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Beneficial Use of GDPS Copy Once Facility (Experimental Evidence)
Dave Heggen - 26 March 2015 There’s no law that requires GDPS implementations to use the Copy Once Facility for Global Mirror, but in my opinion, there ought to be. The Copy Once Facility incorporates a simple idea: Copy Once describes a group of volumes without critical data; data that…
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Mainframe Cost Savings Part 3: Address Space Opportunities
Todd Havekost - 26 March 2015 Software is the primary component in today’s world that drives mainframe expenses, and software expense correlates to CPU consumption in almost all license models. In this blog series, I am covering several areas where possible CPU reduction (and thus mainframe cost savings) can be…
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News
IntelliMagic Vision Adds SMF Field Name Mapping to Live Report Editor
26 March 2015 IntelliMagic Vision has long supported the ability to no-code and live-edit reports directly in our GUI. With version 12.1 IntelliMagic Vision provides the capability to reference and add variables by SMF field names, significantly enhancing analysis capabilities and explainability. This enables users to easily identify and investigate…
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Customer Experience
Intelligent Storage Performance and Capacity Management at DATEV eG
DATEV eG, one of the largest software houses and IT service providers in Europe serving tax consultants, auditors, lawyers and their mainly medium-sized clients, relies on IntelliMagic Vision for performance analysis and capacity planning for disk storage and virtual tape systems. The data center of DATEV includes four IBM mainframe…
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Reduce Latency and Lower Demand as You Create the Capacity Plan
Jack Opgenorth - 26 March 2015 In my earlier blog on managing the gap in IT spending and revenue growth, I discussed capacity planning as a process that aims primarily to feed the budget process in your organization, and I emphasized the importance of planning for an efficient system. I…
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Stretched in 2020?
Jack Opgenorth - 26 March 2015 As a seasoned IT performance and capacity specialist, I’ve had to consider some unexpected challenges over the years. September 11th, 2001 and the impacts to travel & transportation that ensued might be similar to what we’re being confronted with today. Regardless, this certainly has…
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New Visibility into FAST/FAST-VP for Large Scale EMC Environments
Brett Allison - 26 March 2015 Chances are you don’t drive blindfolded. However, we often run our complicated storage environments with very little visibility. Not by choice, but because status quo in the industry is to find out about problems only after they are already impacting production users. Why is this the…
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Smart Data Spelunking
Jack Opgenorth - 26 March 2015 Splunk® derives its name from spelunking (the recreational activity of exploring caves) with the tie in of exploring vast amounts of data. Splunk has proven extremely useful in many areas of business analytics, and it has opened up a wide variety of data types,…
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Common SAN Anomaly Signatures and How to Identify Them
Brett Allison - 26 March 2015 There are quite a few things that can go wrong with zoning and configuration in a SAN environment. Because of the redundancy built into SAN fabric design principles, most of the times zoning issues do not cause immediate issues. Whether accidental or unintentional, sub-optimal…
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Best Practices for Managing your SAN Performance (Part 2: Reactive)
Brett Allison - 26 March 2015 Part one of this blog talked about being proactive – but that is not enough. There is too much uncertainty in the world, and you need to be reactive when things don’t quite go as planned. Once again, let’s look to the dictionary for…