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Guide

A Single Pane of Glass for Multi-Platform Systems Management

Bring disparate systems, platforms, devices, and applications together in one place and on one screen to make systems management easier and create a consistent and common methodology to varying departments within the IT infrastructure. Combining Halcyon’s Enterprise Console, Operations Center Suite, and Network Server Suite can provide a single pane of glass for managing your IT environment. See how here.
Monitoring
Article

Google Forms May Be Free, But Does it Give Your Organization All It Needs?

By Greg J. Schmidt on Thu, 07/22/2021
With tighter budgets, everyone is looking for ways to optimize costs. But sometimes a free tool isn’t the answer—especially when it comes to electronic forms. While the lack of a price tag might make Google Forms look like a good option for your business, ask yourself: are you getting everything you need from a forms solution? Before you make your decision, check out these three reasons why a...
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Intelligent Automation: The Smartest Way to Automate

Thu, 07/22/2021
Robotic process automation (RPA) is great for handling repetitive manual tasks, but what about tasks involving data that require more critical thinking? Turn to Intelligent Automation (IA). Discover how IA uses machine learning and other cutting-edge technology to take the pain out of data classification and analysis. Whether your data is structured (from a spreadsheet, database, or portal),...
Automation
Guide

5th Annual IBM AIX Community Survey Findings

The AIX Community Survey, now in its fifth consecutive year, goes in-depth with IT teams to gain a unique perspective into how this platform is being used today and how teams envision using it in the future. Over the years, the respondents of the survey have expanded to include a variety of industries, geographies, and titles within IT. More than 100 IT professionals in North America, EMEA, and APAC participated in this year’s survey, and this input enables all of us to understand the role of AIX with new clarity.
Automation
Compliance
Monitoring
Blog

Are MSPs Right for Me?

Mon, 04/12/2021
Figure out if MSPs are right for your organization. What are the risks and rewards of managed service providers?
IBM i Automation
setting commands on VIOS
Article

VIOS Performance Monitoring Commands

By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 03/10/2021
You might think VIOS is set and forget, but it’s not. Luckily, VIOS includes a number of command line utilities to help you obtain performance-related information from your VIOS partitions.
Monitoring
Guide

Why Should You Monitor IBM MQ?

IBM MQ is a middleware product that allows messages (think data or information) to be sent and received to and from similar or dissimilar platforms with guaranteed delivery. Read this guide to learn the value of monitoring IBM MQ.
Monitoring
Reduce file transfer risk
Blog

How to remove the data security risk from file transfers

Thu, 07/30/2020
Organizations that allow the use of free or unsecured file transfer services not only leave themselves vulnerable to data loss, ransomware and a whole range of other cyber threats, but they have no control or visibility of what information is being transferred and who receives it.
Data Protection
Article

Clearswift – staying safe and secure throughout the coronavirus pandemic

Thu, 04/16/2020
The coronavirus (COVID-19) situation is changing rapidly on a day-to-day basis, so we wanted to take this opportunity to address what it means for Clearswift and Fortra as a global organization and an employer, and how it might impact on our customers, prospects and partners.
Data Protection
Article

All About Alert Intelligence

By Andrew Bullivant on Thu, 02/13/2020
Thanks to intelligent filtering, the Alert Intelligence feature included in IBM i Server Suite improves the quality of IBM i alerts while reducing the quantity, providing increased application availability and system uptime.
Monitoring