The Death of ITIL Pencils down everyone, it’s time to finally admit that ITIL is a costly, time consuming, and never ending project that does not work in the cloud/software defined data center era. Leave the 5 volumes on the shelf; take a hard look at DevOps and welcome to the era of being agile. ...
2012 has been a huge year for the Cloud. In the eBook, we wanted to cut straight to the core of everything Cloud, more specifically, where everyone is in their journey to the cloud and the evolving IT landscape that it brings. So to get you the high level trends from 2012, I spent some ...
The 2012 LISA Conference is officially over with and while we're all getting back to reality this week, everything we learned is still fresh in our minds. Over the years, LISA has become a one stop shop for system administrators of all experience levels. Whether you're an experienced veteran or somewhat new to IT, there ...
Last week was my first Gartner Data Center conference. About 3000 people gathered to compare notes and learn from one another. Know this: you are not alone in feeling overwhelmed by the ever-growing pile of information-age data. I’ll run through 10 top take-aways between today and tomorrow: 1) Who was there? Public sector techies outnumbered ...
Last week was my first Gartner Data Center conference. About 3000 people gathered to compare notes and learn from one another. Know this: you are not alone in feeling overwhelmed by the ever-growing pile of information-age data. Yesterday, I wrote part 1 of my top 10 takeaways from Gartner Data Center Conference. Today, I present to you ...
LISA '12 is almost here! Can't believe it's already been a year since the 25th Anniversary LISA. With so much going on at LISA, it only seemed fit to do a post to highlight what's happening this year. During the week of December 9th, Zenoss will be sponsoring the 26th USENIX Large Installation System Administrator ...
