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The Difference Between OCR and IDP
Thu, 06/23/2022
Compare optical character recognition (OCR) and intelligent document processing (IDP) to learn when to use each to make structured and unstructured data more usable.
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Optimizing Containers, Kubernetes and OpenShift
By Per Bauer on Thu, 09/30/2021
The container deployment model offers component autonomy, elasticity, and scalability in a way that no other framework has done before. But to reap the benefits, you need to adopt new ways of managing and optimizing your environments and their underlying resources. Learn how to manage the performance and resource planning of container workloads.
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Vityl Capacity Management 2.6 Advances Service and Cluster Monitoring and Increases Kubernetes Support
Fri, 02/07/2020
The latest release of Vityl Capacity Management includes improved dashboard capabilities, automated intelligent alerting, and other enhancements.
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Vityl Capacity Management 2.5 Increases Hybrid Cloud Support
By Scott Adams on Wed, 10/23/2019
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Comparing Different Methods for Calculating Health and Risk
By Per Bauer on Fri, 02/08/2019
How do you calculate IT health and risk ? There are different methods you can use, depending on your needs. The most common methods for determining IT infrastructure health are: Threshold comparison Enhanced threshold comparison Event detection Variation from normal Allocation comparison Queuing theory for health On the other hand, the most common methods for calculating IT infrastructure risk are...
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A Roadmap for Consolidation
Mon, 02/04/2019
There are five key steps when planning a consolidation strategy. Considerations for each step are outlined below.
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Global IT Management Survey 2016—NewsWorthy Analysis
Mon, 02/01/2016
Results of a Kelton survey in which IT departments in large enterprises are tasked with responding to numerous business-impacting issues on any given day, including equipment failures, fluctuating website demand, and data security.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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Optimize IT Services with a Capacity Management Information System (CMIS)
Sun, 01/30/2011
A good Capacity Management Information System (CMIS), combined with proven Capacity Management processes, can help you simplify IT Service Optimization; keeping your systems and applications running efficiently and reliably.
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UNIX Load Average: An Addendum
By Neil J. Gunther on Fri, 02/05/2010
Clarifying the calc-load () function of the Linux kernel.
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IT Service Optimization: Reaching New Heights
By Per Bauer on Sat, 11/15/2008
Survey Says Chaos Reigns A global survey of more than 300 IT executives, directors and managers revealed that the majority of IT organizations (53%) rank in the chaotic level of IT Service Optimization maturity. That means these organizations lack a consistent process to manage and improve the quality and efficiency of their services and will continue firefighting performance and capacity issues...
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Modeling Multi-Threaded Processors
Tue, 01/29/2008
There are substantial differences between single-threaded and multi-threaded architectures. The new capabilities combined with the easy-to-use Vityl Capacity Management interface makes it easy to predict application and service performance on the new multi-threaded architectures.