Some of the greatest movies of all time have been sequels; Aliens, Terminator 2, Godfather 2 and Bill & Ted’s Bogus adventure were all better than the original. Could the same be true of the next big computer bug too? Well, it just might and it’s coming to a computer system near you soon. Those […]

In a recent Financial Times article called “The shift to remote work carries an inherent risk”, Sarah O’Connor, advanced the argument that the forced rise of remote working could lead to companies recognising that if a job can be successfully performed remotely during the Covid pandemic then why not move that position to a cheaper […]

For the last 20 years one of the most common requests that I have received at Orb Data is to perform an integration of the IBM monitoring tools with the customer’s service desk. When we first started the company in 1998 this was almost uniquely Remedy Action Request System (ARS) however at some point in […]

UPDATE: Part 2 of the blog can be found here Docker has shot to fame in the last couple of years and it has sparked quite a lot of attention. It has joined the elite “buzz word” club and being touted as revolutionary but if you asked the more seasoned UNIX admins, they would argue […]

Over the years that I have worked with TWS distributed I have worked with many different customers and it never ceases to amaze me how each one can use TWS in a different way. Of course the vast majority of TWS usage involves the scheduled execution of a process (usually batch) and does not differ […]