Root Cause Analysis Is Not Dead

Eric Wright of VMTurbo wrote about the death of root cause analysis (RCA) with the rise of microservices. I take exception to this, as microservices aren’t really all that new. Even what’s being called “serverless computing” isn’t particularly new. However, that’s a discussion for another time. The point of RCA is to find the real reasons …

On ITOA

IT operations analytics (ITOA) is the new language that incorporates analytics as a part of IT operations. This is a requirement for today’s environments, as even small labs generate terabytes of data a day: terabytes of logs from applications, network sensors, security devices and products, automation tools, and more. The list of possible streams of …