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Blog
Shelfware, IT’s version of Home Exercise Equipment
Brett Allison - 2 June 2015 Many years ago, I conducted an IT software asset audit for an insurance company. The results were surprising to say the least. They had a large number of tools, many with overlapping functionality. But the biggest surprise was that they had several useful tools that…
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Blog
z/OS Application Performance Insights – Recapping SHARE St. Louis
Morgan Oats - 2 June 2015 After a busy and exciting week in St. Louis, another successful SHARE conference is in the books. IntelliMagic presented seven sessions surrounding z/OS application performance topics and enjoyed meeting IT professionals and industry leaders dedicated to ensuring optimal z/OS performance and application availability and…
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Key Person
Joe Hyde
Joe Hyde joined IntelliMagic as a senior consultant after 32 years in high-end disk performance. He has extensive mainframe experience with I/O intensive applications, channels and IBM storage, as well as working knowledge of EMC and HDS disk storage offerings. Joe also has deep knowledge of RMF and GTF in…
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Video
Troubleshooting Buffer Credit Issues
Buffer credit issues are typically caused by discrepancies in the I/O workload capabilities of an initiator or target. Usually the targets are the storage systems, and they are extremely fast, and often times the initiators are hosts that may be fast but are oversubscribed or have saturation or contention…
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Blog
Key VMware Storage Metrics to Understand for Optimal VM Performance
Tim Chilton - 2 June 2015 Every storage engineer is familiar with the situation. It’s one of your company’s peak periods, and it is critical that your production applications run smoothly. You get a phone call or an email stating that there is a critical virtual machine or datastore that…
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Video
XtremIO Performance Monitoring
Troubleshooting Dell EMC XtremIO Performance Issues Dell EMC XtremIO’s flash-based storage array was designed to deliver high levels of performance and scalability to SAN storage. This short video shows how one can quickly evaluate key performance metrics, spot issues affecting your XtremIO array, and troubleshoot that back to the…
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Webinar
Best Practices in CICS Performance Analysis (Transactions and Statistics) | IntelliMagic zAcademy
CICS produces extensive SMF metrics that offer rich potential insights for its management and operation. But sites often face significant barriers to realizing the potential value of this data, arising from factors including: overwhelming data volumes siloed tooling that inhibits collaboration complex legacy solutions that can deter newer staff from…
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Blog
Soldiering through z/OS Outsourcing, Insourcing and Change
Jack Opgenorth - 2 June 2015 Despite the growing number of reports that raise concerns with maintaining your mainframe performance while outsourcing z/OS infrastructure, the appeal of outsourcing’s promised benefits has yet to wear off. While having a conversation with a former transportation industry IT executive, we observed over 40…
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Whitepaper
Intelligent Storage Capacity Management
Learn about key activities in the area of performance capacity planning An introduction to managing storage capacity in enterprise block-level storage environments. Learn about key activities in the area of performance capacity planning including: Monitoring Pro-Active Management Modeling Tier Planning Understand the technologies, measurements, processes, and challenges in space capacity…
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Video
Identifying Imbalanced Directors in EMC VMAX
In order to get the most out of your EMC systems, it is imperative to balance the workload across the front-end host ports. In this short video, we demonstrate how IntelliMagic Vision can be used to quickly identify imbalances within the front-end of your EMC systems. Related Resources Webinar…