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 over the operations of...
Blog
Make 2019 the Year of Capacity Planning in IT
Thu, 01/17/2019
You know IT capacity planning is important. But have you been doing it?
On-Demand Webinar
What's New in Vityl Capacity Management - 2.0
By Scott Adams
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.
Sat, 11/03/2018
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 too much over the...
Blog
Ask a Capacity Management Expert (Webinar Recap)
By Per Bauer on Wed, 10/03/2018
Get the answers to some of the hottest capacity management questions.
Blog
Tips for Managing Physical, Virtual, Cloud Environments
By Per Bauer on Thu, 08/30/2018
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 diagnose and anticipate...
Article
How to Download an ODBC Driver
Wed, 07/25/2018
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.
Blog
Making the Best Capacity Management Tool Even Better
By Scott Adams on Mon, 07/16/2018
The best capacity management tool just got better. With just one tool, manage your entire hybrid IT environment, prevent outages, and keep services up and running.
Article
FAQs about Performance Navigator
Thu, 07/12/2018
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. Performance Navigator...
On-Demand Webinar
Optimize Your Cloud Capacity
By Per Bauer
How do you keep cloud costs down as you migrate your workloads? Watch this webinar to learn how to improve your total cost of ownership.
Blog
How to Do Cloud Capacity Planning
Tue, 04/24/2018
Operating in the cloud can have some great benefits compared to operating with on-premises software. That’s why surveyed IT professionals predict 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by the year 2020.
On-Demand Webinar
Simplify Capacity Management
Thu, 04/19/2018
Watch this webinar to learn how to truly understand your systems and server capacity with simple but effective methods. Plan for future growth—even in your virtual environments.
On-Demand Webinar
How to Do Capacity Management in the Cloud
By Per Bauer
Watch this webinar to learn how to manage your cloud infrastructure and answer questions like "what does it take to successfully manage capacity in the cloud?"
Guide
Continuously Optimizing IT in Financial Terms
CHALLENGES : Virtualization and increasingly complex agile computing environments are creating difficulties for IT financial controllers and for IT Financial Management (ITFM). Virtualization breaks the long-standing direct, one-to-one correlation between cost-allocated physical hardware and the IT services it supports. Increasingly dynamic, multi-layered applications have made it more difficult...
On-Demand Webinar
Getting Started with Your Cloud Migration
By Keith Digby
You’ve decided to migrate to the cloud, but what migration strategy will keep your costs down and be most efficient? You have two main strategies for moving workloads to the cloud: Refactoring or Lift and Shift. Refactoring requires more time on the front end to optimize workloads prior to migrating. Lift and Shift moves eligible workloads right away, optimizing later. Watch this webinar to learn...