There’s currently an “Ops Identity Crisis” happening in our industry. Sysadmins, techops, DevOps, and SREs are all worried that they are automating their jobs away, which sadly is the goal of most of their jobs, and a sign they are... Read More
What is a Software-Defined Data Center? A software-defined data center means Software-Defined Everything: All aspects of the IT stack have virtual rather than physical implementations. The SDDC trend grew out of the earlier needs to advance virtualization, which necessitated software-defined... Read More
Consolidation & Optimization Data center optimization and consolidation is something that is often on the mind of those involved with the operations of large datacenters. The larger the deployment footprint, the larger the potential savings. The United States Federal Government... Read More
Software wears out? In short, yes! Software doesn’t ‘wear out’ in the classical sense, but it does indeed have a limited lifespan. As technology evolves, there comes a time when it is both better and safer to transition to newer... Read More
Monitoring System Initiated Automatic Failover – Including a Nagios Example When running Device42 in a Warm HA (High Availability) configuration, in the event the primary instance fails, the secondary must be ‘promoted’ from the warm-standby state [job processing, scheduler, &... Read More