Cloud Orchestration: ​​Why It Matters in 2024

As much as 87% of enterprises embrace a multi-cloud approach. While this enables flexibility and convenience, it also creates confusion and complexity when managing tasks across multiple platforms.   As companies grow, point solutions organically crop up to solve problems where they arise, eventually creating siloes that require individual attention and maintenance. This slows processes and


What is a Cloud Scheduler? How to Better Schedule Cloud-Based Jobs

Organizations are increasingly turning to the cloud as they build out their IT infrastructure. Cloud adoption has become commonplace as companies look to reduce IT costs from purchasing, managing, and maintaining on-premises infrastructure and hardware. Plus, cloud services can provide greater scalability and increased flexibility for accessing content across the business. By 2026, Gartner predicts


Migration Success: Customized Automation with Fortra’s JAMS 

In many businesses, there is often a deep seeded fear of change. Time and again, a business will dedicate resources just to support an inefficient system, thinking that the sunk cost justifies the effort. The funny part is that even the people who are hired to support a broken process will recognize that the system


Service Orchestration: Optimize Your IT Environment for Greater Efficiency

Looking to optimize the way your entire IT environment runs? As organizations turn to cloud services, maintaining visibility and control across all applications and systems has become a new challenge for IT teams. Traditional job scheduling worked great when most systems were on premises. But as IT teams employ more and more cloud-based services, service


Migration Success: Customised Automation with Fortra’s JAMS 

In many businesses, there is often a deep seeded fear of change. Time and again, a business will dedicate resources just to support an inefficient system, thinking that the sunk cost justifies the effort. The funny part is that even the people who are hired to support a broken process will recognise that the system


Elevate ETL Automation with Workload Automation

Data drives modern businesses, and the volume of data to be processed at an organization just keeps growing. In fact, the amount of data being generated is expected to reach 175 zettabytes by 2025. All this data helps drive the important decisions made on a daily basis, determining everything from how to operate more efficiently


New in JAMS V7.0

Jobs Sequences JAMS V7 introduces Sequences, a powerful tool to manage multi-job, multi-step workflows. Sequences have all the properties of an individual job, plus additional workflow functionality, such as nesting and parallel processing. The Sequences drag-and-drop editor provides utilities for uploading and downloading from file transfer servers, as well as file renaming and deleting. Soft


4 IT AUTOMATION CHANGES YOU CAN EMPLOY, RIGHT NOW

Once you’ve experienced the efficient cadence that goes along with smart workload automation and service orchestration, it’s difficult to imagine life without it. Employing best practices when you define a batch process can save you hours of time in the future. JAMS is designed to help enterprises maintain good habits across every batch process on


Top 3 Reasons PowerShell Users Love JAMS

Microsoft PowerShell was created to simplify and automate Microsoft tasks by creating scripts and combining them with multiple commands. While this has helped cut down on some repetitive work, manually deploying PowerShell scripts can still be tedious. With a workload automation solution—like JAMS from Fortra—your PowerShell scripts can reach their full potential by bringing your

Batch Processing Systems: How They Started and Evolved

BATCH PROCESSING: THE EARLY DAYS The earliest batch processing systems were developed in the days of mainframes and punch cards. Programs were entered on the punch cards, and system operators would have a stack, or batch, of the cards to feed into the computer. Modern batch processing software is quite a bit more sophisticated, but still involves