Archive for the ‘Cloud’ Category
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
‘Meraki’ may not be the best known name in networking, but their technology is going to touch you soon if it hasn’t already. Meraki was just acquired by Cisco in November for a cool $1.2 billion to incorporate into their new Cloud Networking Group.
Cisco is predicting explosive growth in cloud ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
If you’re an MSP providing IT services for desktop environments where basic up/down server monitoring will do, an RMM tool is more than adequate. But for MSPs offering fixed-fee monthly service packages, or cloud services, important advantages can be gained by complementing an RMM tool with an advanced performance monitoring ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2012
By Ethan Culler-Mayeno, Integration Engineer
"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale."
~Benoit Mandelbrot
The cloud, as seen by the end user, is a wondrous tool full of seamless functionality ...
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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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Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
It’s 6 AM. Bob, an entry-level IT engineer walks into a cold, dark, lonely building – flips on the lights, fires up the coffee pot, and boots up. Depending on what he’s about to see on his computer screen, he knows the fate of the free world could rest in ...
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Saturday, March 31st, 2012
There's some interesting discussion around "Monitoring Sucks", and has been for a while. (Go check the twitter hashtag #monitoringsucks). This is not a new opinion - the fact that I thought monitoring sucks is why I started LogicMonitor.
But it's interesting to assess whether LogicMonitor meets the criteria for not sucking. ...
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
So as everyone knows, Amazon rebooted virtually all EC2 instances in December. They emailed people to notify them, but not everyone read the emails, leading to Amazon performing the reboots on their own schedule, with the customers unaware.
For some SaaS companies, this resulted in many hours of downtime. For others, ...
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