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Network Monitoring Tips for Hybrid IT Environments

Hybrid IT allows organizations to experiment with the cloud while keeping any equipment or applications on-premises as it makes sense. If you’re the one responsible for day-to-day monitoring, here’s what you need to know to manage the complexity.
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Performance Management

What is Performance Management? IT performance management is responsible for everyday aspects of capacity management, like monitoring performance and resources, planning changes to make efficient use of resources, analyzing performance, and reporting back to the business.     Now more than ever, your company’s bottom line rests on your ability to...
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6 IT Survival Tips from a 25-Year Education Expert

How can you survive and succeed as an IT leader? "As IT-ET leaders we need to strive for 99.9999% uptime and the best quality of service that empowers educators to design and engage our students in modern teaching, learning, and assessment practices."
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IT Maturity

What are your optimization goals? An optimization initiative is typically triggered by one of the drivers listed below and the focus is dictated by your overall business objectives. But singlehandedly focusing on one objective may negatively impact your capabilities in the other areas. This can reduce the overall service quality and offer limited to no real value. In order to...
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Enterprise Schedulers: Robot vs. Automate Schedule

Where do you need your enterprise scheduler to run? With Fortra solutions, IBM i and other operating systems like Windows®, Linux®, or UNIX® are all possibilities. Robot Schedule Enterprise is our IBM i-centric solution and the Automate Schedule solution centers on the other platforms.