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z/OS Performance Monitoring and more at SHARE Phoenix

A look back at SHARE Phoenix with links to all of the presentations and sessions we hosted.

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Best Practices for Managing your SAN Performance (Part 1: Proactive)

Over the years I have learned the hard way that spending a little bit of time proactively assessing the health of the SAN environment is worth a thousand hours of reactive problem management.

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Six Practical Use Cases for AIOps on z/OS

As the complexity of Information Technology has accelerated, one reaction has been to apply machine intelligence solutions (AIOps) to IT operations and performance management. Here are six use cases.

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z/OS Performance Availability and Cost Optimization Best Practices

Why is ensuring application availability and cost optimization on z/OS so difficult? The problem isn’t a lack of data. The challenge is in creating insights from RMF & SMF.

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Don’t Let RPO Knock Your SOX Off!

Proving that you maintain control of your recovery point objective (RPO) is key for SOX compliance if you use asynchronous replication to protect your data.

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Is Your Car or Mainframe Better at Warning You?

Early warning can help avoid problems before they occur or impact production, and help fix a minor issue before it gets worse.

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AIOps, Mainframe Monitoring, MLC Optimization, Oh My: Hot Mainframe Topics of 2018

As 2018 nears its close, I wanted to reflect on the world of RMF/SMF performance analysis and provide an ode to the topics that resonated most within the industry.

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Anatomy of an Anomaly – Finding the Root Cause of a CONNECT Time Increase

Recently a situation occurred at one of our cloud services customers that was a real head-scratcher. One of the disk storage systems saw a sudden jump in CONNECT time. What had changed?

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Reporting on z/OS Mainframe Application Performance

Intelligent reporting on mainframe applications is very helpful to understand application performance and behavior on the mainframe, and how the applications are using your systems.

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The Perils of Complacency with Enterprise Storage Systems

Over the last few years, Enterprise Storage Systems have advanced so much that it seems that they have nearly unlimited performance and resiliency. However, becoming complacent with your storage performance is fraught with peril.

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Soldiering through z/OS Outsourcing, Insourcing and Change

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.

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IBM Technical University, Hollywood 2018 IntelliMagic Sessions

A recap of IBM TechU Hollywood, 2018 with links to all of the presentations and sessions we hosted.

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