Guide
10 Steps to Streamline the Deployment of Network Monitoring Software for SMBs
10 tips to help small to medium-sized businesses save time during the installation and configuration of network monitoring software.
Guide
Finding Your Way: Mapping Your Network to Improve Manageability
Mapping your network gives engineers and other IT staff a 360-degree view of the entire network. Find out how to use a network map to monitor your network, help with capacity planning, and minimize time spent resolving issues.
Article
Dashboards: How to Make the Most of Your Data
By Mike Stegeman on Thu, 11/17/2016
Data is evolving. Can your organization make sense of it? Find out how dashboards will help.
Article
B2B and B2C Data Exchange with an Enterprise Job Scheduler
Fri, 11/11/2016
Modern business involves constant transfers of data between your company and its customers and partners. Make sure you have the right tool for the job.
Article
How Do I Know High Availability Is For Me?
By Tom Huntington on Fri, 11/11/2016
IBM i high availability has been at the top of your wish list for a while. Don’t let budget hold you back any longer. Discover how affordable HA can be.
Article
What’s New in V7R3 Security?
Thu, 11/10/2016
V7R3 provides some new and changed features in the IBM i integrated auditing function as well as a new feature that will take the guesswork out of implementing object-level security. I want to save the best for last, so I’ll start with the updated auditing features.
New and Changed Auditing Features
The CP (Changes to User Profiles) audit journal entry has always contained useful information...
Guide
Controlling SQL Updates Using Powertech Exit Point Manager for IBM i
Over the years, users have relied on commands like STRSQL and RUNSQL to provide instant and powerful access to the data on their Power Systems™ servers. All types of users—from programmers to system administrators to end users—use these commands as their primary interface for extracting and updating data.
However, allowing a user to view, update, and even delete data without any control by the...
Article
What is Agentless Network Monitoring Software?
By Kevin Jackson on Thu, 10/27/2016
Agentless network monitoring software helps today’s IT teams remain agile with fast deployment and flexible monitoring.
Guide
Download "IBM i User Provisioning"
Even when user profiles are painstakingly set up, keeping them consistent and secure can be an uphill battle. All it takes is one over-privileged user and your most critical data could be changed, deleted, or worse.
You need help—not only to set up new users with discretion, but also to keep them consistent across roles, departments, and systems.
Our exclusive white paper includes expert advice...
Guide
Top 8 Reasons SMBs Need to Monitor their Networks
Read the top 8 reasons small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) should implement network monitoring tools.
Guide
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...
Guide
Top Security Issue for the Integrated File System (IFS)
The IFS is one of the most ignored parts of the system, yet it enables many of the most powerful and most used features on IBM i today. Overlooking the ways in which IBM i utilizes the IFS could weaken your security.
Article
Insight On Demand: One-Click IBM i Performance Investigations
By Kurt Thomas on Mon, 10/10/2016
In a manual monitoring environment, for every issue that arises, there is often a multiple-step investigation process to accompany it.
Guide
Managing Data and Healthcare Regulations Efficiently
The right Business Intelligence (BI) tool can address the twin challenges of today's healthcare industry and regulations: efficient, secure information retrieval and effective monitoring of day-to-day operations.
In February 2009, President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Title XIII of ARRA, called the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical...
Guide
Download "How IT Professionals Can Navigate SOX Compliance"
Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) is impossible without IT professionals, but translating this law into IT action items is a challenge.
With penalties up to $10 million fines and even prison time, following SOX—and proving you're compliant—is vital.
This compliance guide breaks down the most important aspects of SOX that affect IT professionals and focuses on what you need to know to get...
Article
Take the Confusion out of Network Monitoring Software Licensing Models
By Kevin Jackson on Tue, 10/04/2016
Licensing is different vendor to vendor, making it difficult to compare the value of network monitoring solutions. Here's everything you need to know about the most common licensing models.
Article
Application Modernization: An Interview with Trevor Perry
By Trevor Perry on Fri, 09/16/2016
Making your business applications modern goes way beyond the GUI. It’s about providing a superior user experience from front to back, IT to end user. Trevor Perry tells all in this article.