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TransCityRail North once again brings together the leaders responsible for delivering the Northern Powerhouse Rail for a lively and engaging conference and networking dinner which focuses on ‘Supply Chain Engagement’. The event has been developed in partnership with Network Rail and Transport for the North (TfN) to engage with suppliers early on about the significant contracts which will become available for the region. During the daytime conference TfN will outline its rail transport strategy for the North of England, and senior managers from Network Rail will be presenting their strategy for procurement and supply chain engagement. Network Rail’s National Supply Chain are using this conference to explain to suppliers how contracts with the infrastructure owner are going to become more accessible, and what’s expected in a post-Brexit world. For more information on the conference download the agenda here or contact the team 0161 833 6320.

It’s time to think bigger than incremental processing power and storage capacity upgrades. In 2019 IT modernisation offers much more, providing opportunities to closely align infrastructure with your most ambitious goals and build a future-facing foundation for success. Whatever your goals, this playbook gives you six versatile strategies that can help you plan a successful IT modernisation project, supported by examples from our industry-leading data centre portfolio.

With the maturing of the all-flash array (AFA) market, the established market leaders in this space are turning their attention to other ways to differentiate themselves from their competition besides just product functionality. Consciously designing and driving a better customer experience (CX) is a strategy being pursued by many of these vendors.This white paper defines cloud-based predictive analytics and discusses evolving storage requirements that are driving their use and takes a look at how these platforms are being used to drive incremental value for public sector organizations in the areas of performance, availability, management, recovery, and information technology (IT) infrastructure planning.

"Customers in the midst of digital transformation look first to the public cloud when seeking dramatic simplification, cost, utilization and flexibility advantages for their new application workloads. But using public cloud comes with its own challenges. It’s often not as easy as advertised. And it’s not always possible or practical for enterprises to retire their traditional, on-premises enterprise system still running the company’s most mission-critical workloads. Hybrid IT – a balanced combination of traditional infrastructure, private cloud and public cloud – is the answer. "

A comprehensive service visibility strategy with automated infrastructure discovery and service mapping gives a clear view into business-critical services. Quickly locate potential problems before downtime happens. Learn best practices to develop your service visibility framework. Read this eBook.

A single outage can be the thread that causes business services to unravel. Can you quickly identify the root cause of an outage and its impact on your business? See how ServiceNow helps customers seamlessly connect their IT infrastructure to transform the customer experience for business stakeholders.

Learn how ServiceNow has been applying machine learning and analytics with AIOps to help you cut through event noise to create actionable signals, identify service outages and degradations, remediate service and infrastructure issues accurately, and drive continuous improvement in service quality

Its the start of a new year and amidst the countless predictions flooding the internet, one things for certain 2019 is shaping up to be the year of cloud adoption. Analysts are expecting that enterprise adoption of cloud will ramp up significantly, but with this migration and the continued adoption of mobile and IoT technologies, the attack surface is changing dramatically and this has major implications for security. Fundamentally, security boundaries extend from on premises infrastructure to cloud service provider environments where perimeters no longer exist. Organizations cannot defend themselves with the same strategies and tactics that applied when it did. In this brave new world of cloud, IoT and mobile technology, organizations must be agile and shift, extend, and evolve their perimeter-based defense practices to those that are more robust. Further, a comprehensive defense in depth approach enables defense of high value assets amidst a more unpredictable cyber security landsca

Achieving complete visibility into your infrastructure requires reliable configuration data. With a solid plan, you can have a healthy CMDB and provide a foundation for implementing automated discovery. Learn the 4 stages to achieve complete visibility of your infrastructure with reliable data in your CMDB.

Download ESG’s Economic Validation Report, “Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Gigamon,” to see how Gigamon reduces false positives by 70%, decreases the cost of security personnel by 50%, eliminates redundant systems and tools and aligns SecOps and NetOps for better collaboration. Learn how a network visibility infrastructure can secure business, enable new ideas and facilitate growth. And, see why ESG believes the Gigamon Visibility Platform is a critical tool for success in today’s digital age.

Clients can realize the full potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics with IBM’s deep industry expertise, technology solutions and capabilities and start to infuse intelligence into virtually every business decision and process. IBM’s AI & Analytics Services organization is helping enterprises get their data ready for AI and ultimately achieve stronger data-driven decisions; access deeper insights to provide improved customer care; and develop trust and confidence with AI-powered technologies focused on security, risk and compliance. Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving beyond the hype cycle, as more and more organizations seek to adopt AI-related technologies. These organizations are focusing on prioritizing functional areas and use cases, placing a stronger emphasis on topline growth, taking up a renewed interest in their data infrastructure and articulating greater unease about the skills of their knowledge workers. This report explores how they are approaching str

Digital transformation (DX) continues to headline business initiatives as companies look to remain competitive in the rapidly changing IT landscape. Organizations are increasingly investing in and implementing next-generation applications and architectures such as software-defined IT and hybrid IT to drive higher levels of efficiency and agility. These modern technologies and architectures, however, also require organizations to evolve their underlying infrastructure to support new capabilities and demands. Recent strength in the server market, which continues to operate in a marketwide refresh cycle, illustrates the growing demand for new infrastructure. 1Q18 marked the server market's fifth consecutive quarter of both shipment and revenue growth and represented a fourth consecutive quarter of year-on-year ASP growth, as customers continue to replace aging server infrastructure with more powerful and efficient systems that leverage the latest platform developments from processor supp

If anything is certain about the future, it’s that there will be more complexity, more data to manage and greater pressure to deliver instantly. The hardware you buy should meet today’s expectations and prepare you for whatever comes next. Power Systems are built for the most demanding, data-intensive, computing on earth. Our cloudready servers help you unleash insight from your data pipeline — from managing mission-critical data, to managing your operational data stores and data lakes, to delivering the best server for cognitive computing. With industry leading reliability and security, our infrastructure is designed to crush the most data-intensive workloads imaginable, while keeping your business protected. - Simplified Multicloud - Built-in end-to-end security - Proven Reliability - Industry-leading value and performance

As the foundation for most critical business decisions, today's data environments are not just a vital piece of IT infrastructure, but key component of corporate strategy.

In this report, we''ll analyze the many challenges that organizations face when it comes to building and managing modern IT infrastructure. We'll also look at how many businesses are taking advantage of a hybrid cloud and on-premise approach, which comes with some significant benefits.

Empowering the Automotive Industry through Intelligent Orchestration With the increasing complexity and volume of cyberattacks, organizations must have the capacity to adapt quickly and confidently under changing conditions. Accelerating incident response times to safeguard the organization's infrastructure and data is paramount. Achieving this requires a thoughtful plan- one that addresses the security ecosystem, incorporates security orchestration and automation, and provides adaptive workflows to empower the security analysts. In the white paper "Six Steps for Building a Robust Incident Response Function" IBM Resilient provides a framework for security teams to build a strong incident response program and deliver organization-wide coordination and optimizations to accomplish these goals.

This report describes the results from a groundbreaking global study by Thycotic that reveals major risk and compliance gaps in how organizations manage and secure their privileged accounts and access to sensitive systems, infrastructure and data. The 2018 Global State of Privileged Access Management (PAM) Risk & Compliance report highlights where many organizations are failing to fully put security controls in place to protect their most critical information assets.

Cloud Connectivity and Security for Every Branch With each new branch and remote employee, your distributed networks become more complex, and your organization’s digital transformation continues moving full speed ahead. Traditional networking and security infrastructures often buckle under the pressure. In this ebook, Guide to Cloud Connectivity and Security in Distributed Networks, we’ll share a better approach. Integrating connectivity and security, and moving them to the cloud, can help you achieve higher productivity, reduce cost, and ease compliance. Specific topics include: Ways to augment or replace expensive MPLS for more powerful connectivity Types of security every internet-connected site needs for holistic protection Advantages of an integrated solution over a patchwork of point products Read our ebook for more on how to connect and protect across your distributed networks.

Transforming Cloud Connectivity & Security in Distributed Networks Today’s digital transformation initiatives frequently begin with moving applications and data to the cloud. But traditional networking and security infrastructure, such as backhauling data from remote locations to central offices over MPLS lines, can’t keep up. Fortunately, new approaches that also move connectivity and security to the cloud are rapidly overcoming these hurdles. Technologies such as direct-to-cloud SD-WAN and site-to-site VPNs dramatically cut the cost of connectivity. However, they put pressure on other parts of the organization to adopt new ways of defending each site against internet intruders, protecting the use of web content, and securing data stored in cloud apps. In this webcast, we’ll discuss a new, integrated approach to connectivity and security. Used by enterprises and government agencies around the world to manage as many as 1,500 sites from a single console, Forcepoint’s branch security

All Clouds are not Equal Today’s organizations turn to the cloud for all types of productivity-gaining tools – including security. Features such as security for mobile users and data loss protection are key, but it’s also important to separate fact from fiction when looking at the infrastructure of the provider. This ebook helps you consider the importance of: Data center locations Security controls, data privacy, availability, reliability, and performance What your organization or agency actually needs Download the ebook to discover five common misconceptions about cloud-based security infrastructure, and what you should really be looking for in a cloud-based security solution.

Cloud Connectivity and Security for Every Branch With each new branch and remote employee, your distributed networks become more complex, and your organization’s digital transformation continues moving full speed ahead. Traditional networking and security infrastructures often buckle under the pressure. In this ebook, Guide to Cloud Connectivity and Security in Distributed Networks, we’ll share a better approach. Integrating connectivity and security, and moving them to the cloud, can help you achieve higher productivity, reduce cost, and ease compliance. Specific topics include: Ways to augment or replace expensive MPLS for more powerful connectivity Types of security every internet-connected site needs for holistic protection Advantages of an integrated solution over a patchwork of point products Read our ebook for more on how to connect and protect across your distributed networks.

Transforming Cloud Connectivity & Security in Distributed Networks Today’s digital transformation initiatives frequently begin with moving applications and data to the cloud. But traditional networking and security infrastructure, such as backhauling data from remote locations to central offices over MPLS lines, can’t keep up. Fortunately, new approaches that also move connectivity and security to the cloud are rapidly overcoming these hurdles. Technologies such as direct-to-cloud SD-WAN and site-to-site VPNs dramatically cut the cost of connectivity. However, they put pressure on other parts of the organization to adopt new ways of defending each site against internet intruders, protecting the use of web content, and securing data stored in cloud apps. In this webcast, we’ll discuss a new, integrated approach to connectivity and security. Used by enterprises and government agencies around the world to manage as many as 1,500 sites from a single console, Forcepoint’s branch security

All Clouds are not Equal Today’s organizations turn to the cloud for all types of productivity-gaining tools – including security. Features such as security for mobile users and data loss protection are key, but it’s also important to separate fact from fiction when looking at the infrastructure of the provider. This ebook helps you consider the importance of: Data center locations Security controls, data privacy, availability, reliability, and performance What your organization or agency actually needs Download the ebook to discover five common misconceptions about cloud-based security infrastructure, and what you should really be looking for in a cloud-based security solution.

Multinational companies (MNCs) are facing a unique combination of escalating customer, competitive and operational pressures which are forcing them to fundamentally change the way they do business and manage their IT infrastructures supporting network, security and mobility needs. Lack of IT resources, limited capex and more complex global implementations are driving an increasing proportion of MNCs to offload, or 'out-task', various aspects of their day-to-day management responsibilities to skilled third-parties that can help perform these functions well.

At a projected market of over $4B by 2010 (Goldman Sachs), virtualizationhas firmly established itself as one of the most importanttrends in Information Technology. Virtualization is expectedto have a broad influence on the way IT manages infrastructure.Major areas of impact include capital expenditure and ongoingcosts, application deployment, green computing, and storage.