Resources

See and deal with threats to SAN availability using expert knowledge automatically applied to the performance and configuration data.

Gain an understanding of availability intelligence and the storage management life cycle from the design, build, and run phases.

Gain an understanding of the value of virtualization, the virtualization architectures, and IBM SVC Architecture.

Gain an understanding of common bottlenecks, SVC component measurements including nodes, managed disks, storage pools, and volumes, as well as the how and why of SVC Measurement

Learn the history and trends in disk technology as well as to gain an understanding of the different disk storage system components

Better understand the available storage performance measurements and data collection approaches for Enterprise Storage.

Learn best practices for connecting various IBM storage to SVC, as well as performance considerations to optimize the performance of each system.

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.