You may have noticed that the majority of app developers I encountered at SXSW named Amazon Web Services infrastructure – in whole or in part – as how they delivered their drool-worthy applications. I would be remiss if I didn’t also send a shout-out to frequently-mentioned RackSpace here as well. Having multiple great options .. Read More »
About 20 years ago, my wife and I decided to expand our house to accommodate our growing family. We interviewed several builders, spoke with references and toured several completed projects. Finally, we made our decision to hire someone who came highly recommended but who did not submit the lowest cost bid. We then carefully planned .. Read More »
When 161 IT professionals were surveyed by Forrester Consulting, 69% said they have 10+ monitoring tools (many had 30-50+). The survey found that such fragmentation obscures dependencies left-to-right across IT infrastructure domains, and top-to-bottom within application and service stacks, resulting in – on average – a 20% operational hit. This costs firms hundreds of thousands .. Read More »
While the Mayan calendar didn’t specifically mention the fall of Legacy Monitoring tools, it’s much more likely to be the case than their more widely known prediction. As we head into the last days of 2012, there’s one prediction you should focus on: your 2013 plans are destined to be derailed due to the limitations .. Read More »
Because of the popular response to our Monitoring Sucks webinar, we’ve teamed up with BrightTalk to continue this discussion on December 6th. Floyd Strimling, our VP of Community and Technical Evangelist for Zenoss will present Why Monitoring Sucks: The 7 Stages of IT Monitoring Grief. Get The 7 Stages of IT Monitoring Grief eBook Before .. Read More »
In today’s business environment, companies don’t have 24 hours to solve IT problems; they barely have 24 minutes. Legacy solutions tailored to static infrastructure are failing within today’s dynamic and programmable data center. On the plus side, emerging devops teams and continuous delivery solutions enable companies to be more nimble, while hybrid cloud options and .. Read More »
While the majority of hype within today’s IT industry is around cloud computing, the reality is that most enterprises are struggling to deal with the everyday monitoring and management of legacy infrastructure, classic server virtualization, thousands of applications, demands on the network, a hodgepodge of storage technologies and pressures of reducing costs while improving efficiencies. .. Read More »