(This originally appeared on SysCon.com) It is a sad but very real truth that many, dare I say most, IT professionals consider alerts to be the bane of their existence. After all, they’re annoying, noisy, mostly useless and frequently false. Thus, we IT professionals who specialize in IT monitoring are likely well acquainted with that…
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12 Monitoring Tips for 2012
This list comes from my friend Steve Barger, a brilliant monitoring engineer as well as a gifted artist and webcomic author (You can read his weekly strip, “UpgrADe!” , here). Looking ahead to the coming year, Steve has come up with 12 important items that anybody working with monitoring tools should keep in mind: Never…
The quintiessential Geek question
If anyone every asks you for a question that could only be asked by a true Geek, please consider this one: “Could the Enterprise beam a vampire into a house she didn’t have permission to enter?” I can think of none better. Although these size-comparison posters are a close second.
A Long Way From “Tea. Earl Grey, Hot”
About a million years ago (in computer time), I was sitting in a large hall with a couple hundred other computer professionals, watching a demonstration of a revolutionary new software – Dragon Dictate, which promised to allow you not only to dictate text into a word preocessor, but to also interact with the computer, issuing…