An Insightful Approach to Optimizing Mainframe MLC Spend

This paper will help you gain a crystal-clear view of mainframe MLC costs and cost drivers. Through this view, you can take an insightful approach to optimize MLC spend and make a significant dent in mainframe costs. As a result, you will:
  • Lower MLC costs up to 20 percent or more
  • Increase mainframe cost transparency for IT management and line-of-business owners
  • Reduce business risk associated with making changes to optimize MLC costs
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Five Levers to Lower Mainframe MLC Costs While Mitigating Risk

This paper will help you reduce overall mainframe costs and maximize the value of your existing mainframe investments without sacrificing service delivery. Five proven best practices- with real-world examples - provide guidance for an MLC optimization strategy based on higher visibility, predictability, and automation. In this paper, you'll:

  • Learn how to lower and limit your peaks without impacting service delivery
  • Find out how predictive modeling can help you make the right changes, the right way
  • Explore real-world examples of mainframe MLC cost optimization in action

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10 Steps to Reducing Mainframe MLC Costs

Monthly license charges (MLC) are rising by 7% or more each year, and account for 30% of total mainframe costs. Yet managing MLC costs is an inexact science. This best practice guide provides a step-by-step process to reduce mainframe MLC costs up to 20% without compromising business critical services.
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ESG WP: Wide-Ranging Business Objectives Demand a Wide Range of Flash Solutions

Applying flash storage in the data center promises so much: ultrafast performance, improved reliability, cost efficiency, and world-class data management. With our expertise and innovation we can help you deploy flash to unleash the performance of your applications. This white paper explores multiple paths to flash storage and why it’s your single best strategy for making faster decisions, serving your customers quicker, and gaining a competitive advantage.
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Anatomia de uma Decisão

Uma vez que os empregados necessitam de cada vez mais autonomia para acessarem e manipularem dados, as empresas têm que evoluir a forma com que utilizam as soluções analíticas. As ferramentas de descoberta de dados "self-service" oferecem às empresas a oportunidade de satisfazerem estas necessidades, proporcionando usabilidade em nível de consumidor. Contudo, a usabilidade não é, só por si, suficiente. À medida que a necessidade de incorporar análise de dados nas decisões de negócio aumenta, as empresas têm de associar acesso "self-service" a governança e a escalabilidade.
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Transforming Software Testing Through Automation

"Test your code as you write it.” That’s a common mantra heard in many development teams today. However, for too many, that practice remains a lofty goal as opposed to a business reality. They lack the appropriate metrics and processes to make and measure progress and often underestimate the effort required to manage the cultural change. In this paper you will learn how Coverity:

• Reduced the amount of time for hardening minor releases from 2 weeks to 3 days

• Reduced the number of manual testing days from 17 to 4

• Increased the number of automated tests from 0 to almost 3,500

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Multifactor Authentication

The classic username+password authentication on to an account is only as secure as the security and complexity of the password. Passwords can be stolen or forgotten, and can place an unnecessary burden on support departments to reset passwords or to delete and recreate accounts. People are notoriously terrible at remembering complex passwords, so we tend to make them easier to remember—and easier to guess. Then we make it worse by reusing the same passwords in multiple locations.
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Control Risk Across the Enterprise with a Managed File Transfer Solution

Enterprise risk has grown dramatically in both scope and complexity since the dawn of the digital era. Cybersecurity represents only one branch of risk management in today’s business world—companies are also tasked with regulatory compliance demands as well as operational challenges that can only be tackled by IT departments. As executive boards seek to address these evolving strategic components, the role of technology becomes even more inextricable from the foundations of the corporate outlook. This shift has put additional strain on corporate budgets and has left many organizations uncertain about their risk assessment strategies at large.
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Hyper-V Backup and Storage Best Practices

Although nearly every enterprise backup application being sold today supports virtualization, software support alone is not enough. The key to creating reliable backups of your virtualization infrastructure is to adhere to the established best practices for backing up your hypervisor. This paper discusses some best practices for Hyper-V backups.
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Cinq meilleures pratiques pour les administrateurs VMware : Microsoft Exchange sur Vmware

Par le passé, Microsoft interdisait expressément d'exécuter Microsoft Exchange dans des environnements virtuels, en raison des moyens inconnus par lesquels l'environnement basé sur un hyperviseur peut nuire au bon fonctionnement d'Exchange. Mais cette époque est révolue. Exchange est désormais pleinement pris en charge en tant qu'application de premier plan dans un environnement virtuel.
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Sauvegarde de VMs : Veeam et les outils de sauvegarde traditionnelle

Veeam® Backup Replication™ n’est pas la seule manière de sauvegarder votre datacenter moderne… mais c’est la meilleure manière de le faire.

Alors que de nombreux outils de sauvegarde traditionnelle peuvent désormais effectuer des sauvegardes en mode image de machines virtuelles (VMs), seul Veeam tire pleinement parti de l’environnement virtualisé pour réduire les coûts et augmenter la rentabilité de la sauvegarde – et pas juste un peu, mais beaucoup.

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VM Backup: Veeam vs. Legacy Backup Tools

Veeam® Backup & Replication™ isn’t the only way to back up your Modern Data Center™…but it is the best way.

While many legacy backup tools can now perform image-based backups of virtual machines (VMs), only Veeam fully leverages the virtual environment to reduce the cost and increase the value of backup—not just a little, but a lot.

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