Service Availability: Plan for the Inevitable I remember the telephones when I was growing up—the analog telephones, first with the rotary dial, next with the touch tone. One cord went into the phone jack in the wall and the other cord was connected to the handset. The cool thing about those phones was unless there was some major city-wide problem that took down the telephone lines en masse, that phone was always usable and always worked. Even at companies, there was rarely any worry about downtime or network problems with them. There was 08/09/2017
I remember the telephones when I was growing up—the analog telephones, first with the rotary dial, next with the touch tone. One cord went into the phone jack in the wall and the other cord was connected to the handset. The cool thing about those phones was unless there was some major city-wide problem that took down the telephone lines en masse, that phone was always usable and always worked. Even at companies, there was rarely any worry about downtime or network problems with them. There was
Integrating Operational Requirements into your Development Don't Treat the Symptoms, Cure the Disease Integrating Operational Requirements into your Development Lifecycle “The project has been delayed so that the Ops team can ensure that proper monitoring is in place.” If you’ve been involved in software or application development projects over the last decade or so, you’ve probably seen a message like this at least a few times. I know that I’ve seen it multiple times from being on the application development side, the operations side, and also as 03/23/2016
Don't Treat the Symptoms, Cure the Disease Integrating Operational Requirements into your Development Lifecycle “The project has been delayed so that the Ops team can ensure that proper monitoring is in place.” If you’ve been involved in software or application development projects over the last decade or so, you’ve probably seen a message like this at least a few times. I know that I’ve seen it multiple times from being on the application development side, the operations side, and also as
Can You See the Forest For The Trees With Your Enterprise Monitoring? Historically, in their efforts to monitor different infrastructure platforms, IT organizations have implemented a variety of fault and performance monitoring tools—many of which overlap in capabilities and functionality. While these tools excel at providing visibility into their specific platforms, they have the effect of creating IT silos because they lack the ability to provide an integrated view of the IT environment as a whole. That’s problem number one. Problem number two comes into play 02/03/2016
Historically, in their efforts to monitor different infrastructure platforms, IT organizations have implemented a variety of fault and performance monitoring tools—many of which overlap in capabilities and functionality. While these tools excel at providing visibility into their specific platforms, they have the effect of creating IT silos because they lack the ability to provide an integrated view of the IT environment as a whole. That’s problem number one. Problem number two comes into play
Enterprise Monitoring - Are We Running in Place? Several years ago I was talking to some investors about the run book automation (RBA)/orchestration space. I explained the value of integrating many enterprise management systems together and applying workflow, to create huge returns in efficiency, delivery of services, service quality and cost savings. One of the investors remarked, “I was managing data centers 10 years ago and we were dealing with those issues then – you mean this hasn’t been solved?” So here we are, a few years later and I 09/02/2013
Several years ago I was talking to some investors about the run book automation (RBA)/orchestration space. I explained the value of integrating many enterprise management systems together and applying workflow, to create huge returns in efficiency, delivery of services, service quality and cost savings. One of the investors remarked, “I was managing data centers 10 years ago and we were dealing with those issues then – you mean this hasn’t been solved?” So here we are, a few years later and I
