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New Visibility into FAST/FAST-VP for Large Scale EMC Environments

Managing the performance of EMC FAST-VP objects is complicated, and the IntelliMagic Performance Class monitoring effectively addresses this important gap.

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IBM z/OS’s Microscope – GTF

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.

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Shelfware, IT’s version of Home Exercise Equipment

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.

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How are my Disk Storage Systems doin’?

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.

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Pend Time Haiku

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.

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The Attack of the Disk Clones

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.

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Beneficial Use of GDPS Copy Once Facility (Experimental Evidence)

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.

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Four Steps You Should Take to Identify, Resolve and Prevent IBM SVC Front-End Imbalance

This blog provides you with further options when distributing workloads across the available resources and dedicating replication traffic to specific ports.

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Performance Modeling for Disk Storage Systems

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

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HDS Pools Hit the Target in RMF for Hitachi Dynamic Tiering

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.

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z/OS Petabyte Capacity Enablement

The purpose of this blog is to discuss the strategies of how to position existing and future technologies to allow for this required growth.

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Does everybody know what time it is? Tool Time!

For managing your z/OS Disk performance, IntelliMagic Vision easily outperforms IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk (TPC).

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