Archive for January, 2010
Friday, January 29th, 2010
When designing infrastructure architecture, there is usually a choice between complexity and fault tolerance. It's not just an inverse relationship, however. It's a curve. You want the minimal complexity possible to achieve your availability goals. And you may even want to reduce your availability goals to reduce your complexity (which ...
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
Denise Dubie wrote a recent piece in CIO magazine about "5 Must-have IT Management Technologies for 2010", in which she identifies one of the must-haves as IT process automation. She quotes Jim Frey, research director at EMA: "On the monitoring side, automation will be able to keep up with the ...
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
We like monitoring. We like Java. Not to slight other languages - we like Ruby, perl, php, .NET and other platforms, too, and like to monitor them, also.
However, unlike most other languages, Java provides an explicit technology for monitoring applications and system objects. JMX is supported on any platform running ...
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