Telum in Northeast Mexico improved their ISP services delivery reliability through quality assurance and higher availability using advanced monitoring software.
The next edition of the HP Discover Podcast Series delves into how Telum in Northeast Mexico improves their ISP services delivery reliability through quality assurance and higher availability using advanced monitoring software.

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I keep coming across amazing use cases for IoT that radically change, enhance, or transforms industries. This week’s use case focuses on renewable energies like wind and solar power. I had the privilege of talking to Guido Jouret, president of the Digital Innovation Center at Envision Energy. Envision Energy is the maker of the Smart Wind Farm™ System which collects data from various sensors to aid in preventative maintenance of wind turbines and solar panels, optimizes the efficiency of energy production, and accurately and timely forecasts energy output.

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Activiti and 4WS.Platform make it possible to manage business processes, including simple features such as email notifications or documents approval/storage and they also allow administrator to get a full control and monitoring of processes defined and in progress.

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Today, we are proud to announce the first code drop of Apache Ignite, Apache Ignite v1.0 RC (Release Candidate), available for download on the Apache Ignite homepage. This is an exciting time for the project and the committers have been working hard since November to reach this milestone. We commend them all. Apache Ignite v1.0 RC not only carries forward the capabilities formerly available as the open source edition of the GridGain In-Memory Data Fabric, but now also boasts new ease-of-use and automation features, simplifying the deployment of an in-memory data fabric and allowing organizations to focus more on their core business and analysis.

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Enterprises can now provision Oracle Database in OpenStack via the latest version of the Tesora private cloud Database as a Service (DBaaS) platform, the company’s enhanced implementation of OpenStack Trove.
Tesora has developed the first Trove guest agent for Oracle Database 12c. Enterprises can now use OpenStack Trove to create, configure, and start Oracle pluggable databases within a container database environment. The Oracle container database can be pre-provisioned on dedicated hardware to deliver an ideal user experience and efficient use of resources.

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While small and midsize businesses are often keen to move their applications to the cloud, the benefits of cloud migration don’t simply rain down from the sky. In order to take advantage of the flexibility (and cost savings) of virtual server hosting, organizations need to address some common challenges.
Fortunately, there are a few simple steps businesses can take to enable successful transition of applications to the cloud.
The first step is determining which applications to move to a virtual server. As with any IT project, businesses must balance risk and reward, cost and benefit. They must assess the cost/benefit of moving the application to a cloud server, assess its technical suitability for the cloud, and manage the migration process to ensure success.

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Today’s most successful brands have switched focus from managing sales transactions to managing customer experiences with the goal of maximizing the lifetime value of each relationship. In an environment where customers have increasing control over the relationships with companies they do business with, managing every moment of the customer experience is crucial to a successful recurring revenue business.
Customers want what they want, how they want it, and when they want it. The businesses that can deliver on these demands the quickest gain satisfied customers, and satisfied customers are more likely to continue to spend money with companies they like. As a result, maximizing the customer lifetime value (CLV) is a key and measuring CLV is a critical metric for understanding the success or failure of a recurring revenue program. Rather than focusing solely on new or single sales transactions, sales support focuses on maximizing CLV at every potential revenue moment as it carries the most value to your business over time.

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BroadSoft has announced that Wavenet Limited has selected BroadSoft’s BroadCloud® managed services to offer its customers and channel partners an integrated IP voice and Unified Communications (UC) service.
Wavenet, which has over 2,000 customers and supports 20,000 users in the United Kingdom, provides companies and associated partners with core telephony services. Wavenet’s arrangement with BroadSoft will enable the company to accelerate delivery of its hosted software and services, as customers demand the flexibility and scalability afforded by cloud-based infrastructure.

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You can’t have a conversation about technology today without the topic of security breaches ending up front and center as a key concern. This is understandable with all the high profile breaches that have been occurring on what seems a regularly scheduled event. Anthem, the nation’s second largest health insurer is the latest in a long line of high profile breaches that have occurred recently. Given the size and severity of these breaches, security is very visible on everybody’s radar. This is especially true when discussing migration to the cloud. Unfortunately every breach can result in slowdowns or impediments to cloud migration plans.

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On the surface, many network management products seem the same. But any network management system claiming to be a solution will, at a minimum, maintain an inventory of the network devices, understand their interconnectivity, monitor (and alert on) each device’s response (availability), monitor each device’s performance to some degree, and may note configuration changes. But beauty is only skin deep. How, how well, and how deeply an NMS does these makes all the difference.

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