Article
A Modern Approach to Performance Management
Wed, 08/24/2016
Using modern performance monitoring tools, you can build a successful strategy for performance management and quickly add value in your organization.
Blog
IT Security Compliance 101
By Robin Tatam on Sun, 08/21/2016
In this compliance 101 primer, we'll look at three high-profile breaches from the past year, each of which shows what can go wrong when data oversight isn't up to snuff. Along the way, we'll discuss some basic fixes that can help shore up network defenses.
Guide
Managing Your IBM Enterprise with Halcyon
System administrators need more control and less complexity. This guide helps to identify the tools they need to be more effective at managing their enterprise.
Guide
Checklists for Checklists on Checklists... Why Not Automate?
The topic of this white paper is specifically around the advantages of automating one of the last bastions of manual, hands-on management—the operation and maintenance of IT platforms, systems, networks and architectures.
Guide
6 Recommendations for Smarter Spooled File Processing on your IBM i
Learn how to improve the flow of essential information around your organization, save costs, and free up your time.
Guide
Effective Log Management
IBM’s customers are turning to Power VM virtualization to consolidate multiple workloads onto fewer systems increasing server utilization and reducing cost. However a virtualized server landscape on several different IBM platforms (IBM Power Systems™, IBM System x®, and IBM BladeCenter®) may reduce hardware complexity but this puts a strain on supporting the entire lifecycle of analysis,...
Guide
13 Tips to Write Secure Applications and Boost IBM i Security
Barely a day passes without new headlines reporting another cyber attack, policy violation, or data breach. Secretly, we breathe a sigh of relief that it happened to someone else, but most of us know that we’ll all eventually feel the impact in some capacity.
Guide
Two Factor Authentication for IBM i
Organizations facing a more advanced threat landscape and a complex regulatory environment require a solution which addresses the need for securely controlling access to existing systems and applications. In addition, this solution should not increase the workload on support, application providers or the end user.
Guide
Download “How IT Professionals Can Navigate PCI DSS Compliance” Guide
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) applies to every organization that processes credit or debit card information. This includes merchants and third-party service providers that store, process, or transmit credit card data.
The launch of PCI DSS helped expose serious security shortcomings, failures to follow security best practices, and a...
Blog
“Confessions” of a CIO: How to Tackle the Toughest Business Challenges
Tue, 08/16/2016
A new book on CIOs should put ‘the cat among the pigeons’ and create some interesting debate amongst IT professionals, particularly about risk taking and tough management decisions.
Press Release
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
AAA Life Leverages Fortra Solutions for IT Efficiency
Part of the American Automobile Association (AAA) family, AAA Life Insurance Company offers a variety of competitive life insurance, annuity, and travel accident products. With over one million policies, many people rely on AAA Life to help provide protection for their loved ones.
As Senior Systems Engineer at AAA Life, Randy Wittner is in charge of their IBM i environment, overseeing two S824...
Guide
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