-by-step instructions for quickly exploiting these capabilities. Download the e-book now (PDF, 3.4MB) |
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| | Gain insights and drive performance with analytics – learn how at this virtual event on September 19 At the interactive IBM Virtual Business Analytics Summit 2013 you’ll see demos of the latest IBM Cognos and IBM SPSS® products, insightful keynotes from industry thought leaders, presentations from IBM product experts, informative how-to sessions, and much more. Register and join us live online |
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| | Don’t overlook the hidden costs of database security solutions – replay the webcast IBM’s Kimberly Madia and Dark Reading’s Amy DeCarlo provide a framework for calculating the total financial impact of any database security solution – and reveal six (6) key capabilities that can contribute to hidden staff, hardware, and risk mitigation costs. Replay the Dark Reading webcast |
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| | Reduce transactional system complexities to fund your next innovation – attend a local seminar Join us for a half-day seminar to see a live demonstration of IBM PureData™ System for Transactions. Learn first-hand how PureData’s new, smarter approach to delivering and managing transactional data services resolves the complexities, performance problems and rising costs that keep you from innovating. Find a seminar near you |
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| | New audio conferencing services for IBM SmartCloud Meetings IBM SmartCloud Meetings – part of IBM SmartCloud for Social Business – now includes audio conferencing with VoIP, toll and toll-free calling in more than 50 countries over a security-rich, private audio network. Learn more in an interview with IBM’s Rebecca Buisan, on the Social Business Insights blog. Read the interview |
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| | Deliver captivating, differentiated digital experiences – watch the demo New IBM Customer Experience Suite Rich Media Edition is a comprehensive digital asset management solution that enables your organization to deliver an engaging web experience – featuring truly persuasive content – across multiple online channels. Watch on YouTube (8:35) |
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| | How mobile ‘systems of interaction’ drive business innovation – read the white paper This paper lays out IBM’s vision for truly engaging mobile systems, or systems of interaction – including a formula for building engaging systems, the technical and business challenges of developing and deploying these systems, and the merits of the IBM MobileFirst approach. Register and download the paper |
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| | On-demand webcast: DevOps for the Power Enterprise Systems IBM recently announced new DevOps capabilities that help unify customers, business management, development, testing, and operations teams for more agile, better governed, and continuous software delivery. Learn what these new solutions mean for Power® Enterprise Systems. Replay the webcast |
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| | Forrester Total Economic Impact Study: Service Virtualization and Test Automation Solutions Forrester Research recently completed this study of a large financial institution to quantify the return on investment (ROI) for service virtualization. Learn how service virtualization can reduce risk, improve software quality, and save millions of dollars. Register and read the study |
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| | Webcast: Develop new mobile applications and systems of engagement using DB2 11 Learn how IBM DB2® 11 (to be announced later this year) will enable large enterprises to develop applications for mobile devices and systems of engagement – through such new features as a No SQL JSON datastore and new JavaScript support, as well as support for simplified, ultra-agile development models. Register now and save the date |
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| | Enterprise Information Protection: The Impact of Big Data – read the analyst paper Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies outlines the enterprise information protection requirements that must be met before introducing big data technology, and examines what IBM is doing to help companies bring big data on board while continuing to protect and secure their information. Download the white paper (PDF, 1.8MB) |
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