Recent Articles by Michael Stump

Cloud Innovation and Anxiety

03/22/19 “You’ll run out and be stranded!” “My Ford Excursion can drive 300 miles on a tank!...

How to Slide Into Cloud

03/12/19 The most difficult step in any organization’s journey to the cloud is the first one: wher...

After the Great Cloud Debate, What’s Next?

02/27/19 This month, we’ve spent time discussing how cloud will affect traditional on-premises IT ...

IT Operations: How SecOps Saves the Day

02/13/19 Few messages strike fear in the hearts of IT operations staff like the dreaded scan results...

IT Alerting Best Practices: Notification Routing for IT Ops

02/01/19 It’s easy to overlook the next step of your monitoring deployment: notifications. Usually...

IT Operations: Coping with Cloud

01/24/19 You’ll encounter terms like “dinosaur” and “curmudgeon” when bloggers refer to IT...

Designing a Monitoring Solution: Where Are Your Eyes?

12/21/15 Contemporary monitoring solutions are no different from any other distributed application i...

The Benefits of Integrating Monitoring with ITSM Solutions

12/01/15 When you evaluate a monitoring solution for your environment, consider the solution’s abi...

Operations vs. Engineering Tools

11/03/15 Whether your IT operation is a small-scale endeavor or a web-scale enterprise, systems moni...