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Article

Take Your Work to Warp Drive!

By Chuck Losinski on Thu, 05/16/2019
If your mission is work management, IBM i is the best starship in the fleet. Routing certain types of work into subsystems and memory pools, separating dissimilar work, and giving jobs the appropriate CPU time—this is work management the Windows world can only dream about.
Monitoring
Article

Two-Way Message Response with Robot

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 05/01/2019
You have the afternoon off—but not the responsibility of monitoring your system for issues. This includes responding to application and system messages as they occur on your production IBM i jobs. You don’t want to carry your laptop around just in case you need to VPN back to answer a message that is waiting on your month-end process. What option do you have?
Monitoring
Article

Interacting with Powertech SIEM Agent for IBM i

By Robin Tatam on Thu, 03/21/2019
Your organization has invested in a security information event manager, or SIEM, to receive and analyse security and event log information from a variety of servers. Now they want to also get this information from their IBM Power Systems server.
IBM i Cybersecurity
Scale of IT capacity planning tools that balance cost and risk
Article

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...
Automation
Article

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.
Automation
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...
PEDM case study
Article

A Case for PEDM

Tue, 09/25/2018
Learn how one company benefitted from incorporating Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS), a PEDM solution, into their security portfolio.
Password Vaulting
Article

Three Signs You’ve Outgrown Password Vaulting

Tue, 09/25/2018
The article highlights the signs to look out for that it’s time to consider add another type of PAM solution—Privilege Elevation and Delegation Management (PEDM)—to help your organization as it continues to grow.
Article

The Lifecycle of a Security Event

Wed, 08/22/2018
This article seeks to illustrate the contrast between stagnant security events at an organization without a SIEM, and the distinct life cycle of events when a SIEM is streamlining security threats.
Identity and Access Management
Article

The Six Ws of Granular Access Control

Wed, 08/01/2018
This article takes a closer look at why granular access control is so effective by placing limitations on who can get into your organization’s system, where, when and how they can access it, and what they can do with it.
Infrastructure and Data Protection
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.