Thursday, November 1st, 2012
My grandpa loved cars. He worked on them with a level of passion most people reserve for things like expensive red wines and members of the opposite sex. He didn’t believe in outsourcing the care and maintenance of his wheels.
So I was shocked when one day he announced that changing his ...
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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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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
IT people by nature are supposed to be gurus. They’re supposed to be able to build things from scratch. This expectation certainly applies to data center monitoring, where a common practice is to rely on open source monitoring tools such as Nagios. But when you consider the value of your ...
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