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3 Steps to Integrated Business Process Scheduling

You use cron or the Windows Task Scheduler for scheduling on your Windows, AIX, UNIX, and Linux systems, but the program's limitations frustrate you. You have difficulty coordinating schedules among multiple servers, or you're tired of creating complex scripts to deal with dependencies in your schedule processes. In this webinar, we show you how to: Schedule a job based on a system event Set up...
Article

Scheduling for the People (Not for Computers)

If you understand the capabilities of different job schedulers, you’ll know the extent to which your company would benefit from a more advanced enterprise job scheduler.
Guide

Why You Need an Enterprise Scheduler

The best way to resolve the issue of multiple schedulers is with an enterprise scheduler that can build cross-platform job streams to handle the different applications.
Blog

Capacity Planning

Have you ever experienced an online service outage? It’s like losing half your physical locations without any warning. Downtime is a huge problem. It stops your revenue stream. It compromises customer loyalty. It damages your brand’s reputation. And it wastes hours and IT resources to fix the problem—when it shouldn’t have been a problem to begin with. Isn’t it about time you prevented downtime...
Article

Why Everyone Has a Crush on Linux—even IBM

Linux helps enterprises make IT more scalable and flexible. Supplemented by dedicated, Linux-compatible tools for job scheduling—like Automate Schedule—put organizations in a prime position to streamline operations to meet changing requirements.
Blog

Does Your Business Belong in the Cloud?

The cloud is all about access. It’s about getting access on-demand, access to resources needed for your growing demands, and controlling who has access to your information. Everybody is talking about it, but is the cloud the right answer for your business needs? And if so, which one?
Blog

Database Transaction Log Management

Don't let database transaction logs weigh you down. Find out how to preserve data integrity and consume less disk space.
Guide

Beyond Cron, Part II: Practical Task Scheduling Deployment

One of the best things about the UNIX environment (aside from being stable and efficient) is the vast array of software tools available to help you do your job. Traditionally, a UNIX tool does only one thing, but does that one thing very well. For example, grep is very easy to use and can search vast amounts of data quickly. The find tool can find a particular file or files based on all kinds of...
Blog

How DR Compliance Requirements Impact HA Decisions

Disaster recovery requirements are part of the geographic and industry regulations that affect our organizations. Having the right solutions in place can help to avoid penalties and make audits go smoothly. Read on to create a complete compliance toolkit.