Resources

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On-Demand Webinar
On-Demand Webinar

VTL Save Strategies on IBM i

By Rick Koenig
Tape-only backups are not secure. Think about it. Your organization allows third-parties to take tapes off-site for storage. Once the tapes are off-site, they’re out of your control. But there is good news.
IBM i Automation
On-Demand Webinar
On-Demand Webinar

Introduction to FlashCopy

By Chuck Stupca
Watch this webinar where IBM i expert Chuck Stupca explains how FlashCopy works and discusses the ways that it helps you build a better backup strategy for your IBM i environment.
IBM i Automation
On-Demand Webinar
On-Demand Webinar

Ask a Capacity Management Expert, Part One

Thu, 09/15/2016
Listen to this on-demand webinar to answer questions like: What does it take to be successful in capacity management? How do you manage capacity in the cloud? What are the common roadblocks—and how can we avoid them?
Infrastructure Management
Guide
Guide

Health and Risk: A New Paradigm for Capacity Management

Capacity management, considered by top analyst firms to be an essential process in any large IT organization, is often so complex that in today’s accelerated business world it cannot be effectively implemented. Changing priorities, increasing complexity and scalable cloud infrastructure have made traditional models for capacity management less relevant. A new paradigm for capacity management is...
Infrastructure Management
Minimize risk with capacity management tools
Blog
Blog

IT Risk Mitigation

By Per Bauer on Thu, 09/01/2016
It's a brave new world for IT. And it often seems impossible to predict future demand and guard against performance risks. You have mountains of data, scalable cloud infrastructures, and a complex web of IT environments. It's complicated, to say the least. And it's matched by skyrocketing consumer demand for and reliance on online services. Bottom line: outages are more dangerous to a company’s...
Automation
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Article
Article

4 Reasons to Add VTLs

By Tom Huntington on Tue, 08/30/2016
Backup and recovery processes are among the unsung heroes of data center operations. Though end results may not be readily apparent on an everyday basis, natural and digital disasters have a way of humbling companies that do not take this risk management discipline seriously.
IBM i Automation
Article
Article

Robot Best Practices

By Tom Huntington on Mon, 06/27/2016
Wondering about best practices for automating your IBM i processes with Robot systems management solutions? Take a look at this list and get off to a good start.
Automation
Monitoring