Presenters: Chuck Losinski and Randy Watson
Price: Free Courtesy of Fortra
Date/Time: September 10th, 2025 @ 11:00 AM CT
Sizing Power11 Correctly with Performance Navigator
IBM Power11 technology is here for running IBM i, AIX, and Linux workloads. Performance Navigator is ready to help you plan your move to your next Power Server, whether it’s on-premises, dynamic capacity on-premises (PEP2), or in the cloud.
Performance Navigator is the only tool that can predict the exact model, processor, memory, storage, PowerVM settings, and VIOS needs for IBM Power 9, Power 10, and now Power 11. Join Fortra Power server experts Randy Watson and Chuck Losinski as they discuss:
You will learn the steps for proper capacity planning in a live demonstration and how this will save you in the future!
Chuck Losinski, Director of Technical Solutions for the Robot product line, has been with Fortra for over 25 years. He has over 40 years of experience in IT, including 30+ years on the IBM i platform.
Chuck’s background covers a wide variety of technical responsibilities, involving system implementation, programming, operations, training and support. Chuck has helped numerous customers automate their IBM i business applications, processes, and monitoring. Also, he is on the advisory board of the IBM i user group, QUSER.
Randy Watson is a capacity and performance analysis expert and offers consulting services around the Performance Navigator software. Before teaming up with Fortra, Randy was President and Co-Founder of Midrange Performance Group, Inc. (MPG) before Fortra acquired the company in August 2018.
He has been working in the IT industry for nearly 50 years, focusing primarily on performance and capacity planning. The last two decades have been spent helping IBM, IBM business partners, and customers manage and analyze performance and capacity on the Power Systems platform for IBM i, AIX, VIOS, and Linux, having most recently added analyzing AI/ML Power environments by monitory GPU metrics. Randy graduated from Eastern New Mexico University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1972.