White Papers
As installations evaluate their options for running workloads on LinuxONE, this paper should help guide the decision-making process for choice of hypervisor and architecture - z/VM vs KVM.
Performance Newsletters
Velocity Software produces a periodic newsletter. To see the previous versions of the newsletter:
What's New at Velocity Software
2022 zPRO - Modernizing z/VM
- Empowering Linux adminstrators
- Scheduling capability
- Backup/Restore for z/VM files (important or otherwise)
- Spool file visualization (closed or open files)
- zDirect: directory manager for z/VM (Replaces DIRMAINT)
Mar, 2020: zVPS 5.1 - CICS Support for VSE and z/OS
Dec, 2019: zVPS 5.1 - z/VM 6.4 Support, Java thread support
- ZOSMON - process SMF records from z/OS for z/OS monitoring
- ZOSMON - CICS performance monitoring for z/OS and z/VSE
- VSEMON - VSE Performance Management
- VSEMON - BSI Stack Support
- MongoDB performance management support
- IBM Secure Container support
- IBM Spectrum Scale support
Dec, 2018:
- zPRO V4 - On-prem cloud, no smapi, no dirmaint, no java requirements
- Splunk interface provided
Dec, 2016: zVPS 4.3 - z/VM 6.4 Support, Java thread support
Sept 2015: zVPS 4.2 - z13 - Full SMT Support
May, 2015: zPRO Version 2.1 - Full self service environment (PaaS) supporting DIRMAINT, VM:Secure, RACF (supported but NOT required). NO SMAPI, NO JAVA.
April, 2015: zVPS 4.2 VSE Job data collection.
April, 2015: zVIEW Version 4.2 with JVM and Oracle support.
January, 2015: zVPS V4.2 - Support for MFC (Mainframe Cache) data, full z/VM 6.3 support, JVM, Oracle data collection and presentation.
January, 2015: zTCP V4.2 - SSI, DNS support.
September, 2013: zOPERATOR - a full screen (3270) and/or browser based operations console - a no charge feature of zVPS.
January, 2013: Console Manager (GETCONS) - Make your console logs available to your users via a browser interface. No charge feature of zVPS.
January, 2012: zVPS PORTAL inclues all Velocity Software documentation with the no charge ZDOC feature.
November, 2011: zVPS Version 4 supports z/VM 6.2 with new reports and full z196 support.
August, 2011: Velocity Software and CA Technologies sign world wide licensing and disribution agreement. See the CA Announcement for more details.
June, 2011: zVPS Version 4 becomes generally available.
Feb, 2008:
Velocity Software opens office in Germany
Kontakt:
info@velocitysoftware.de
Hausanschrift:
Velocity Software GmbH
Max-Joseph-Str. 5
68167 Mannheim
Telefon: +49 (0)621 373844
www.velocitysoftware.de
August 2009: href="http://velocitysoftware.com/zvps.html">zVPS Velocity Software announces Version 4 of zVPS - Velocity's Performance Suite (formerly known as ESALPS)
August 2009: zPRO is announced. zPRO is an enablement tool for Systems Administrators. It provides them a simple to use web interface for cloning servers (including Linux and others) and managing the VM Directory.
July 2009: zVIEW is available for download by licensed users of zVPS.
January, 2005: zTUNE subscription service available: Solve your Linux and z/VM performance problems fast!
New z/VM Release Support
Velocity Software supports new z/VM releases the day they are made available—no need to wait to upgrade due to our products!
Click here to view the Velocity Statement of Product Support
Click here to view the Velocity Product Support Schedule
