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The History of Run Book Automation

Automating the run book is a huge productivity increase for the oeprations team in any data center. Find out what the Fortra experts have to say about the history of run book automation.
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The 5 Key Metrics to Improve Your Data Center Workflows

You’re already managing thousands of workflows, batch jobs, and other background processes using the same staff and tools you’ve had for years, but business demands keep adding more to your plate. You know you need to optimize, improve visibility, and start justifying the cost of new resources before it’s too late.
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3 Steps to Integrated Business Process Scheduling

You use cron or the Windows Task Scheduler for scheduling on your Windows, AIX, UNIX, and Linux systems, but the program's limitations frustrate you. You have difficulty coordinating schedules among multiple servers, or you're tired of creating complex scripts to deal with dependencies in your schedule processes. In this webinar, we show you how to: Schedule a job based on a system event Set up...
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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?
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Job Scheduling: Basic to Advanced

Fortra offers two automation platforms to handle the complex scheduling needs of modern enterprises: AutoMate and Skybot. Join this live webinar to learn about using these solutions to orchestrate processes from the server down to the user’s desktop.
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Practical Task Scheduling Deployment

One of the best things about the UNIX environment (aside from being stable and efficient) is the vast array of software tools available to help you do your job. Traditionally, a UNIX tool does only one thing, but does that one thing very well. For example, grep is very easy to use and can search vast amounts of data quickly. The find tool can find a particular file or files based on all kinds of...