Consulting Whitepapers and Ebooks
This sections provides whitepapers on Consulting that details on trends, analysis and latest happenings in the industry.
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Build the Business Case for Application ModernizationOn-Demand Webinar Time is money. Want to modernize your legacy applications and infrastructure? Thinking about consolidating your applications on to IBM Websphere Application Server (WAS) Liberty? You need to understand the benefits, cost, and risk. In this webcast you will hear directly from guest speaker Sarah Musto from Forrester Consulting on the commissioned Total Economic Impact (TEI) study they conducted and walk through a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of a WAS Liberty migration on your organization. • Save time on deployment and server start up • Improve efficiency in application development and administration • Reduce cost of open source support and infrastructure This webcast takes the work out of proving why you should migrate to a modernized, cloud-enabled environment! -
Getting the Most Out of Your Windows 10 Investment: Moving from "Big Bang Upgrades" to a Nimble and Continuous ApproachEvery IT organization will agree that operating system (OS) upgrades – both on the desktop and server side - can be a tedious, time consuming, and expensive process. Microsoft has now launched Windows 10 as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to help enterprise IT stay current, with OS updates delivered frequently and seamlessly. This white paper highlights what’s new in Windows as a service (WaaS), how to go about implementing it, the associated challenges, and the value that a specialized partner can bring in helping enterprises keep their Windows 10 environment up to date
Top White Papers
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The Continuum of Cloud Native Topologies
In this white paper, John Morello, Chief Technology Officer at Twistlock, shares a helpful model of viewing the different cloud native technologies as a continuum, to address different scenarios and efficiently choose which combination of technologies work best for running different workloads. The continuum starts with bare metal and VMs on the left, continues into “light” hypervisors (like Canonical’s LXD), and extends into containers and services like AWS Fargate and then, ultimately, serverless. Technologies to the left provide the most isolation and control with the tradeoff of greater management and performance overhead. Those to the right facilitate more agile development and app density with the tradeoff of less control.
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Kubernetes Security – Operating Kubernetes Clusters and Applications Safely
Kubernetes has fundamentally changed the way DevOps teams create, manage, and operate container-based applications, but as with any production process, you can never provide enough security. This practical ebook walks you through Kubernetes security features—including when to use what—and shows you how to augment those features with container image best practices and secure network communication.
Liz Rice from Aqua Security and Michael Hausenblas from Red Hat describe practical security techniques for Kubernetes. Developers will learn how to build container images with security in mind, and ops folks will pick up techniques for configuring and operating a Kubernetes cluster more securely.