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Key Person
Katja Denefleh
Katja Denefleh is a Senior Consultant at IntelliMagic, and is part of the IntelliMagic DACH and global consulting team. She joined IntelliMagic in 2018 and has extensive mainframe tape knowledge from working at IBM for 15 years. At IBM, her primary focus was to design and size virtual tape solutions,…
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Brent Phillips
Brent Phillips is Worldwide IBM Z Performance Evangelist at IBM. With a history of technology entrepreneurship, he started IntelliMagicâs US operations in 2005 and led the US team until IBMâs acquisition of IntelliMagic in 2024. In his capacity as Worldwide IBM Z Performance Evangelist, Brent meets with IT executives and…
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Key Person
Brett Allison
Brett Allison is the VP of Operations for IntelliMagic in the US. Brett leads the US team and provides executive oversight for technical pre-sales and post-sales activities, professional consulting services and the management and operation of the IntelliMagic Software as a Service cloud environment. As a certified security professional, Brett leads IntelliMagicâs security and compliance processes and provides direction for…
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George Dodson
George Dodson has a long and storied history of mainframe performance & capacity planning including industry recognition. He retired after 30 years at IBM and went on to lead many consulting efforts at Fortune 100 companies. At IntelliMagic he uses his extensive IT experience to consult on special projects.
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News
IntelliMagic Announces Strategic Alliance with Watson & Walker
Dec 07, 2016 IntelliMagic, the developers of intelligent IT Operations Analytics solutions like IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS, is pleased to announce a formal alliance with Watson & Walker, publisher of the widely-read Cheryl Watsonâs Tuning Newsletter, and one of the best-known and respected z/OS performance and measurement advisory groups in…
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Blog
How to Choose the Best IBM Spectrum Virtualize Replication Technology
Brett Allison - 4 March 2019 Choosing the wrong IBM Spectrum Virtualize (SVC / Storwize V7000) replication technology can put your entire availability strategy at risk. For most customers, there seems to be a bit of a mystery in how replication works. On the surface, it is simple. Data is…
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Blog
Determining the cause of high I/O latency on your NetApp c-mode system
Brett Allison - 4 March 2019 Your NetApp CIFS latency is through the roof and your users are banging on the door. You can either panic or try to figure out whatâs going on in the system. Donât worry. There are ways to avoid the panic attack and work through…
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Blog
Whatâs Using Up All My Tapes? â Using Tape Management Catalog Data
Dave Heggen - 4 March 2019 Most of the data processed for IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Tape is performance, event or activity driven, obtained from SMF and the Virtual Tape Hardware. Did you know that in addition to the SMF and TS7700 BVIR data, IntelliMagic Vision could also process information…
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News
IntelliMagic Vision Offers Support for IBM z14 Architecture
Oct 12, 2017 IntelliMagic, innovator in intelligent IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) software, announced support for IBM z14 architecture for IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS. IntelliMagic Vision is an ITOA performance and capacity management software that utilizes Artificial Intelligence techniques to expose the inner workings of the IT infrastructure to prevent performance incidents…
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Blog
How to Identify Performance Issues in EMC Vplex Environments
Brett Allison - 4 March 2019 In my previous blog, we examined the key architectural differences between the IBM SVC and the EMC Vplex. We also discussed the key performance metrics. In this blog we will examine a single use case where the director utilization and front-end write response times…