The Cost of Downtime

IT Downtime Frustrated Employee

“Oh, it will be fixed in an hour”   What will that “hour” cost your company? The task of a kicker in American Football is quite unenviable - make 10, 40+ yard field goals in a row and nobody comes screaming down the field to hug you or carry on their shoulders, but should you ...

Torn Between Two Zenoss(es): How To Choose the Right Solution for You [Webinar Recap]

Perhaps in your rush toward Memorial Day weekend, you missed Zenoss’ recent webinar pitting the commercial version of Zenoss (AKA Zenoss Service Dynamics or ZSD for short) with its open source progenitor Zenoss Core (you can watch it at the bottom of this post). As was mentioned in our announcement post a few weeks ago, plenty ...

Take Charge of Your Monitoring Before You’re in ‘Deepwater’ [Webinar Recap]

June 7th's webinar Eliminating Event Storms brought back Forrester consultant Jean-Pierre Garbani to discuss the ramifications of having too many monitoring tools. Rather than focusing on the numbers, JP addressed the potential consequences that can result from not having a way either to get monitoring tools to work together or being unable to glean actionable ...

Driving Efficiency with Converged Infrastructure

IT Operations Are Still Key to Success. Excitement | Today was an exciting day! You received your shiny new Converged Infrastructure package from your leading technology partner. There was a buzz surrounding the delivery, everything was magical -  the unboxing of the huge crate, the wheeling of these beautiful package into your datacenter, the plugging in ...

New ZenPack for NetApp Uses ONTAP to Monitor Clustered Storage and Thus, More Beer

My take-away from NetApp’s video about storage clustering is that the 1st & foremost benefit of clustered storage is *more beer for you*. Sure, the video mentions other benefits, like adding & re-arranging storage on-the-fly without taking applications down, & scaling your storage capacity without adding incremental staff. But the video makes it clear that ...