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Capacity Planning

Have you ever experienced an online service outage? It’s like losing half your physical locations without any warning. Downtime is a huge problem. It stops your revenue stream. It compromises customer loyalty. It damages your brand’s reputation. And it wastes hours and IT resources to fix the problem—when it shouldn’t have been a problem to begin with. Isn’t it about time you prevented downtime?...
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Why Everyone Has a Crush on Linux—even IBM

Linux helps enterprises make IT more scalable and flexible. Supplemented by dedicated, Linux-compatible tools for job scheduling—like Automate Schedule—put organizations in a prime position to streamline operations to meet changing requirements.
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Does Your Business Belong in the Cloud?

The cloud is all about access. It’s about getting access on-demand, access to resources needed for your growing demands, and controlling who has access to your information. Everybody is talking about it, but is the cloud the right answer for your business needs? And if so, which one?
Case Study

Hershey Entertainment Quickly Encrypts Credit Card Data with Powertech Encryption for IBM i

Hershey Entertainment & Resorts is a privately held company located in the tourist center of Hershey, Pennsylvania, and has entertainment, resort and commercial divisions. Earlier this year, Hershey learned that because the entertainment and resort operations accept credit cards for payment, they needed the information stored by their box office ticketing and reservations applications to be...
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Field-level Encryption Helps Retail Chain Achieve PCI Compliance

Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores, a retail travel stop chain with over 210 locations in 34 U.S. states, processes approximately 200,000 credit card transactions on a daily basis. Needing to meet PCI standards, Love’s found in Powertech Encryption for IBM i a product to encrypt credit card numbers in a way that would satisfy PCI compliance auditors. “We need to be able to access credit card...