Blog
IBM's Steve Will Talks AS/400, Cognitive Systems, and Everything in Between
By Tom Huntington on Thu, 08/23/2018
For busy IT pros who love their IBM i (or AS/400), we've summarized Steve Will's hugely popular, 60-minute webinar in a 6-minute blog post. Enjoy!
On-Demand Webinar
AS/400 to IBM i: And We’re Just Getting Started
By Steve Will
Celebrate 30 years of innovation on IBM i with IBM’s Steve Will and Alison Butterill. Watch now!
On-Demand Webinar
The Secret to Speedy Remediation
Learn how to cut your remediation time from hours to minutes thanks to an integration between two Fortra products, Intermapper and Automate.
Blog
Where to Find Work Orders When the System Goes Down
By Tom Huntington on Thu, 02/15/2018
Paper work orders are a thing of the past. But system failure could deliver a nasty surprise to manufacturers and distributors who don’t have HA in play. Read on for more.
Blog
How to Get Started with NIST 800-171 Compliance
By Kevin Jackson on Fri, 09/22/2017
Are you ready to report your NIST 800-171 compliance status by the end of the year? If you do business with the federal government, you need to comply with SP NIST 800-171 by the end of the year. Now is the time to implement your compliance plan.
Case Study
How Peoples Telephone Reboots Equipment Instantly with Network Monitoring & Automation
What if you could reduce an eight-hour outage… to no time at all?
That’s exactly what Peoples Telephone Cooperative did. Faced with sudden equipment failures, they started monitoring their network… then went one step further to automatically fix the outages. Now this savvy telecommunications service provider saves countless man hours, makes sure technicians get a full night’s sleep every night,...
Blog
The Benefits of a Self-Healing Network
By Kevin Jackson on Tue, 08/29/2017
Self-healing networks can make your life easier, save you time (and your organization money), and help eliminate downtime through real-time monitoring and automation.
Article
How to Automate Report Balancing Across Windows and IBM i Servers
By Chuck Losinski on Fri, 06/02/2017
Watch this short video to see how easy report balancing can be when using our integrated solution of Robot Schedule Enterprise and Automate.
Article
Intermapper vs. NetBrain: How Do They Stack Up?
By Kevin Jackson on Fri, 05/26/2017
You’ll find multiple tools that do network mapping, monitoring, and automation. Intermapper and NetBrain are two of them. Find out what they do and how to choose the right one for you.
Blog
Speedy Network Remediation with Intermapper and Automate
By Kevin Jackson on Thu, 03/30/2017
Learn how to cut your remediation time from hours to minutes thanks to a seamless interface between two Fortra products, Intermapper and Automate.
Blog
The Top 11 Network Automation Examples
By Kevin Jackson on Mon, 03/27/2017
As your network grows in size and complexity, automation can free up network administrators from repetitive, manual tasks to focus on more strategic, fulfilling projects.
Blog
How DR Compliance Requirements Impact HA Decisions
By Tom Huntington on Wed, 03/01/2017
Disaster recovery requirements are part of the geographic and industry regulations that affect our organizations. Having the right solutions in place can help to avoid penalties and make audits go smoothly. Read on to create a complete compliance toolkit.
Article
Secret Capabilities of Robot Schedule Revealed
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 01/31/2017
We recently surveyed our Robot Schedule technical support group for “ah ha!” moments that they’ve helped customers realize over the past few years. These tips from our tech gurus have helped customers automate jobs that needed to check a data area before running, track non-Robot jobs for reporting purposes, and check the status of a file before running a job.
Article
What Makes the Good Morning Report So Good?
By Chuck Losinski on Mon, 01/30/2017
There is nothing like waking up to find the latest news delivered right to your doorstep, waiting for you on the printer, or sent to you electronically. For years, our customers have started their days reading the Good Morning report from Robot Schedule.
Article
Customer Spotlight: Heartland Financial USA, Inc.
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 01/17/2017
The operations team was excited to share how Robot job scheduling and monitoring software has helped them manage their processing needs across platforms from their IBM i.
On-Demand Webinar
Can You Achieve Business Continuity After a Disaster?
What roadblocks have prevented you from taking on a high availability project? Don’t let budget or resources be your excuse for putting off HA one more day. Learn how you can achieve HA with ease.
On-Demand Webinar
The Secret to Getting Automation off the Ground
You’ve been running your computer systems through a mishmash of manual run books, built-in schedulers, multiple homegrown scripts, and tribal knowledge for years. Let’s be honest. What’s harder to manage: your systems or your patchwork solutions?
On-Demand Webinar
Simple Management for Centralized IT Environments
In this 30-minute recording, Tom Huntington discusses the benefits that automated systems management can bring to centralized IT environment.
On-Demand Webinar
Enterprise Job Scheduling Makes Your Job More Manageable
Automated job schedulers should make all the jobs in your environment more manageable, including your own.