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Webinar
Agile z/OS Application Infrastructure Performance Testing for DevOps
Get Notified of Webinars The z/OS platform excels at efficiently executing transactions and is a critical component for many business applications. Yet application development teams rarely understand how application program changes impact the performance and cost efficiency of the underlying z/OS infrastructure. Most organizations have at least a…
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Easy z/OS Application Performance Testing: New Webinar
Brent Phillips - 28 September 2017 The z/OS platform excels at efficiently executing transactions and is a critically important component for many business applications. Yet, application development teams rarely have an understanding of how application program changes impact the performance and cost efficiency of the underlying z/OS infrastructure. Nearly all z/OS…
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NVMe over Fabric – Fibre Channel
Tim Chilton - 28 September 2017 Almost all new storage offerings these days offer some level of support for Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe). The purpose of this blog is to help the reader understand NVMe and prepare them for successful adoption of this powerful technology. It is an exciting paradigm…
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Why Am I Still Seeing zIIP Eligible Work?
Jack Opgenorth - 28 September 2017 Ghost zIIP Eligible Work zIIP-eligible CPU consumption that overflows onto general purpose CPs (GCPs) – known as “zIIP crossover” – is a key focal point for software cost savings. However, despite your meticulous efforts, it is possible that zIIP crossover work is still consuming…
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Ensure Your Outsourced z/OS Mainframe Delivers Optimal Performance and Cost Efficiency
Brent Phillips - 28 September 2017 It’s becoming increasingly common for organizations to outsource, or consider outsourcing, their z/OS mainframes. There can be compelling arguments for the business executives to outsource as an efficient way to cut costs, eliminate risks, and focus on core business competencies (which is not necessarily…
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Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool (SCRT) Filtering Capabilities & Benefits
Todd Havekost - 28 September 2017 The goal of analyzing Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool (SCRT) usage is to ultimately manage and reduce your MSU usage, and thus MLC costs. Even for sites that anticipate adopting the Enterprise Consumption option of Tailored Fit Pricing (TFP), there can be significant long-term benefit from…
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Troubleshooting Physical and Virtual Host Issues After a Storage Outage
Brett Allison - 28 September 2017 SAN administrators have a lot on their hands when managing their storage environment, and an outage or disruption to the VMware ESX host, SAN Fabric or storage array certainly doesn’t help. Whether the downtime is an unexpected hardware failure or a scheduled firmware upgrade…
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Webinar
Application Performance Testing from the z/OS Infrastructure Perspective
Get Notified of Webinars The z/OS platform excels at efficiently executing transactions and is a critical component for many business applications. Yet application development teams rarely understand how application program changes impact the performance and cost efficiency of the underlying z/OS infrastructure. Most organizations have at least a…
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Reduce MLC Software Costs by Optimizing LPAR Configurations
Todd Havekost - 28 September 2017 This blog was originally published on March 19, 2018. A prominent theme among IT organizations today is an intense focus on expense reduction. For mainframe departments, this routinely involves seeking to reduce software expense from IBM and other vendors, which commonly represents the dominant…
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AI: Too Much of a Good Thing
Jack Opgenorth - 28 September 2017 One of my first exposures to algorithms that made automatic adjustments was related to travel & transportation. Over three decades ago, deregulation drove airlines to introduce software in the availability and pricing of their inventory to maximize profit. The applications were ‘yield management’, and…