Tara Spalding of GWOS gives Lightning Talks at OpsCamp, San Francisco

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- Daniel Lyons, Newsweek “The move to centralized compu4ng is a return of how things used to be when the thing on your desk was just a dumb terminal”

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 - Daniel Lyons, Newsweek

 “Themovetocentralizedcompu4ngisareturnofhowthingsusedtobewhenthethingonyourdeskwasjustadumbterminal”

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End-user Services & Synthetic Transactions (e.g. Your on-line store, Browser Tests)

Application Monitoring (e.g. tomcat, Windows, Oracle)

Stack Monitoring (e.g. database, OS, Middleware,

configuration)

Hardware Performance (e.g. Disk, logs, temp)

Physical Device Monitoring (e.g. routers, environmental, fans, electricity)

Effective Monitoring and Operations

12%

15%

14%

6%

53%

Analyzing ½ Million Checks Define IT Administration Prerogative

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Categorical Software Ranking

 Main availability and performance interest is the ability to communicate

 Infrastructure, platform and data management significant part of monitoring

 Emerging trends, mobile and telephony tracking such as Nortel, Blackberry

Email & messaging

23%

Database 18%

OS 17%

Middleware 13%

Physical or Virtual

Platform 10%

Storage 7%

Network/ DNS 10%

Mobile Device & telephony

2%

Software Monitored

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And the Winner is…. Rank App Name 1 Windows 2 MySQL 3 VMWare 4 Oracle 5 Cisco 6 MS SQL 7 MS IIS 8 MS Exchange 9 Directory (LDP) 10 Tomcat 11 Jboss 12 Sage 13 McAfee 14 Apache 15 Squid 16 VPN 17 BlackBerry 18 Hadoop 19 Sybase 20 DB2

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End-user Services (e.g. Your on-line store)

Synthetic Transactions (e.g. Browser tests)

Application Monitoring (e.g. Apache, tomcat, Oracle)

Automated Configuration (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Rightscale)

Cloud Infrastructure (e.g. Amazon, Eucalyptus,

GoGrid)

Effective Monitoring and Operations

  Gain rapid, precise insight into status and performance

  Minimizes cost and complexity   Accurate correlation of complex behavior

alerts –  Reduces false alerts and reactive IT mentality

  Automation capability prevents tampering and mis-configuration

  Logic workflow recognizes faults before outages occur

Comprehensive Coverage Simplifies, Analyzes and Reports