Generally, CMDBs populated by discovery tools alone simply aren't usable. They fail because they contain massive amounts of irrelevant information. You avoid this pitfall by correctly populating your CMDB in four simple steps.

Configuration Management is at the heart of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) and forms the foundation for Business Service Management (BSM). In fact, it is safe to say that neither the ITIL IT Service Management (ITSM) processes nor the BSM functions that leverage ITSM can be efficiently carried out without accurate configuration and dependency information.

Configuration Management is at the heart of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and forms the foundation for Business Service Management (BSM). In fact, it is safe to say that neither the ITIL IT Service Management (ITSM) processes nor the BSM functions that leverage ITSM can be efficiently carried out without accurate configuration and dependency information.

Email is the primary communication system and file transport mechanism used in organizations of all sizes. Email systems generate enormous amounts of content that must be preserved for a variety of reasons, including: -Compliance with local, state, federal and international statutory requirements - Electronic discovery requirements and best practices - Knowledge management applications - Disaster recovery and business continuity

This white paper discusses what drives organizations in both heavily-regulated and less regulated industries to retain email and other electronic content.

Chilmark Research, a global research and advisory firm, recently released a report rating vendors and solutions in the healthcare analytics industry. IBM Watson Health, a leader in healthcare analytics, has put together this infographic comparing how its solutions stack up against some of the closest competitors in the industry in areas such as population discovery and definition, predictive analytics, cost and utilization, and claims data contribution.

To stay ahead in today's hybrid network, you need a lens into the end user's experience as well as an understanding of the dependencies between your applications and network. With this approach, you are alerted to issues before the business is impacted and problems are resolved faster. This eBook details what you need to know to select a best of breed network performance management solution and outlines the critical capabilities required for deep application visibility across virtualized, hybrid and cloud networks no matter where a user is located. Read this book and: Discover best practices - for proactive network monitoring and fast troubleshooting Learn how to stay ahead of application performance issues with increased visibility Increase productivity and a higher ROI - with automatic discovery, end-to-end monitoring, reporting, analytics and faster MTTR Ensure your approach is a proactive mode Study the

In the increasingly competitive OTT market, competition for viewers is high. Providers must find ways to not just deliver compelling content, but to deliver compelling viewing experiences. In this whitepaper, you’ll learn about the critical challenges facing OTT providers today and how they can be overcome to provide the broadcast quality experiences viewers expect, regardless of the device in use or the viewers location in the world. Are you ready to keep your subscribers happy and away from your competition? Download this free white paper OTT 3.0: How to Build a Better Mousetrap and learn: Why personalized content discovery is so important to viewers – and to the success of your business How to avoid internet congestion by leveraging technologies like a CDN The importance of global network scale to meet spikes in consumer traffic The impact of advertising on viewer abandonment

It is imperative that organizations start looking now for smarter solutions to the problems associated with unstructured data. There are many issues related to unstructured data that need to be readily addressed such as storage, discovery, organization, tagging and deduplication. One of the most important issues related to unstructured data is finding and discovering key business insights as quickly as possible, preferably in near real time, to gain a significant competitive advantage.

Download this whitepaper and learn how the Dell Genomic Data Analysis Platform can accelerate discovery and insights through optimized infrastructure and support.

Every day we use location apps on smartphone devices to get us where we need to go, and to find services and products we’re looking for. However, smartphone location apps aren’t just helping individuals navigate their way around. Forward-thinking businesses are using these apps to help them get their messages straight to the right audience, at the right time, too. It’s why the connected car and in-map location marketing is a growing area of opportunity—helping companies to meet KPIs whilst transforming the landscape of marketing at the same time. This on-demand webinar with experts from HERE and eMarketer discusses how to improve location-based audience segmentation and build a more accurate consumer profiles, as well as how real-time location targeting enables hyper-targeted marketing campaigns.

A report into how Self-Service BI can make you happier and more productive.

A case study into the solutions provided by QlikView Business Discovery to the challenges of a fast growing business.

The ExtraHop Discovery Edition is a free virtual appliance will help you to discover the performance of your applications across the network, web, VDI, database, and storage tiers. Get yours today!

Most brands would love to have their apps among the top 25 most downloaded apps on the Apple App Store or Google Play. With more than one million apps available, there’s a great risk that your app won’t stand out from the crowd. Marketers need to make sure their core target audiences will first download and then regularly use their apps, without spending huge promotion budgets. This report will analyze how consumers discover apps and will provide some guidelines on how to promote your apps.

Don’t just store information. Use it. Mimecast makes your email archiving work harder for business advantage.

Effective IT planning and decision making are dependent upon having a complete asset inventory and an accurate understanding about dependencies available before, during and after IT change activities. Application discovery and dependency mapping (ADDM) solutions automate the process of discovering and mapping transactions and applications to the underlying infrastructure and application interdependencies. Learn how Riverbed Cascade’s built-in application discovery and dependency mapping capabilities can help you shorten project times and mitigate risk.

"What’s your vulnerability assessment style? Are you scanning weekly, monthly or quarterly? And, what does your scanning habit reveal about the maturity of your organization’s vulnerability assessment practices, a critical part of cyber hygiene? These are the key questions Tenable Research set out to answer in our Cyber Defender Strategies Report. We discovered four common vulnerability assessment strategies in use today. These strategies tell us how mature an organization’s vulnerability discovery process is – and help us identify ways to improve. Download the report now to: - Learn what the four vulnerability assessment styles tell us about cyber risk maturity. - Compare your vulnerability assessment strategy to these four common scanning styles. - Find out what steps you can take today to improve your vulnerability assessment strategy – no matter where you are on the maturity scale."

This solution brief introduces the Smart Archive strategy from IBM, which is a comprehensive approach that combines IBM software, systems and service capabilities to help you drive down costs down and help ensure critical content is properly retained and protected.

This webinar shows how to get instant clarity with stunningly visual analysis and self-service discovery using Data Virtualization Cloud Service.

Companies need capabilities for identifying data assets and relationships, assessing data growth and implementing tiered storage strategies-capabilities that information governance can provide. It is important to classify enterprise data, understand data relationships and define service levels. Database archiving has proven effective in managing continued application data growth especially when it is combined with data discovery.

This whitepaper from IBM reveals three ways that the most successful companies are taking action when they deploy business analytics.

Newest generation of processors delivers up to 2X FLOPS1 and boosts real-world application performance up to 70 percent2.

The application economy has forced businesses to transform. To capture new growth opportunities, enterprises are opening up and sharing select data and applications with developers, partners, mobile devices, the cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT). One of the byproducts of this transformation is the discovery that legacy data has value in the application economy—so much so that new revenue opportunities emerge as this data is used in new ways.

In the increasingly competitive OTT market, competition for viewers is high. Providers must find ways to not just deliver compelling content, but to deliver compelling viewing experiences. In this whitepaper, you’ll learn about the critical challenges facing OTT providers today and how they can be overcome to provide the broadcast quality experiences viewers expect, regardless of the device in use or the viewers location in the world. Are you ready to keep your subscribers happy and away from your competition? Download this free white paper OTT 3.0: How to Build a Better Mousetrap and learn: Why personalized content discovery is so important to viewers – and to the success of your business How to avoid internet congestion by leveraging technologies like a CDN The importance of global network scale to meet spikes in consumer traffic The impact of advertising on viewer abandonment