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.
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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...
Guide
DMZ Secure Gateways: Secret Weapons for Data Security
Exchanging a high workload of files with customers, employees, and trading partners is common in today's global economy. Add various data security standards to the mix, like PCI DSS, HIPAA, and the GDPR, and protecting sensitive data becomes a challenge many organizations struggle to overcome.
In an effort to simplify how file transfers are retrieved, many IT teams install file sharing servers (e...
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The Ultimate Guide to Investing in Secure File Transfer Software
We know finding the right file transfer solution for your organization isn’t an easy process. There are dozens of details to consider - from industry and compliance concerns, to critical cybersecurity needs; choosing a vendor can be complex.
In this ultimate buyer’s guide, you’ll find the information you need to successfully evaluate different managed file transfer solutions. We cover:
The...
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Enterprise Console
View alerts generated on IBM i, AIX/VIOS, Linux, and Windows servers on a single, modern, centralized, graphical console. Plus, use Enterprise Console to receive SNMP traps from devices and software—both Fortra software and tools from other vendors.
Simplify Enterprise Management
Enterprise Console provides a real-time focal point for your IT infrastructure monitoring regardless of host...
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...
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VCM
VCM allows you to get insight into your hybrid IT infrastructure, eliminate wasted spend, and prevent problems before they occur.
Guide
DevOps Development: Keeping the Lights On
Overview: The DevOps methodology embodies two core philosophies: decreasing the lead time of software deployment and the automation of delivery and testing. DevOps emerged as a practical response to the agile development movement, in contrast with traditional, phase-based or “waterfall” development, which is inefficient and labor-intensive. Traditional methods should be phased out, and companies...
Guide
Dashboards Don't Work (Unless You Have a Metrics Management Strategy)
Tech has had a tremendous impact on the way today’s businesses seek continued growth and improvement. No matter what business they are in, executives everywhere are investing in technology that improves their business processes, gets them ahead of the competition and widens their margins. Ultimately, the return on that investment is determined by how well technology supports a business’ ability to...
Guide
Health and Risk: A New Paradigm for Capacity Management
Capacity management, considered by top analyst firms to be an essential process in any large IT organization, is often so complex that in today’s accelerated business world it cannot be effectively implemented. Changing priorities, increasing complexity and scalable cloud infrastructure have made traditional models for capacity management less relevant. A new paradigm for capacity management is...
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How to Manage IT Resource Consumption
At an application level with Vityl Capacity Management
In this guide, John Miecielica of Metavante, provides a step-by-step example showing how he uses Vityl Capacity Management to analyze IT resource consumption at an application level. This key capability is especially important in today’s environments where multiple applications run on a server or multiple servers might be required to...
Guide
Commercial Clusters and Scalability
In this paper we present an introductory analysis of throughput scalability for update intensive workloads (such as measured by the TPC-C or TPC-W benchmarks) and how that scaling is limited by serialization effects in the software-hardware combination that comprises any platform.
Guide
UNIX Load Average Part 1: How It Works
In this online article Dr. Gunther digs down into the UNIX kernel to find out how load averages (the “LA Triplets”) are calculated and how appropriate they are as capacity planning metrics.
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UNIX Load Average Part 2: Not Your Average Average
This is the second in a two part-series where we explore the use of UNIX load averages in performance analysis and capacity planning.
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UNIX Load Average: Reweighed
This is an unexpected Part 3 to the discussion about the UNIX load average metric answering the question of where the weight factor comes from.
Guide
How to Get Unbelievable Load Test Results
This article is about delusions that arise from incorrect interpretation of load test measurements.