by delicious
on October 23, 2008
Links that I have found interesting for October 23rd:
- The Cloud skills shift – The routine drudgery of IT Operations is going to get automated away, bit by bit. Right now, many enterprises still operate at a scale and lack of standardization that means that it’s not necessarily more efficient to automate a task than simply do it manually. In the cloud model, the balance tips to the automation side, and the basic value of “I can wrangle boxes” declines precipitously.
My advice to sysadmins: If you are not fluent in a scripting language, and/or not capable of writing structured, readable, maintainable, non-hackish code, now is the time to learn.
by delicious
on October 22, 2008
Links that I have found interesting for October 21st:
- Monitoring performance in a WebSphere Portal environment – This article introduces the various ways that you can monitor performance in an IBM® Websphere® Portal environment. These monitoring methods are useful in situations where a portal-based application is experiencing poor performance, such as slow loading pages, sporadic problems, or stability issues. The article looks at areas such as caching, JVM monitoring, database analysis, logging, and debugging to aid in monitoring and measuring performance.
by delicious
on October 21, 2008
Links that I have found interesting for October 20th:
- Best-of-breed systems management | 20 Oct 2008 | ComputerWeekly.com – Forester noted both the firm's rapid creation of impressive technologies, and its emergence onto the business service management landscape.
"Within a year, ASG has developed its business service management vision and can call it a success. In doing so, ASG has acquired a challenger position against the major business service managementsuppliers, BMC Software, CA, HP Software, and IBM. It is part of a select group vying for an IT management software market position that includes Compuware, EMC, Microsoft, Quest Software, and Symantec," said Garbani.
Garbini added that innovative software firms like ASG are winning customers, and proving that systems management continues to evolve and mature.
"The next BSM battlefields appear to be alignment with ITIL, IT process automation, and datacentre automation – especially the management of the virtual environment," he said.
- dynaTrace Names John Van Siclen Chief Executive Officer – "John is absolutely the right leader to take dynaTrace to the next level," said Greifeneder. "His extensive business background and vision complement the progress dynaTrace has made as the leader in Lifecycle APM. His wide-ranging management experience will help shape dynaTrace as we ramp up our growth worldwide.
