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Blog
What Enterprise Storage system vendors won’t tell you about SSDs
Lee LaFrese - 13 August 2013 For some time, Enterprise Storage vendors have touted Solid State Devices (SSDs) as a true game changer. They talk about nearly infinite performance and little energy usage compared to spinning disk drives. They promote dynamic tiering software as the best way to assure that…
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Video
Assessing and Analyzing CICS Storage Health
Automated assessments of key CICS Statistics Storage metrics facilitate proactive analysis and prevention of outages by identifying areas that may warrant investigation. These views also expedite learning by highlighting metrics that are important to understand and analyze. View Assessing CICS Transaction & Enqueue Health CICS Transaction Class Metrics …
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Blog
Ensure Your Outsourced z/OS Mainframe Delivers Optimal Performance and Cost Efficiency
Brent Phillips - 13 August 2013 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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Blog
The Attack of the Disk Clones
Lee LaFrese - 13 August 2013 When I first started working in the storage industry, the only way data was backed up was via tape. In the days of $10,000 per gigabyte of disk, there was no way any sane person would propose disk back-up. The best practice for Disaster…
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Blog
Breaking Through Hard-To-Diagnose SVC Bottlenecks
Brett Allison - 13 August 2013 Imbalances in an SVC environment can occur in different areas. If these imbalances are significant, they can cause bottlenecks, resulting in optimization and performance issues. Using IntelliMagic Vision, it is possible to quickly discover, diagnose and resolve even the most difficult-to-pinpoint SVC problems. Using embedded storage intelligence from our many years of…
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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 - 13 August 2013 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 - 13 August 2013 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…