Links that I have found interesting for March 4th:
- AT&T Selected as Netuitive "Best Implementation of the Year" for 2008 – AT&T has been selected by a committee of Netuitive executives and technical services staff for its first annual Best Implementation of the Year Award for 2008. AT&T uses Netuitive self-learning performance management software to proactively monitor hundreds of applications across multiple data centers, spanning thousands of servers and databases. Netuitive software is correlating and analyzing more than 1 million key performance indicators at AT&T simultaneously.
The Netuitive solution is used by AT&T to manage some of their most mission-critical employee and customer services. “While there were other excellent candidates for the award, AT&T was definitely a standout this year,” said Nicola Sanna, president and CEO of Netuitive. “Their comprehensive use of Netuitive across hundreds of critical applications, along with the level of automation and operational efficiency they’ve achieved, made them the clear winner.”
- System Management by Exception: Real-Time Statistical Exception Detection – Does that make sense to apply statistical filtering to real-time computer performance data? I did not try as I believe analyzing last day data against historical baseline (based on dynamic statistical thresholds) would be enough to have good alert for upcoming issue and at the same time classical alerting system (based on constant thresholds, for instance, patrol or sites-scope ) captures severe incidents if something completely dying.
But I see some companies do that using the following three (at least) products available on a market: