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Blog
Ensure Your Outsourced z/OS Mainframe Delivers Optimal Performance and Cost Efficiency
Brent Phillips - 27 August 2018 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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Whitepaper
Configuring Pure FlashArray Fibre Channel for Optimal Performance
Best Practices for Configuring Pure FlashArray Fibre Channel Performance With a little over 10 years since they were founded, Pure Storage has made significant inroads in the storage market. The FlashArray platform and Purity operating environment that runs on them were designed with an eye towards performance, simplicity, resiliency, and…
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Blog
Enterprise Level Storage Systems Best Practices
Stuart Plotkin - 27 August 2018 The journey to create best practices for enterprise level storage systems For many years, I have had the opportunity to be involved in addressing enterprise infrastructure performance challenges. When I mention to friends that I am a storage performance expert, they occasionally respond: “Me…
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Blog
Conserving MSUs – Déjà vu All Over Again
Dennis Moore - 27 August 2018 This blog was originally published on October 18, 2021. With more and more customers moving to IBM’s Software Consumption (Previously Enterprise Consumption) solution within Tailored Fit Pricing (TFP), it may be time to revisit some of the old tried-and-true MSU tuning strategies. With Software…
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Customer Experience
KBC decided to ensure Data Storage Availability with IntelliMagic Vision
This testimony was originally created in Dutch. You can read the Dutch version here. It is crucial for any financial institution to be able to count on the availability and reliability of data at all times. This is no different for Belgian bank and insurance company KBC Group NV. Marc Van Hoof,…
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News
IntelliMagic sponsors Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest
October 21, 2015 IntelliMagic is one of the sponsors of the Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest (BAPC). The BAPC is a yearly programming contest for student teams from Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. This year, the finals will be held at Leiden University. The challenge the participants are facing is to solve…
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Blog
How to Detect and Resolve “State in Doubt” Errors
Brett Allison - 27 August 2018 This blog was originally published on October 22, 2015. One of our customers recently came across a problem in their environment that I think warrants some attention. The VMWare administrator had gone to the storage team and asked if they saw any issues on…
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Blog
What HDS VSP and HP XP P9500 Should Be Reporting in RMF/SMF – But Aren’t
Dr. Gilbert Houtekamer - 27 August 2018 This the last blog post in a series of four, where we share our experience with the instrumentation that is available for the IBM DS8000, EMC VMAX and HDS VSP or HP XP P9500 storage arrays through RMF and SMF. This post is about the Hitachi…
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Video
Db2 Accounting: Exploring Other Metrics in Accounting Data by Plan
A sampling of other types of metrics available in the Db2 Accounting data viewed by plan, such as: rate of commits number of rollbacks volume of log data volume of SQL statements by type and more View Case Study: Isolating Change Drivers View Accounting Data: Customized Dashboard Recap …
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News
IntelliMagic Vision Accelerates Learning for z/OS Performance Teams with Measurement Explanations
27 August 2018 The z/OS performance management skills gap has created unacceptable risks for application availability and unnecessary software cost increases. IntelliMagic Vision’s intelligent z/OS operations analytics multiply the impact of expert team members and accelerates training and effectiveness of new staff. With version 11.6.0, IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS adds…