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Vityl for Cloud Management
Hybrid Cloud Management Hybrid cloud refers to a mix of public and private cloud resources. Many organizations are moving their IT footprint to the cloud because running applications in the cloud often removes the capital expense of purchasing hardware and software, which can save money. Cloud deployments also allow IT professionals and business leaders to provision resources more quickly and...
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Mobile Dashboards for IBM i Monitoring
By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 08/07/2019
Robot Console leverages the power of Fortra' dashboards containing browser access! Mobile-friendly dashboards allow you to combine key message summary and resource status data into a single, intuitive view. Read on to learn more.
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What’s New in Capacity Management? Azure Monitoring
By Scott Adams
Nearly every business is moving at least some of their applications to the cloud, whether they’re launching a new application, migrating part of a datacenter, or transforming to DevOps. If your company is moving to public or private cloud, you’ll need to monitor your cloud infrastructure to make sure that you are managing cost and optimizing resource consumption. Our newest release of Vityl...
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What's New in Capacity Management? Improved IT Efficiency
By Per Bauer
Improving IT efficiency is essential for IT teams looking to do more with less. Watch the on-demand webinar to see how Vityl Capacity Management helps you identify underutilized resources easily to make the best use of IT resources.
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How to Improve IT Efficiency: 3 Strategies to Keep Services Up and Costs Down
By Per Bauer on Wed, 06/26/2019
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How to Answer Key Capacity Planning Strategy Questions
Fri, 06/21/2019
Anyone who works for a large organization knows that July isn’t just a time for fireworks and BBQs. It’s also when you plan your budget for the next fiscal year. If you work in IT, you know you’re always expected to have an answer for everything. But when it comes to planning your budget, there are really only two questions that need to be asked. Do you have enough resources on hand for the next...
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The True Cost of Workload-Related Outages
Thu, 06/06/2019
Underestimating the consequences of downtime can be hugely detrimental to your productivity. Accurately calculating those costs won’t just prevent disasters, but also help you effectively manage your capacity planning efforts.
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What is Capacity Planning?
By Scott Adams on Wed, 06/05/2019
What is Capacity Planning? IT capacity planning is a process used to manage IT service delivery. Business services depend on IT resources in most organizations. Retail organizations need IT to make sure their POS system stays up and running – even on days with unusually high transaction counts, like Black Friday. Banks and other financial services providers need their infrastructure to stay up and...
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Monitoring Beyond IBM i Message Queues
Learn how to chuck the manual checklist and teach critical IBM i messages to find you or fix themselves instead. Watch now to see how!
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How to Keep Cloud Costs Down
By Per Bauer
Migrating to the cloud doesn't have to include rude financial surprises. If you know where cost can creep in and steal your ROI, you can plan appropriately to avoid it.
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Two-Way Message Response with Robot
By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 05/01/2019
You have the afternoon off—but not the responsibility of monitoring your system for issues. This includes responding to application and system messages as they occur on your production IBM i jobs. You don’t want to carry your laptop around just in case you need to VPN back to answer a message that is waiting on your month-end process. What option do you have?
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What's New in Performance and Capacity Management?
By Per Bauer
Vityl Capacity Management is an all-in-one solution that makes it easy for organizations to proactively manage performance and do capacity planning in hybrid IT environments—physical, virtual, cloud, or container. Learn how to simplify performance and capacity management with Vityl Capacity Management.
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Interacting with Powertech SIEM Agent for IBM i
By Robin Tatam on Thu, 03/21/2019
Your organization has invested in a security information event manager, or SIEM, to receive and analyse security and event log information from a variety of servers. Now they want to also get this information from their IBM Power Systems server.
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Robot Alert
Robot Alert sends and receives email, text, and SNMP messages in reaction to IBM i events.
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8 Things Your Capacity Management Tool Should Do
By Per Bauer on Fri, 02/15/2019
A capacity management tool should help your IT team in 8 key ways. If you're replacing your tool or starting a capacity management practice, this is the place to start.
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Buyer's Guide: Capacity Management Tool Checklist
By Per Bauer on Fri, 02/08/2019
What makes a good capacity management tool? There are six major factors to consider when choosing a capacity management tool, and the right tool should account for all of them.