Guide
How to Automate Enterprise Scheduling
Following a specific plan for automating your enterprise schedule ensures greater success for your implementation.
Article
Getting Started with Your Automate Schedule Free Trial
Mon, 03/20/2017
Are you ready to test Automate Schedule in your environment? Here's what you need to know to get the most out of your free trial.
Article
Best Reasons for a Web Browser User Interface
Mon, 03/20/2017
Ultimately, a web-based product allows you to produce software faster and get new features and versions out to customers at a better pace.
Article
Advantages of Powertech Encryption for IBM i Over the Complexities and Risks of Disk Encryption
By Bob Luebbe on Fri, 03/17/2017
Disk drive encryption may help you comply with PCI DSS, but you must follow strict requirements. Additionally, relying solely on disk drive encryption for data protection has serious potential risks that you should be aware of.
Guide
Beyond Cron: How to Know When You've Outgrown Cron Scheduling
Cron is a useful tool, but for today’s large, interconnected enterprises it has its limitations. Modern enterprise job scheduling tools offer superior functionality, ease of use, and a more modern, graphical user interface.
Guide
Making the Data Integration Process More Efficient
It is important to understand the challenges that many companies face with data integration so that the appropriate tool can be used to address them.
Article
Managing Server and Network Outages with an Enterprise Job Scheduler
Wed, 03/15/2017
Dealing with planned or unplanned downtime can be laborious and detrimental to your business. Find out which features your enterprise scheduler needs to efficiently deal with IT outages.
Article
Scheduling for the People (Not for Computers)
Wed, 03/15/2017
If you understand the capabilities of different job schedulers, you’ll know the extent to which your company would benefit from a more advanced enterprise job scheduler.
Article
The IT Job Scheduling Pyramid: Building Blocks of Job Scheduling
Wed, 03/15/2017
Automate Schedule helps automate job scheduling at all levels of complexity. To prioritize scheduling tasks, visualize an inverted pyramid.
Guide
Why You Need an Enterprise Scheduler
The best way to resolve the issue of multiple schedulers is with an enterprise scheduler that can build cross-platform job streams to handle the different applications.
Article
Workload Automation: A Key Tool in a Fast Paced Tech Landscape
By Dan Twing on Tue, 03/14/2017
Workload automation is evolving to allow IT to move faster and integrate new technologies. What innovations would you like to see?
Article
Why Everyone Has a Crush on Linux—even IBM
Tue, 03/14/2017
Linux helps enterprises make IT more scalable and flexible. Supplemented by dedicated, Linux-compatible tools for job scheduling—like Automate Schedule—put organizations in a prime position to streamline operations to meet changing requirements.
Article
Orchestrating a Symphony of Application Automation
By Steve Brasen on Tue, 03/14/2017
An enterprise job scheduler is key to orchestrating disparate applications and complex business processes.
Guide
Essentials for Privileged Access Management
Learn how you can effectively and efficiently control privileged UNIX and Linux accounts from accessing data or executing any application by using centralized access management.
Guide
Controlling SSH for Security and Compliance
SSH is nearly ubiquitous in today’s enterprises, and is the predominant tool for managing unix and linux servers, and the applications and data that they host. Poor practices around the deployment and management of the SSH infrastructure could easily leave your enterprise vulnerable to a breach. Are you in control?
SSH, Secure Shell protocol, is now nineteen years old and broadly deployed across...
Guide
Powertech Password Self Help for IBM i: Self-Service Password Reset
Resetting disabled passwords is an inevitable activity. Read this guide to find out you can reduce password management costs and increase efficiency with an easy-to-use tool that allows IBM i users to reset their own passwords.
Guide
Using the Cloud for Mission-Critical Systems
In order to make cloud computing highly available and easy to use, there has to be an infrastructure in the background, like enterprise scheduling software.
Article
The Modern Alternative to Authority Adoption
By Robin Tatam on Wed, 03/08/2017
There are several considerations with authority adoption. Each is important but can usually be accommodated. But what is the effect if the program owner has the same or less privileges than the user that called the program?
Article
Stay on Top of Security with Security Scan
By Robin Tatam on Wed, 03/08/2017
Security and compliance adherence has elevated in criticality over the past few years and has now taken its rightful place as a primary IT initiative, alongside virtualization and disaster preparedness. The necessity for better data protection has landed front-and-center in the public eye following some of the largest data breaches on record.
Article
What's New in Security for IBM i 7.2
By Robin Tatam on Wed, 03/08/2017
IBM i security expert Robin Tatam covers the new security functionality added to IBM i 7.2