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Precisely recently launched the latest IBM i HA and DR product, Assure MIMIX 10. In a press release, Precisely highlighted new capabilities including the ability to expedite data recovery by replicating data to production servers in near real-time – resulting in better protection for businesses from the high costs associated with downtime.

Clear Technologies specializes in helping clients run Assure MIMIX 10 for IBM i systems. With a wide range of services including implementation, health checks, MIMIX audits, role-swap services, and more, Clear Technologies is recognized by Precisely as a leading solution provider for Assure MIMIX 10.

SPEAK WITH OUR ASSURE MIMIX 10 EXPERT!

Assure MIMIX 10 provides 4 valuable benefits for businesses with IBM i:

• Helps eliminate downtime with flexible, scalable, and automated replication, and failover
• Prevents data loss through maintaining real-time replicas of data to on-premise, hosted, or cloud environments
• Automates administration of high availability and DR with simple interfaces
• Provides workload balancing and enhances IBM i mirroring solutions

Automation is key with the latest release of Assure MIMIX 10. With new automation capabilities, users can automate reliable configurations to run the product with minimal manual intervention.

“Clear Technologies, a leading solution provider of IT consulting, server, storage, and software products, welcomes these new updates: ‘Customers running Assure MIMIX on IBM i with a dynamic journal environment will greatly appreciate the automated journal-driven configuration support. Configuration is simplified, and dynamic changes to the journal environment are automatically handled, resulting in greater confidence in the replication environment,’ said Neil Clark, Technical Consultant at Clear Technologies.” – Precisely

“As a service provider for many customers running IBM i high availability solutions, the automated journal-driven configuration support in Assure MIMIX 10 will really help make our job easier,” said Neil Clark, Technical Consultant at Clear Technologies.

 

REQUEST AN ASSURE MIMIX IBM i HEALTH CHECK!

Clear Technologies’ team of IBM Champions works with clients to ensure Power systems running IBM i are fully prepared for disaster recovery. With our Assure MIMIX IBM i Health Check, you will gain critical insight into the performance, replication, and recovery abilities of your IBM i system.

Ensure your Power system running IBM i is fully prepared for disaster recovery, speak with an Assure MIMIX specialist today!

We’re Finalists! 

Clear Technologies is proud to be recognized as a finalist for the top IT Systems Reseller/Managed Service Provider of The Year Award by SDC!

The SDC 2021 Awards celebrate the high achievements of end-users and solution providers in the IT industry. Nominees and finalists are recognized for successful achievements centered around digital transformation.

As an IT Systems Reseller/Managed Service Provider of The Year finalist, Clear Technologies is being recognized for our extensive experience delivering IT Solutions to our clients for over 25 years. Our solution experts specialize in a wide variety of platforms and vendors and work to create customized solutions to meet the client’s needs.

You can help us WIN IT Systems Reseller/Managed Service Provider of The Year.

Voting is now open! Click Here
Voting closes on November 17th.

Learn more about Clear Technologies’ IT Solutions HERE. 

In today’s fast-paced world of continuous change, IT decision-makers are being challenged to maintain existing IT systems and create a foundation for future innovation. The challenge to migrate legacy operations and adapt for the future while improving overall productivity and business performance proves difficult for many IT teams.

The goal of IT modernization is to get more out of your IT investments while freeing budget and time to prepare for the future. By shifting to modern software, platforms, and processes, you can accomplish faster delivery of software and services to meet internal and external demands. Modernization is an essential transition for success in the digital world.

Standardization

A complex IT environment requires additional time, resources, and budget to manage. Inconsistent processes impact the opportunity for growth and cause a need for reactive maintenance. Multiple platforms require increased training, support, and operational budget. By implementing a standardized operating environment (SOE) with Red Hat, you can achieve consistency across your organization. This allows IT teams to reduce costs and accelerate IT while supporting innovation.

New technologies including hybrid and private cloud connectivity, cloud-native development, and containers are supported on a modern solution. Standardization also provides enhanced security and compliance with policies and regulations. Centralizing the life-cycle management of your platform supports increased speed of installations, upgrades, and patching.

Digital Transformation

Digital transformation has many different meanings across IT environments. But one thing remains constant, all IT teams are facing the need to digitally transform their platforms, processes, and resources to maintain business continuity and adapt to evolving technology. By modernizing your IT environment, you can free up budget and resources for innovation in the age of digital transformation.

Lower your total cost of ownership and achieve a return on investment and deliver self-serving capabilities to IT users by automating processes with Red Hat Ansible Automation. Modern software not only improves IT efficiencies but also prepares you to adopt cloud-native and container-based development practices to help you become more agile. With an optimized hybrid cloud environment, you can increase flexibility and efficiency by replacing old infrastructure without downtime. 

Strategic Migration

Modernization is ongoing and requires IT decision-makers to continuously assess and migrate to new solutions with increased IT and business value. The adoption of a new technology platform poses obstacles concerning infrastructure, security, and deployment. Migrate what makes the most sense for your environment.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform helps you develop, deploy, and manage existing and container-based applications seamlessly across physical, virtual, private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructures. With Red Hat OpenShift, you can increase operational efficiency, enforce security and compliance standards, and ensure uptime and availability.

Red Hat Consulting

As a premier partner in digital transformation, Clear Technologies offers the expertise needed to help manage your multi-site environment efficiently and securely. Whether you are looking to automate your IT processes with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform or accelerate application delivery with RedHat OpenShift, let Clear Technologies help modernize your IT environment.

Take the next step in modernizing your IT environment. Schedule time with a Red Hat consultant today.

 

Cybercrime continues to grow at an alarming rate. Companies have seen the highest average financial impact due to ransomware attacks in 2021, increasing from 3.86 million USD to 4.24 million USD.  Many companies are faced with the question of “When?” and not “If?” an attack will happen to them. Stop wasting time thinking about what could happen and focus on the reality of what to do when it happens. Is your cybersecurity resilience strategy airtight?

Protect your most valuable assets and mission-critical applications during the recovery of a cyberattack. Build a multi-level strategy to reduce downtime, save money and decrease human error.

Analyze Your Storage Environment
The first step in defining a cybersecurity resilience strategy is being able to recognize warning signs such as certain changes in your storage environment. Identify risk by utilizing Visual One Intelligence® (Visual One), a storage resource management service (SRMaaS). Visual One simplifies your storage management process by organizing independent data elements into a unified, visual analysis across your multi-vendor storage environment. With a single-pane-of glass-dashboard, you can view current and projected storage capacities. This level of insight helps detect unexpected activity – some of which can be a sign of security breaches.

Visual One Intelligence® – Risk Detection for Your Storage Environment 

Protect Your Data
With immutable copy, your data is encrypted as a read-only copy. If data cannot be changed, then it cannot be encrypted by ransomware. Attackers often target backups and snapshots first, limiting your recovery options. Once an attack happens, IT security teams need to work quickly to identify where it’s coming from to prevent the encryption of an entire network. Immutable copy reduces the impact of an attack because it is unaffected.

Clear Technologies – IT Security & Compliance Solutions

Maintain Business Continuity
Cybersecurity attacks will continue to evolve, and your storage environment must remain vigilant to maintain business continuity. Your storage infrastructure is regularly tested by utilizing IT Security and Compliance services from Clear Technologies to ensure confidence and compliance with the right resources.

The cost of ransomware and manpower is extreme. Cyber resiliency is priceless.

Be proactive about your company’s cybersecurity resiliency. Schedule time with one of our Security Experts.

Contact Us Today! 

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All rail car manufacturers today use X-Ray technology to ensure quality welds within their rail tank cars.  But due to the extremely manual and time-consuming nature, the physical x-rays get damaged and scratched in the process. In addition, it takes hours to get all x-rays completed, developed, and back to the facility for review.

The interpreter’s fatigue hampers their consistency. The pressure to increase production also takes a toll on the final product.

The Clear Intelligence AI vision solution automatically detects weld discontinuities on x-rays of the rail tank cars -in real time- to send back to the interpreter for final review.

Once the rail car is completely welded together, the numbering belt will be wrapped around the girth seams in order to locate potential discontinuities. The tank will then be sent through an x-ray gantry. Once completely x-rayed, the digitized images will be sent via FTP to a secured server for inferencing. (inferencing is shown as bounding boxes around the detected discontinuities).The digitized x-rays will be inferenced automatically upon arrival to the server.

The images will then be sent to the interpreter’s Clear Intelligence dashboard via FTP for review. The x-rays containing potential defects will be printed out and brought to the tank for further review or repair, if necessary.

How does Clear Vision make a difference?

• Fewer manual processes required
• Identifies discontinuities accurately and immediately
• Streamlines production
• Higher accuracy detection with fewer false positives
• Creates a competitive advantage

Imagine all of the best quality inspectors combined into one technology solution. That is Clear Vision

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