Too Much Information: Monitoring Becomes a Big Data Problem
In a keynote address this week at EMC World, VMware CEO Paul Maritz talked about the growing monitoring challenge as system pools and the sheer amount of information these systems generate grows ever larger. To put it another way, monitoring has become a big data problem. He claimed that the number of devices connected to the Internet is going up by a factor of 10, and the growth is not just being fueled by humans, but also by an increasing number of internet-enabled devices feeding more and more data into the system. This ‘Internet of Things’ will interact with the virtual world...
read moreFacebook Develops Tools to Keep Up with Monster Monitoring Tasks
You probably think you have a challenge when it comes to monitoring your systems, and you probably do, but chances are your tasks are minuscule when compared to what Facebook’s IT pros have to deal with. Today, I learned about some tools Facebook’s developers created in-house to keep up with its gigantic monitoring task. For Facebook, and for many companies faced with the blessing and curse of so much data, Facebook could usually tell when something was amiss, but they couldn’t tell why. It’s a data problem that many large companies face — even if it...
read moreNetflix to Open Source “Monkey” Website Fault Testing Tools
Netflix, perhaps more than any other web service must keep going, even when it has ridiculous traffic. To that end, it uses Amazon Web Services to allow for elastic coverage, but it also tests its systems regularly with a set of tools it refers to as monkeys — and according to Wired, it intends to open source the whole kit and kaboodle over the next year. In a post last July on the Netflix blog, it discussed the idea behind the monkey tools. As a cloud-based vendor, Netflix understands that the cloud provides redundancy and fault-tolerance, but it also wants to be able to survive any...
read moreIT Needs a Seat at Business Strategy Table
IT has a clear role inside your organization. Of course, you keep the servers running. You monitor the applications, the hardware and the web sites. You make sure everything is running smoothly and you get on it straight away when something goes wrong, but you need to be doing more than that. You need to connect technology to the company’s overall goals — beyond just keeping it all working. In fact, in an article on Internet Evolution this week, Kim Davis wrote about 2012 analytics predictions providing a nice round-up from around the web, but Davis also had this to say...
read moreIT Ops Looks for Ways to Manage Info Overload
We have no shortage of information out there or solutions to help us “manage” it. In fact, all we hear about lately is the explosion of Big Data, but it’s more than the hype cycle at work, there really is a ton of information to deal with and process. And IT Ops is on the forefront. That’s why companies like Adobe and IBM have been sucking up analytics firms. These large companies also recognize a trend when they see it and they see you looking around for solutions that can help you manage that avalanche of information.The information comes in several forms. For your...
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