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Powertech Helps the Seneca Nation Play the Security Game

The SGC has a fairly large IBM i presence, including multiple production, development, test, and training systems, in a High Availability (HA) environment. They rely heavily on their IBM i servers to run their distributed properties, including casinos, hotels, resorts, retail outlets...
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Intermapper Helps Alcatel-Lucent Australia Locate Business

“We are able to see just want we want through the firewall without having to introduce anything new at customer sites. Our customers are excited about this value-added service." - Guy Bryant, Project Director, Mobile/Fixed Systems Division at Alcatel-Lucent Australia
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Greater Media Detroit Stays on Air with Network Monitoring

“InterMapper collects traps and notifies me of any important failures. I’ve tailored its reporting to match the severity of the issue. To say that it has saved the day is an understatement.” -Mike Kernen, Chief Engineer at Greater Media Detroit
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UBC's Network Goes the Distance with Intermapper

"It's the only monitoring tool we use. We slice and dice the network in many ways using over 100 maps that monitor thousands of devices and Ethernet switches." - Dennis O'Reilly, Senior Network Analyst, University of British Columbia
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Vityl and ITIL

TeamQuest (a Fortra company) can help organizations improve their chances at a successful ITIL implementation through the ITIL best practices listed in this article.
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Supporting ITIL Objectives

Many IT organizations are implementing ITIL as a strategy for improving IT Service Management. The ITIL framework provides best practices and structured processes for managing and delivering IT services.
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Implementing a Consolidation Strategy

Improve Service quality "IT organizations should engage in a server consolidation project with three major goals: cost reduction, agility improvement and service-level improvement." Source: “Key Issues for Servers,” Gartner Inc. GOAL: IMPLEMENT A CONSOLIDATION STRATEGY Many companies are re-evaluating their IT infrastructures in light of changing business practices, economic demands, and...
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IT Service Optimization: Reaching New Heights

Survey Says Chaos Reigns A global survey of more than 300 IT executives, directors and managers revealed that the majority of IT organizations (53%) rank in the chaotic level of IT Service Optimization maturity. That means these organizations lack a consistent process to manage and improve the quality and efficiency of their services and will continue firefighting performance and capacity...
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Modeling Multi-Threaded Processors

There are substantial differences between single-threaded and multi-threaded architectures. The new capabilities combined with the easy-to-use Vityl Capacity Management interface makes it easy to predict application and service performance on the new multi-threaded architectures.