IT Business Perspectives

IBM Spectrum Scale Immutability Introduction, Configuration Guidance, and Use Cases
Storage Solutions

Redguide, published 17 Apr 2020

This IBM Redpaper™ publication introduces the IBM Spectrum Scale immutability function. It shows how to set it up and presents different ways for managing immutable and append-only files. This publication also provides guidance for implementing IT security aspects in an IBM Spectrum Scale cluster by addressing regulatory requirements. It also describes two typical use cases for managing immutable files. One use case involves applications that manage file immutability; the other use case presents a solution to automatically set files to immutable within a IBM Spectrum Scale immutable ... [more]

Protecting Data Privacy Beyond the Trusted System of Record

Redguide, published 14 Apr 2020

To help you safeguard your sensitive data and provide ease of auditability and control, IBM introduced a new capability for IBM Z® called IBM Data Privacy Passports. It can help minimize the risk and impact of data loss and privacy breaches when collecting and storing sensitive data. Data Privacy Passports can manage how data is shared securely through a central control of user access. Data Privacy Passports can protect data wherever it goes. Security policies are kept and honored whenever the data is accessed. Future data access may be revoked remotely via Data Privacy Passports, long after ... [more]

IBM Spectrum Scale: Big Data and Analytics Solution Brief
Software Defined Storage

Redguide, published 23 Jan 2018, last updated 17 Jul 2019

This IBM® Redguide™ publication describes big data and analytics deployments that are built on IBM Spectrum Scale™. IBM Spectrum Scale is a proven enterprise-level distributed file system that is a high-performance and cost-effective alternative to Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for Hadoop analytics services. IBM Spectrum Scale includes NFS, SMB, and Object services and meets the performance that is required by many industry workloads, such as technical computing, big data, analytics, and content management. IBM Spectrum Scale provides world-class, web-based storage management with ... [more]

Security in Development: The IBM Secure Engineering Framework
Security

Redguide, published 17 Dec 2018

IBM® has long been recognized as a leading provider of hardware, software, and services that are of the highest quality, reliability, function, and integrity. IBM products and services are used around the world by people and organizations with mission-critical demands for high performance, high stress tolerance, high availability, and high security. As a testament to this long-standing attention at IBM, demonstration of this attention to security can be traced back to the Integrity Statement for IBM mainframe software, which was originally published in 1973: IBM's long-term commitment to ... [more]

IBM Spectrum Scale Functionality to Support GDPR Requirements
Storage Solutions

Redguide, published 24 Apr 2018, last updated 24 Apr 2018

The role of the IT solutions is to enforce the correct handling of personal data using processes developed by the establishment. Each element of the solution stack must address the objectives as appropriate to the data that it handles. Typically, personal data exists either in the form of structured data (like databases) or unstructured data (like files, text, documents, and so on.). This IBM Redbooks publication specifically deals with unstructured data and storage systems used to host unstructured data. For unstructured data storage in particular, some key attributes enable the overall ... [more]

The Journey Continues: From Data Lake to Data-Driven Organization

Redguide, published 19 Feb 2018

This IBM Redguide™ publication looks back on the key decisions that made the data lake successful and looks forward to the future. It proposes that the metadata management and governance approaches developed for the data lake can be adopted more broadly to increase the value that an organization gets from its data. Delivering this broader vision, however, requires a new generation of data catalogs and governance tools built on open standards that are adopted by a multi-vendor ecosystem of data platforms and tools. Work is already underway to define and deliver this capability, and there are ... [more]

Automating IBM Spectrum Scale Deployment with Ubuntu OpenStack Cloud and Juju Charms
Storage Solutions

Redguide, published 14 Dec 2017

  (based on 1 review)

Automation is key to faster deployments with fewer resources. Now Juju charms can help to automatically deploy and operate IBM® Spectrum Scale with Ubuntu OpenStack cloud.

Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 1 Getting Started
Watson

Redbooks, published 23 Jun 2017

  (based on 5 reviews)

The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® Watson™ cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes:
- Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387
- Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394
- Volume 3 Visual ... [more]

Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding
Watson

Redbooks, published 2 Jun 2017

The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® Watson™ cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes:
- Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387
- Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394
- Volume 3 Visual ... [more]

Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech
Watson

Redbooks, published 26 May 2017, last updated 26 May 2017

  (based on 4 reviews)

The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® Watson™ cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes:
- Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387
- Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394
- Volume 3 Visual ... [more]

Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier
Watson

Redbooks, published 25 May 2017

The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® Watson™ cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes:
- Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387
- Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394
- Volume 3 Visual ... [more]

Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 5 Language Translator
Watson

Redbooks, published 25 May 2017

The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® Watson™ cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes:
- Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387
- Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394
- Volume 3 Visual ... [more]

Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 2 Conversation
Watson

Redbooks, published 24 May 2017, last updated 24 May 2017

  (based on 2 reviews)

The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® Watson™ cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes:
- Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387
- Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394
- Volume 3 Visual ... [more]

Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 3 Visual Recognition
Watson

Redbooks, published 22 May 2017

The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® Watson cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific Watson services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes:
- Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387
- Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394
- Volume 3 Visual ... [more]

The Power of Cognitive Marketing: IBM Watson Marketing Insights

Redguide, published 16 Mar 2017

How do you keep the pulse of your customers today? Customers are leaving more clues than ever on what they want and need. However, the ability to get a singular view, observe trends and changes in behavior, and then respond proactively is not as simple as it seems. It can often feel like shooting at a moving target. IBM® Watson Marketing Insights provides marketing analysts with a dynamic view of customer behavior and the power of predictive insights without requiring analytics skills. Presented in an interactive visual format, marketers receive a daily feed of insights and prioritized ... [more]

Reduce Costs and Speed Your Digital Transformation with IBM WebSphere Application Server on Cloud
Cloud

Redguide, published 21 Nov 2016

  (based on 1 review)

Businesses are always looking for ways to improve the customer experience. They need to connect with existing and new customers in innovative ways and deliver experiences that never disappoint. They also require technology-strengthened business strategies with the flexibility to adapt to new opportunities quickly. To achieve this agile state, many are using cloud-based solutions to create personalized customer experiences and harness existing enterprise applications, data, and services for a competitive advantage. IBM® WebSphere® Application Server on cloud (WebSphere on cloud) helps ... [more]

Broker Software and Cloud Services with IBM Cloud Brokerage

Redguide, published 25 Oct 2016

Many enterprises are adopting hybrid cloud to accelerate innovation and to create new business models and revenue streams. They are modernizing their existing IT environment and taking advantage of newer, cost-efficient consumption models. However, as they adopt a hybrid cloud, they become increasingly aware of their reliance on multiple providers, and they struggle to maintain consistent management across the cloud and traditional IT platforms. At the same time, line of business (LOB) executives and users are aggressively pursuing cloud computing solutions (from a variety of suppliers), ... [more]

Accelerating Law Enforcement Investigations with IBM COPLINK
Smarter Cities

Redguide, published 20 Jul 2016

IBM® COPLINK® (“COPLINK”) software is designed to help law enforcement organizations solve crimes faster, keep officers safer, and disrupt crime and terrorism. COPLINK helps to consolidate data from many sources, aid collaboration, and generate tactical leads. It enables law enforcement professionals to generate photo lineups, save their search history, and organize investigations to generate reports more easily. COPLINK also provides comprehensive auditing of data access. IBM COPLINK software helps law enforcement officers accomplish the following objectives:
- Discover ... [more]

IBM Enterprise IT Automation Services: Dynamic Automation in the Age of Cognitive, Dynamic Learning and Self-healing Systems

Redguide, published 7 Jun 2016, last updated 29 Jun 2016

  (based on 2 reviews)

For decades, the IT industry has focused on ways to automate processes to increase IT productivity and efficiency and to reduce human errors. However, the focus is quickly shifting to enhance business productivity and outcomes and to provide innovation and faster speed to market. These improvements help to capture new markets and beat the competition in today’s business and technology race. Driving down cost and improving efficiency are key elements to achieve these goals because they help to free funds and resources to make strategic investments. Likewise, making sure that IT staff is ... [more]

IBM PureData System for Analytics Architecture: A Platform for High Performance Data Warehousing and Analytics
Analytics

Redguide, published 12 Nov 2014, last updated 8 Feb 2016

Success in any enterprise depends on having the best available information in time to make sound decisions. Anything less can waste opportunities, cost time and resources, and even put the organization at risk. But finding crucial information to guide the best possible actions can mean analyzing billions of data points and petabytes of data, whether to predict an outcome, identify a trend, or chart the best course through a sea of ambiguity. Companies with this type of intelligence on demand can react faster and make better decisions than their competitors. Continuing innovations in ... [more]