Automation

How to Approach Advanced IT Automation

When it comes to advanced IT automation, technology leaders should become familiar with both current as well as future trends that may affect your organization. It is a fundamental task to make an appraisal of one’s data center infrastructure and to analyze what is being done now and what needs to be done in the […]

Why Ansible Is Emerging as a Top Automation Tool for Mainframes

Mainframe sites used to be like small factories in terms of the number of people that were needed to keep the machine running. There were lots of operators who spent their time feeding in card decks and changing tapes on the tape drives. There were systems programmers and application programmers, and a whole host of […]

IBM Expands the Power10 Portfolio

Today, IBM announced that it has expanded its Power10 portfolio. First introduced in September 2021, Power10 was designed to meet the needs of enterprise-level organizations. The newly announced portfolio additions bring the same advantages to mid-sized and small organizations with mid-range and scale-out systems. These products are designed to help smaller and mid-sized organizations improve […]

Russ Teubner on the Power of Automation and Modernization

Reg Harbeck: Hi. I’m Reg Harbeck and today I’m here with Russ Teubner, cofounder and CEO of Hostbridge Technology. Russ, welcome. Tell us about yourself. How did you end up in the world of mainframe? Russ Teubner: Hi Reg. Well, first of all, thank you very much for the opportunity to visit today. Wow, how […]

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Jeff Cherrington on Rocket Software’s Evolution and IBM Z Contributions

Reg Harbeck: Hi, this is Reg Harbeck and today I'm here with my friend and colleague Jeff Cherrington who is the vice president of product management, Z Systems—I think I missed a word or two there—at Rocket Software. So, Jeff, I guess what we're going to talk about today is just the whole journey that Rocket […]

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Bringing Choice, Consistency and Protection to Hybrid Cloud Strategies

Hybrid cloud has quickly grown in popularity, but with this extensive growth it’s more important than ever for organizations to develop strategies that address cost control, IT complexity, cybersecurity threats and data corruption. When developing a hybrid cloud strategy, notes Scott Baker, VP, Storage Product Marketing for IBM, it’s important for organizations to define what […]

Latest IBM Storage Announcements Address Key Hybrid Cloud Pain Points for Clients

As hybrid cloud environments grow in popularity, organizations must develop strategies that address increasing IT complexity, public cloud costs, cyberattack threats and other data destructive events. Today, IBM in announcing new capabilities and integrations designed to mitigate these pain points—helping organizations reduce IT complexity, deploy cost-effective solutions and improve cyberresilience across hybrid cloud environments. These […]

AIX Patch Management With Ansible, and the Broader Benefits of Automation

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Embracing Automation Enables Effective IBM i HA/DR Planning

Automation is a boon for systems administrators. They can, for example, schedule jobs to run at specific times and days, considering issues such as job types and runtimes, differing time zones, end-of-day office closings and resource consumption. Although not entirely hands off—admins may have to respond to various job alerts—automation has addressed some particularly acute […]

Automate the Execution of Python Scripts With Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler

In this tutorial, we will learn how to automatically execute Python scripts using the Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler. For simplicity, we choose to use a Python script that simply writes to a text file, the date and time that the script executes, every time it gets executed. Create a new, empty text file anywhere on […]