Article
Automating Terminal Emulation
Sun, 03/03/2013
This month’s sample task demonstrates how to use the Automate Terminal Emulation Actions to interact with a terminal system and import the data from the system into a file.
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...
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,...
Article
Sample Workflow: Query Access Database & Call a Web Service
Mon, 10/29/2012
This month’s sample workflow demonstrates how to use Automate’s Web Services and XML actions.
Article
Sample Workflow: Email Integration and Automation in Customer Relationship Management
Fri, 02/10/2012
Here's how an Automate user streamlined customer interaction with email automation using an Automate task for Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Exchange.
Article
Automate File Uploads to SharePoint
Tue, 12/13/2011
Here's the dilemma: You need to synchronize a set of files from a network share to a SharePoint team site on a daily basis, but these files are not just going into one SharePoint document library. The solution: Just automate the whole process with Automate.
Article
Discover Automate's New Capabilities for Office 365
Wed, 08/03/2011
With the eagerly anticipated release of Microsoft’s cloud-based service, Office 365, on June 28, Network Automation immediately set to work on ensuring the current Microsoft Office automation facilities in Automate were enhanced to provide its customers with equivalent automation capabilities.
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...
Article
AutoMate Bridges the Gap Between Disparate Applications
Tue, 03/08/2011
Automate from Fortra provides application security, streamlined communication including sending emails and text messages to IT regarding successful or failed tasks, error handling, and flexibility and versatility via its highly coveted development interface (no programming or scripting needed).
Article
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.
Blog
Why Your Business Needs Capacity Management: The Importance of Capacity Management
Fri, 01/28/2011
The modern CIO needs to be ahead of the game – anticipating the business’s needs and being able to meet them as they arise. All too often, however, the IT function is caught on the back foot, reacting to events after they’ve happened.
Article
Automate Version 8 - Extending Automation into the Cloud and Virtualization
Wed, 12/01/2010
We are pleased to announce the latest release of the Automate family of products - Version 8.0. This upgrade includes Automate Professional, Automate Premium, Automate BPA Server Standard and Automate BPA Server Enterprise.
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.
Guide
UNIX Load Average Part 1: How It Works
In this online article Dr. Gunther digs down into the UNIX kernel to find out how load averages (the “LA Triplets”) are calculated and how appropriate they are as capacity planning metrics.
Guide
UNIX Load Average Part 2: Not Your Average Average
This is the second in a two part-series where we explore the use of UNIX load averages in performance analysis and capacity planning.
Guide
UNIX Load Average: Reweighed
This is an unexpected Part 3 to the discussion about the UNIX load average metric answering the question of where the weight factor comes from.
Guide
How to Get Unbelievable Load Test Results
This article is about delusions that arise from incorrect interpretation of load test measurements.
Guide
Capacity Calculations: Handle with Care
This paper discusses avoiding calculation results that are more precise than is justified by precision of corresponding measurement input data.