Resources
On-Demand Webinar

Why Your CRM System Needs RPA

By Pat Cameron
Watch our on-demand webinar to learn how you can use RPA to power your CRM system with the most up-to-date data from your critical business applications.
Automation
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Article

If It Has Moving Parts, Someday It's Going to Fail.

Sat, 11/03/2018
Check out IBM's new READ INTENSIVE SSDs. This is a note to highlight some of the pros and cons - and dig a little deeper into one of the cons - of IBM's recently announced new class of solid state disk drives, "read intensive" (RI) SSDs. The new RI-SSD comes in one flavor, a 1.86 TB drive. The new concept to wrap your head around is that the drive will "wear out" if you write too much over the...
Datasheet

Robot Console

Robot Console is a fully automated, customizable tool that sends you only the IBM i messages you need to see. This makes your monitoring more effective—you won’t miss crucial information—and more efficient.
hybrid IT infrastructure monitoring
Blog

Tips for Managing Physical, Virtual, Cloud Environments

By Per Bauer on Thu, 08/30/2018
IT infrastructure is complex today. On-prem. Off-prem. Virtualization. The cloud. It’s up to IT to build this infrastructure, then distribute resources from its many miscellaneous parts to various services in the most efficient way possible. With so many different environments to track—many of them walled off from one another in data silos—service issues can be difficult to diagnose and...
Infrastructure Management
Article

How to Download an ODBC Driver

Wed, 07/25/2018
Performance Navigator® requires an ODBC connection to connect to your IBM i system, but it does not come with your PC’s operating system. IBM has a downloadable they’ve titled Access Client Solutions, which we recommend our customers use to get that ODBC connection.
Article

FAQs about Performance Navigator

Thu, 07/12/2018
Will this product hurt the performance of my IBM i®? You will not even notice that the product is working. The data gathering software is already part of the OS. I currently have a subscription to IBM's PM for Power service. How is Performance Navigator compared to PM? Glad you asked... Performance Navigator uses exactly the same input as PM for Power, Collection Services. Performance Navigator...
Designing Automated Workflows
On-Demand Webinar

Everything You Need to Know About RPA in 30 Minutes

By Pat Cameron
If you’re hearing terms like digital workforce, software robot, and automation center of excellence, but aren’t sure what it all means, this webinar is for you. Learn about the advantages of automation with RPA, real-life robotic process automation use cases, and common RPA terminology.
Automation
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
On-Demand Webinar

Optimize Your Cloud Capacity

By Per Bauer
How do you keep cloud costs down as you migrate your workloads? Watch this webinar to learn how to improve your total cost of ownership.
Infrastructure Management
Blog

How to Do Cloud Capacity Planning

Tue, 04/24/2018
Operating in the cloud can have some great benefits compared to operating with on-premises software. That’s why surveyed IT professionals predict 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by the year 2020.
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

Simplify Capacity Management

Thu, 04/19/2018
Watch this webinar to learn how to truly understand your systems and server capacity with simple but effective methods. Plan for future growth—even in your virtual environments.
Infrastructure Management
Guide

Continuously Optimizing IT in Financial Terms

CHALLENGES: Virtualization and increasingly complex agile computing environments are creating difficulties for IT financial controllers and for IT Financial Management (ITFM).  Virtualization breaks the long-standing direct, one-to-one correlation between cost-allocated physical hardware and the IT services it supports. Increasingly dynamic, multi-layered applications have made it more difficult...
Infrastructure Management
Datasheet

VCM

VCM allows you to get insight into your hybrid IT infrastructure, eliminate wasted spend, and prevent problems before they occur.
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

Getting Started with Your Cloud Migration

By Keith Digby
    You’ve decided to migrate to the cloud, but what migration strategy will keep your costs down and be most efficient?  You have two main strategies for moving workloads to the cloud: Refactoring or Lift and Shift. Refactoring requires more time on the front end to optimize workloads prior to migrating. Lift and Shift moves eligible workloads right away, optimizing...
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

Q&A with a Capacity Management Expert, Part Two

Tue, 03/06/2018
Listen to this on-demand webinar to answer questions like: Is capacity management still relevant in the cloud? Why do large companies still struggle with capacity management? Does capacity management support or hinder DevOps?
Infrastructure Management