How to: Become a ScienceLogic Certified Professional
You know you work for a growing company when one of its senior trainers still has bags under his eyes from his across-the-world trip to train some of our customers in Australia and Singapore. This...
View ArticleVMware Interop 2014 Keynote
Given all the movement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Compute Engine (GCE) lately around cloud adoption, I was wondering if VMware had thrown in the towel. Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware,...
View ArticleHow we addressed Heartbleed
Since announced publicly on April 7, the Heartbleed (also known as CVE-2014-0160) bug has caused quite a stir in IT circles. Some 60-70% of web-based applications are suspected to be, or have been, at...
View ArticleCisco Live: Keynote Overview
This year’s Cisco Live US host is Blair Christie, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer at Cisco. She kicked off the keynote from John Chambers by welcoming everyone and stating that there were over 25...
View ArticleGartner IT Infrastructure and Operations Management Summit Day 1
The visionary pundits at Gartner delighted during Day 1 of their IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit with enthusiastic speakers and interesting sessions. Professor Eddie Obeng,...
View ArticleGartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit Recap
As the Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit comes to a close, I took a few minutes to reflect on some of the excellent sessions I attended while in Orlando this week. IT Service...
View ArticleHostingCon 2014: Service delivery, a balancing act
After just one day at HostingCon 2014 in Miami, FL, I can tell you that service delivery is still on everyone’s mind. It has been a few years since I worked directly for a service provider, but I spent...
View ArticleHostingCon 2014: How to Compete
Looking back on the HostingCon 2014 sessions, keynotes and panels it is clear to me there is concern throughout the industry about how to compete with the large vendors like Amazon, Google and...
View ArticleWorld Cup 2014: Is There a Tie Between Soccer Success and Hybrid Tactics for...
Having just returned from the first few World Cup games in Brazil, I wanted to reflect on some of the things capturing the conversation of the locals in Rio. To start with, how is it that a tiny...
View ArticleOutage Déjà vu: Google Drive Goes Down
Feels like just last week I was writing about an outage for one of the major players on the web. Oh, that’s right, it was just last week! Well, its happened again, but to a different, yet equally...
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