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A Precarious Balance: Privileged Users and The Cloud
By Bob Erdman on Tue, 11/20/2018
When it comes to privileged users, do we maintain security at the cost of productivity, or do we increase productivity at the cost of security?
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What's New in Vityl Capacity Management - 2.0
By Scott Adams
Vityl Capacity Management 2.0 is here! You don’t have to dream anymore about having a singular interface with workflows for all your capacity management activities: monitoring, tuning, root-cause analysis, and predictive modeling. With the latest release of Vityl Capacity Management we are introducing a radical new way to collect, manage, analyze, and predict performance.
On-Demand Webinar
Enabling responsible Privileged Access Management: A Fortra Discussion with Enterprise Management Associates
By Steve Brasen
Join Steve Brasen, Research Director with leading analyst firm, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and David Dingwall, Senior Cybersecurity Strategist with Fortra, for an informative discussion on the requirements and best practices for enabling a responsible approach to Privileged Access Management.
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...
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The Shared Responsibility of Cloud Security
By Bob Erdman on Fri, 10/26/2018
The agreement that cloud security is a shared responsibility between cloud providers and cloud users has now firmly taken hold. How those responsibilities shake out, however, is an ongoing conversation.
On-Demand Webinar
Determining the Best Approach to PAM for You
Tue, 10/23/2018
David Dingwall provides an overview of how PASM and PEDM solutions work individually, the environments they are best suited to, and how both solutions are ultimately complementary.
Datasheet
Powertech SecurID Agent for IBM i
Powertech SecurID Agent for IBM i brings the full functionality of the market-leading RSA SecurID two-factor authentication solution to IBM i users. Schedule a demo today.
Datasheet
Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS)
Learn more about a critical Systems and Data Access Management Software for Linux and UNIX. Schedule a demo of Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS) today.
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Ask a Capacity Management Expert (Webinar Recap)
By Per Bauer on Wed, 10/03/2018
Get the answers to some of the hottest capacity management questions.
On-Demand Webinar
The Effects of Cloud Migration on IAM, PAM, and Audit
Tue, 09/18/2018
With the fast pace of development, companies are continually reassessing which cloud infrastructures provide the most dynamic provisioning for their business units. Both enterprises and SMBs must constantly review how to balance cost and efficiency when choosing how to best manage their cloud.
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Tips for Managing Physical, Virtual, Cloud Environments
By Per Bauer on Thu, 08/30/2018
IT infrastructure is complex today. On-prem. Off-prem. Virtualization. The cloud.
It’s up to IT to build this infrastructure, then distribute resources from its many miscellaneous parts to various services in the most efficient way possible.
With so many different environments to track—many of them walled off from one another in data silos—service issues can be difficult to diagnose and...
Article
How to Download an ODBC Driver
Wed, 07/25/2018
Performance Navigator® requires an ODBC connection to connect to your IBM i system, but it does not come with your PC’s operating system. IBM has a downloadable they’ve titled Access Client Solutions, which we recommend our customers use to get that ODBC connection.
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Making the Best Capacity Management Tool Even Better
By Scott Adams on Mon, 07/16/2018
The best capacity management tool just got better. With just one tool, manage your entire hybrid IT environment, prevent outages, and keep services up and running.
Article
FAQs about Performance Navigator
Thu, 07/12/2018
Will this product hurt the performance of my IBM i®?
You will not even notice that the product is working. The data gathering software is already part of the OS. I currently have a subscription to IBM's PM for Power service.
How is Performance Navigator compared to PM?
Glad you asked... Performance Navigator uses exactly the same input as PM for Power, Collection Services. Performance Navigator...
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Are Employees Undermining Your Data Breach Defenses from the Inside?
Fri, 06/29/2018
The latest Verizon Data Breach Report provides a deeper understanding of the internal threats today's organizations face.