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The History of Run Book Automation

Automating the run book is a huge productivity increase for the oeprations team in any data center. Find out what the Fortra experts have to say about the history of run book automation.
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The 5 Key Metrics to Improve Your Data Center Workflows

You’re already managing thousands of workflows, batch jobs, and other background processes using the same staff and tools you’ve had for years, but business demands keep adding more to your plate. You know you need to optimize, improve visibility, and start justifying the cost of new resources before it’s too late.
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How to Go from Simple to Strategic Capacity Management

Capacity Management Strategies If IT was like a restaurant…then capacity management should be like the restaurant manager (aka Maître D’). Unfortunately, too many organizations are using capacity management as the clean-up department. When something goes wrong, capacity management fixes it. And while that used to work, that’s not the best practice to follow today. A Brief History of Capacity...
On-Demand Webinar

3 Steps to Integrated Business Process Scheduling

You use cron or the Windows Task Scheduler for scheduling on your Windows, AIX, UNIX, and Linux systems, but the program's limitations frustrate you. You have difficulty coordinating schedules among multiple servers, or you're tired of creating complex scripts to deal with dependencies in your schedule processes. In this webinar, we show you how to: Schedule a job based on a system event Set up...
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Scheduling for the People (Not for Computers)

If you understand the capabilities of different job schedulers, you’ll know the extent to which your company would benefit from a more advanced enterprise job scheduler.
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Capacity Planning

Have you ever experienced an online service outage? It’s like losing half your physical locations without any warning. Downtime is a huge problem. It stops your revenue stream. It compromises customer loyalty. It damages your brand’s reputation. And it wastes hours and IT resources to fix the problem—when it shouldn’t have been a problem to begin with. Isn’t it about time you prevented downtime...