HDS Pools Hit the Target in RMF for Hitachi Dynamic Tiering
HDS created their Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning (HDP) pools which greatly increase your ability to get insight in the back-end and autotiering workload for the VSP.
z/OS Petabyte Capacity Enablement
The purpose of this blog is to discuss the strategies of how to position existing and future technologies to allow for this required growth.
What is your Approach to Storage Performance? Historical or Hysterical?
Proactive storage performance management ensures sufficient storage resources are present to satisfy demand without impacting service.
Does everybody know what time it is? Tool Time!
For managing your z/OS Disk performance, IntelliMagic Vision easily outperforms IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk (TPC).
What Will This New Application Do To My Storage? Part 1
This blog discusses the top five questions application owners should ask when evaluating the impact of a new application to their storage environment.
What Will This New Application Do To My Storage? Part 2
IntelliMagic Vision is excellent at evaluating the performance health of your storage controllers and assessing how a new workload will impact your storage environment.
Obscured by Clouds – Why You Shouldn’t Outsource Data Storage to the Cloud
Cloud vendors are quick to tout the benefits of moving data storage to the cloud, but Lee LaFrese reminds us of the risks of outsourcing data storage to the cloud.
IBM TS7700 Replication – Is Your Data Safe? (Part 2 of 2)
This blog explores how IntelliMagic Vision can be used to monitor the health of the TS7700 replication process.
Does your Disaster Recovery Plan Meet its Objectives? Analyzing TS7700 Tape Replication (Part 1 of 2)
This blog is the first in a series of two blogs on the topic of Mainframe Virtual Tape Replication.