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The Importance of VIOS

Thu, 08/31/2023
VIOS is considered a standard in organizations running IBM i, AIX, and Linux workloads. But don’t put your business at risk by letting it run unchecked. Learn five areas you must be monitoring.
Monitoring
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Content Intelligence: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

By Greg J. Schmidt on Fri, 02/18/2022
There are many different strategies a company can employ to help drive their organization to the next level. But why not use what you already have in your hands? Connect your content, documents, and information together to drive your business to the next level.
Automation
IBM i Business Intelligence
setting commands on VIOS
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VIOS Performance Monitoring Commands

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 03/10/2021
You might think VIOS is set and forget, but it’s not. Luckily, VIOS includes a number of command line utilities to help you obtain performance-related information from your VIOS partitions.
Monitoring
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IBM i Can Be Your Data Warehouse

By Tom Huntington on Mon, 08/10/2020
Thanks to Sequel Data Warehouse, shops using both Windows and IBM i can move their essential data storage and reporting back to the more reliable IBM i. See how here.
IBM i Business Intelligence
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How Do I Know When I Need a Data Warehouse?

By Alan Jordan on Fri, 08/07/2020
It can be a challendge to bring information together from across disparate sources, especially when the data is stored in different formats or with mismatched identifiers. You're likely to encounter issues that a reporting tool by itself simply cannot solve. Read on to learn why you should consider a data warehouse vs. just a database.
IBM i Business Intelligence
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All About Alert Intelligence

By Andrew Bullivant on Thu, 02/13/2020
Thanks to intelligent filtering, the Alert Intelligence feature included in IBM i Server Suite improves the quality of IBM i alerts while reducing the quantity, providing increased application availability and system uptime.
Monitoring
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Remember the IFS!

By Robin Tatam on Thu, 06/27/2019
Ask any security professional which area of IBM i security is most often ignored and chances are that the unanimous response is a chorus of “the Integrated File System.” Although it’s been around since V3R1, the Integrated File System, or IFS, remains a shrouded mystery that represents significant risk to many IBM i organizations.
IBM i Cybersecurity
Powertech Compliance Monitor for IBM i
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Managing Your IBM i Audit Data

By Robin Tatam on Wed, 08/01/2018
Let’s face it; system administration remains a largely thankless task. From scheduling jobs to balancing workloads to answering messages in QSYSOPR, administrators and operators work diligently behind the scenes to ensure that IBM i servers are available to run mission-critical applications.
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