NVMe over Fabric – Fibre Channel
Almost all new storage offerings these days offer some level of support for Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe). The purpose of this blog is to help the reader understand NVMe and prepare them for successful adoption of this powerful technology.
Managing the Gap in IT Spending and Revenue Growth in your Capacity Planning Efforts
Capacity planning is important, but don’t let the importance of future capacity needs for the budget drive you to overlook opportunities to building a bridge toward better performance and longer term efficiencies.
What Star Trek Teaches Us About Modern Storage Infrastructure Management
Discover how you can provide fast data to applications and proactively identify configuration, capacity, and performance issues in your Open Systems environment.
Throwing out the Rolling Four-Hour Average with Tailored Fit Pricing, Software Consumption
The Rolling 4-Hour Average (R4HA) is a measurement of your average speed, over four hours; Tailored Fit Pricing measures precisely how far you drove.
Observability, Availability, Scalability and White Box Analytics
In this blog, we describe what observability means, how it relates to availability, how it impacts scalability and how IntelliMagic Vision fits into the observability landscape.
Intelligent Analysis of TCP/IP z/OS Encryption Readiness Technology Summary Data
TCP/IP’s z/OS Encryption Readiness Technology (zERT) feature provides a single source of data to determine which traffic to and from your site is cryptographically protected by protocols like TLS, SSH, and IPSec, and which is not protected.
How to Use IBM’s zERT to Identify Unencrypted Connections
The primary use of the zERT data is likely to be the identification and remediation of unencrypted connections.
AIOps for Smarter CICS and Db2 SMF Performance Analysis
The massive volumes of CICS and Db2 SMF data and countless static reports can be overwhelming. Discover the benefits of modernizing how you understand and leverage SMF data for CICS and Db2 Performance analysis.
Smart Data Spelunking
Splunk has proven extremely useful in many areas of business analytics and has opened up a wide variety of data views and analysis options, but processing vast amounts of mainframe data with Splunk may not be the best approach.
How to Optimize Your CICS Statistics Health and Performance
CICS reporting by IntelliMagic Vision provides insights into key health metrics, summarized by CICS group, with drilldowns into individual CICS regions.
Gain Insight Into z/OS Network Security Usage and WebSphere Transactions
SMF data provides all the information performance analysts need to derive key performance insights. Join this webinar to learn how to derive more intelligence from zERT and WebSphere SMF data.
Divining Disharmony within Dell EMC Unity
Dell EMC Unity provides some significant improvements over the previous CLARiiON designs. However, as with any platform it still has certain practical limitations.