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In this blog I wanted to tackle strategies for monitoring that go beyond looking for and responding to alerts. One of the key features of any...
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Cloud management provider Rightscale has released their second annual State of the Cloud Report, a survey of 930 technical professionals. It is...
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Sometimes you need to face the inevitable: the tool selected years ago is not the one you need for the future. Have you been struggling with...
If I had a nickel for every time someone gave me a list of identifiers and asked me to pull a result set for them I would be a very wealthy man....
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