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The True Cost of Workload-Related Outages
Thu, 06/06/2019
Underestimating the consequences of downtime can be hugely detrimental to your productivity. Accurately calculating those costs won’t just prevent disasters, but also help you effectively manage your capacity planning efforts.
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What is Capacity Planning?
By Scott Adams on Wed, 06/05/2019
What is Capacity Planning?
IT capacity planning is a process used to manage IT service delivery. Business services depend on IT resources in most organizations. Retail organizations need IT to make sure their POS system stays up and running – even on days with unusually high transaction counts, like Black Friday. Banks and other financial services providers...
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What’s the IBM i Community Saying About Business Intelligence?
Hear how the IBM i community achieve their business intelligence goals.
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Multinational Healthcare Organization Implements Fast, Easy, and Secure Data Reporting
Wed, 05/15/2019
Making data accessible and ensuring data privacy are essential in today’s healthcare market.
One multinational healthcare organization faced inefficient processes that slowed them down. Employees around the organization were left waiting for reports with vital information like admissions, discharges, bills, and collections.
So, they turned to Sequel Data...
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How to Keep Cloud Costs Down
By Per Bauer
Migrating to the cloud doesn't have to include rude financial surprises. If you know where cost can creep in and steal your ROI, you can plan appropriately to avoid it.
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What's New in Performance and Capacity Management?
By Per Bauer
Vityl Capacity Management is an all-in-one solution that makes it easy for organizations to proactively manage performance and do capacity planning in hybrid IT environments—physical, virtual, cloud, or container. Learn how to simplify performance and capacity management with Vityl Capacity Management.
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5 Myths About Encryption on IBM i
By Robin Tatam on Mon, 03/04/2019
Keep reading as we investigate five common IBM i encryption myths and separate reality from fantasy.
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8 Things Your Capacity Management Tool Should Do
By Per Bauer on Fri, 02/15/2019
A capacity management tool should help your IT team in 8 key ways. If you're replacing your tool or starting a capacity management practice, this is the place to start.
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Buyer's Guide: Capacity Management Tool Checklist
By Per Bauer on Fri, 02/08/2019
What makes a good capacity management tool? There are six major factors to consider when choosing a capacity management tool, and the right tool should account for all of them.
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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...
Guide
Reevaluating “Evaluating Scalability Parameters: A Fitting End”
In this white paper, the root cause of the deviations from the expected results are explained and an improved scheme is proposed for getting more accurate estimates.
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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.