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.
Guide
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...
Case Study
Humanitarian Organization Reduces Application Slowdowns by 94%
Organization Description: This humanitarian group organizes more than 500,000 volunteer employees to help victims of tragedy across the United States.
Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management (formerly TeamQuest): Vityl helped this non-profit reduce the number of application slowdowns by 94 percent in only four months.
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Case Study
Financial Services Giant Optimizes, Virtualizes, and Saves Big Money
Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management (formerly TeamQuest): Vityl helped to significantly optimize the physical CPU base, maximize usage of CPU and memory resources, lower the cost per unit of CPU to clients and improve the time to market. The Fortune 500 financial services company now charges 25 percent less per unit of CPU in its virtualized environment. These benefits have helped justify...
Case Study
Capacity Planning at a Czech Bank
Organization Description: In the Czech Republic this bank serves more than 3 million clients and employs over 8000 workers. The bank operates a very extensive IT infrastructure which requires round-the-clock accessibility checks and computing capacity planning.
Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management: The Vityl capacity planning solution has given the bank full control over the operations of...
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...
Case Study
Victaulic makes Short Work of Ad Hoc Queries with Surveyor/400
Ad hoc queries and reports are the bane of many IT departments. The need to churn out frequent, one-off, "must have" data queries for users can be a significant drain on developers' time. Users can't be blamed for the numerous impromptu requests. Customer service, continuous improvement, and the maintenance of competitive advantage demand that business people regularly look at data in innovative...
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...
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Download “Identity & Access Management for IBM i”
Insiders are responsible for 34 percent of data breaches—and insiders are also the most difficult threat to control control on IBM i. You can't lock them out completely because your IBM i users need at least some level of access to do their jobs.
So, how do you ensure users have only the access they need without overburdening IT with manual processes that...
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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Download “How IT Professionals Can Navigate PCI DSS Compliance” Guide
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) applies to every organization that processes credit or debit card information. This includes merchants and third-party service providers that store, process, or transmit credit card data.
The launch of PCI DSS helped expose serious security shortcomings, failures to follow security best practices, and...