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Case Study
Case Study

Robot and Medical Mutual: A Prescription for Success

Medical Mutual has capitalized on its expertise and sound management to grow into a $1 billion company. Underpinning that success is its sound IT infrastructure, automated by Robot products from Fortra.
Automation
Monitoring
Article
Article

Vityl and ITIL

Wed, 02/05/2014
TeamQuest (a Fortra company) can help organizations improve their chances at a successful ITIL implementation through the ITIL best practices listed in this article.
Automation
Article
Article

Supporting ITIL Objectives

Tue, 02/04/2014
Many IT organizations are implementing ITIL as a strategy for improving IT Service Management. The ITIL framework provides best practices and structured processes for managing and delivering IT services.
Monitoring
Article
Article

Implementing a Consolidation Strategy

Mon, 02/04/2013
Improve Service quality "IT organizations should engage in a server consolidation project with three major goals: cost reduction, agility improvement and service-level improvement." Source: “Key Issues for Servers,” Gartner Inc. GOAL: IMPLEMENT A CONSOLIDATION STRATEGY Many companies are re-evaluating their IT infrastructures in light of changing business practices, economic demands, and security...
Automation
Blog
Blog

Ensure Availability at a Reasonable Cost to Meet Business SLAs

Mon, 02/04/2013
Availability is a key indicator of how successfully an IT organization is supporting the company’s business objectives. Are required service levels in terms of workload volume and response times being achieved consistently for the business units? If not, the impact can be significant: a stoppage or slowdown can, in a matter of minutes, disrupt your supply chain and result in lost transactions...
Automation
Guide
Guide

How to Manage IT Resource Consumption

At an application level with Vityl Capacity Management In this guide, John Miecielica of Metavante, provides a step-by-step example showing how he uses Vityl Capacity Management to analyze IT resource consumption at an application level. This key capability is especially important in today’s environments where multiple applications run on a server or multiple servers might be required to implement...
Infrastructure Management
Guide
Guide

Commercial Clusters and Scalability

In this paper we present an introductory analysis of throughput scalability for update intensive workloads (such as measured by the TPC-C or TPC-W benchmarks) and how that scaling is limited by serialization effects in the software-hardware combination that comprises any platform.
Infrastructure Management