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Mainframe Capacity “Through the Looking Glass”

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

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Achieving Significant Software Cost Reduction on the IBM z13

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.

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Todd Havekost Joins IntelliMagic to Help IBM Mainframe Customers Reduce MLC

May 6, 2016 | IntelliMagic is pleased to announce the hire of Todd Havekost from USAA, where he served as Mainframe Architect and also led their Mainframe Software
Expense Reduction initiative.

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Customer Experience

The Core of Storage Performance Management Processes at Finanz Informatik

Finanz Informatik, one of the largest banking IT service providers in Europe, relies on IntelliMagic Vision as a fundamental component of their storage performance management processes.

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This is alarming

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

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Availability Intelligence for z/OS Performance & Capacity Planning

Watch the video to discover how to transform unpredictable outages into predictable ones by creating Availability Intelligence out of the RMF and SMF data using built-in expert domain knowledge.

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IntelliMagic Vision Supports Hitachi Mainframe Analytics Recorder

Aug 04, 2015 | IntelliMagic Vision automatically monitors internal performance metrics for HDS VSP G1000 from new SMF records for z/OS sites via the newly available MAR from Hitachi.

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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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