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It may feel like all-flash systems will solve all your performance issues, but the complexity of the entire infrastructure ensures that there are still plenty of problems to run into.

When processor cache is optimized, mainframe processors remain productive by actively executing instructions rather than unproductively burning cycles.

While most mainframe shops have explored how to reduce mainframe software costs, at IntelliMagic we are finding significant latent savings opportunities still exist at even the best run sites.

To avoid getting overloaded with meaningless alarms, it is important to implement best practices, the first being a software solution that is intelligent.

With a GTF I/O summary trace, what appears innocuous at the RMF level can have some surprising characteristics when put under the GTF microscope.

Unused software, or shelfware, is a pervasive problem in enterprise IT as it doesn't take other factors like personnel, processes, and skills into account.

Disk storage systems provide hundreds of performance-related metrics but in order to identify which of the metrics are key, one first needs to know what exactly the metric represents.

The I/O infrastructure for IBM z Systems is second to none in the enterprise space, including the detailed metrics delineating where time is spent in I/O processing.

While most mainframe shops have explored how to reduce mainframe software costs, we are finding significant latent savings opportunities still exist at even the best run sites.

A Copy Once Facility is not expensive to implement or maintain and can save up to 50% of the bandwidth that would be required if it wasn’t available.

This blog demonstrates how computer system performance modeling is done, specifically for disk storage systems. 

HDS created their Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning (HDP) pools which greatly increase your ability to get insight in the back-end and autotiering workload for the VSP.