Making digitalization work

Making digitalization work

Complexity, the pace of innovation and dynamic systems make digitalization a real challenge.

Should IT operations be event-driven or data-driven?

What is the right path to cost-effective service quality?

What Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods means for enterprise IT operations

What Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods means for enterprise IT operations

Amazon is highly skilled at digitizing businesses with software, and is highly skilled at the logistics of delivering goods to its customers. The acquisition of Whole Foods signals that Amazon may intend to apply these skills to the...

Modern monitoring is a big data problem

Modern monitoring is a big data problem

The rate of change and degree of diversity in the IT stack demands fine-grained and frequent monitoring, which turns monitoring into a real-time big data problem.

Can we trust the public cloud vendors?

Can we trust the public cloud vendors?

Amazon's AWS S3 outage and the steps it took to address the problem raise questions as to how much we can trust public cloud vendors.

Beware of the legacy public cloud

Beware of the legacy public cloud

Legacy is a bad word. Legacy public clouds are a scary thought. It just might happen.

5 deadly mistakes in agile IT operations

5 deadly mistakes in agile IT operations

Security, non-integrated teams and tools, and poorly thought through cloud strategies all represent dangerous minefields for IT operations.

Why monitoring needs to be reinvented

Why monitoring needs to be reinvented

We monitor things to make sure that they work. But nothing works as it is supposed to all of the time. Maybe we need to reinvent monitoring.

The metrics that matter for your private/hybrid cloud

The metrics that matter for your private/hybrid cloud

Here's a checklist of everything you'll need to measure the success of your business' hybrid/private cloud strategy