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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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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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You Can’t Do Performance Analysis with SMI-S and Other Myths

This blog discusses the myth that SMI-S is not designed for performance management.

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Storage Management Initiative (SMI) and the Block Services Performance (BSP) sub-profile: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part 3 “The Ugly”

This blog focuses on the Block Services Performance (BSP) Sub-profile.

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Storage Management Initiative (SMI) and the Block Services Performance (BSP) sub-profile: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part 2 “The Bad”

While the technology chosen by the SMI program has significant benefits, it also has challenges.  

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The Storage Management Initiative (SMI): the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part 1 “The Good”

The notion of having a common mechanism to communicate with and report on storage devices is good for both us as a company that provides storage analytics software, and for our customers.

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Breaking Through Hard-To-Diagnose SVC Bottlenecks

Using IntelliMagic Vision, it is possible to quickly discover, diagnose and resolve even the most difficult-to-pinpoint SVC problems.

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