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What's New in Vityl Capacity Management - 2.0
By Scott Adams
Vityl Capacity Management 2.0 is here! You don’t have to dream anymore about having a singular interface with workflows for all your capacity management activities: monitoring, tuning, root-cause analysis, and predictive modeling. With the latest release of Vityl Capacity Management we are introducing a radical new way to collect, manage, analyze, and predict performance.
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Your Power Half Hour—From Query to BI with Sequel
Your IT team is asked to provide IBM i data to people from all over the organization. Upper management wants big picture stats to see how your organization is doing with key performance indicators. Operational users need detailed information—sometimes even down to the minute—to improve operations. Sales needs customer information to provide better service and metrics to make data-driven decisions....
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RDi and the Sleeping Giants
How does Rational Developer for i (RDi) empower RPG coders? Watch this webinar with Jim Buck, Susan Gantner, and Charlie Guarino to find out!
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...
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How to Modernize Your IBM i Queries with Sequel
You don't have to move your data off of IBM i to modernize your queries and give users real-time information in a modern environment. Sequel can help.
Blog
Access Data While Maintaining IBM i Security
Tue, 10/16/2018
Why do you need extra data access security on IBM i? Find out. Plus, learn how to secure data access, let users analyze data, and distribute data securely.
Guide
Data Access in a Big Data World: How to Access Big Data so You Can Use It
With organizations collecting more customer, transactional, and relational data than ever before, data volumes are beginning to expand past their system’s processing capacity. But big data doesn’t have to be alarming. Go beyond the hype and conquer your IBM i data.
Blog
Ask a Capacity Management Expert (Webinar Recap)
By Per Bauer on Wed, 10/03/2018
Get the answers to some of the hottest capacity management questions.
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...
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Creating Simple Yet Powerful Queries with Sequel
Query-building should be functional and flexible to fit your organization's needs. Sequel helps you build powerful and simple queries for better data access.
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.
Blog
Making the Best Capacity Management Tool Even Better
By Scott Adams on Mon, 07/16/2018
The best capacity management tool just got better. With just one tool, manage your entire hybrid IT environment, prevent outages, and keep services up and running.
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...
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Business Intelligence is Changing: Make Your Game Plan
Don’t let business intelligence send your head spinning. Watch this webinar to learn how to set your IT department up for BI success in 2018.
Blog
Does Data Analysis Have to Be So Hard?
By Heath Kath on Fri, 05/25/2018
Find out how to get your AS400 or iSeries data and turn it into insight with simple data analysis.
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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.