Guide
Reevaluating “Evaluating Scalability Parameters: A Fitting End”
In this white paper, the root cause of the deviations from the expected results are explained and an improved scheme is proposed for getting more accurate estimates.
Article
A Roadmap for Consolidation
Mon, 02/04/2019
There are five key steps when planning a consolidation strategy. Considerations for each step are outlined below.
Guide
How to Do Capacity Planning Guide
Your business can’t afford downtime. But with ever-growing IT infrastructure, keeping applications up and running isn’t easy. Every CIO or IT manager has limited time, money, or personnel budget to keep IT running. Without a solution, your IT environment risks performance bottlenecks, outages, and an overall inability to predict future needs.
That’s where capacity planning comes in. Capacity...
Case Study
Humanitarian Organization Reduces Application Slowdowns by 94%
Organization Description: This humanitarian group organizes more than 500,000 volunteer employees to help victims of tragedy across the United States.
Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management (formerly TeamQuest): Vityl helped this non-profit reduce the number of application slowdowns by 94 percent in only four months.
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Case Study
Financial Services Giant Optimizes, Virtualizes, and Saves Big Money
Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management (formerly TeamQuest): Vityl helped to significantly optimize the physical CPU base, maximize usage of CPU and memory resources, lower the cost per unit of CPU to clients and improve the time to market. The Fortune 500 financial services company now charges 25 percent less per unit of CPU in its virtualized environment. These benefits have helped justify...
Case Study
Capacity Planning at a Czech Bank
Organization Description: In the Czech Republic this bank serves more than 3 million clients and employs over 8000 workers. The bank operates a very extensive IT infrastructure which requires round-the-clock accessibility checks and computing capacity planning.
Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management: The Vityl capacity planning solution has given the bank full control over the operations of...
On-Demand Webinar
Why Endpoint Antivirus Belongs in Your AIX Security Environment
By Bob Erdman
Join Bob Erdman, Security Product Manager at Fortra, as he discusses the importance of focusing on every endpoint, and how endpoint antivirus software can serve a critical function in your AIX security profile.
Guide
Download "CIO Confidential: 5 Things Your IBM i Security Administrator Should Tell You"
Employees on the front lines often possess insight that manager, directors, and executives lack.
Corporate leaders rely on feedback from these professionals, especially when it comes to emerging security threat. But for a variety of reasons, systems administrators might be reluctant to to speak up about critical issues related to IBM i, including the importance of consistently updating...
Blog
Make 2019 the Year of Capacity Planning in IT
Thu, 01/17/2019
You know IT capacity planning is important. But have you been doing it?
Blog
User Groups, and Forums, and Blogs, Oh My: Top 7 Linux Resources to Increase Your Expertise
By Bob Erdman on Mon, 01/14/2019
Find what you need in our compiled list of Linux resources.
On-Demand Webinar
IBM i's Great Debate: Security vs. Systems Maintenance
By Robin Tatam
How do hardware and OS upgrades affect security? Which should come first? Join this live webinar to explore the relationship between critical systems maintenance and cybersecurity.
Blog
Avoid an IBM i Cyber Attack: 6 Things to Check Regularly
By Robin Tatam on Wed, 01/09/2019
If you don’t want to make headlines with the next major data breach, here are six things to check regularly on IBM i.