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z/OS Performance Monitors – Why Real-Time is Too Late
Morgan Oats - 2 October 2017 Real-time z/OS performance monitors are often advertised as the top tier of performance management. Real-time monitoring means just that: system and storage administrators can view performance data and/or alerts indicating service disruptions continuously as they happen. In theory, this enables administrators to quickly fix…
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Compressing Wisely with IBM Spectrum Virtualize
Brett Allison - 2 October 2017 This blog was originally published on January 23, 2017. Compression of data in IBM Spectrum Virtualize environment may be a good way to gain back capacity, but there can be hidden performance problems if compressible workloads are not first identified. Visualizing these workloads is…
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Best Practices for Managing your SAN Performance (Part 3: Planning)
Brett Allison - 2 October 2017 Would you like to be able to see into the future? In the 2002 movie, Minority Report, a group of mutant psychic children could see visions of future murders. Tom Cruise plays a police officer that is part of a division that arrests people…
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A Single View: Multi-Vendor SAN Infrastructure Part 1
Brett Allison - 2 October 2017 One of the benefits of a SAN system is the fact that it is an open system. Obviously. It’s always ready to communicate with other systems, and you can add storage and infrastructure from many different vendors as it suits your business and performance…
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Jerry Street
Jerry Street works at IntelliMagic as a Senior Technical Consultant who enjoys taking the technical complexity out of the job of a z/OS performance analyst and make it understandable and more useful for others. After earning his degree in Mathematics/Computer Science from the University of Colorado, Jerry went on to…
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Lee LaFrese
Lee LaFrese has deep knowledge about z/OS and SAN storage architecture and is a recognized industry expert in storage performance modeling. Now (almost) fully retired and traveling the world, Lee was a Senior Storage Performance Consultant at IntelliMagic for many years. His focus at IntelliMagic was to investigate thorny performance…
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Jack Opgenorth
Jack works for IntelliMagic as a Senior Consultant – z/OS. He has enjoyed working for a variety of organizations and has been involved in IT Infrastructure optimization for over 30 years. Jack has been involved with high transaction environments as a technical lead for enterprise technology delivery organizations in travel…
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Dennis Moore
Dennis is a Senior z/OS Consultant at IntelliMagic. He has enjoyed working with a wide variety of customers in mainframe performance, WebSphere, Application Performance Management and related technologies. Before joining IntelliMagic, Dennis spent 34 years with IBM in a variety of presales technical roles including systems engineer, z/OS performance and…
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Richard Herbst
Richard is Senior Consultant at IntelliMagic GmbH since 2015. Customers and prospects in Germany, Switzerland and Austria benefit from his expertise of both z/OS and Open Systems. In his early career he worked as a systems programmer at enterprise accounts. Richard achieved his technology expertise while working at system and…
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Stuart Plotkin
Stuart Plotkin was an IT performance consultant with IntelliMagic from 2013 to 2016. Stuart supported EMC (VMAX & VNX) and IBM (SVC/V7000 & DS8000) enterprise storage. His 25 years of award-winning performance engineering experience focused on storage, server, database and applications areas. Through an emphasis on proactive performance methodologies and…