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Case Study

Sequel Streamlines Data Access at Fremont Insurance Company

A fire wipes out your crop and farm equipment…an off-course sail punctures a hole in the side of your new boat…a careless driver crashes into your bumper at a stoplight…a hailstorm damages the roof and siding on your home…. What would you do if one of these disasters happened to you? If you live in the state of Michigan, you might rely on the insurance protection of Fremont Insurance Company like...
IBM i Business Intelligence
Case Study

Sequel Provides a Complete Data Access Solution for Crete Carrier Corporation

Crete Carrier Corporation, headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, is one of the largest privately held truckload carriers in the United States. It wouldn’t be what it is today without the union of several specialists: Crete Carrier, Hunt Transportation of Omaha, Nebraska, and Shaffer Trucking of New Kingstown, Pennsylvania. The individual companies were successful for many years on their own, but by...
IBM i Business Intelligence
Article

Vityl and ITIL

Wed, 02/05/2014
TeamQuest (a Fortra company) can help organizations improve their chances at a successful ITIL implementation through the ITIL best practices listed in this article.
Automation
Article

Supporting ITIL Objectives

Tue, 02/04/2014
Many IT organizations are implementing ITIL as a strategy for improving IT Service Management. The ITIL framework provides best practices and structured processes for managing and delivering IT services.
Monitoring
Article

Implementing a Consolidation Strategy

Mon, 02/04/2013
Improve Service quality "IT organizations should engage in a server consolidation project with three major goals: cost reduction, agility improvement and service-level improvement." Source: “Key Issues for Servers,” Gartner Inc. GOAL: IMPLEMENT A CONSOLIDATION STRATEGY Many companies are re-evaluating their IT infrastructures in light of changing business practices, economic demands, and...
Automation
Blog

Ensure Availability at a Reasonable Cost to Meet Business SLAs

Mon, 02/04/2013
Availability is a key indicator of how successfully an IT organization is supporting the company’s business objectives. Are required service levels in terms of workload volume and response times being achieved consistently for the business units? If not, the impact can be significant: a stoppage or slowdown can, in a matter of minutes, disrupt your supply chain and result in lost transactions,...
Automation
Guide

How to Manage IT Resource Consumption

At an application level with Vityl Capacity Management In this guide, John Miecielica of Metavante, provides a step-by-step example showing how he uses Vityl Capacity Management to analyze IT resource consumption at an application level. This key capability is especially important in today’s environments where multiple applications run on a server or multiple servers might be required to...
Infrastructure Management
Guide

Commercial Clusters and Scalability

In this paper we present an introductory analysis of throughput scalability for update intensive workloads (such as measured by the TPC-C or TPC-W benchmarks) and how that scaling is limited by serialization effects in the software-hardware combination that comprises any platform.
Infrastructure Management
Guide

UNIX Load Average Part 1: How It Works

In this online article Dr. Gunther digs down into the UNIX kernel to find out how load averages (the “LA Triplets”) are calculated and how appropriate they are as capacity planning metrics.
Guide

UNIX Load Average: Reweighed

This is an unexpected Part 3 to the discussion about the UNIX load average metric answering the question of where the weight factor comes from.