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Mobile Management for Your Job Schedule
By Chuck Losinski on Wed, 02/13/2019
Your job schedule has never looked so good! Learn about four must-have features exclusive to the web interface for Robot Schedule.
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Top 5 Capacity Planning Mistakes on IBM i
By Tom Huntington on Tue, 02/12/2019
When it comes to capacity planning for IBM i, skip the shortcuts. This article shares expert recommendations on how to avoid the most common capacity planning mistakes.
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Comparing Different Methods for Calculating Health and Risk
By Per Bauer on Fri, 02/08/2019
How do you calculate IT health and risk?
There are different methods you can use, depending on your needs.
The most common methods for determining IT infrastructure health are:
Threshold comparison
Enhanced threshold comparison
Event detection
Variation from normal
Allocation comparison
Queuing theory for health
On the other hand, the most common methods for calculating IT...
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A Roadmap for Consolidation
Mon, 02/04/2019
There are five key steps when planning a consolidation strategy. Considerations for each step are outlined below.
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Managing a Virtual Computing Environment
Tue, 01/29/2019
Vityl Capacity Management (formerly TeamQuest) supports VMware for monitoring, managing, and conducting capacity planning.
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Powertech Antivirus and ClamAV: A Detection Rate Comparison
By Bob Erdman on Sat, 12/15/2018
Read on to find out the results of a detection rate test between our enterprise solution, Powertech Antivirus, and the most widely used open source Linux antivirus, ClamAV.
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If It Has Moving Parts, Someday It's Going to Fail.
Sat, 11/03/2018
Check out IBM's new READ INTENSIVE SSDs.
This is a note to highlight some of the pros and cons - and dig a little deeper into one of the cons - of IBM's recently announced new class of solid state disk drives, "read intensive" (RI) SSDs.
The new RI-SSD comes in one flavor, a 1.86 TB drive. The new concept to wrap your head around is that the drive will "wear out" if you write too much over the...
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A Case for PEDM
Tue, 09/25/2018
Learn how one company benefitted from incorporating Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS), a PEDM solution, into their security portfolio.
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Three Signs You’ve Outgrown Password Vaulting
Tue, 09/25/2018
The article highlights the signs to look out for that it’s time to consider add another type of PAM solution—Privilege Elevation and Delegation Management (PEDM)—to help your organization as it continues to grow.
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Different Paths, Same Goal: Privileged Account and Session Management (PASM) and Privilege Elevation and Delegation Management (PEDM)
Mon, 09/24/2018
PASM and PEDM are two categories of security tools that have distinct approaches in how they manage access. Read on to find out the different approaches PASM and PEDM take to protecting your data, and how they can work together to maximize your security.
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The Lifecycle of a Security Event
Wed, 08/22/2018
This article seeks to illustrate the contrast between stagnant security events at an organization without a SIEM, and the distinct life cycle of events when a SIEM is streamlining security threats.
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Managing Your IBM i Audit Data
By Robin Tatam on Wed, 08/01/2018
Let’s face it; system administration remains a largely thankless task. From scheduling jobs to balancing workloads to answering messages in QSYSOPR, administrators and operators work diligently behind the scenes to ensure that IBM i servers are available to run mission-critical applications.
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The Six Ws of Granular Access Control
Wed, 08/01/2018
This article takes a closer look at why granular access control is so effective by placing limitations on who can get into your organization’s system, where, when and how they can access it, and what they can do with it.
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How to Download an ODBC Driver
Wed, 07/25/2018
Performance Navigator® requires an ODBC connection to connect to your IBM i system, but it does not come with your PC’s operating system. IBM has a downloadable they’ve titled Access Client Solutions, which we recommend our customers use to get that ODBC connection.
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A Beginner’s Guide to IBM i System Administration
Fri, 07/13/2018
Despite popular opinion, IBM i is not bulletproof and cannot completely manage itself. But the operating system does make it easier for administrators.
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FAQs about Performance Navigator
Thu, 07/12/2018
Will this product hurt the performance of my IBM i®?
You will not even notice that the product is working. The data gathering software is already part of the OS. I currently have a subscription to IBM's PM for Power service.
How is Performance Navigator compared to PM?
Glad you asked... Performance Navigator uses exactly the same input as PM for Power, Collection Services. Performance Navigator...
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PowerHA for SAP—A Winning Combination
By Tom Huntington on Thu, 05/31/2018
What is PowerHA and what does it have to offer SAP on IBM i users? Find out here.
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Eight Steps Toward a Secure Hybrid Cloud Environment
Fri, 03/16/2018
Protect your data and your company from internal and external threats by ensuring that your security policies on-premises and in the cloud are aligned with this checklist.
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With Public Cloud OS Instances Growing, Security Challenges Grow, Too
Tue, 03/13/2018
“Some cloud vendors tout that systems deployed within their framework require little or no administration: You create an image with the software and applications that you want it to provide services for, spin it up in a management console, and Voila! you have an entirely new system online; with minimal cost, no hassle, little work. However, even...