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Common Excuses for Not Automating

By Tom Huntington on Tue, 03/31/2020
Whether it’s staffing, budget, or complexity, we’ve heard all the excuses to forgo automation. The next time you hear—or find yourself making—an excuse, have the response ready.
IBM i Automation
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Cybersecurity Trends in 2019 and Predictions for 2020

By Bob Erdman
Count down the top cybersecurity trends of 2019 and hear predictions for what’s to come in 2020. 2020 looks to be just as exciting as 2019, with ample opportunities for organizations to improve their cybersecurity stance.
Data Protection
IT Infrastructure Protection
Article

Remember the IFS!

By Robin Tatam on Thu, 06/27/2019
Ask any security professional which area of IBM i security is most often ignored and chances are that the unanimous response is a chorus of “the Integrated File System.” Although it’s been around since V3R1, the Integrated File System, or IFS, remains a shrouded mystery that represents significant risk to many IBM i organizations.
IBM i Cybersecurity
Article

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.
IBM i Cybersecurity
Datasheet

Performance Navigator

Historical performance monitoring and modeling across your IT environment In an increasingly virtualized world, it’s becoming more and more difficult to understand performance across your IT enterprise. Performance Navigator performance analysis software allows you to see what’s truly occurring on your mission critical systems. With current day and historical performance data, you know exactly...
Monitoring
Article

If It Has Moving Parts, Someday It's Going to Fail.

Sat, 11/03/2018
Check out IBM's new READ INTENSIVE SSDs. This is a note to highlight some of the pros and cons - and dig a little deeper into one of the cons - of IBM's recently announced new class of solid state disk drives, "read intensive" (RI) SSDs. The new RI-SSD comes in one flavor, a 1.86 TB drive. The new concept to wrap your head around is that the drive will "wear out" if you write too much over the...
Datasheet

Security Scan for IBM i

Security Scan for IBM i is a free service centered on Fortra’ expertise with the IBM i platform and its unique security concerns.
Datasheet

Powertech SIEM Agent for IBM i

Powertech SIEM Agent takes raw security event data from IBM i and converts it into a meaningful format for security operations staff. Schedule a demo today.
Compliance
IBM i Cybersecurity