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Large Health System Turns to Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS) for Server Management & System Security

A leading not-for-profit health system in the United States, with multiple hospitals, rehabilitation centers, physician clinics, mental health facilities, independent living centers, and home health agencies, employs more than 9,000 individuals, including nearly 1,400 physicians. Collectively, the entities within the healthcare organization also maintain more than 1,500 licensed beds across the...
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With Public Cloud OS Instances Growing, Security Challenges Grow, Too

“Some cloud vendors tout that systems deployed within their framework require little or no administration: You create an image with the software and applications that you want it to provide services for, spin it up in a management console, and Voila! you have an entirely new system online; with minimal cost, no hassle, little work. However, even...
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Perspectives on the Changing Linux Ecosystem

Media Text In the early 1990s the Open Software Foundation formed a committee to select and standardize a new Management Platform Toolset for and from the UNIX ecosystem. After much...
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The Many Ways Robot Supports SNMP

Many devices send status updates using SNMP or simple network management protocol. Make sure you’re getting the message. Read on to see how Robot supports SNMP.
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Message Received?

When was the last time you reviewed your Robot Console message automation? If you’re out of practice, let’s take a look at what you can do to maximize your message automation and reports.
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Concrete Producer Keeps Trucks Rolling by Automate-ing Event Log Monitoring

Background With more than 400 ready-mix concrete trucks on the street at any given time, St. Marys Canada Building Materials (CBM) relies heavily on real-time data transmitted from those vehicles to its fleet management software to meet customers' construction schedules. The company uses Automate, the robotic process automation (RPA) solution from Fortra, to help maintain the data flow by...
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Single Source Keeps Staff Small and Business Running Smoothly with Automate

Background Single Source is a large-volume provider of dry, refrigerated, frozen, grocery, paper, and chemical products for institutional commissaries, primarily correction institutions. The company processes and ships approximately 250 million pounds of food each year, nationwide, and they do it all with only 22 employees. As a small business with a high volume of orders to process and ship,...
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How Peoples Telephone Reboots Equipment Instantly with Network Monitoring & Automation

What if you could reduce an eight-hour outage… to no time at all? That’s exactly what Peoples Telephone Cooperative did. Faced with sudden equipment failures, they started monitoring their network… then went one step further to automatically fix the outages. Now this savvy telecommunications service provider saves countless man hours, makes sure technicians get a full night’s sleep every night,...
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TransAlta Prevents Data Loss with Robotic Process Automation from Automate

TransAlta Corporation is a multinational power generation and wholesale marketing company with yearly revenue of about $2.5 billion. Based in Canada, TransAlta manages the production and delivery of energy resources over a wide geographical expanse. This requires a sophisticated network of control systems for thousands of pumps, valves, gas turbines, high voltage breakers, and more. In the Ontario...
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Children's Museum Creates One-of-a-Kind Interactive Exhibit Using Automate

The Children's Museum of Science and Technology in Troy, New York was founded in 1954 and is located in the Rensselaer Technology Park. Its mission is to be the premier science center in the New York Capital Region where kids and parents can explore, discover, and imagine the world of science together. ...
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30 Minutes of Automating Cuts Infor ERP VISUAL Work by an Hour a Day

In the quest for IT efficiency, one way to save time is to automate the daily grind of launching and monitoring ERP system utilities. Washington-based job shop Magic Metals, Inc., sought to do just that when it implemented Infor ERP VISUAL, but the company's busy IT manager did not have time to write custom scripts to enable VISUAL utilities to self-execute. Instead, he turned to the pre...