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Understanding your SQL Server Monitoring: Part 1 Storage

02/05/16 As IT professionals, our main mission is to keep applications running successfully. Each application is judged by end-users, using different factors. Exchange is considere…

Application Monitoring: From Fire Fighter to Psychic Powers

02/04/16 As IT professionals, we have all been there, the dreaded help desk call “Is email down?” (Replace with any business critical application). One of the worst things we deal …

Anomaly Detection for Monitoring – A New eBook

01/27/16 We’re excited to share Anomaly Detection for Monitoring a new, free eBook written by Preetam Jinka and Baron Schwartz. In the eBook, published in collaboration with Ruxit …

Improving Data Privacy in 2016

01/26/16 January 28 is Data Privacy Day (DPD). Observed since 2008, DPD brings awareness to the importance of data privacy and protection. According to the Verizon 2015 Data Breach…

Queueing Theory: London Underground Escalator Policy Challenges Social Norms

01/19/16 In 2016, we published our eBook Everything You Need to Know About Queueing Theory, and as part of its launch, we blogged about one way (of the many) queueing theory has re…

All Data is Not Created Equal

01/13/16 This year, consider spending more time protecting the vast bytes that make up your corporate data. As an IT or security professional, do you know how much data your organi…

Analyzing Spark’s MPP Scalability with the USL

01/13/16 Over at the Percona Performance Blog, Vadim recently published benchmark results for Apache Spark, and the shape of the graphs caught my eye. Here’s one of Vadim’s charts:…

There’s A Script for That

12/23/15 If there’s a chance to save time by using scripts or automation tools, I always take it. Over the years I’ve found that there are a set of common themes associated with th…

Designing a Monitoring Solution: Where Are Your Eyes?

12/21/15 Contemporary monitoring solutions are no different from any other distributed application in your environment. Even a small-scale deployment can include multiple component…

The Factors That Impact Availability, Visualized

12/21/15 We all want our systems to have high availability, but sometimes the exact meaning of “high availability” isn’t very clearly defined. However, availability — like scalabil…

How Does your VMware Environment Look Today? A Rationale for the VOA

12/16/15 VMware® as a technology has a huge potential to sprawl. Have you created an environment for testing purposes? Have projects required a number of guest VMs to be built, but…

8 Reasons Why ChatOps Isn’t Working At Your Company

12/16/15 About a year and half ago I published a blog post about ChatOps at VividCortex (if you’re unfamiliar with ChatOps, that original post still serves as a good primer). At th…