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How Banks Gain a Competitive Advantage in the Digital Age with Capacity Planning
Mon, 08/31/2015
Cloud computing offers institutions a viable solution to optimizing their IT infrastructure. Through the use of a third-party cloud provider, banks can start storing data from all platforms and devices on remote servers, freeing up their legacy systems from demand they are often unable to process. That’s why the capacity management tools banks use must not only provide real-time data, but support the software of all different kinds of cloud providers and mobile platforms.
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IT as a Competitive Advantage
By Per Bauer on Tue, 06/16/2015
Make IT a competitive advantage by providing high customer satisfaction, efficient daily operations, and accurate CapEx planning. Build a strategic and tailored plan to increase your IT efficiency, reliability, and speed.
How do you make IT a competitive advantage?
Increase IT efficiency - OpEx, CapEx, and staff productivity
Efficiency often means doing more with less, but it can also...
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Monitoring and Planning in a Solaris Environment
Tue, 12/30/2014
Learn how to manage your Solaris environment--optimize hardware utilization, conserve datacenter floor space, power, and cooling, build a scalable architecture and keep up with growth and performance requirements--with TeamQuest.
Case Study
Fortra Integrates McAfee Embedded Control Antivirus Protection for Power Systems Servers
As Bytware and IBM realized the serious exposure to Power Systems users, they turned to McAfee to integrate the McAfee Embedded Control scanning engine into the Powertech Antivirus product.
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Agile Operations for the Software Defined Data Center and the Cloud
Mon, 07/07/2014
Cloud and DevOps drive need for new performance management software architecture.
Case Study
Clover Stornetta Farms relies on StandGuard for the Heavy Lifting
When Clover Stornetta Farms expanded operations to multiple locations, the Northern California dairy processor turned to Stand Guard Network Security to improve security.
Case Study
Winning Security Combo Locks Down and Protects Trailer Transit, Inc's IBM i
Trailer Transit—a leading transportation company—uses Powertech Antivirus to eliminate viruses and StandGuard Network Security to prevent unauthorized access.
Case Study
IBM i Virus Protection Adds an Essential Service to City of Columbia
When it comes to city services, data protection is a must. To track down the source of viruses on their multi-platform network, the City of Columbia turned to Stand Guard Anti-Virus.
Article
Vityl and ITIL
Wed, 02/05/2014
TeamQuest (a Fortra company) can help organizations improve their chances at a successful ITIL implementation through the ITIL best practices listed in this article.
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Making the Best Use of Limited Resources
Wed, 02/05/2014
Capacity planning solutions can help organizations make the best use of limited resources in their IT environments.
Article
Supporting ITIL Objectives
Tue, 02/04/2014
Many IT organizations are implementing ITIL as a strategy for improving IT Service Management. The ITIL framework provides best practices and structured processes for managing and delivering IT services.
Article
Implementing a Consolidation Strategy
Mon, 02/04/2013
Improve Service quality
"IT organizations should engage in a server consolidation project with three major goals: cost reduction, agility improvement and service-level improvement."
Source: “Key Issues for Servers,” Gartner Inc.
GOAL: IMPLEMENT A CONSOLIDATION STRATEGY
Many companies are re-evaluating their IT infrastructures in light of changing business practices, economic demands, and...
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Ensure Availability at a Reasonable Cost to Meet Business SLAs
Mon, 02/04/2013
Availability is a key indicator of how successfully an IT organization is supporting the company’s business objectives. Are required service levels in terms of workload volume and response times being achieved consistently for the business units? If not, the impact can be significant: a stoppage or slowdown can, in a matter of minutes, disrupt your supply chain and result in lost transactions,...