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 […]
On Tuesday December the 8th 2020 Red Hat announced that it was bringing the end-of-life of CentOS v8 forward by 8 years, from 2029 to the end of 2021. CentOS v7 will remain supported until 30th June 2024 as was originally planned but the focus of the CentOS project will shift to a new version […]
I recently was asked to set up a backup plan for some IBM DB2 databases that were moving from being backed up by TSM to being backed up by Veeam. Unlike TSM, Veeam does not have a like for like integration with DB2 (although there is for Oracle). This meant that the DB2 backup images […]
“I&O leaders should use AIOps platforms for refining performance analysis across the application life cycle, as well as for augmenting IT service management and automation.” Gartner 2019 I’ve been writing about automating event management for the last 20 years and although the title AIOps (artificial intelligence for IT operations) has been a fairly recent addition the […]
Is your Nagios renewal coming up or do you need Nagios support? Let us quote and we will guarantee to beat your normal price. Recently I have been looking at various different tool’s capabilities with regards to cloud monitoring and in my tests I had a look at Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) monitoring using […]