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Eight Different Ways to Use HA at My Organization

A flexible, affordable high availability solution can do more for your organization than provide business continuity after a disaster. Discover the many ways HA can help you avoid downtime and keep your data and applications accessible to end users.
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What Is NVMe?

NVMe is a communications interface plus high-performance protocol for accessing non-volatile memory. Learn more here.
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Be in Control of Your ERP

Many ERP packages have built-in schedulers. However, these schedulers are typically not flexible or robust enough to meet the needs of even the smallest data center.
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Realize ROI with Robot

Robot has a reputation for providing high-quality systems management software and backing it up with great support. These additional benefits can help you justify the cost of automation at your company.
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Five Steps for Successful IBM i Role Swaps

Your high availability solution is only as solid as your role swaps. You can’t be certain that your systems are switch-ready unless you test. Follow these steps to start testing your role swaps regularly.
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VIOS Performance Monitoring Commands

You might think VIOS is set and forget, but it’s not. Luckily, VIOS includes a number of command line utilities to help you obtain performance-related information from your VIOS partitions.
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Increased Home Working is Recognized by CISOs as the Cybersecurity Threat with the Potential to Cause the Most Damage

We work with many of the biggest Financial Services (FS) enterprises in the US and hear first-hand about some of the cybersecurity challenges they face on a daily basis. It’s a tough world out there and it’s getting tougher, according to the findings in our recent survey of 250 global FS CISOs and CIOs.Almost two-thirds of global FS firms have...
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Monitoring Memory Thresholds on IBM i

Learn how to interpret the data you find on the Work with System Status (WRKSYSSTS) panel and how to set memory thresholds to avoid thrashing and optimize IBM i performance tuning.
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Why Should I Automate My IBM i?

Automation means more than efficiency, accuracy, and ROI. It has a real impact on the people who love and work with the platform every day, as well as those who will fill their shoes in days to come.
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IBM i Cloud Security Considerations

As you consider taking your IBM i to the cloud, cybersecurity will no doubt top your list of concerns. And for good reason. It’s important to remember that the cloud is kind of a lie. Your sensitive data is simply being sent to someone else’s server, and that server has a physical location somewhere. Just like on-prem cybersecurity, IBM i cloud security can be divided into two parts: ...
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The Evolution of Cybersecurity Solutions for Organizations

In the early days of the internet, cybersecurity was fairly straightforward, with all solutions and strategies geared toward prevention. While prevention remains critical, cybersecurity has also had to evolve, with businesses layering their defenses and regularly evaluating the status of their safeguards to adapt to change—whether those be organizational or within the wider cybersecurity sphere.