Change is an inevitable aspect of any system, and IT Ops is no different. The trick is having tools in place to deal with changes that upset the system.
As we move to virtualized environments, monitoring presents a challenge to IT Ops pros, who must find ways to track a shifting instead of a fixed environment.
It was a rare tough quarter for Apple. Even though it still made lots of money, it sold fewer iPhones than expected and dealt with the death of Steve Jobs. While it could be a blip, it could also be that after a decade of dominance, it's just time to pass the baton to a new brand.
HP got the dubious honor or being the number two tablet seller in the US for the first three quarters this year. Unfortunately it achieved this by dumping their product for pennies on the dollar.
As companies make the transition to the cloud, it's not always easy to map your monitoring software to cloud applications and cloud vendors are only beginning to address the problem.
In the past when I've suggested that the apps versus browser argument is a non-starter I've been slammed with angry comments from people with both viewpoints, but perhaps we can really put an end to the discussion if we can use HTML5 technologies in most instances, regardless of the final container.
Developers face a conundrum when it comes to mobile development. Do they chase the large and ever-growing Android market with its open development platform, or do they follow the money to Apple and its closed development environment?
Last week, Amazon announced new APIs that enable monitoring tool vendors and enterprise customers to integrate some basic EC2 monitoring status updates directly into monitoring software. It's not ideal by any means, but it's a start.