by Cameron Haight | November 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
Much of the discussion around tooling in the DevOps environment focuses on automation of the configuration and release management processes. Somewhat lower on the radar screen are tools (and processes) for the monitoring of an evolving IT environment. This excellent presentation by Patrick Debois, Israel Gat and Andrew Shafer talks about how the metrics that [...]
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by Cameron Haight | November 2, 2011 | Comments Off
I recently downloaded the movie “Father of Invention” where actor Kevin Spacey describes himself as a “fabricator” that combines old inventions into new ones that he then sells on infomercials. The movie was okay, but as I was watching and eating my popcorn, I kept coming back to the fabricator term. I think this is [...]
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by Cameron Haight | October 24, 2011 | 5 Comments
The CAP Theorem states that it is impossible for a distributed system to simultaneously have the characteristics of consistency, availability and partition tolerance. I was recently wondering if there were analogs of this type of thought in one of the areas that I’ve historically covered at Gartner, i.e., performance monitoring. In other words, what were [...]
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by Cameron Haight | October 18, 2011 | 11 Comments
In my DevOps presentation today at Gartner Symposium (many thanks for the great crowd by the way), I mentioned only partly in jest that I think the DevOps movement needs a new name – or at least some different marketing if I may be so bold (my apologies to Patrick Debois). Something perhaps edgier – [...]
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by Cameron Haight | October 16, 2011 | 3 Comments
I’ll be presenting on DevOps and the Cloud Operating Model on Tuesday at our Symposium conference in Orlando (note: record attendance has been announced for the event). My focus will be in keeping with the theme of the show, i.e., “Re-imagine IT.” DevOps seems to have captured the interest of a lot of the attendees [...]
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by Cameron Haight | October 4, 2011 | 2 Comments
Recently, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a solicitation for the kick-off of the 100 Year Starship (100YSS) project. The announcement describes the project as: The 100 Year Starship™ (100YSS™) is a project seeded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), with NASA Ames Research Center as executing agent, to develop [...]
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by Cameron Haight | September 6, 2011 | 5 Comments
I along, with colleagues David Cole and Jarod Greene have written recently about the emerging adoption of social media technology in support of IT operations and service management activities (for examples see here, here and here). On the IT operations side, there are several use cases that are evolving, i.e., end users helping one another, [...]
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by Cameron Haight | September 5, 2011 | Comments Off
It’s Labor Day here in the United States. The holiday is meant to recognize the contributions of the American worker to overall our freedom and economic well being (although some of the luster of the day has worn off with the continuing economic troubles here and abroad). So, right now you might be saying, “Cameron, [...]
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by Cameron Haight | August 26, 2011 | 1 Comment
The news of course this week is that of Steve Jobs resigning as CEO of Apple. And as questions surround how Tim Cook will fare stepping into the role formerly held by an industry legend, perhaps we who work in the IT operations management industry should be asking “where is our own Steve Jobs?” Per [...]
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by Cameron Haight | August 4, 2011 | Comments Off
IT operations process frameworks like ITIL help us to define processes, but they don’t provide much in the way of guidance with respect to managing the operational work associated with these processes. While IT service desks can manage activities such as change requests, there is still a lot of work done by administrators, etc., that [...]
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