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• White Paper: When it Comes to Cloud, Knowledge is Everything

• A comprehensive understanding of your physical and virtual infrastructures is a critical requirement before embarking on a cloud model. Know what you have and where it is.

  Your cloud service model should result in IT cost savings; and it should reduce the burden and personnel resources required from your IT organization. A utility pricing model allows you to pay for what you use and eliminates the capital expense of deploying in-house hardware and software.

  The major concern to be addressed is the security risk associated with cloud models.

  This paper will provide an overview of cloud computing, the primary service models, available deployment models, and critical success factors for cloud computing.

• Infographic: 5 Common Cloud Deployment Mistakes

• Cloud migrationis fast becoming a top priority for small businesses and enterprisesalike, as a strategy to improve efficiency, increase agility and unlock new opportunities. Many think that once they get past the internal debates, politics, and budget calculating, the hard part is behind them. Unfortunately, this is not necessarily true. Most companies make some basic mistakes and assumptions that cause their migration to the cloud to be significantly more difficult. On average, most migrations to the cloud don’t go well.

• IBM Cloud: POV on Hybrid Cloud Computing

• An overview of IBM Cloud’s point of view on hybrid cloud computing and the hyper-portability that hybrid cloud solutions provide.

• Infographic: IBM Leads Industry Toward Hybrid Clouds

• Verisure collaborates in the security of the IBM Cloud

• Jacob Andersson, Corporate Systems Manager at Verisure Innovation AB, explains how IBM Connections Cloud helps integrate business processes and connects people across their organization to innovate faster while helping to secure their valuable business information.Learn more about IBM Connections Cloud at ibmcloud.com/social

• eBook – Forbes Insight – How the cloud is changing business resilience

• Resiliency can be a competitive advantage, not merely a technical solution with a cost. The cloud enables a broader set of companies to consider a broader set of applications to grow their businesses in the expanding data universe.

• Solution Brief: IBM Cloud Maturity Curve

• Companies that have a mature organisational approach to cloud computing are more focused on business growth than cost reduction—and are more likely to have achieved that growth as well. They use a more diverse range of cloud services and are seeing improvements in the relationship between IT and the rest of the business. But while they say they have the required data-governance measures in place, privacy, security and compliance will continue to challenge even high-maturity organisations in the near future.

  These are the findings from Mapping the cloud maturity curve, an IBM research project conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit. The project defines “maturity” as it relates to the use of cloud computing (henceforth referred to as “cloud”) and measures how mature organisations are today.

  A previous report, entitled The fundamental five, drew on interviews with IT leaders to identify the core components of cloud maturity. Organisations’ progress along this maturity curve was then investigated through a global survey of 784 IT and business executives (see “About the study” for a detailed description of how maturity was scored). This report is an in-depth analysis of the findings of the survey and incorporates further insights from senior IT leaders to identify how they are moving their organisations up the cloud maturity curve. 

• Presentation: IBM’s Hybrid Cloud Point Of View

• Presentation: IBM Cloud

• Report: Is Bare Metal Really “Cloud”?

• Virtual server flexibility on dedicated hardware
  

  The cloud computing industry is evolving. Cloud service providers like SoftLayer are finding ways to deliver the scalability and flexibility of virtual machines on bare metal hardware. But can we really call that “cloud”?  To tackle that question, Forrester Research put together a detailed report to evaluate bare metal’s capabilities in IaaS.  Download this free analyst report to learn about: How bare metal measures up against virtual machines What workloads are best suited for bare metal cloud How SoftLayer measures up against other bare metal cloud providers

• Tangerine Bank uses IBM cloud solutions to enhance customers’ mobile experience

• Canadian bank Tangerine gathers customer feedback and actionable insight on its mobile banking app. Using IBM Mobile Quality Assurance for Bluemix™ service, Tangerine streamlined QA, sped development and improved the customer experience. http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/solutionsStay in Touch: http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/solutionsSubscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/IBMCustomerReferenceIBM Client References: https://www.youtube.com/user/IBMCustomerReferenceFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ibmcloud

• Hybrid cloud helps IBM clients meet business needs

• This video describes how IBM’s hybrid cloud solutions can help with three major areas:- Portability of applications to move applications closer to the data or data closer to the applications- Visibility and control to provide robust governance and coordination to prevent, pinpoint and resolve problems across a hybrid environment. – Developer productivity by securely connecting apps, data and services and providing the ability to experiment and rapidly iterate cloud app development for hybrid environments.

• Building a cloud road map

• Find out how to strategically move your business towards a more nimble hybrid cloud solution. Cloud expert Tim Vanderham walks through the process of integrating cloud into your existing IT architecture. To learn more, take a look at The Steps to Cloud Expertise Series: http://www.ibm.com/cloud/expertise

• Solve the Challenges of Mobile App Delivery

• Cloud and mobile solutions from IBM are inspiring IT leaders to meet all challenges of the mobile app development cycle. IBM enables businesses to quickly deliver quality, high-performing mobile apps, transform customer experiences and empower employees – all with a flexible infrastructure that can scale to handle growing demands.Learn More: http://ibm.biz/mobilecloud Stay in Touch: Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/IBMCloud IBM Client References: https://www.youtube.com/user/IBMCustomerReference Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ibmcloud