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How Much Flash Do I Need Part 2: Proving the Configuration
Jim Sedgwick - 21 August 2017 Before making a costly Flash purchase, it’s always a good idea to use some science to forecast if the new storage hardware configuration, and especially the costly Flash you purchase, is going to be able to handle your workload. Is your planned purchase performance…
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IntelliMagic Releases Breakthrough Interactive z/OS Subsystem Topology Viewer
21 August 2017 Within the z/OS mainframe, CICS, Db2, and MQ are three vitally important components that often work together to support the processing of business applications and data. With the release of 12.10.0, IntelliMagic Vision has introduced an interactive z/OS Subsystem Topology Viewer, allowing performance analysts to visualize and…
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Is Some Automation Unnecessary Noise or Just Lower Priority Work?
Jack Opgenorth - 21 August 2017 Computers are great at doing what we tell them. They don’t get tired, bored, or complain about the endless work we have them doing. The tasks that have been given to computers range from the apps on your mobile device to the DevOps efforts…
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What Enterprise Storage system vendors won’t tell you about SSDs
Lee LaFrese - 21 August 2017 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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High IOSQ Time in Mainframe IO Subsystem Leads to Credit Card Transaction Timeouts for Major Bank
Joe Hyde - 21 August 2017 Black Friday is one of the busiest transaction days of the year, and it often seems like an easy payday for most participating companies. But have you ever wondered what performance preparations must be made to accommodate the overly inflated volume of credit card…
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Enterprise Level Storage Systems Best Practices
Stuart Plotkin - 21 August 2017 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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IntelliMagic Sessions at SHARE Sacramento
IntelliMagic will be at SHARE Sacramento, March 11 – 16, hosting a Lunch & Learn and presenting four performance and capacity sessions you won’t want to miss! Join us at booth #205 to see the latest in intelligent analytics for performance and capacity planners. IntelliMagic is proud to be…
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Less is More – Why 32 HyperPAVs are Better than 128
Dr. Gilbert Houtekamer - 21 August 2017 When HyperPAV was announced, the extinction of IOSQ was expected to follow shortly. And indeed for most customers IOSQ time is more or less an endangered species. Yet in some cases a bit of IOSQ remains, and even queuing on HyperPAV aliases may…
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Making Use of AI for IT Operations Analytics / AIOps
Brent Phillips - 21 August 2017 Enterprise computing systems and storage operations teams have a difficult job: manage the IT infrastructure so that application availability is always efficiently maintained. But this is virtually impossible due to the complexity and disparity of the meta-data and reporting tools for all the various infrastructure components. A…
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Optimizing MLC Software Costs with Processor Configurations
Todd Havekost - 21 August 2017 Most IT organizations today are highly focused on expense reduction. For the mainframe platform, this leads to efforts to reduce software expense, which typically represents the largest line item in the infrastructure budget. Since software expense is invariably highly correlated with CPU consumption (either…