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Guide

Going Beyond the GUI

Modernization is more than simply switching from a green screen to a GUI. To have a truly modern IBM i data center, you must consider all areas of IT from your software and applications to your hardware and devices to the processes that support the whole operation. This guides helps you modernize your IBM i from the ground up.
Guide

Penetration Testing Toolkit

Safeguard your infrastructure and data With today’s ever-increasing and constantly-shifting threat landscape, organizations must do everything they can to ensure the security of its cyber assets, including penetration testing. Based on our years of experience helping organizations manage security risks across the enterprise, we’ve compiled a collection of penetration testing...
Guide

2021 Pen Testing Survey Report

Cyber attacks have become so common place, we're no longer surprised to see a massive breach hit the headlines. With this threat constantly looming, organizations should regularly be asking themselves, "how secure are we?" Penetration tests help to answer this question, uncovering and exploiting security threats to determine how much of a risk they pose. The 2021 Pen Testing...
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.
Guide

Why Should You Monitor IBM MQ?

IBM MQ is a middleware product that allows messages (think data or information) to be sent and received to and from similar or dissimilar platforms with guaranteed delivery. Read this guide to learn the value of monitoring IBM MQ.
Datasheet

Migrate, Run, and Recover IBM i Applications in the Cloud

Businesses in every industry are under increasing pressure to modernize their mission-critical workloads. What’s more, these updates to core infrastructure and architecture need to be carried out with minimal downtime to avoid loss. There has never been a cloud solution that uniquely supports migrating and running IBM i applications in the public cloud with high availability...
Datasheet

VCM Enterprise

VCM Enterprise allows you to get insight into your hybrid IT infrastructure, plan accurately for future needs, and prevent problems before they occur.
Guide

How to Do IT Cost Optimization

Our years of experience shows that organizations waste 30% of their hybrid IT spend, on average. This article identifies the five key components of a cost optimization strategy and how to be successful with each of them.
Datasheet

Vityl for Cloud Management

Hybrid Cloud Management Hybrid cloud refers to a mix of public and private cloud resources. Many organizations are moving their IT footprint to the cloud because running applications in the cloud often removes the capital expense of purchasing hardware and software, which can save money. Cloud deployments also allow IT professionals and business leaders to provision resources...
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...
Datasheet

MQ Manager

MQ Manager continuously and automatically monitors the seven key components of IBM MQ in order to ensure the flow of data is not disrupted, prevent costly downtime, free up IT resources and reduce operational cost.
Datasheet

Robot HA

Robot HA is a software-based high availability solution that allows you to replicate your important data and keep business running even when your production environment goes down.
Guide

DevOps Development: Keeping the Lights On

Overview: The DevOps methodology embodies two core philosophies: decreasing the lead time of software deployment and the automation of delivery and testing. DevOps emerged as a practical response to the agile development movement, in contrast with traditional, phase-based or “waterfall” development, which is inefficient and labor-intensive. Traditional methods should be phased...
Guide

Dashboards Don't Work (Unless You Have a Metrics Management Strategy)

Tech has had a tremendous impact on the way today’s businesses seek continued growth and improvement. No matter what business they are in, executives everywhere are investing in technology that improves their business processes, gets them ahead of the competition and widens their margins. Ultimately, the return on that investment is determined by how well technology supports a...
Guide

Health and Risk: A New Paradigm for Capacity Management

Capacity management, considered by top analyst firms to be an essential process in any large IT organization, is often so complex that in today’s accelerated business world it cannot be effectively implemented. Changing priorities, increasing complexity and scalable cloud infrastructure have made traditional models for capacity management less relevant. A new paradigm for...