This interactive data center, brought to you by our editors, explores 5 aspects of data center efficiency and provides tips and best practices to help companies make effective investment and configuration decisions. 

As today’s threats move away from mass attacks to more targeted ones, using a complex range of techniques to penetrate through traditional security measures, organizations must take a more proactive and preventative approach. This paper explores how integrity control plays a key role in defending networks with application and change control.   

Using modern-day Agile techniques such as automation and cloud hosting solutions, today’s IT leaders have opportunities to reap better returns on their ALM investments. In this issue, experts will share source code control system automation strategies, hosting options for code repositories and trends in requirements management tools. 

This white paper introduces the five SCM best practices that are essential for software development success. 

The top seven things to consider when managing configuration for virtual and cloud infrastructures. 

Watch this webcast to explore an operations management suite designed to address the challenges associated with managing virtual and cloud infrastructures. Discover the benefits it can offer your organizations and the common virtualization management concerns it can resolve. 

The IBM Rational ALM value estimator illustrates how your organization can be positively impacted by the use of Rational software solutions as you manage your software development and delivery from definition to deployment. 

While IT leaders understand the benefits of moving to current, standards-based infrastructure, the "how" can seem daunting. Read this white paper to learn how the expertise and guidance provided by migration services can ensure a smooth, low-risk, cost-effective migration. 

Adding a re-hosting project to outsourcing allows for a further reduction in cost. Watch this 2-minute video about the Cedacri Group’s mainframe modernization experience  to learn about the cost and performance advantages of a re-hosting strategy as well as how to ensure its success. 

To embrace the new instant-on, mobile, interconnected business world, IT organizations need to transform their infrastructure and data centers to support agility. This video series features 10 expert tips for planning your IT transformation. Check out this brief video for tips 7-5. 

This podcast discusses how to achieve application rationalization through proper application portfolio management. Learn about the benefits of this strategy and how it can help better align IT with business goals, as well as cutting costs and providing substantial performance gains. 

In this paper, gain a better understanding of how branching and merging patterns work and how applying them to your projects can have a profound effect on how your development team handles change management and delivers software. 

This informative video discusses the high-performance attributes of an IT management system. Watch now to learn how Vodafone Ireland used this system to decrease the complexity of their IT management and why this system is not just a 'nice-to-have' but a necessary in today's quickly involving technological landscape.