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Automate the Un-Automatable

Automated job scheduling means your batch jobs run smoothly and your stress level goes down, but that’s only half the battle if you’re using labor-intensive, interactive applications that require you to fill out screens to submit a job.
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4 Reasons to Add VTLs

Backup and recovery processes are among the unsung heroes of data center operations. Though end results may not be readily apparent on an everyday basis, natural and digital disasters have a way of humbling companies that do not take this risk management discipline seriously.
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Increase Productivity with Sequel View Builder

Business success hinges on sharing relevant information with the people who need it. When members of your organization can make informed decisions, productivity increases and problems can be solved more creatively. With Sequel Data Access, more business users within your organization can see these benefits on an even greater scale. Not using Sequel yet? Learn more > Using Sequel? Keep...
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Monitor, Capture, and Send Log Events With Powertech SIEM Agent for IBM i

In recent years, regulatory initiatives like Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, PCI, and GLBA have placed increased emphasis on the need to monitor and secure sensitive information. For example, The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard dictates one of the most stringent requirements of all—logs must be reviewed daily, and a minimum of three months of logs must be available for analysis.
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Three Reasons You Need an Updated Security Policy

If you still think creating and maintaining a security policy isn’t necessary, you could be setting up your organization for an unpleasant surprise. Check out the top three reasons businesses need an up-to-date security policy.
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IT Security Compliance 101

In this compliance 101 primer, we'll look at three high-profile breaches from the past year, each of which shows what can go wrong when data oversight isn't up to snuff. Along the way, we'll discuss some basic fixes that can help shore up network defenses.
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IT Centralization and Robot

This paper makes a case for IT centralization on IBM i and explains the important role automated systems management technologies like Robot have to play in centralized IT environments.
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Database 101: Why You Can Rely on IBM i

IBM i is the perfect environment for data access and reporting. Read this article to learn how you can better utilize your Power Systems databases.
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The Race To Access Enterprise Data

Businesses need fast, easy access to data across an enterprise, but there are three big hurdles in the data access race. To overcome these hurdles, read our exclusive white paper.
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Dispelling the Myths of IBM i Data Access

Ironically, many IBM Power Systems™ users are sitting on top of a “gold mine” of data that they could use to make their lives easier, their jobs more productive, and their companies more profitable—if they only knew how to harvest it. Yet, they don’t have the first idea about how to do that. They might even be considered “power users” on their computer systems and not know how to transform the...
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Effective Log Management

IBM’s customers are turning to Power VM virtualization to consolidate multiple workloads onto fewer systems increasing server utilization and reducing cost. However a virtualized server landscape on several different IBM platforms (IBM Power Systems™, IBM System x®, and IBM BladeCenter®) may reduce hardware complexity but this puts a strain on supporting the entire lifecycle of analysis,...
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13 Tips to Write Secure Applications and Boost IBM i Security

Barely a day passes without new headlines reporting another cyber attack, policy violation, or data breach. Secretly, we breathe a sigh of relief that it happened to someone else, but most of us know that we’ll all eventually feel the impact in some capacity.
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Two Factor Authentication for IBM i

Organizations facing a more advanced threat landscape and a complex regulatory environment require a solution which addresses the need for securely controlling access to existing systems and applications. In addition, this solution should not increase the workload on support, application providers or the end user.
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How Banks Leverage Big Data for Big Value

Technology professionals in the banking industry face a wide range of concerns due to the nature of the data stored within their systems. The potential reward in stealing or compromising financial data makes these organizations a prime target for cybercrime, while stringent industry regulations require security to be extremely tight at all times. Is it possible to strike a balance between defensive, regulatory, and data access needs and still provide access to data for analytics without compromising the security of the entire system? The truth is that many organizations in the financial sector have deployed analytics technology while being able to keep their security tight, and are benefiting from it.
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Top 10 Ways Sequel Makes Your Life Easier

Text     No matter what industry you’re in, accessing and presenting your data is incredibly important. Your business users’ ability to make informed decisions shouldn’t be limited by your data access tool or their...
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User Interfaces: GUI vs. WUI

You might be asking yourself, “What’s a WUI?” At Robot, WUI stands for web user interface, and we think it has some big benefits that are giving the GUI a run for its money.