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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

Automate Schedule: Enterprise Job Scheduling

Automate Schedule is a powerful enterprise job scheduling solution that integrates workflows across Windows, UNIX, Linux, and IBM i systems from a central console. By handling tedious, manual processes both within and across your mission-critical applications, Automate Schedule saves time and resources for the work that moves your business forward. Deploys in Minutes—Not Weeks Automate Schedule...
Automation
hybrid IT infrastructure monitoring
Blog

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...
Infrastructure Management
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.
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...
Designing Automated Workflows
On-Demand Webinar

Everything You Need to Know About RPA in 30 Minutes

By Pat Cameron
If you’re hearing terms like digital workforce, software robot, and automation center of excellence, but aren’t sure what it all means, this webinar is for you. Learn about the advantages of automation with RPA, real-life robotic process automation use cases, and common RPA terminology.
Automation
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
On-Demand Webinar

Optimize Your Cloud Capacity

By Per Bauer
How do you keep cloud costs down as you migrate your workloads? Watch this webinar to learn how to improve your total cost of ownership.
Infrastructure Management
Blog

How to Do Cloud Capacity Planning

Tue, 04/24/2018
Operating in the cloud can have some great benefits compared to operating with on-premises software. That’s why surveyed IT professionals predict 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by the year 2020.
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

Simplify Capacity Management

Thu, 04/19/2018
Watch this webinar to learn how to truly understand your systems and server capacity with simple but effective methods. Plan for future growth—even in your virtual environments.
Infrastructure Management
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Case Study

Baptist Health South Florida Streamlines Claims Processing with Automate

Background Baptist Health is South Florida's largest not-for-profit health care organization, encompassing seven major medical facilities and a number of outpatient centers. They utilize a health information system provided by Siemens called INVISION, and a claims management system from NDC Health called ePREMIS. The Challenge Effective claims processing and management is the name of the game...
Automation
Guide

Continuously Optimizing IT in Financial Terms

CHALLENGES: Virtualization and increasingly complex agile computing environments are creating difficulties for IT financial controllers and for IT Financial Management (ITFM). Virtualization breaks the long-standing direct, one-to-one correlation between cost-allocated physical hardware and the IT services it supports. Increasingly dynamic, multi-layered applications have made it more difficult...
Infrastructure Management