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!” (Except it has a 44-gallon tank, which in the pricey days of the mid-2000s worked out …

How to Slide Into Cloud

03/12/19 The most difficult step in any organization’s journey to the cloud is the first one: where do you start? You’ve watched the industry slowly adopt cloud computing over the …

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 operations staff. Many IT pros have given feedback on how their organizations view…

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 from your security team. These messages often appear in your inbox early on Mon…

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, one of two things will happen: You get too many alerts, and subsequently turn of…

IT Operations: Coping with Cloud

01/24/19 You’ll encounter terms like “dinosaur” and “curmudgeon” when bloggers refer to IT professionals who have decades of experience in the data center, but have not yet mastere…

Designing a Monitoring Solution: Where Are Your Eyes?

12/21/15 Contemporary monitoring solutions are no different from any other distributed application in your environment. Even a small-scale deployment can include multiple component…

The Benefits of Integrating Monitoring with ITSM Solutions

12/01/15 When you evaluate a monitoring solution for your environment, consider the solution’s ability to integrate with other applications and services. Most notably, a monitoring…

Operations vs. Engineering Tools

11/03/15 Whether your IT operation is a small-scale endeavor or a web-scale enterprise, systems monitoring plays a critical role in the delivery of your services. The ability to qu…