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IBM i marketplace continues to expand
Fortra has published its seventh annual IBM i Marketplace Survey. It shows that use of the IBM i platform has surged during the pandemic. What makes this growth more interesting, is that most of the growth has been on-premises or in private datacentres not in the cloud.
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Security remains top focus
Fortra has published its seventh annual IBM i Marketplace Survey, exploring how organizations use the IBM i platform and the IT initiatives it supports. Security concerns intensify with challenges over remote worker access.
Case Study
Robot Console Enables Mesilla Valley Transportation to Prevent Lost Revenue
Based in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, Mesilla Valley Transportation is one of the largest locally owned truckload carriers in the U.S. The company began in 1982 and specializes in time-sensitive service between major manufacturing areas in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
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Skytap Partners with HelpSystems (now Fortra) to Bring Robot HA to the Public Cloud
Skytap has partnered with Fortra to bring Robot HA to the public cloud, accelerating the movement of IBM i data to the cloud, keeping it synchronized, and ensuring high availability and disaster recovery capabilities for IBM i applications running in Skytap.
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Robot HA Keeps Nesco Resource Out of Harm’s Way
Nesco Resource is one of the leading national staffing and employment agencies offering services in temporary staffing, direct hire, and a host of other staffing and recruiting solutions. Through its 100+ branches, the Cleveland, Ohio-based company has 60,000 people annually on its paycheck roster.
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HelpSystems (now Fortra) Fills Encryption Gap With Linoma Buy
Despite all the IBM i security vendors that Fortra has bought over the years--and there have been at least five of them--the company has lacked one key security capability valued by enterprises: encryption.
Case Study
Trident Seafoods Streamlines Business Processes with Robot Schedule
A large seafood manufacturer automates cross-platform job scheduling dependencies around Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. Hear how.
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Powertech Protects Healthcare Company’s IBM i Systems to the Max
When a healthcare organization faced stringent regulations like HIPAA, PowerTech's security products closed the security gaps on IBM i and helped protect confidential data.
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SunGard Public Sector Uses Halcyon's Operation Center
Halcyon’s Operations Center Suite enabled SunGard Public Sector to use an intuitive tool to automatically handle the vast majority of alerts arising from the monitoring solution, with business-critical alerts sent to a technician trained to immediately deal with systems issues.
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The BGL Group Monitors Across IBM i and AIX with Halcyon Network Server Suite
BGL Group is one of the UK’s largest personal lines insurance groups. It has over 2,400 employees located at its headquarters in Peterborough and at contact centers in Coventry and Sunderland. The organization serves more than 4.6 million customers through a number of market-leading brands.
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Remote Monitoring Using Operations Center Suite and Network Server Suite
The City of Corpus Christi uses Halcyon’s Network Server Suite, a fully integrated solution that manages all network servers and devices from a single console, and Halcyon’s Operations Center Suite, an enterprise console for IBM i centralized monitoring and management, to streamline their department.
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Fortra Integrates McAfee Embedded Control Antivirus Protection for Power Systems Servers
As Bytware and IBM realized the serious exposure to Power Systems users, they turned to McAfee to integrate the McAfee Embedded Control scanning engine into the Powertech Antivirus product.
Case Study
Focal Point Transitions to Cross-Platform Automation with Fortra
Focal Point has experienced great success since they began using Fortra enterprise job scheduling solutions. One huge ROI benefit is that Focal Point’s IT team saves time—they no longer have to monitor the job processes constantly.
Case Study
AAA Life Leverages Robot for IT Efficiency
As Senior Systems Engineer, Randy Wittner has over 25 years of experience on IBM i, and AAA Life was not the first place he encountered Robot. “I’ve worked at many companies that have had Robot Schedule, so good market share,” said Wittner. “It’s very reliable, easy to upgrade. It automates a lot for us in our process.”
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Prime Therapeutics Trusts Robot Save With 7.5 Million Lives
One of the most important IT functions in any business is having a reliable backup and recovery system in place. That’s where Robot Save plays a vital role at Prime Therapeutics.
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Polaris Finds "The Way Out" with Robot Schedule
When asked what features of Robot Schedule they use the most, the lead system administrator at Polaris thinks of group jobs, reactive jobs, and override codes.
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Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency Feels at Home with Fortra
Centralized job scheduling and managed file transfers streamline processing at PHFA. See how.