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What is Capacity Planning?

By Scott Adams on Wed, 06/05/2019
    What is Capacity Planning? IT capacity planning is a process used to manage IT service delivery. Business services depend on IT resources in most organizations. Retail organizations need IT to make sure their POS system stays up and running – even on days with unusually high transaction counts, like Black Friday. Banks and other financial services providers need...
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Multinational Healthcare Organization Implements Fast, Easy, and Secure Data Reporting

Wed, 05/15/2019
    Making data accessible and ensuring data privacy are essential in today’s healthcare market. One multinational healthcare organization faced inefficient processes that slowed them down. Employees around the organization were left waiting for reports with vital information like admissions, discharges, bills, and collections. So, they turned to Sequel Data Access....
IBM i Business Intelligence
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How to Keep Cloud Costs Down

By Per Bauer
Migrating to the cloud doesn't have to include rude financial surprises. If you know where cost can creep in and steal your ROI, you can plan appropriately to avoid it.
Infrastructure Management
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Two-Way Message Response with Robot

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 05/01/2019
You have the afternoon off—but not the responsibility of monitoring your system for issues. This includes responding to application and system messages as they occur on your production IBM i jobs. You don’t want to carry your laptop around just in case you need to VPN back to answer a message that is waiting on your month-end process. What option do you have?
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What's New in Performance and Capacity Management?

By Per Bauer
Vityl Capacity Management is an all-in-one solution that makes it easy for organizations to proactively manage performance and do capacity planning in hybrid IT environments—physical, virtual, cloud, or container. Learn how to simplify performance and capacity management with Vityl Capacity Management.
Infrastructure Management
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Interacting with Powertech SIEM Agent for IBM i

By Robin Tatam on Thu, 03/21/2019
Your organization has invested in a security information event manager, or SIEM, to receive and analyse security and event log information from a variety of servers. Now they want to also get this information from their IBM Power Systems server.
IBM i Cybersecurity
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Robot Alert

Robot Alert sends and receives email, text, and SNMP messages in reaction to IBM i events.
Automation
Scale of IT capacity planning tools that balance cost and risk
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Comparing Different Methods for Calculating Health and Risk

By Per Bauer on Fri, 02/08/2019
How do you calculate IT health and risk? There are different methods you can use, depending on your needs. The most common methods for determining IT infrastructure health are: Threshold comparison Enhanced threshold comparison Event detection Variation from normal Allocation comparison Queuing theory for health On the other hand, the most common methods for calculating IT infrastructure...
Automation
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A Roadmap for Consolidation

Mon, 02/04/2019
There are five key steps when planning a consolidation strategy. Considerations for each step are outlined below.
Automation