Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter

Reporting on Tailored Fit Pricing Software Consumption

Discover ways to track your MSU consumption, and how to identify and investigate situations where your actual consumption is out of line with the expected consumption.

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HDS G1500/F1500 Series - Architecture and Performance Analysis

This webinar looks at the key physical and logical components that make up the architecture of the HDS VSP G1500/F1500 series and provides insights into the key related performance metrics.

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Mainframe encryption causes higher demand in TCP/IP address space

Many shops are using IBM’s pervasive encryption to protect their mainframe's integrity, but how do we get in front of the mainframe impacts or know which encryption methods might meet security requirements at lower cost?

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Stretched in 2020?

This year has certainly stretched everyone. Learn some ways to overcome some new and unexpected challenges that likely weren’t even on your radar in January.

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Preparing for and Managing Peak Periods | IntelliMagic zAcademy

Ensure easy visibility and management of infrastructure workload peaks by quantifying risk and accelerating problem resolution times.

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Whitepaper

Storage Performance Analysis for HDS VSP G1000/G1500/F1500 Series

This whitepaper provides a brief overview of the HDS VSP G1500/F1500 series hardware and discusses some best practices for configuring your HDS VSP for optimal performance within an actual SAN infrastructure.

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A Baker's Dozen: 13 Ways to Improve Your SAN Management

Discover how the latest features in IntelliMagic Vision for SAN can help you manage and optimize your rapidly evolving SAN environment.

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Whitepaper

Configuring Pure FlashArray Fibre Channel for Optimal Performance

This whitepaper provides a brief overview of the Pure FlashArray hardware and discusses some best practices for configuring your FlashArray for optimal performance within an actual SAN infrastructure.

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Your Datacenter Under TFP: The New Rules of Measurement | IntelliMagic zAcademy

Tailored Fit Pricing is no longer an abstract concept. In this webinar, Cheryl Watson and John Baker share their insights on managing and monitoring TFP.

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Health Insights and Change Detection

To help enhance the value you can derive from that SMF data, IntelliMagic Vision provides two complementary types of automated anomaly detection: health insights and change detection.

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CICS Max Tasks: Automated Change Detection Use Case 7

View a CICS Max Tasks use case where Change Detection and Health Assessments play complementary roles in flagging serious issues.

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Batch Job Elapsed Time: Automated Change Detection Use Case 6

Elapsed and CPU times can be of interest for batch jobs, especially those on the critical path for key business job cycles. This use case reflects an abnormally long run time for a daily batch job, and illustrates how potential causes might be investigated.

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