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…
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Hybrid IT
10/27/15 These past few years you’ve heard a lot about the cloud. The cloud that’s always been there has a new approach for companies. Run your applications directly from the cloud…
Troubleshooting SQL Server, Part 2 : Inside or outside? Error or Not?
10/26/15 In the popular white paper entitled Troubleshooting SQL Server Wait Statistics, I take you through three scenarios in which a wait stats-only approach is insufficient or e…
Great Advice on Monitoring Amazon RDS For MySQL From Datadog
10/21/15 Our friends at Datadog just published an insanely great three part series on monitoring Amazon RDS for MySQL using Datadog. You should go read that now. Full disclosure, I…
Windows Guest Licensing: To KMS or Not?
10/20/15 To better combat software piracy, Microsoft introduced License Activation with Windows XP/Server 2003; however, activation was pretty much implied and automatic if you had…
The Challenges of Network Virtualization Technologies
10/20/15 Network virtualization, software defined network (SDN), and network function virtualization (NFV) have taken the communication industry by storm. They are no longer buzzwo…
How to Prevent a Data Breach from SQL Injection Attacks
10/16/15 The average total cost of a data breach right now is $3.79 million, according to the 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis. Cyber attacks are one of the top reas…
Looking Backward to Look Forward
10/15/15 “Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past” -unspecified “wise men” quoted by Niccolò Machiavelli With so many articles out there telling me how SDN will …
How to Explain Virtualization to Newbies
10/15/15 In the world of enterprise architecture, many parts of our daily conversations are taken for granted. We talk about virtualization, vMotion®, Storage vMotion, Replication,…
What If You Can’t Trace End-to-End?
10/15/15 A lot of monitoring systems have a goal of end-to-end tracing, from “click to disk” or something similar. This is usually implemented by adding some kind of tracing inform…
Monitoring: How and Why We Do It
10/14/15 Put simply, we monitor to find and fix problems before our customers and users do, so they’re not tempted to go somewhere else for their purchases, or take our names in va…
Queueing Theory: Faster Trains Might Make London Underground Slower
10/10/15 Let’s take a look at a great real-world example that effectively illustrates how queuing theory can be unintuitive even in situations that seem simple. A recent BBC report…