The Importance of Initial Discovery Discovering what you have in your datacenter, which includes all the hardware, software, applications, services, and their interdependencies, and assembling accurate... Read More
Happy Halloween from all of us over at Device42! This special post isn’t about giving away candy or spooky costumes, but instead is about Zombies. Zombie... Read More
Digital transformation is a term that has steadily gained interest over the past few years, but represents a process that isn’t nearly as new as the... Read More
Successful cloud migration requires an absolutely accurate analysis of an existing IT deployment. This includes the hardware, the software, all running services, and the interdependencies between... Read More
Introduction: Understanding is Powerful The modern tech ecosystem is comprised of a litany of tools, frameworks, solutions, and philosophies that seek to empower us in our work.... Read More
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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read More
