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Blog
Mainframe Software Cost Savings Playbook
Jack Opgenorth - 20 September 2023 Businesses often struggle trying to reduce mainframe and other IT infrastructure costs. Before you can get started reducing your mainframe costs, you should understand what drives those costs. To a large extent, how much you spend in total, software, hardware, and infrastructure management is…
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Blog
Performance Modeling for Disk Storage Systems
Lee LaFrese - 20 September 2023 In social situations, people sometimes bring up what they do for a living. When I say, “I am a Storage Performance consultant,” I usually get blank stares. When I am asked for more details, I usually reply “I do a lot of modeling.” This…
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Best Practices for Managing your SAN Performance (Part 2: Reactive)
Brett Allison - 20 September 2023 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…
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News
John Baker Joins IntelliMagic to Help Customers Optimize their z/OS Mainframe Application Performance
20 September 2023 IntelliMagic, the worldwide leader in ITOA solutions for Availability Intelligence, announced the return of John Baker to the IntelliMagic team to use his extensive z/OS performance expertise in assisting customers operate more efficiently and modernize their data analysis and infrastructure performance. IntelliMagic has expanded its expert services…
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Top ‘IntelliMagic zAcademy’ Webinars of 2023
Morgan Oats - 20 September 2023 As year-end approaches I wanted to continue the tradition of looking back on the IntelliMagic zAcademy webinars that resonated most with our mainframe audience. Since 2020, IntelliMagic zAcademy has offered free, educational z/OS webinars to the mainframe community. In 2023, we reached our 50th…
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Blog
zHyperLink – Coming to a Data Center Near You (Sooner Than You Think)
Todd Havekost - 20 September 2023 Significant obstacles to implementing zHyperLink Sure, the published response time expectations for zHyperLink are amazing: 20 microseconds or less. For those of us who have been in the mainframe industry for years, that is a remarkable number. Without a doubt, the far-reaching changes across…
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Whitepaper
z/OS Real and Virtual Storage Management
Optimize your Real and Virtual Storage Configuration Issues with real and virtual storage management can have an immediate impact on the availability or performance of your LPARs or applications. In this white paper we provide an explanation of the real, virtual, and auxiliary storage architecture used by the z/OS operating…
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Blog
Check your Fibre Cable!
Brett Allison - 20 September 2023 Encoding errors – are they distracting noise or important information that shouldn’t be ignored? There’s so much noise in a big fabric that it can be hard to know what should be investigated. In this blog we will discuss the meaning of a few…
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News
Todd Havekost Joins IntelliMagic to Help IBM Mainframe Customers Reduce MLC
May 6, 2016 IntelliMagic, the worldwide leader in solutions for Availability Intelligence, announced the hire of Todd Havekost from USAA, where he served as Mainframe Architect and also led their Mainframe Software Expense Reduction initiative. As large enterprises focus on maintaining continuous availability while at the same time controlling cost levels, IntelliMagic…
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Blog
NVMe over Fabric – Fibre Channel
Tim Chilton - 20 September 2023 Almost all new storage offerings these days offer some level of support for Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe). The purpose of this blog is to help the reader understand NVMe and prepare them for successful adoption of this powerful technology. It is an exciting paradigm…