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How to Get Buy-In for Your IT Cost Optimization Strategy
By Per Bauer on Fri, 08/28/2020
Policy alone is rarely enough to influence change. Lasting impact requires buy-in from the organization and is best achieved using a mix of different influence levers.
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How to Do IT Cost Optimization
By Per Bauer
30% of hybrid IT spend is wasted. Whether you find that number shocking or not, you likely don’t know how to identify and eliminate the wasted spend while assuring performance.
Many organizations have adopted a “performance at any cost” mindset to ensure service delivery and choose to overprovision IT resources for peace of mind. But the cost of overprovisioning adds up and quickly becomes...
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How to Do IT Cost Optimization
Our years of experience shows that organizations waste 30% of their hybrid IT spend, on average. This article identifies the five key components of a cost optimization strategy and how to be successful with each of them.
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Making the Case for PowerVM
By Tom Huntington on Mon, 02/24/2020
Need to make a case to introduce PowerVM into your Power Systems environment? Read this article!
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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.
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Availability Reporting for Managed Service Providers
By Paul Ratchford on Wed, 02/12/2020
Proving that you are meeting service-level agreements shouldn’t be a wasted effort. In fact, it should strengthen your relationship with clients and help your team manage performance in the future. See how.
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Log File Monitoring in IBM i Server Suite
By Paul Ratchford on Mon, 01/27/2020
Log File Monitor can monitor the contents of files in the integrated file system (IFS) and raise alerts based on this content. Read on to learn more.
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Halcyon for Managed Service Providers
Fortra Takes Your Managed Services to the Next Level
In today’s economy, managed service providers try to get by with what they have, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t something better out there. Whether you host your customers’ systems in your data center or provide remote monitoring or cloud-based services, Fortra has a technical solution and a commercial model to suit your business.
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IBM i Server Suites
See Halycon's four IBM i software suite levels designed to run natively on your IBM i. Select the suite level that is right for your operations with confidence.
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Trap Receiver
Trap Receiver enables you to receive and interpret incoming SNMP traps from capable devices, automatically presenting them in the format of your choice.
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Task Supervisor
Task Supervisor can simplify your task management and allow you to take control of your IT task list.
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HA-MX Monitor
HA-MX Monitor ensures a maximum return on your investment for your MIMIX solution and helps eliminate lost income as a result of downtime.
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Powertech Compliance Monitor for IBM i
Compliance Monitor gathers a broad set of audit and security data from your Power Systems™ running IBM i. Schedule a demo today.
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Managing Your IBM i Audit Data
By Robin Tatam on Wed, 08/01/2018
Let’s face it; system administration remains a largely thankless task. From scheduling jobs to balancing workloads to answering messages in QSYSOPR, administrators and operators work diligently behind the scenes to ensure that IBM i servers are available to run mission-critical applications.
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A Beginner’s Guide to IBM i System Administration
Fri, 07/13/2018
Despite popular opinion, IBM i is not bulletproof and cannot completely manage itself. But the operating system does make it easier for administrators.
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Enterprise Console
View alerts generated on IBM i, AIX/VIOS, Linux, and Windows servers on a single, modern, centralized, graphical console. Plus, use Enterprise Console to receive SNMP traps from devices and software—both Fortra software and tools from other vendors.
Simplify Enterprise Management
Enterprise Console provides a real-time focal point for your IT infrastructure monitoring regardless of host...
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VCM
VCM allows you to get insight into your hybrid IT infrastructure, eliminate wasted spend, and prevent problems before they occur.