AppTemplate: Data-Centric Infrastructure from NetApp

Oil & Gas businesses rely on data-driven insights, so why leave visibility gaps across your IT network? In your industry, even the smallest improvements could make a huge difference to your company’s profitability. So wouldn’t it pay to know what a difference you could be making with better visibility through the Riverbed SteelCentral platform?

Containers have become the preferred application development and deployment platform for new applications in both enterprises and service providers. In addition, companies are also looking to repackage and deploy existing applications within container environments. However, one of the most common concerns brought up by CIOs, CSOs and infrastructure technologists alike, is that of potentially reduced security – especially when compared to VM platforms. The reality is quite different. Containers can be a vehicle for improving data center and application security, but it does take putting in the right processes and laying the right foundation.

Being able to maintain a well managed and curated Data Warehouse, along with keeping up with all of the demands of a very sophisticated consumer group can be a challenge. The new user wants access to data, they want to experiment, fail fast and if they do find usable insights/algorithms they want them productionized. This puts pressure on an IT organization and pushes them closer to a Bimodal operation where the regular IT processes that are highly curated, well defined and managed contrast sharply with the demands of the more sophisticated user.

If you have looked at virtual desktop solutions in the past, prepare to be wowed when you see how Microsoft has streamlined the deployment and management of Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure in ways that make it a cost-effective and secure solution for your end-users and applications. In this exclusive on-demand webinar, we walk you through common Windows Virtual Desktop use cases, key design principles, and management and security benefits. Register now to instantly watch this information-packed webinar and download the slide deck.