Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
Your monitoring solution should make your life easier, not harder.
Monitoring should not have to be a full time job.
Data collection, alerting, trending and reporting should all be integrated.
Everyone in IT/Ops should be able to use your monitoring - not just the person that set it up.
Monitoring should tell people about ...
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Monday, July 2nd, 2012
Kablooee! That was the sound I (and many others) heard coming from one of Amazon Web Services (aka, the "cloud") availability zones in Northern Virginia on June 30th (http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/29/amazon-outage-netflix-instagram-pinterest/, http://gigaom.com/cloud/some-of-amazon-web-services-are-down-again/). The sound was a weather-driven event causing one of Amazon's data centers to lose power. And what happens when a ...
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