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Fortra's Security & Automation Portfolios
Today’s IT environment is filled with the challenges of securing infrastructure despite lean resources and a mounting list of projects. Fortra strives to be your trusted partner as you simplify your strategy, consolidate your technology stack, and harden security across all aspects of your environment. Fortra offers a comprehensive approach to security and automation that reduces the costly...
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Inside the Integrated File System (IFS)
Watch this recorded webinar for an in-depth exploration of the integrated file system (IFS) on IBM i.
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Introduction to Fortra Automation
Tue, 12/21/2021
Optimizing and orchestrating IT automation across a complex, diverse infrastructure requires the right vision—and the right partner—to centralize your workflows and support critical business processes. As organizations embrace digital transformation, they’re finding a new set of challenges holding them back from true change—from juggling multiple unmanageable tools to finding it too expensive to...
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How Your Business Can Benefit from End-to-End Automation
Mon, 12/20/2021
Discover how end-to-end automation can bring together everyone from business to IT users to digitally transform your entire organization.
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Speed Dating with Robot Monitor
Watch this webinar to learn the 5 key features that make Robot Monitor the right choice for proactive monitoring across your IBM Power environment.
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IBM i Automation Series: Performance
Watch this webinar series for your FREE opportunity to learn what every user should know about Robot Monitor and Performance Navigator software for IBM i (iSeries, AS/400) monitoring, plus advanced tips and tricks.
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Where Does CPU Go When It’s Missing?
By Kurt Thomas on Thu, 10/07/2021
Have you ever noticed that the CPU used by individual jobs does not add up to 100 percent? As it turns out, your jobs and subsystems are only part of the story. For the stunning conclusion, we return you to the Licensed Internal Code (LIC).
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Optimizing Containers, Kubernetes and OpenShift
By Per Bauer on Thu, 09/30/2021
The container deployment model offers component autonomy, elasticity, and scalability in a way that no other framework has done before. But to reap the benefits, you need to adopt new ways of managing and optimizing your environments and their underlying resources. Learn how to manage the performance and resource planning of container workloads.
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Three Essential Steps to Successful Performance Management
Tue, 08/24/2021
Performance management is often made to look cumbersome and complex, but we’ve distilled the process down to three essential steps.
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Application Monitoring from Every Angle
When your core IBM i application could be going down, don’t be the last to know. Watch this recorded webinar and learn how Robot has application monitoring covered.
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Job Status and Other Stories About Application Monitoring
By Kurt Thomas on Tue, 06/01/2021
Knowing a job’s CPU usage, disk I/O, temporary storage, and so on is fine, but what you really want to know is how the job is doing. And we can see a job's status on IBM i. Here's how.
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Application and Resource Issues: No More Hunting & Fishing on IBM i
By Kurt Thomas on Tue, 06/01/2021
Use a real-time monitoring tool with thresholds and drill-down capabilities to speed root cause analysis and problem determination for application and resource performance issues on IBM i.
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Adding Flexibility to IBM i Monitoring Without Compromising Availability
By Kurt Thomas on Tue, 06/01/2021
To cope with system issues, you want easy yet comprehensive solutions that handle your performance, messaging, and remote management needs, but what you really need are integrated solutions for universal control. See where Robot Monitor fits in.
Guide
5th Annual IBM AIX Community Survey Findings
The AIX Community Survey, now in its fifth consecutive year, goes in-depth with IT teams to gain a unique perspective into how this platform is being used today and how teams envision using it in the future. Over the years, the respondents of the survey have expanded to include a variety of industries, geographies, and titles within IT.
More than 100 IT professionals in North America, EMEA, and APAC participated in this year’s survey, and this input enables all of us to understand the role of AIX with new clarity.
Blog
What Is NVMe?
By Randy Watson on Thu, 04/01/2021
NVMe is a communications interface plus high-performance protocol for accessing non-volatile memory. Learn more here.
Guide
Robot in Modern IBM i Environments
Robot systems management solutions can improve processes and enhance the return on investment for new technologies running in modern IBM i environments. Find out how.
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Realize ROI with Robot
By Tom Huntington on Sun, 03/28/2021
Robot has a reputation for providing high-quality systems management software and backing it up with great support. These additional benefits can help you justify the cost of automation at your company.
Article
VIOS Performance Monitoring Commands
By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 03/10/2021
You might think VIOS is set and forget, but it’s not. Luckily, VIOS includes a number of command line utilities to help you obtain performance-related information from your VIOS partitions.
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Streamline the Day-to-Day with IT Automation
Thu, 01/14/2021
In this on-demand webinar, the automation experts from Fortra and CM First to explore ways to leverage IT automation tools in your most critical business projects—including those on IBM I, including those generated with CA 2E(Synon) and CA Plex.