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Top 8 Benefits of Network Monitoring

Lack of network visibility makes life hard for IT. Network monitoring helps you stay ahead of outages with real-time visibility into your network health.
Guide

How to Get Started with IT Modernization

Modernization is more than simply switching from a green screen to a GUI. To have a truly modern IBM i data center, you must consider all areas of IT from your software and applications to your hardware and devices to the processes that support the whole operation. This guides helps you modernize your IBM i from the ground up.
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Building a Proactive Security Strategy

Advancing your vulnerability management programme may be a journey, but it is a journey well worth taking and cannot be done overnight. As your programme matures the better your organisation can avoid costly attacks and breaches that may harm your business and reputation.Learn how a proactive cybersecurity program can be a game changer for an organisation's success through continuously assessing...
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Lessons Learned from IBM's Native Scheduler

The systems that businesses rely on today are increasingly complex and challenging to manage without sophisticated job scheduling tools. According to the annual IBM i Marketplace Survey Results, only 22 percent of IBM i shops are running the IBM i operating system exclusively. 68 percent are also running the Windows OS, another 56 percent are running Linux, and 26 percent are running AIX. That...
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What is SNMP, and How Does It Work?

SNMP is one of the most widely accepted protocols for network monitoring. Here’s a quick summary of what is SNMP, how it works, and why it matters to network professionals.
Case Study

How Decatur City Schools Manages Their Growing Network with Intermapper

Through the years, there have been a lot of network changes at Decatur City Schools, a school district located in north Alabama. But one thing has remained constant, their reliance on Intermapper, the network monitoring service from Fortra.“Before Intermapper, we didn’t have any insight into what was up and what was down,” said Gary Cloer, Decatur City Schools network specialist. “We were relying...
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How Legacy Processing in IT Leads to Downtime on IBM i

Why haven’t IT processes kept pace with business changes? Why are you still suffering from downtime as the result of human error? Read this article to see how legacy processing methods are still leading to downtime today—and what you can do to stop it.