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Download “Automation without Alienation”
Automation has the potential to transform the way we work. It allows organizations drive efficiencies, increase reliability, and cut costs. But not everyone is on board with the change. Automation can be frightening to employees who worry about losing their jobs to robots and computers.
This white paper from Computing tackles the problem of how to go forward implementing automation while...
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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 capacity management is...
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IT Centralization and Robot
This paper makes a case for IT centralization on IBM i and explains the important role automated systems management technologies like Robot have to play in centralized IT environments.
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Building a Sound Investment Strategy Through Technology
Combining IBM Power Systems hardware and reliable iSeries job scheduler software is a powerful investment strategy for companies that not only improves their bottom line, but enhances customer experience.
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How to Manage IT Resource Consumption
At an application level with Vityl Capacity Management
In this guide, John Miecielica of Metavante, provides a step-by-step example showing how he uses Vityl Capacity Management to analyze IT resource consumption at an application level. This key capability is especially important in today’s environments where multiple applications run on a server or multiple servers might be required to...
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Commercial Clusters and Scalability
In this paper we present an introductory analysis of throughput scalability for update intensive workloads (such as measured by the TPC-C or TPC-W benchmarks) and how that scaling is limited by serialization effects in the software-hardware combination that comprises any platform.
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How to Write Application Performance Agents in TeamQuest Performance Software 7.2 or 8
TeamQuest (now Vityl Capacity Management) provides unintrusive mechanisms for instrumenting
applications and analyzing application performance. Neil Gunther describes how to use
those mechanisms.
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Service-Oriented Architecture and What It Means to Capacity Management
This guide explains how service oriented architecture (SOA) requires unique capacity management considerations for your IT organization.