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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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Ask the Experts: Power Hardware Upgrades
By Randy Watson
This webinar is a unique, online opportunity to hear how you can make smart technology decisions around your next Power hardware upgrade.
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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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IT & COVID-19: The 3 Phases of Supporting a Remote Workforce
By David Zacharias on Tue, 06/09/2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19) has brought about unprecedented times. Let us help you maintain business as (sort of) usual.
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IBM i Disaster Recovery Planning During a Crisis
By Richard Dolewski on Thu, 05/07/2020
As company’s look to cut IT costs during a crisis, don’t scrimp on your disaster recovery investment! Stick to your DR Plan and avoid the temptation to make shortcuts like these.
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What Not to Do for IBM i Disaster Recovery
By Debbie Saugen on Tue, 04/21/2020
It may seem like common sense, but you’d be surprised how many organizations are still making these tape media mistakes. If this is you, there’s never been a better time to change your processes and improve IBM i disaster recovery!
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7 Misconceptions About Automation
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 03/31/2020
Don’t let fear of the unknown decide your fate. Familiarize yourself with the facts about automation before you spend another minute on manual AS400 operations.
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Five Tips for the Automation Journey
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 03/31/2020
Here are five tips from Tom Huntington on how best to move your IBM i automation project along the path to success.
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Common Excuses for Not Automating
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 03/31/2020
Whether it’s staffing, budget, or complexity, we’ve heard all the excuses to forgo automation. The next time you hear—or find yourself making—an excuse, have the response ready.
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The Case for Storage Area Networks (SAN)
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 03/03/2020
Using storage area networks or SAN for virtualization and dynamic allocation of system resources can lower the total cost of ownership of disk and improve flexibility for backups and more. Here’s how.
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IBM i Data Replication: Hardware vs. Software
By Tom Huntington on Mon, 02/17/2020
There are a lot of options out there for IBM i data replication. We’ll help you weigh the options as your put together the pieces of your high availability plan.
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How to Choose a Capacity Management Tool
By Per Bauer
Finding the right capacity management tool for your organization can be a complex and confusing process. How do you start the search? Which features and capabilities should you prioritize? It’s important to have a plan and a framework to evaluate your options.
Join capacity management expert, Per Bauer, as he explains the different types of capacity management tools and how to evaluate each one...
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How to Effectively Use and Manage Container Workloads
By Per Bauer
When a new technology breaks into the market, many organizations decide to adopt without a plan for managing performance and capacity. But just like with other workloads, it’s essential that your Docker and other container workloads are monitored and managed as a part of your hybrid IT environment.
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What's New with High Availability at Fortra?
By Timothy Prickett Morgan on Wed, 11/20/2019
In this interview, IT Jungle's Timothy Prickett Morgan connects with Fortra to get an update on the company’s high availability offerings for IBM i. Read on.
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Improve Your IT Maturity with the Capacity Management Maturity Model
By Per Bauer
There’s a lot of pressure on IT to always have services up and running at peak performance and at the lowest possible cost. In a complex hybrid IT environment, this is a difficult task, with public cloud services, new technologies, and updated management paradigms to consider. It’s not enough to have software to optimize your business services.
To maximize your efforts and tools, you need to...
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What’s New in Capacity Management? Improved Data Collection
By Per Bauer
Your IT team needs visibility into how systems and applications are performing. The higher the data resolution, the more precisely and accurately you can pinpoint causes of spikes in resource usage.
Monitoring data that allows you to profile infrastructure resource and application usage is foundational to a successful capacity management practice. The versatility and quality of the empirical data...