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Do I Need an Enterprise Management System?

02/07/19 With most projects, budgets are a major factor in deciding what to use. This can make initial decisions relatively easy or increasingly difficult. In the market, you’ll fi…

Real World Experiences of Hybrid IT – Part 2

02/05/19 My previous post provided a short introduction to the series. In this post, I’m going to be focusing on public cloud. I’ll cover my day-to-day experiences in using the maj…

Is it Time to Have Another Look at Your Monitoring Solution?

02/05/19 Think about the last time you had an outage or service interruption in your IT environment. When did you first discover the outage? How long had it been going on? What was…

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…

Head in the Sand About Cloud: Part 1

01/30/19 A recent argument on Twitter (“What?!” I can hear you exclaim, “People disagree on Twitter? This cannot be true!”) highlighted for me just how persistent people can be in …

Are You “Flying Blind?”

01/28/19 Would you travel on an airplane if the flight crew were “flying blind?” What does it mean to be “flying blind?” Freedictionary.com defines it as “to do something based on …

Real World Experiences of Hybrid IT

01/25/19 Over the coming weeks, I will be writing a series of posts on my varied experiences with hybrid IT. These experiences come from working on countless projects over the last…

Why Your Infrastructure Sucks For Automation

12/20/18 Having convinced myself in previous posts that my automation projects will never be finished and that I will forever be supporting 101 different device connection paradigm…

The Cost of Monitoring – With the Wrong Tool

12/17/18 or “It’s not just the cost of buying the puppy, it’s the cost of feeding the puppy that adds up” This is a story I’ve told out loud many times, on conference calls, and ar…

All I Want For Christmas Is … RESTCONF?

12/13/18 As somebody not lucky enough to have a nice clicky interface with which to manage and automate all my equipment, I have to develop my own tools to do so. One aspect of dev…

Application Dependency Mapping

12/11/18 So far in this series, we have covered Application Performance Monitoring. If you haven’t already, read part one, part two, part three, and part four. In the last post, we…

What is Your IT Legacy?

12/10/18 Where are you in your career arc right now? Trusting simple statistics, I can say that the majority of you are either just starting out, or somewhere in the middle. Relati…