Outage 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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleInteropNET 2014
Monday we received the email that “The trucks are on their way to LV.” I got the feeling that Samuel L. Jackson must have had in the Jurassic Park scene when he said “Hold on to your butts” when he had...
View ArticleTop 10 Signs Your IT Ops are Really Ugly
Last week we hosted a webinar with our CTO Antonio Piraino, and 451 Research’s Michael Coté. The webinar covered how to turn your ugly duckling IT operations into a swan. You can watch the recording...
View ArticleNot Your Average Webinar
I am never quick to accept an invitation to a webinar. We only have so many hours in a day, and, it would take something very relevant in order for me to close out of my e-mail completely and ignore...
View ArticleBe Better Prepared for Your 2014 Cloud Experience
As the Holiday Season is wrapping up and we get ready to head into 2014, I got to thinking about what is in store for us ahead. By us, I don’t just mean ScienceLogic; I mean all of us – the entire...
View ArticleAs the year comes to a close
Happy Holidays Everyone! As this year comes to a close, it is a fitting time to recap the year and what is now a monumental 10 years since starting ScienceLogic. Looking back, it has been an...
View ArticleGoogle Making its Move
Google has announced that its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering, Google Compute Engine (GCE), is finally ready for full launch. The company first made news about the cloud service over 18...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Customer’s Current Reality
As product managers we are charged with understanding the market. We search for insight into problems. Problems we hope the products we help develop will solve. For many of us, our customers are the...
View ArticleVMware: Grand Cloud Imperialist, or Imperial Cloud Backer? Part 2
Picking up where we left off yesterday, VMware offered up a new Hybrid Cloud Service offering in March of this year. This offering allows VMware customers to migrate their cloud services to a public...
View ArticleVMware: Grand Cloud Imperialist, or Imperial Cloud Backer? Part 1
I recently watched a VMware representative being interviewed on Silicon Insider, and it quickly became obvious that VMware is in somewhat of an uncomfortable position when it comes to proclaiming their...
View ArticleSocial Experiences at VMworld 2013
I figured at least one of my blog posts about this year’s VMworld should be focused on the some of the new social experiences that were introduced. Of course you have the mobile app: The app allowed...
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