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Case Study

Capacity Planning at a Czech Bank

Organization Description: In the Czech Republic this bank serves more than 3 million clients and employs over 8000 workers. The bank operates a very extensive IT infrastructure which requires round-the-clock accessibility checks and computing capacity planning. Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management: The Vityl capacity planning solution has given the bank full control...
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What's New in Vityl Capacity Management - 2.0

Vityl Capacity Management 2.0 is here! You don’t have to dream anymore about having a singular interface with workflows for all your capacity management activities: monitoring, tuning, root-cause analysis, and predictive modeling. With the latest release of Vityl Capacity Management we are introducing a radical new way to collect, manage, analyze, and predict performance.
Article

If It Has Moving Parts, Someday It's Going to Fail.

Check out IBM's new READ INTENSIVE SSDs. This is a note to highlight some of the pros and cons - and dig a little deeper into one of the cons - of IBM's recently announced new class of solid state disk drives, "read intensive" (RI) SSDs. The new RI-SSD comes in one flavor, a 1.86 TB drive. The new concept to wrap your head around is that the drive will "wear out" if you write...
Datasheet

Automate Schedule: Enterprise Job Scheduling

Automate Schedule is a powerful enterprise job scheduling solution that integrates workflows across Windows, UNIX, Linux, and IBM i systems from a central console. By handling tedious, manual processes both within and across your mission-critical applications, Automate Schedule saves time and resources for the work that moves your business forward. Deploys in Minutes—Not Weeks...
Blog

Tips for Managing Physical, Virtual, Cloud Environments

IT infrastructure is complex today. On-prem. Off-prem. Virtualization. The cloud. It’s up to IT to build this infrastructure, then distribute resources from its many miscellaneous parts to various services in the most efficient way possible. With so many different environments to track—many of them walled off from one another in data silos—service issues can be difficult to...
Article

How to Download an ODBC Driver

Performance Navigator® requires an ODBC connection to connect to your IBM i system, but it does not come with your PC’s operating system. IBM has a downloadable they’ve titled Access Client Solutions, which we recommend our customers use to get that ODBC connection.
Article

FAQs about Performance Navigator

Will this product hurt the performance of my IBM i®? You will not even notice that the product is working. The data gathering software is already part of the OS. I currently have a subscription to IBM's PM for Power service. How is Performance Navigator compared to PM? Glad you asked... Performance Navigator uses exactly the same input as PM for Power, Collection Services....
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Automate Schedule - Best Practices

Follow these best practices for Automate Schedule and maximize the use of your job scheduling software and avoid common pitfalls.