Training in Business Resources and Trends
There is much debate in the IT world about the value of certifications to organizations, and this debate often includes the value of ITIL certifications to organizations. Value has intangible aspects, and it’s often difficult to adequately assess value. The survey assessed several aspects of the value of ITIL certifications to organizations by asking respondents how earning these certifications helped their employers.
Read moreMost people have visions of beef recalls or an oil explosion; when the minute words such as “crisis management” are uttered.
Read moreFor years, vSphere has had alarms to let you know when things are above or below thresholds you specify. This is a great first step in identifying items that may require your attention and/or further investigation. The problem is that these thresholds are static; you set a value and are notified if it is above that value, such as CPU utilization > 75%. While useful, it can lead to many false alarms if you have a virtual machine (VM) that routinely exceeds that value or one that spikes to that value for a while during a batch-processing interval.
Enter vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS). Let the computer do what it does best: monitoring and alerting, figuring out what is “normal,” and then notifying administrators when things are abnormal.
Read moreMost people have visions of beef recalls or an oil explosion; when the minute words such as “crisis management” are uttered.
Read moreIn the world of big data, most industry experts agree that Hadoop is the tool of choice for ingestion, analysis, and interpretation of the massive amounts of data that nearly every business finds itself swimming in. Business leaders have discovered that this data has real and profound impacts on the bottom line, and as a result, more and more IT departments are tasked with creating and maintaining software to pull value out of that data.
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