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Optimizing Containers, Kubernetes and OpenShift

By Per Bauer on Thu, 09/30/2021
The container deployment model offers component autonomy, elasticity, and scalability in a way that no other framework has done before. But to reap the benefits, you need to adopt new ways of managing and optimizing your environments and their underlying resources. Learn how to manage the performance and resource planning of container workloads.
Infrastructure Management
Guide

5th Annual IBM AIX Community Survey Findings

The AIX Community Survey, now in its fifth consecutive year, goes in-depth with IT teams to gain a unique perspective into how this platform is being used today and how teams envision using it in the future. Over the years, the respondents of the survey have expanded to include a variety of industries, geographies, and titles within IT. More than 100 IT professionals in North America, EMEA, and APAC participated in this year’s survey, and this input enables all of us to understand the role of AIX with new clarity.
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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.
Infrastructure Management
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.
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

How to Choose a Capacity Management Tool

By Per Bauer
Finding the right capacity management tool for your organization can be a complex and confusing process. How do you start the search? Which features and capabilities should you prioritize? It’s important to have a plan and a framework to evaluate your options. Join capacity management expert, Per Bauer, as he explains the different types of capacity management tools and how to evaluate each one...
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

How to Effectively Use and Manage Container Workloads

By Per Bauer
When a new technology breaks into the market, many organizations decide to adopt without a plan for managing performance and capacity. But just like with other workloads, it’s essential that your Docker and other container workloads are monitored and managed as a part of your hybrid IT environment.
Infrastructure Management
Improve IT Maturity | Webinar
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Improve Your IT Maturity with the Capacity Management Maturity Model

By Per Bauer
There’s a lot of pressure on IT to always have services up and running at peak performance and at the lowest possible cost. In a complex hybrid IT environment, this is a difficult task, with public cloud services, new technologies, and updated management paradigms to consider. It’s not enough to have software to optimize your business services. To maximize your efforts and tools, you need to...
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

What’s New in Capacity Management? Improved Data Collection

By Per Bauer
Your IT team needs visibility into how systems and applications are performing. The higher the data resolution, the more precisely and accurately you can pinpoint causes of spikes in resource usage. Monitoring data that allows you to profile infrastructure resource and application usage is foundational to a successful capacity management practice. The versatility and quality of the empirical data...
Infrastructure Management
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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 more quickly and...
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

What’s New in Capacity Management? Azure Monitoring

By Scott Adams
Nearly every business is moving at least some of their applications to the cloud, whether they’re launching a new application, migrating part of a datacenter, or transforming to DevOps. If your company is moving to public or private cloud, you’ll need to monitor your cloud infrastructure to make sure that you are managing cost and optimizing resource consumption. Our newest release of Vityl...
Infrastructure Management
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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.
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