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MLC Pricing 101: Tailored Fit, Sub-capacity, and Capping

With the recent IBM announcement about Tailored Fit Pricing, it seems an opportune time to discuss the current pricing methods. In this first blog I’ll cover sub-capacity pricing.

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IntelliMagic at SHARE Pittsburgh

A look back at SHARE Pittsburgh with links to all of the presentations and sessions we hosted.

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CPU – Just the Tip of the z/OS Iceberg

z/OS is now responsible for everything from online transactions, network traffic, replicated data, and so much more. The infrastructure to handle this complexity is no longer limited to ensuring CPU is going to be okay.

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Understand IBM zERT (z/OS Encryption Readiness Technology) and Tracking Mainframe Network Traffic

As the mainframe assumes its role as the data hub in your network, it is important to make sure that the mainframe is well protected. Enter IBM zERT.

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IntelliMagic Sessions at IDUG Charlotte 2019

After releasing our support for Db2 for z/OS earlier this year, we decided to sponsor the North American IDUG conference and the response was overwhelmingly positive.

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Recapping IBM TechU Atlanta 2019

Infrastructure performance and capacity planning professionals gathered last week in Atlanta for another exciting IBM TechU event filled with great opportunities to meet and hear from enterprise IT professionals and industry leaders.

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Introduction to Modern Db2 for z/OS Performance Monitoring

Getting visibility into key Db2 for z/OS areas is crucial to proactively prevent performance issues from occurring and quickly resolve issues that are already in effect.

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What Will Happen to Your MICS or MXG Legacy When You Retire?

z/OS infrastructure performance experts are retiring in growing numbers. When that golden day of retirement arrives for you, what will happen to that SAS and MXG or MICS reporting toolset that you spent decades developing?

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z/OS Performance Monitoring and more at SHARE Phoenix

A look back at SHARE Phoenix with links to all of the presentations and sessions we hosted.

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Six Practical Use Cases for AIOps on z/OS

As the complexity of Information Technology has accelerated, one reaction has been to apply machine intelligence solutions (AIOps) to IT operations and performance management. Here are six use cases.

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z/OS Performance Availability and Cost Optimization Best Practices

Why is ensuring application availability and cost optimization on z/OS so difficult? The problem isn’t a lack of data. The challenge is in creating insights from RMF & SMF.

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Don’t Let RPO Knock Your SOX Off!

Proving that you maintain control of your recovery point objective (RPO) is key for SOX compliance if you use asynchronous replication to protect your data.

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