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How to Choose the Best IBM Spectrum Virtualize Replication Technology
Brett Allison - 11 July 2022 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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Determining the cause of high I/O latency on your NetApp c-mode system
Brett Allison - 11 July 2022 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 what’s going on in the system. Don’t worry. There are ways to avoid the panic attack and work through…
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What’s Using Up All My Tapes? – Using Tape Management Catalog Data
Dave Heggen - 11 July 2022 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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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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How to Identify Performance Issues in EMC Vplex Environments
Brett Allison - 11 July 2022 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…
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Mainframe Capacity “Through the Looking Glass”
Todd Havekost - 11 July 2022 With the recent release of “Alice Through the Looking Glass” (my wife is a huge Johnny Depp fan), it seems only appropriate to write on a subject epitomized by Alice’s famous words: “What if I should fall right through the center of the earth…
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1-800-SVC-4EMC: Dell/EMC Vplex for IBM Guys
Brett Allison - 11 July 2022 A few years ago, I was at a prospect’s site that had (Dell) EMC Vplex and I saw on their cubicle wall a hand-written note with the number for Vplex support help: 1-800-SVC-4EMC. At the time EMC was apparently trying to compete with IBM’s…
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Factors That Affect NetApp Performance: NetApp Performance Management 102
Tim Chilton - 11 July 2022 In part one of this two-part series, “NetApp Performance Management 101: Key Metrics and Baseline Performance”, we explored the key metrics one should consider when measuring NetApp performance and provided some rules of thumb what constitutes good performance numbers. This blog will go a…
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Understand IBM zERT (z/OS Encryption Readiness Technology) and Tracking Mainframe Network Traffic
Dr. Gilbert Houtekamer - 11 July 2022 How to track your mainframe network traffic with IBM’s zERT As the mainframe assumes its role as the data hub in your network, it is important to make sure that the mainframe asset, security, is well protected. Enter IBM zERT. With the z14,…
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News
Near Real-Time processing of RMF and SMF data sources released in 8.14.2 of IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS
11 July 2022 IntelliMagic, innovator in intelligent IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) software, today expanded its world-class performance and availability solution, IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS, to support near real-time processing and loading of SMF and RMF data. With IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS, companies have end-to-end z/OS infrastructure visibility to prevent service…