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Key Person
Sally Mir
Sally Mir is a Senior Db2 Consultant at IntelliMagic and has worked with all aspects of Db2 for z/OS since 1990. Her vast Db2 experience includes working with system and application performance monitoring and tuning, application support, disaster recovery, utilities, developing enterprise-wide guidelines for best practices, and installing Db2 and Db2-related…
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Merle Sadler
Merle Sadler is a senior consultant with IntelliMagic focusing on tape performance for Oracle/STK VSM and IBM TS7700 environments. Prior to joining IntelliMagic, he spent 7 years as a MVS systems programmer and then 6 years as a lead MVS systems programmer with extensive knowledge of disk, tape and IBM…
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Jim Sedgwick
Jim joined IntelliMagic in 2015 as a Storage Consultant after spending 20 years at IBM as a Storage Specialist. Jim’s expertise include enterprise storage performance and copy services. He has published many IBM Redbooks and received his Mechanical Engineering degree from North Carolina State University.
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Tim Chilton
Tim Chilton was a Senior SAN Consultant at IntelliMagic. He has had the pleasure of working as a storage engineer for a variety of industries, such as government, healthcare, and advertising for over 15 years. His experience in networking, physical and virtual server administration, backup administration, network administration, and storage…
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Todd Havekost
Todd is a Senior z/OS Performance Consultant for IntelliMagic. His primary area of interest over the course of his 40 year IT career has been z/OS systems performance. Before joining IntelliMagic, Todd spent 26 years at USAA in a variety of roles including mainframe architect and leading their highly successful mainframe…
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Joe Hyde
Joe Hyde joined IntelliMagic as a senior consultant after 32 years in high-end disk performance. He has extensive mainframe experience with I/O intensive applications, channels and IBM storage, as well as working knowledge of EMC and HDS disk storage offerings. Joe also has deep knowledge of RMF and GTF in…
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Dave Heggen
Dave Heggen was Storage Performance Consultant on the technical services team in the US. He has over thirty-five years of data processing experience, including 29 years with IBM. Dave specializes in z/OS Disk and Tape with an emphasis on z/OS Storage Management, Data Migration, Installation Planning, and Customer Satisfaction. Dave…
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Blog
Why Am I Still Seeing zIIP Eligible Work?
Jack Opgenorth - 24 February 2022 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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Blog
What Will Happen to Your MICS or MXG Legacy When You Retire?
Brent Phillips - 24 February 2022 The deep experts on z/OS infrastructure performance are retiring in growing numbers. Their expertise cannot be replaced with new hires. When that golden day of retirement arrives for you, what will happen to that SAS and MXG or MICS reporting toolset that you spent…
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Customer Experience
Monument Health Protects Storage Performance with IntelliMagic Vision
Monument Health is a community-based health care system with a mission to make a difference, every day. The system offers care in 31 medical specialties and serves 12 communities across western South Dakota. With over 5,000 physicians and caregivers, Monument Health is composed of 5 hospitals and 38 medical clinics…