As a technologist, I am always looking for a way to communicate with like-minded individuals. In many ways, I used to do that through Twitter. However, is Twitter becoming nothing more than a glorified RSS feed? I still see lots of sharing occurring on Twitter, but I do not see much in the way of …
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Monitoring: Done to Death? Time for a Change?
The rise of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), server-based computing (SBC), and now cloud computing has imparted new significance to the importance of monitoring your environment. The user experience now reigns, and avoiding negative impact on the performance of the user’s session is one of the key goals behind any enterprise IT solution. We’ve been forced …
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Moving Home and Troublesome Files: Issue with Cross-Cloud
You may or may not be aware that I have just moved house, and, me being me, I have not done it by halves. My family and I up’d sticks to the other side of the world, and we landed in Perth—not Scotland, but Australia. Call it a cross-cloud migration; this obviously was fraught with difficulties …
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Scale and Engineering
When we scale things up to handle ever-larger quantities of data, we also scale up the number of issues related to the increasing pace. We’re dealing with this with fewer tools and, quite frankly, less knowledge We’ve seen changes in security (visit our latest podcasts on security and scale). We have seen changes in operations. We have …
New Research: ITaaS Coverage
Our second research document looks into requirements for IT as a Service and covers three of our sponsors: SIOS, Turbonomic, and Zenoss. IT as a Service (ITaaS) covers a wide range of products that monitor, automate, and manage cloud, virtual, and physical environments. The products include those for performance, capacity, and event management. We also …
Predictive Analytics and False Positives
We are in the midst of an analytics boom. Everywhere I look, I see analytics presented as the answer to everything from sweaty pores to security. They may even improve hair growth. That aside, analytics truly are invading everything we do. There are three types of analytics. Over reliance on any one type leaves businesses …