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Dell EMC VMAX All Flash and PowerMax Architecture, Performance Analysis and Best Practices

This whitepaper provides an overview of Dell EMC’s current offerings in the VMAX family, the VMAX All Flash and PowerMax, along with a high-level architectural overview of both storage arrays.

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Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter

Job-level CPU Saving Opportunities in a Software Consumption Environment

Analysts involved in leading CPU reduction efforts will have to focus limited staff resources on the top potential savings opportunities. This article focuses on job-level CPU reduction opportunities.

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Is this z/OS workload change normal? Utilizing z/OS Anomaly Detection

z/OS Anomaly Detection allows analysts to automatically detect workload and application changes, saving them countless hours of manual labor and intensive scrutiny while trying to determine the significance of changes

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How to Make the Best of IBM’s TS7700 Virtual Tape Solution | IntelliMagic zAcademy

Watch this webinar if you’ve ever experienced frustrating performance issues or just want to ensure your TS7700 environment is optimized per best practices.

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Intelligent Performance Analytics for Infinidat InfiniBox

Performance bottlenecks on your Infinidat storage arrays can impact your applications ability to service requests in a timely fashion. It’s important to have the right visibility into your storage systems to proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks.

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How to use Processor Cache Optimization to Reduce z Systems Costs

Optimizing processor cache can significantly reduce CPU consumption, and thus z Systems software costs, for your workload on modern z Systems processors.

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Avoid Islands In Your Data Lakes

Executives have been asking for a holistic view of the enterprise applications and infrastructure for years. The result has been a slew of overly complex, hard to maintain, expensive, and siloed IT management solutions.

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Anatomy of I/O Latency on a Fibre Channel Fabric

Learn how to understand some of the key components of I/O response times and how they manifest themselves across some of the storage platforms.

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Webinar

Dell EMC VMAX All Flash and PowerMax Performance Management and Architecture Overview

This webinar will look at the key physical and logical components that make up Dell EMC’s All Flash and PowerMax storage arrays.

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zAcademy: z/OS Infrastructure Operations - 2020’s Biggest Challenges and Trends for 2021 Part 2

Learn best practices for an optimal environment, ranging from CPU Consumption and new pricing models to performance issues in Db2, CICS, and systems components.

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Impact of z14 and z15 Models on Processor Cache and MLC Expenses

This article examines the changes in processor cache design for the z14 processor model.

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Understanding Pure Storage FlashArray Key Metrics

Performance bottlenecks on your storage array can impact your applications ability to service requests in a timely fashion. It’s important to have the right visibility into your storage systems to proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks.

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